Today’s insight is about focus To succeed in your business or career, focus on the results not the process. Many people are always obsessed about methodologies, approaches or the process. Remember all these are just a means to an end. What exactly are the intended results? And what is the easiest way to attain the specified results? Succeeding in business is about attaining the desired results in the shortest time and least cost possible. Before you do any activity, ask your client or immediate boss the following: What exactly are the desired results? When do you need the results? How…
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Grow your career (or business) with four insights that ignite your creativity
Want to take your career to the next level? Think deep and provide answers to the following four exercises that will ignite your creativity. Remember, creativity is about making something new to solve existing or future needs.Innovation improves an existing idea or product to meet existing or future needs. If you come up with an idea, product or service that has never existed, you are said to be creative (the way God is believed to have created the world). However, if you improve an existing idea, product or service to perform better, then you are just innovative. If you make something that looks like…
Ministry of Finance sets June 15 to settle all salary arrears
The Ministries of Finance and Public Service have said that by June 15 2014, all the civil servants shall have received their outstanding salaries. The Finance Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Keith Muhakanizi has therefore called upon all Chief Accounting Officers to submit the names of all public servants’ salary payment claims by June 4 2014. Mr. Keith sounded a strong warming to accounting officers who will fail to submit the names in time that they will be sacked. Many civil servants have gone many months without payment. Kasese Hospital nurses and doctors recently laid down their tools in protest over…
5 tips for your career success: be a leader who inspires
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to work hard to get to the top. You need a career strategy by investing in the right skills (assuming you already have the minimum technical qualifications like a bachelor’s degree). One of the top skills for your career success is effective communication. By far, great public speaking skills will get you ahead of the pack when it comes to promotion, exposure or ‘representing the CEO’ at the next conference. A great leader must be able to mobilize teams and have others rally behind his agenda. Fact: great leaders and influencers are great…
The best advice I ever got – error on positive float
When I started a consulting business on 20 June 2004, I felt on top of the world being my own boss. I thought succeeding as entrepreneur was all about starting a business. I was naïve. Running a business is not easy as I later found out. The good thing is it helped me face reality and understand it takes hard work, persistent and resolve to make it. If you live in a city, you know how tough life can be without a job. I made one of the worst career mistakes –resigning a full-time job without another job and a clear…