Media experts at a public forum have advocated for the use of strategic communication as the foundation for nation building. The public forum is the first in a series of public lectures and forums being organized by the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, to mark its year-long...
…a risk management tip
"You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you." - Maxwell Maltz
Today’s topic is about how employees can cope with the consequences of making mistakes and learning lessons from them and moving on. It is about “rolling with the punches”.
The Meaning of “Roll with the punches”.
According to McGraw-Hill...
Thirty years ago, on September 16, 1992, currency speculators forced the British Government to abandon the commitment of pound sterling to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. In the days that followed ‘Black Wednesday’, sterling subsequently lost 15% of its value. By early 1993 it had lost almost one-third of...
Over the last five years, Ghana has seen radical policy changes in its educational structure. Arguably, these policy changes are geared toward long-term economic and social transformation.
The recent introduction of a new curriculum for KG1-Basic schools and the new Common Core Curriculum for JHS1-SHS1 attest to radical policy changes...
...how SmartPhone, Smart Business is leading the way for women-led micro enterprises
There is a growing body of empirical literature that continues to confirm economically empowering women is the singlemost important driver of wider national and regional development. This has not always been the case.
The uneven distribution of resources...
Patients living with Hypertension and Diabetes in Ghana are now experiencing a unique and more personalised form of care with the introduction of a mobile application with self-management tools. The app has built-in protocols that allow patients to enter their daily blood pressure (BP) and blood sugar measurements to...
For a productive and sustainable agric value chain to exist, there is need for a well-structured and integrated market system to be in place, which allows all integral units of the value chain to complement and feed into one another.
What then is a market system? A marketing system is...
Powerful communication skills are an indispensable facet of any leader’s portfolio of skills and experience. The true mark of influential leadership centres on knowing how to communicate within all spaces of the organisation, internally and externally, crossing over from employees, managers, clients and investors. Each distinct stakeholder group requires...
Home to about 1.4 billion people, approximately a quarter of Africa’s population is impoverished – a staggering 460 million people in the region are living below the extreme poverty line of US$1.90 a day in 2022, an egregious situation that has characterised Africa as poverty-stricken. But the truth is that Africa is not poor – the...
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia’s war in Ukraine and the pandemic are also adding to food shortages and high prices.
Climate events - which destroy crops and disrupt food transport - are disproportionately common in the region. One-third of the world’s droughts occur in sub-Saharan...