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Magdalene Ougo

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How to Improve at Work When You’re Not Getting Feedback

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SEE original article : www.hbr.org Too many managers avoid giving any kind of feedback, regardless of whether it’s positive or negative. If you work for a boss who doesn’t provide feedback, it’s easy to feel rudderless. It can be especially disorienting if you’re new in the role, new to the company, or a recent graduate new to the workforce. In the absence of specific guidance, is there any way to know what the average boss would want you to work on? While everyone will have different strengths and weaknesses they need to work on, when we examined our database of performance evaluation information for more than 7,000 individual contributors and 5,000 managers, we noticed a reliable pattern. There were five behaviors that managers most often associated with high performance: Delivering results. The strongest, most consistent correlations were skills that focused on achieving results. When individuals were able to achieve goals…

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How Good Leaders Leverage Their Weaknesses to Achieve Greatness

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1 Surprising Thing That Keeps Good Leaders From Becoming Great Every strength has an opposing force. Here’s how you can leverage the gap that lies between them to get to where you want to go. A great leader possesses strengths and qualities that stand out to those who wish to achieve greatness in their own right. Steve Jobs placed no limits on imagination and fearless innovation. Richard Branson believes in his people, values integrity, and embraces life with a passion. These are undeniable assets, but something equally important lies in the gap between the admirable qualities and the weaknesses that put a leader’s greatness at risk. Executive leadership coach and CEO of Lead From Within, Lolly Daskal, has worked with top organizations spanning 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies. Through this work, she has discovered that the specific set of values and traits a leader relies on to…

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The Habit That Creates a Culture of Distrust at Work

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New research reveals how electronic transparency can backfire. In today’s highly demanding work environment, organizations often rely upon effective collaboration among coworkers to achieve desired objectives. Among office coworkers, a tool often used to communicate vital information about the team progress and steps to be taken is Email, which could possibly facilitate team effectiveness and transparency. Yet, in electronic communication, it is common to find certain people consistently copying or “cc’ing” the boss into emails between coworkers (I must admit that I‘ve also done this in my own emails to collaborators a couple of times). Even though this might be done with good intentions, a new research shows that doing so has serious implications, as it can create a culture of distrust in the workplace. In a recent study, David De Cremer, KPMG Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments…

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10 Daily Habits That Will Radically Improve Your Life

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Practical daily things to bring real positive change in your life. Platitudes won’t help you. I know, I’ve tried to implement them all. They’re frustrating. Go for it! Live for today! Stay motivated! No kidding. I’m more interested in how we can radically improve our lives.  How can we stay truly motivated? How can we maintain hyper-efficiencies?  How can we stay happy at work? How can we find true fulfillment by cultivating the most attractive aspects of our personalities? Here are 10 unexpected things you can do daily to radically improve your life: 1. Don’t obsess over “how” you’ll do something. Four years ago when I launched my agency Silverback Social, I just did it. I knew that I wanted to create a digital agency that led with social media. I had no idea how I was going to do it. I still remove the “how” from most of our agency issues.…

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10 Tips for Dealing with Change Positively in Your workplace

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” H.P. Lovecraft Lovecraft wrote those words in the 1920s and they are still relevant today – especially in the workplace. Many of us look forward to changes at work and we often have conversations with our colleagues about how things should be different, yet when things do change we are often terrified and feel uncomfortable. Change is inevitable and necessary these days in order for businesses and organisations to survive and thrive. Sometimes change can be imposed on us and with that may come changes to our immediate boss, team, work priorities and even changes to our role. So we must learn to overcome fear and embrace the changes ahead. Why Do We Fear and Resist Change so Much? We fear change at work for a variety of…

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Nairobi Innovation Week 2017

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OBJECTIVES • To show case and recognize innovations by researchers, incubatees (University Innovation Hub and other Innovation Hubs), private companies and public agencies. • To create a platform for presentation of academic papers, innovation illustrations and case studies focused on research and innovation. • To champion policy discussions on innovation in Kenya. BENEFIT & IMPACT • Engage policy makers on the growth and support of the innovation ecosystem in Kenya. • Create linkages between the diversity of stakeholders in the industry. • Learn about existing innovations and inventions that benefit others. • Support local and international collaboration in applied research by private and public innovation facilitators. • Increase the visibility of innovations and innovators in the University of Nairobi and in Kenya. • Stimulate and promote entrepreneurship spirit among the youth in Kenya and the region. TARGET AUDIENCE • Policy makers from government • Academia • Entrepreneurs with innovations or…

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WIN a special Valentine’s Day Offer at Mara Sidai Camp

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3 days 2 nights Road package safari at Mara Sidai Camp: Kshs 16,500 per adult Kshs 12,400 per child ( 3 – 11 yrs) Day 1: Nairobi to Masai Mara – Kenya You will be picked up in Nairobi at your residents at 7:00 AM. Drive through the highlands of Limuru and down the Great Rift Valley. You shall have a stopover in Narok town where you have a bathroom rest, top up fuel and stock up on any snacks and drinks you want to buy for yourself, this is the last major town and is the gateway to the Masai Mara region. Drive on to Masai Mara arriving for lunch at 1:30 PM at Mara Sidai Camp. Located next to the Masai Mara Game Park, right near the gate of the park, Mara Sidai camp blends in with the African Savannah and is located in a…

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