“I literally feel like a history maker.”
“Why ENO? Why that name?” Gloria Osei-Sarfo asked herself when she first heard about ENO. This curiosity was one of the reasons why she was drawn into the role of Abena Baafi, the overbearing mother at the heart of the new Ghanaian drama series now...
More than 1000 people in Obuasi and its environs have become new entrepreneurs after acquiring various skills from a vocational training programme, organised by Obuasi based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Mama Love Foundation.
Dubbed ‘Train the Hands’, the entrepreneurial training programme was aimed at equipping the beneficiaries with employable skills to...
What do Ecobank, Fidelity Bank Ghana, Voltic and Petra Trust have in common? Other than being market leaders with strong brands, they have all, at some point, benefited from a private equity investment relationship. During the course of their engagement with private equity investors, most of these businesses saw...
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - unknown
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity....
Virtual interviews have become the preferred option for many employers and candidates as the world of work continues to evolve. Video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, and other digital tools have helped recruiters reach more diverse candidates, while offering a cost-effective way to screen prospective hires,...
In communication studies, there is a theory called Agenda-Setting. It is when the media keep raising a particular topic/issue to the top of national discourse.
Students of communication studies would therefore do well to follow how one subject - the Electronic Transaction Levy or E-levy - has set the national...
Several attempts have been made to guide human behaviour by establishing norms and values. These norms and values constitute a significant portion of a given community’s culture. No community or organisation can exist without norms and values. Likewise, businesses cannot exist without the institution of a robust moral code...
How do you get people to talk about your business and spread the word? Word-of-mouth marketing can make all the difference in how successful your product or service becomes, and it doesn’t cost you a penny to implement.
Let me start by sharing these two stories with you to serve...
“We are all asset managers,” writes Professor Partha Dasgupta in his seminal study on the economics of biodiversity. “Whether as farmers or fishers, foresters or miners, households or companies, governments or communities,” we all influence the store of value held in our most precious asset—the natural world around us.
We...
….sine qua non of leadership effectiveness and performance
Being an effective leader of people in today’s world seems to be much more complicated than in years past. Employees are always on the lookout for more stimulating and rewarding work as well as inspiring work environments where they can make...