On Believing in Yourself
If you don't believe in yourself, who will? You can lie to the whole world, but you cannot lie to yourself. You will be labelled and judged. Many times wrongly. I have been labelled more times than I can count. Judged on my personality, race, gender, tribe, physical...
Finally, a Better Way to Measure Engagement in Hybrid and Remote Teams
Traditional engagement surveys weren’t built for remote work, this framework was. If you’re still using the same engagement surveys you used before the world went remote, it’s time to pause. Most of those tools were designed for traditional, office-based teams. They...
Consistency Builds Teams, Trust, and Long-Term Success
It was David Brown who first taught me that consistency is a better measure of performance.He shared an example from a call centre, where agents were often evaluated by their average call times. One agent might occasionally finish calls exceptionally fast, while...
Don’t Wait for Things to Come to You, Go to Them
As I leave Austin, Texas, it will take me a while to unpack my USA experience, because it was one with many firsts!First is how God truly came round in every facet.You know, I used to be good at setting goals for my work life every year, but this year was...
How do you know when it’s time to change jobs?
Yesterday, someone asked me a powerful question: How do you know when it is the right time to change jobs? My answer? It often comes down to three things, growth, fulfilment, and financial stability. If your current role offers none of these, your career might be in...
Choose Your Adventure: Write Your Story.
As a child, I loved a particular series of adventure books with multiple possible endings. You, the reader, were the main character. At crucial moments, you'd be asked to choose: do you go left or right? Open this door or that one? Fight the bad guys or flee from...
The Value of an Apple
For my window, I stared at the fallen apples in the backyard. They are from the neighbour's over-grown apple tree. Some are getting rotten. In Lagos, I complain about the price of apples, in London I watch them rot in the back garden...life they say is not balanced....
Why Passion Shouldn’t be your First Career Priority
When I left university at 21, my first goal was to be employed. I had this morbid fear of being unemployed and it guided my career choices. One of which was to study Information Technology (IT) instead of Communications for my master's degree.At the time, I had no...
Workplace Romance: Inevitable but Manageable?
When it comes to romance, adults behave like children', he replied. There I was, arguing with my CEO, citing employees were adults as I disagreed with his stance to prohibit workplace romance via a policy. Years later I would work with another CEO who did not want...