Performance is a key construct that underpins a lot of what we try to do with people in organisations, yet the consistency of understanding needs to be signficantly improved if we are to truly leverage the human potential to perform. This is really about having a view of the different aspects of performance so that
I have always wondered why, in organizations, simple problems tend to go unresolved? Why do obvious opportunities remain under leveraged? Why does it seem like human beings at work are less capable than the same human beings at home? While I am not suggesting that there is a simple way to solve these, I do
Every job, role has a purpose (somehow this doesn’t get emphasized in the actual day-to-day lived reality of a role). This purpose is the value associated with the results the role has to achieve. The results in turn are achieved by how well the actions the role is expected to execute are executed and how
Every day is a blessing, every breath a gift. To know this is to understand grace, to accept this is to embrace faith. These two albums express thanksgiving and gratitude to God for what he has done and continues to do, I can never understand God’s love or his grace but one thing I know
This is the second instalment of the series. We recorded this live in Ile-Ife almost 15 years ago now. It was an awesome evening with the same crew I worked with for eledumare vol. 2 and a few new wonderful people. One of my favourites on this recording is the last song, Osuba Re Re
Eledumare Vol. 2 is a 7-medley collection of popular Yoruba (Nigerian) praise and worship songs. Truly and thoroughly Yoruba.
I was reflecting on the way we approach hiring people in to a role. In the spirit of role fitness and appropriateness, we focus so much energy and time on validating performance readiness such that the applicants’ approach to securing the role is to demonstrate as convincingly as possible that “They are ready and can
In a previous post I spoke about knowledge, skills and behaviour which are normally the objectives of training and learning design efforts tend to be framed. In this post, I want to expand further on all three however, instead of talking about behaviour, I want to talk about wisdom as a objective. The first thing
I was in Chicago over the weekend with two people I really respect, Wale and Gbenga Adenuga. We grew up together in Obafemi Awolowo University (University of Ife) and were neighbors for a lot of that time. What I respect most about Wale and Gbenga is their authenticity in music expression. They both write and perform in a
Learning shouldn’t really be something we push on people, it should be the natural response of an individual to their inability to achieve a desired outcome or behave in a desired way. Education on the other hand tends to be pushed as the decision is made for the learner at at a time when they