How do you improve the performance of your board? If your board members are not empowered to contribute to the board discussion, chances they will start missing the board meetings when called are high. Board members mostly add value during board meetings. Below are three ideas to improve the performance of your board. Give board members specific projects An effective board starts the board chairman or chairperson. A good board chairman understands the company’s strategy, the bylaws, the competitive landscape the future of the industry. The board must identify strategic projects and initiatives that the board must deliver during the…
How to empower your board to add value
Leadership is most needed during times of crisis, ambiguity, and worries due to uncertainty about the future. It is the leader’s role to provide clarity of the direction, communicate a clear roadmap to manage any crisis and remove uncertainty and ambiguity so that the team is calm focused. Timely communication aids board effectiveness People always look up to the leader for guidance when things are not moving in the right direction. Imagine driving in a taxi, and after three kilometers into the journey, you experience a car breakdown. Depending on the extent of the problem, a good driver will stop…
A Ugandan in Dubai, #covid19 in Africa, lessons for you
In 2016, I got an opportunity to travel to Dubai for a talk about strategy. For some reason, as an African, I tend to have an inferiority complex – the feeling that I do not belong at certain tables or levels especially when I travel to do business as a consultant in developed markets. The fact that we tend to get several rejections for business opportunities from fellow Africans in Africa, makes it all worse. The general feeling that an African operating in a very small market in Uganda lacks the leadership and strategic insights to speak to business leaders…
Museveni’s #covid19 challenges: 30 pushups and the chief giver
Uganda is registering successes in the fight against #covid19. President Museveni has made calculated moves that have helped to ‘scatter the dry grass’ to avert the fires. The coronavirus is the fire. The people are the grass. You scatter the grass by enforcing social distancing measures. Love or hate him, Museveni has a mastery of the language, especially how to use analogies and anecdotes to get his message across to everyone. The majority of Ugandans are small scale farmers. They know what it means to scatter the grass to prevent the fire from catching their crops and houses. Many people…
Uganda’s timely #covid19 Presidential Directives delivering results
The Easter holidays are always the highlight of the first half of the year. Four days of uninterrupted festivities – from Good Friday to Easter Monday. Regardless of your employment status, or affiliations religions or otherwise, it is difficult to miss the Easter holidays. Many believers in Jesus Christ fast for 40 days, which are followed with heightened festivities and celebrations on Easter Sunday for the risen Lord – the foundation of Christianity. Usually, the celebrations are so intense that all hotels get full bookings. And the nightlife is at its peak – very loud music blaring in the highest…
Are you in charge? Leadership questions during #covid19
I am a father of four. I am Chairman and CEO at my home. As a leader, this lockdown provides an ultimate test to my leadership effectiveness. During a crisis period like this, the first objective is survival. Then growth. How do you lead the family out of this pandemic? Which of the people at home can move out to replenish essential supplies? What are the most important supplies that must be available? If the lockdown was to be extended, how will the family survive? What plans are in place to stay home, safe during this lockdown? Long term, how…
