Investing in your Personal Development
Most of us strive to grow and advance both on a professional and personal level. But many of us dont make the time or a conscious and continuous efforts towards our personal advancement. Proactively investing in your own personal and professional development is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself. Gaining a new […]
7 Questions to ask about Organizational Culture during your interview.
Since the beginning of the year, I have received a number of questions around organizational culture. The questions can be broadly divided into two categories. Organizational level questions such as how do we assess our organizational culture? How do we change it? How do we fix it? How do we foster the right one? Individual-level […]
THE FUTURE OF WORK IS HERE
Robots aren’t going to take everyone’s jobs, but technology has already reshaped the world of work in ways that are creating clear winners and losers. While no one knows what artificial intelligence’s effect on work will be, we can all agree on one thing: It’s disruptive. All it takes is to type in the words […]
BIRCHES GROUP AND RAVELWORKS AFRICA STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Birches Group and RavelWorks Africa are delighted to announce our new strategic alliance bringing together our combined expertise in HR, compensation management, organizational design and learning & development to better serve our clients, companies and organizations in the East Africa region. The alliance will focus primarily on clients in the NGO and SME sectors in […]
GETTING E.I. READY
Leading a team, or an organization is never easy. At one point or another, we are all prone to irrational thinking and behaviour that get the best of us, and in turn hurt our professional relationships. Ideally people with Emotional Intelligence tend to sway in a different tangent. But they were never like that from […]
DELVING INTO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The concept of Emotional Intelligence has been around for a while. In fact, it was nearly a hundred years ago that Thorndike[1] first noted the importance of our ability to understand and manage others. But it took some time for the topic to hit the mainstream. It was 1995 , when psychologist and science journalist […]
SURVIVING AND THRIVING A TOXIC WORKPLACE
After an intensive series on the workplace, we come to our final part of the series: surviving and thriving. If you need to catch up, you can get the series articles here, here and here. Today I begin with a story that came into my inbox this week from MA* ‘I am a journalist who […]
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORKPLACE BEHAVIOURS
After my recent article on toxic workplace, I got a ton of feedback from my inbox from individuals wanting to know if their personal behavior can be deemed as toxic. “I am not a morning person, one had mentioned, so I am not very chatty in the morning. So, I have noticed that when I […]
AM I TOXIC?
After my recent article on toxic workplace, I got a ton of feedback from my inbox from individuals wanting to know if their personal behavior can be deemed as toxic. “I am not a morning person, one had mentioned, so I am not very chatty in the morning. So, I have noticed that when I […]
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
When setting the stage for an ideal toxic workplace the Devil wears Prada until today, remains one of the greatest examples of all time. Andy (Anne Hathaway) is a recent college graduate with big dreams. Upon landing a job at prestigious Runway magazine, she finds herself the assistant to diabolical editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). […]