What is your leadership orientation? Why are some leaders agile and fast while others tend to be laid back and slow in execution. The answer may surprise you. First, is context. Different environments call for different leadership orientations. In the private sector for the example, you need to increase turnover to exceed your costs. The rate at which your revenues increase must be more than the rate at which your costs increase —also know as jaws ratio. To generate a positive jaws, the leader must be proactive. It is not enough to set the targets. The leader or manager must…

How do you measure the impact of your work every day you leave home for work? Remember, you cannot improve what you do not measure. You must set up mechanisms to measure your results so that you are able to monitor what worked and did not, and what to improve if any. To create a habit, start with the desired outcomes. What are the top one or two outcomes that you must attain in your job? How do you measure your work daily to say you won or lost? In sports, all players know what they must do to win…

Can you tell the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet? Do you understand why a business that’s profitable can still go belly up? Has the grasp of your company’s numbers helped or hurt your career? Do you understand your role in the financial performance of your business? If questions like these make you sweat or worry, this training is for you. Based on Harvard Business Review’s Exclusive Training Materials, you will get the tools and gain confidence you need to master finance basics, as all good professionals must. summitF4NFPs Toolkit Training is ideal for professionals who wish…

Are you allowed to ask any questions to the CEO or chairman of the meeting without any possibility of repercussions? Before the meeting, does the Chairman ask you to submit your questions in advance or they encourage open hour or questions to the CEO where they ask freely the priorities of the business, what is working and what is not? Do you share clear team targets and hold members accountable for performance at every meeting while pointing figures where planned commitments and activities were not done leading to poor performance? Do members discuss personal challenges openly? If your answer to…

At Summit Consulting Ltd, we improve the client’s condition. Our promise is anchored on the fact that no one is too good to be great. To improve the client, our consulting model is three-phased – ACT – assess, change and transform. Assess You cannot improve that you do not understand. Our focus is to undertake current state assessment of the enterprise from strategy, processes, technology, people to customers to understand the current performance. Then we are able to examine where the business should be given the market potential, opportunities, and resources in place. The outcome of this phase is usually…

At Summit Consulting Ltd (SCL), we improve the client’s condition in three defined areas – Forensics (know who did what), Advisory (score many goals (grow revenue), do not concede (cut costs)) and Security (protect your intellectual property and don’t be a victim of cybercrime). Our clients operate in competitive industries like banking, telecoms, services, oil and gas, manufacturing, retail, media to mention but seven.   The global market place is highly competitive. Now Amazon competes with local retail shops for all consumer products from electronics to books and more. PayPal, PesaPal, Visa now compete with local banks in money remittance businesses.…