Rise and Shine
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Boost your top of mind awareness— Part 2
Last week, we demonstrated that if you can boost your Top of the Mind Awareness (TOMA), people are likely…
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Drive effective and efficient meetings
One of the things that many people hate at work is having to attend many long meetings. Since nearly…
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Choose happiness
You will have observed that some people are nearly always happy. They look happy all the time. They smile…
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Empower the people around you
Some of the employees fail to go on leave because they believe that their absence will badly affect the…
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Make your job count
Imagine that for some reason, your employer wants to keep say only two out of your team of three…
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Understand coded language
From time to time, we encounter coded communication. If you do not understand coded language, you may find yourself in…
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Getting a job in highly populated India
It is hard enough to fight for a job in Malawi whose population is around 15 million. Can you then…
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Devices versus meetings: critical tip
What do you think about the effect of using technology devices in meetings? To varying degrees almost all of…
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Principle of inevitability
In a competition, it is not always the best qualified contestant who wins. This is true in football as…
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Conduct your 360 degree feedback survey
At work, we rarely get structured feedback. Of course, we do get feedback from peers and colleagues in the…
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Amazing patriotism of Charles B. Chipofya
A couple of years ago, we featured under this column critical thinking and planning lessons that we can learn from…
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Congrats Unima @ 50!
We may debate on what has been achieved in Malawi in the last 50 years. We can debate especially…
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Ten qualities of good leaders
The last couple of weeks, we have been focusing on different styles and levels of leadership. The next logical…
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Managing career moves versus ‘career stability’
When I left college, I observed with keen interest the changing career of an accountant friend who graduated same…
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Beat your targets
Last week, I was chatting with a friend of mine who works as a sales manager in a very dynamic…
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Managing deadlines
Today, we want to focus on how you can manage deadlines. We start from the fact that everyone struggles with…
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Managing difficult employees – Part 2
We continue from where we left last week on techniques that you can use to manage difficult employees. We already…
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Managing difficult employees – Part 1
Last week, we concentrated on how you can manage top talent. But as you know it, the world will not…
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Managing top talent
T he last two weeks, we have been discussing hints and tips on how you can become a good boss.…
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Tips on being a good Boss – Part 2
Last week, we began discussing tips on how you can be regarded as a good boss. We are looking at…
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