Three weeks ago, we began our Close of 2025 blog series with one clear goal: to help businesses reflect, reset, and prepare their people strategies for the year ahead. In our first edition, we explored what it truly means to…
Understanding the Skills Gap Let’s continue our end-of-year blog series by exploring practical ways to bridge the skills gap that is increasingly evident across today’s workplaces. Shall we? As businesses prepare for the year ahead, one of the most urgent…
2026 is in a few days’ time and as always, everyone is running around to give 2025 a good sendoff. As the year draws to a close, we find ourselves in the familiar rhythm of reflection; wrapping up projects, celebrating…
People Are the Heart of Every Thriving Business Every successful business eventually realizes that its true competitive advantage isn’t just technology, capital, or even strategy but its people. Employees come with talent, ambition, fears, hopes, and potential. Managing all of…
If there’s one thing that stands at the core of every thriving organization, it’s the PEOPLE. People with hopes, fears, ambitions, insecurities, pressure, dreams, and responsibilities that follow them everywhere they go. And at the center of all these human…
At its core, work is straightforward: show up, get the job done, get paid, and go home. Who would have thought something this simple and straightforward could be complex and this messy even? Interestingly, every workplace has its own unspoken…
For a long time, data and Human Resources were seen as two parallel lines moving in the same organizational space but never quite meeting. HR was the “people” department, guided by intuition, empathy, and experience. Data, on the other hand,…
“Check Your inbox, HR just sent an email” That was the text someone from her workplace sent on WhatsApp. Otubea was just wrapping up with her leave to return to work the following Monday. When she opened the email and…
Somewhere today, an employee is pushing through pain just to meet a deadline, and her boss might be calling it dedication.Somewhere else, another worker is skipping her medical appointment because “the project can’t wait.”And perhaps right now, a woman has…
In Africa, FAITH is not just a belief system, it is a way of life. It shapes how we see the world, how we find hope, and how we face life’s hardest battles. When sickness comes, especially something as daunting…