RADICAL SKEPTICISM?
Are you positively challenging your current ways of working? Have you thought of improving your life? Is fear holding you back from making a change? “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” _ Steve Jobs Irrespective of my current job/status, […]
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR EMPLOYER?
Do you have your vision? Is your job moving you towards this vision? Do you do your best to learn on your job every day? The early privileges I had at the start of my career journey exposed me to many lessons on organizational dynamics that helped me moderate my expectations from any employer. With […]
HOW MUCH DO YOU ENJOY YOUR ANNUAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL EXERCISE?
Do you take time to conduct your performance appraisal? What dimensions do you use in appraising yourself? What do you benchmark your performance against? Notwithstanding, that in several roles, I was responsible for managing and administering the performance appraisal process in the companies I worked for as an employee, considering that the companies’ performance appraisal […]
WHAT PRACTICES DO YOU ADOPT TO ENHANCE YOUR LEARNING AND ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER?
Following an unpleasant experience I had early in my career after I had responded with “I don’t know” to one of my directors when I was assigned a task outside of my area of primary responsibility, I learned that while it was okay not to know, being given a task/responsibility outside of my area of […]
HOW ARE YOU EXPLORING YOUR CREATIVITY?
Do you have the courage to question the status quo and do things differently? Creativity, I believe, is not a special trait found in certain persons; neither is it the exclusive preserve of selected individuals. Instead, it is more of a skill developed through having the patience to understand patterns, observe practices, and then take the […]
Senior Product Specialist (Sales Engineer) – Rotating Equipment
Job Title: Senior Product Specialist (Sales Engineer) – Rotating Equipment Reports To: GM -Business Development Locations: Lagos and Port Harcourt Overall Purpose of Job: To develop Rotating Equipment (Pumps and Compressors) business in the oil and gas sector and ensure robust revenue and steady growth from sales of the products to the end users. Responsibilities: In-depth product knowledge […]
Reimagining Performance Assessment
Let me start this piece with a tale of an encounter I had. A couple of months ago, I had a friendly catch-up with a senior manager at one of the Fortune 500 companies. In the course of our conversation, we drifted into several work-related topics. One of the work-related issues we discussed was employee […]
Work – The Future I Envision!
I will begin this piece by posing two intriguing questions: Who calls the shots in an employment relationship? Is it possible for a complementary relationship to exist, one in which the employer and employee are equal partners? There are likely to be varying views on these questions, so let’s spend some time exploring the spectrum. […]
THE 21ST-CENTURY MANAGER AND THE EVOLVING WORLD OF WORK
As a young man growing up, I was often regaled with so many proverbs, adages, and sayings of the wise. One of the more memorable ones that has stayed with me is quite appropriate for our times and for this piece. It is the saying, “every dark cloud has a silver lining.” The “dark cloud” […]
Implementing Hybrid Working – Things to note!
What a difference a year makes! It’s been roughly a year since the entire world went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The success in remote working recorded by a lot of organizations during this period has made the subject of “hybrid working” (the blend of home (remote) and office working) topical. It is […]
