All posts by Mwangi Wanjumbi
The Writer is a Passionate Corporate Trainer/Consultant in strategy, change management and leadership development. He also provides unique SME Growth Solutions, whose expertise is tied to amongst others, an international research on SME development that was published in the Business in Africa Journal of July 2007. He was also a monthly strategy columnist for 5 years in the Monthly SME Today Magazine. He is also the author of the KICD approved Career Dynamics in the 21st Century, that was used for alignment of the new (Kenyan) Education Curriculum - CBC. He also authored the 2018 Living Beyond Survival; No More Tiptoeing in Life twitter:@mwanjumbiWhy Continued Empowerment May Be The Best Option
The January newsletter painted a great impression of the expectations of the odd year 2015, at least as far as we at Newtimes Business Solutions are concerned. This current issue focuses on the measures needed to ensure full exploitation of the impending opportunities. However, some important questions come to mind. To what extent are we prepared towards exploiting these opportunities? Are we actually endowed with the right combination of knowledge, competences and attitudes? Ideally, whatever knowledge we acquire through the educational system has a time
Read MoreNeed For Talent Alignment
While traversing the city’s central business district recently, I encountered an interesting training delegate of 2010. Our then interactions with Janet (name changed), a lawyer by profession, are still very memorable. We were methodically pacing through our three day business leadership and performance management training seminar, for the 20 or so executives of their city based professional business organization. On the 3rd day, I circulated a copy each of one of my published articles on personal development strategy. The same was supposed to sensitize discussions,
Read MoreCould This Be Your Opportunity of Raking Decent Millions with Minimal Hassles?
During October through December, I have had the pleasure of sharing company and business discussions with numerous Kenyan Americans, as well as original Americans themselves. The two categories of visitors have been around on a mission to introduce some interesting business opportunities that could translate to what many Kenyans could be looking for. But first, it seems that one of the greatest beneficiaries of our 2010 constitution is the Kenyan community living in the Diaspora. Indeed, many of them had left the country in pursuit
Read MoreEmployee Satisfaction Core to Successful Strategy Execution
Writing this piece has not been an exciting experience, as is usually the case. I must confess being disturbed by the experiences that have elicited the write-up. Sometime back Martha (name changed), a consistent reader requested me to write something about employee satisfaction survey. Instead of heeding to the writing request, I perceived a business opportunity. Thus, feedback involved asking a few questions targeting the business relationship aspect. One of them was what exactly the reader wanted to achieve from that subject as opposed to
Read MoreCareer Re-alignment Strategies That Could Change Game Plans
It’s not clear how long our marks oriented education will last in this country. But, given the persistent exam leakages and cheating, forgery of examination certificates, high levels of unemployment, it’s apparent that the education system needs a major overhaul. Indeed, it does not prepare people for life, but rather for passing exams. In the process, the majority end up becoming underachievers, even after scoring the high grades. Why does this happen? As I wrote in my published monthly strategy column last month, pressure of
Read MoreQuality Yields Invaluable Competitiveness
Last month, the Strategy Column turned one year. It has been quite exciting, sharing deeper strategy based insights, especially on trending issues that are of interest to us all. It has been refreshing bringing out the business theory, as relates to our routine strategic experiences, at not only personal and organizational, but also national perspectives. Thank you all readers for keenly following the column. This second year of the column starts with a matter that is largely taken for granted, yet it means so much
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