“Every moment is a learning point. At the end of a mission, learning from your experiences especially third party perspective is a great way to cover for your blind spots.” Running projects comes with some level of experience but as this happens, there’s a point that you get to that most of the work happens […]
“Professional development is anchored on continuous learning, skills & competency development with an aim of attaining professional excellence.” Last month I was actively involved in matters professional development ranging from participation in curriculum reviews, mentorship programs and coordination of a leadership strategy focused on catering for the welfare & career development of junior pharmacists. I
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“Equality is a right. The choice to challenge drivers of inequality is the way to a fair and equitable society.” Today being International Women’s Day I’m drawn to the topic and not only because it’s the talk of the town but because there’s nothing more important to talk at such a time. Yes, you got
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Kenya as a country is a marvel by itself. I recently wrote about harnessing the value of an acre and skills development following a mentorship session that I was invited to facilitate for pharmacy students in one of the universities in the country. Reflecting on the Kenyan economic outlook having been a pharmacist for over 35 years, one of
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Weekends are times to unwind, think and most importantly read. As per the title I’ve been reading “A Man of the People” by Chinua Achebe where I’m having a great time with Odili the diligent and for that matter I decided to do a piece related to his character. This is not only based on
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I’ve had a fruitful and impactful day doing work I love, having stimulating conversations and finally homing in. On the backdrop of this, there’s been a constant nudge on spending habits in the current times. For start, I thought it through in terms of the recent trends in consumer habits which based on a recent
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When coronavirus disease outbreak set in last year, we were all at a loss especially when we couldn’t get to meet most of our friends. This was even extra for the interactions with those we weren’t as close to. On the backdrop of this, I had my not so bearable moments which were made fun
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Last week I received a message from a colleague in the pharmacy space practicing in South Africa after which we deliberated on general concerns in the pharmacy profession in the continent and globally. Having much love for the profession I was inclined to indulge further and as fate would have it, she wasn’t having the
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“A pitch is as good as it’s implementation. On paper it doesn’t do much.” Coming to the end of the day, I have just gone through my emails to close out on any hanging communication streams so that I get up to a new day with no pending work, and if any, it’ll be something
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“Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long term plan and putting it into action.” – Ellie Pidot Getting into the last month of the first quarter, I feel the year is on a sprint to come to an end. I don’t know if I’m the only one who thinks so, as
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