WORKPLACE/PROFESSIONAL TITLES Why people introduce themselves with their workplace titles Recently, I attended a parent’s meeting at my daughter’s school. Every time a parent stood up to say something, they introduced themselves with their workplace titles. It was as if their titles defined who they were and what they were saying. Mind you, …
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https://www.cv-library.co.uk/career-advice/interviews/interview-questions-answers/ Interview According to Wikipedia “An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.” Generally, you have the interviewer(s) on one side and the interviewee (candidate) on the other side. The main purpose of the interview is to evaluate the qualifications of the prospective candidate or employee. The …
https://familyradio316.com/pursuing-excellence-a-mindset-of-excellence/ Excellence According to the Oxford dictionary, Excellence is “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good”. Though, generally, we love works and people that are outstanding, excellence is a virtue that is hard to find in our generation. We have decided to be associated with mediocrity. People, of all kinds, really appreciate excellence …
Culture of SADRiNE As part of our culture at SADRiNE https://sadrineinfrastructureservices.com/blogs/, we always have aerobics in the evening to keep our body and mind healthy but also for team building. Over time we have observed some colleagues who are very active and efficient in the first fifteen (15) minutes of the one hour. Thereafter they …
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Paul and Timothy From the Bible in the book of 2 Timothy 2:1; we come across Paul calling Timothy “my dear son”. You may think Timothy was a biological son of Paul. Please no! Timothy was from the Lycaonian city of Lystra or of Derbe in Asia Minor, born of a Jewish mother who had become …
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Copy and Paste In the initial years of my academic journey at Makerere University http://www.mak.ac.ug, I completely utilized the notes and slides of my mentor Prof. Denis Kalumba at the University of Cape Town http://www.uct.ac.za. This was done under his permission and supervision. I had no idea where to start from in relation to coming …
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https://www.pinerest.org/newsroom/articles/good-person-or-bad-person-blog/ Good vs Bad In my life time, so far, it has been a privilege to attend two great universities. That is Makerere University http://www.mak.ac.ug in Uganda and the University of Cape Town http://www.uct.ac.za in South Africa. In both universities I have observed the existence of at least one universally labelled ‘bad’ academician (lecturer/professor) by the …
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Once Upon a Time For a long time (probably eight years from 2010 to 2018), I was teaching in more than one university in Uganda. At one point, I was teaching in four universities. I found myself running from one class at a certain university to the next class in another university. One of …
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Frozen Many times I have encountered a web page freezing from nowhere. A frozen state is when the web page appears to have stopped. Nothing on the screen seems to move hence no response. This is a very frustrating situation especially if it happens in the middle of an important action. The situation tends to …
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A story is told of a lady who resigned from her job as a manager of a department in a certain leading corporate organization. The department was performing great under her leadership. She would be at work by 5 am in the morning and leave late in the evening. She had inherited an underperforming …
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