That long-awaited promotion or C-level career job has finally landed, what next? When you get promoted to a senior management role, it is possible to get lost. You need leadership tools to help you navigate the unpredictable challenges of the position’s responsibilities. Great leaders have excellent communication skills. They communicate to influence not just to inform. The ability to wow the audience and give them fresh perspectives to win. To tell them what they want to hear and leave them yearning for more. To share a message of reconciliation, healing, hope, and then offer practical solutions to win. To make…
What is your passion?
Even one will tell you to find your person and try to monetize it. However, when you ask people to tell you about their passion, they say statements like: a) Transforming the education system b) Mentoring people to live a good life c) Helping people become rich d) Pond fish farming and running a restaurant that sells only fish Take a few minutes to re-read the above statements. Which one sounds more genuine and believable? I guess you chose d) Fish farming and opening a restaurant that sells only fish, because it is specific, more believable, and clearer. From the…
Your values shape your behavior and conduct
Your values determine your behavior. If you are valueless, you are likely to behave badly and or do very bad things. For some of you who attended religious schools – Christian or Moslem, or any, you are taught certain values based on the religion. Some of the values we were taught in primary include the Catholic Church social values- Respect for Life and Dignity of the Human Person; Call to Family, Community, and Participation; Rights and Responsibilities to do the right things; Preferential Option for the Poor; The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers; Solidarity; Care for God’s…
The art of leadership
While delivering a client cultural audit report, senior staff at the client asked: at what point do the staff know they have to stop being managers and become leaders? Leadership is not inherited or natural. Leadership is learned. All you need is to understand the current challenges, communicate them so that people know. Create a compelling vision or ambition or aspiration that everyone can relate to. And have the conviction to rally people behind you to deliver that. Our football coach in the primary had an easy way of identifying leaders. He would get a group of 15 to 20…
“Fraud can’t happen here…!”
If your organization is like many others we encounter, the belief that “Fraud can’t happen here” is commonplace. Despite this belief, the media is awash with notices and pictures of former employees who are wanted by Police for theft of this, that, and the other. Other times, the notices and pictures are about individuals who ceased being employees of companies for reasons that are not disclosed! Fraud is on the rise, and more so, digital and cyber fraud. As reported in our project frontline report, in 2019, Summit Consulting handled cyber cases worth Ugx. 171,142,500,000 (US $46,888,356) with an average…
It all starts and ends with attitude and integrity
Attitude is how you react to what happens to you or what others do to you. A positive attitude helps you look at happenings to you or actions against you as a glass half full. A bad attitude will make you ask so many questions including why me? Why do people hate me? Why does the world always conspire against me? I love to tell the story of my rejection to sit for a Bailing Clerk Interview at BAT Uganda sometime in 1999. I was in senior six vacations and that job was my hope to progress to University. Throughout…
