Knowing who you are – Self-awareness – is fundamental to effective personal branding. People who know and understand who they are – their strengths, weaknesses, gifts, talents, abilities and experiences – are more likely to package/brand themselves better than those who don’t. A reader on my earlier blog post, Leadership and Personal Branding asked whether…
When you get an internship placement, you have earned yourself a job interview without asking for one. Treat it as such by paying attention to everything that you would, on a job interview opportunity you have been called to. Internship is your opportunity to demonstrate that you are the person that company needs now, or…
We all have a brand whether we like it or not. We all have a name or an image we conjure up in the minds of the people we meet or interact with. Interestingly, this image can be created, even without being present physically. “Your brand”, according to Dorothy Kisaka, a leadership consultant with…
If you must celebrate Valentine’s Day, please celebrate Love (I tread carefully here, I know how this wonderful word has been abused; it could mean different things to different ears); do not indulge in sensualities. There is so much hype about Valentine’s Day and some of the results thereof are not always the kind we…
Most often than not, leadership does not necessarily arise from a position, the position, however, advances leadership. It seems to me that almost all the leaders we admire, whose stories we love to hear and tell, whose biographies and autobiographies have graced our bookshelves, have been people who have seen a need and rose to…
Generation Y, as it has come to be classified by the 4 to 14 Global Initiative, that is, young people between the ages eighteen to twenty nine, present to us a great opportunity for positive change and transformation. This opportunity sometimes goes unnoticed and untapped all together, and we miss out on the positive change…
How can local churches that serve in the context of poverty be empowered to realize their mission? This is a question that arose while working with local churches to reach out to children in poverty. Do local churches in poor communities see themselves as Christ sees them? Do they see themselves as being part of the…
Understanding our sexuality and how it affects us is fundamental to our ability to lead well. Good teaching about sex and sexuality, therefore, should be mandatory for leadership training. This thought was further reinforced, after a five days training on sexual purity before and after marriage, for eighty one young leaders. The training was conducted…
Who influences you? Who are you following? Who is a father figure to you? Who is responsible for you? Where do you turn when you have difficulty? Who disciplines you? To whom do you report? All these, and more, are questions that point to leadership and accountability and why we need it. We must be…
Young adults, if well harnessed, can be a great resource for local church missions in Uganda. Other institutions seem to know the resource that young adults are very well and have used it to their advantage. Take the army for example; many of their fighting men are recruited from between the ages of eighteen and…
Patrick Awuah, cofounder of Ashesi College in Ghana and TED speaker, has argued that “the manner in which we educate our leaders is fundamental to progress on [the African continent].” This, in my view, is a strong argument that we should pay attention to. You can read his profile here and listen to his full…
It seems to be a popular belief that “young people are the leaders of tomorrow” and there is an extent to which that is true. The problem that I see with this belief, however, is the fact that it causes us to relegate opportunities from which we would benefit from the young people’s leadership. We…
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
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Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
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Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
Thoughts on Leadership, The Local Church, Children and Youth
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