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During our Cohort 10 Graduation 🎓✨, we proudly awarded Clement as the Most Active Participant, a true reflection of consistency, engagement, and growth throughout the program 👏🔥

At M_OliveS, we don’t just train… we celebrate, recognize, and hype our participants up every step of the way 💯 because your effort deserves to be seen and rewarded.

🚨 Today is the final day to register! We’re giving you this last opportunity to join Cohort 11, don’t miss your chance to grow, be seen, and be celebrated too 🚀

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Are you ready to grow not just as a mentor, but as a leader, a guide, and a voice of impact?

Joining Cohort 11 will help you:
• Strengthen your leadership and communication skills
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• Gain clarity on how to guide others with confidence
• Network with like-minded mentors
• Increase your influence and personal growth

Mentorship is not just about giving advice, it’s about transforming lives, including your own. 💛

This is your opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your capacity, and make a lasting difference.

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As an entrepreneur you have great characteristics; coming up with new ideas, new technologies, confident, charismatic, risk taker and the list is endless. However, these very same qualities can pose a risk to the long-term growth of your company. While making solo decisions and being inseparable from your company may have been an asset at some point, these traits will not be helpful as the company grows over time.
Think about it; What happens if you were not able to be present in your company anymore? ‘It could very well be the end of the organization’. What happens if you chose to stick around? ‘Your individual vision becomes the company vision. Alternative ideas are muted, and the business becomes more about you than the organizational mission’.
As an entrepreneur be on the lookout for these warning signs of the founder’s syndrome; The Company is largely associated with you, no strategy or planning, few systems and processes in place, lack of communication and decisions are often made in a vacuum with no collaboration or buy-in, excessive micro-management and censoring of new ideas, capable employees feel unable to contribute, irregular staff engagements where motivation is through fear and guilt, as a leader you are unwilling to ask or accept help and there is no succession plan.
“In the founders eyes there is no one who can lead, guide or grow the business like themselves and the fear that the business can be destroyed if handed over to their children or independent management is a clear and present danger to them” Carol Musyoka
Founder’s syndrome is a threatening disease since it involves founders constraining or undermining the company that they sacrificed blood, sweat and tears to build. The best method of dealing with founder’s syndrome is for it never to occur in the first place. This requires you as the founder to become more aware of your abilities and how those abilities might be constraining your company. It requires you to invest heavily in your own leadership development. It requires your board of directors to practice good governance and look after the long-term interests of the company.

Reflection
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.- Philippians 2:3-4

Mary Kamore is the Lead Consultant M_OliveS Mentors

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The key goal in managing forceful and unpredictable challenges is resilience– the ability to survive and thrive through erratic, changing, and potentially hostile events.

Five ways in which you can build your Business Resilience

1. Taking action and moving forward

A crisis like the one we’re currently experiencing requires quick thinking in the face of uncertainty. However as an entrepreneur you may find yourself dealing with “analysis paralysis,”- inability to make a decision due to overthinking.

Delaying decisions will only lead to more problems—and those problems will require more decisions. “In the military, it doesn’t matter in which direction you choose to move when under a mortar attack, just so long as you move. Decisions are never final for the simple fact that change is never absolute.” Jeff Boss

Some actions that are resilient in nature include;

• Diversify: Having multiple approaches to doing Business can be less efficient but hardy in crisis situations.
• Evolvability: Constant improvement in the light of new opportunities, problems, or information. Align your business systems and processes to accommodate adjustments during this period. g online selling (e-commerce, virtual marketing, use of social media platforms etc.), virtual offices
• Embeddedness: Businesses are stakeholders in the wider systems-economically and socially. Support to all stakeholders in a time of adversity can potentially create lasting goodwill and trust.

What to do: Break down what you need to do into smaller steps and then attend to issues based on their level of urgency. “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”

2. Dealing with information overload

While having access to the latest news is undoubtedly a blessing, it can also be a burden. Information overload is a very real thing that occurs when there is too much relevant information being disseminated at the same time.

When there’s an information surplus, we tend to miss out on important news or even succumb to potentially harmful misinformation. In fact, research shows that false news travels faster than true stories on social media.

What to do; In order to make sense of all the conflicting information out there, evaluate whether the information you are reading is fact-checked and from a reliable source. It’s also good to set a limit for yourself. Continuously exposing yourself to upsetting news will only heighten anxiety.

3. Selecting the right focus

As a Business owner it can be difficult to know where to prioritize time and resources. One way to choose is to consider what is truly important to your business. For most of us, that’s people—employees, customers, vendors, partners.

What to do; Your first priority should be the safety and well-being of your employees. Up next would be communicating with customers. They may not be in a position to patronize your business, but they still want to be updated on any changes to its operations. The same goes for other stakeholders so they know what your status is and what to expect moving forward. Other areas of focus include; Cash flow and Insurance, Business Continuity, tax and audit.

4.       Keeping your eyes on other risks

COVID-19 isn’t the only threat on the horizon — and often you are most vulnerable when dealing with a crisis that dominates your attention. The many other risks that your business faces aren’t diminished by an epidemic. Cybersecurity, for example, should always be top of mind. Others include; Financial risks, Reputation risk, Operational risks, competition risks etc

5. Finding balance and achieving a healthy mindset

We’re all experiencing a lot of intense emotions during these ever-evolving times, and as an entrepreneur/Business owner you have an additional level of stress as you try to do what is best for you employees and customers.

Remember “you can’t pour from an empty cup.” Overextending yourself leads to burnout, and once you reach that state you won’t be able to help anyone. That’s why it’s imperative that you carve out time to recharge and take care of yourself.

What to do; Be intentional by setting a block of time in your schedule for self-care—whether that be going for a walk, spending time with your family, or enjoying a long’ hot bath’. The more you’re able to find inner calm during this crisis, the better able you are to make decisions and lead your business.

Conclusion

The scale of this crisis is unprecedented, but there is a silver lining. Eventually, you will come out on the other side of this pandemic with a greater sense of personal empowerment, growth and increased connection to your community (customers, employees, stakeholders)—all of which will be advantages for your businesses now and in the future.

Psalm 46

¹ God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth gives way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you stepped down from your leadership role, would you leave with confidence that your team would adjust seamlessly and that the business will continue to thrive?  This is what is possible if you coach or mentor to develop your team. It is absolutely worth your time. However, to effectively coach or mentor your team you must shift your thinking. Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Africa is demographically the world’s youngest continent. By 2030, about 20% of the global labour force and nearly 35% of the global youth labour force will be from this region. While 10 to 12 million Africa’s youth enter the workforce each year, only 3 million formal jobs are created. Indeed, the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will likely worsen this trend. With most African countries in lockdown, the impact of COVID-19 on economies and businesses will be significant and long-lasting. According to a recent assessment by the ILO, almost 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide as a result of the pandemic. Both the formal and informal sectors are threatened with destruction. Noting that 15-34 year-olds make up close to half of the continent’s working age population; young people will be the first to feel the effects of this recession – and most likely the last to recover. This is a sad reality on a continent with such an impressive pool of youth, talent and creativity. Lack of youth employment opportunities undermines Economic growth, Social cohesion and Political stability.

From the demand-side perspective, COVID-19 has reduced consumption, and neither African SMEs nor their countries have sufficient market infrastructure (such as internet connectivity or e-commerce markets) to help mitigate this shock. From the supply-side, the virus has affected workers in terms of employment and access to work, and mitigation measures have caused a slowdown of economic activity. The sectors that are most at risk of COVID-19 disruptions in Africa are: wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing, administrative services, and hospitality (including tourism). Along with agriculture, these sectors represent many of the key industries where young people currently find employment.

In the midst of this gloomy scenario what opportunities may be opening up for the youth? Where would a youth start in a depressed Economy?

The truth is that this crisis comes with opportunities. The old Chinese proverb; ‘A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind’ applies even now. If you look around, you will realize there are more opportunities than threats. As long as the world has not come to an end yet, there will always be needs; people must eat, have a roof over their heads, keep warm & healthy etc. Allow the crisis to ignite the creativity in you; quarantine, lock-down and all other mitigation measures although painful gives a rare time for planning, reflection and self-examination. There will definitely be winners and losers during and after this pandemic; how do you align your ideas to the winning side.

For SME owners, Business Managers & Corporate heads, give youth a chance. Businesses are looking to bounce back quickly after the pandemic-it’s time we created opportunities for internship and apprenticeship for the youth. In addition let us consider mentoring our young people for sustainable job creation and succession planning?

Lastly as John Denver put it “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are”, our youth are truly a gift![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”835″ label=””][vc_column_text]Mary Kamore is the Lead Consultant MoliveS Mentors[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]