Human Resource

Is The Future Of Uganda Oil Or The Youth? Economic growth graphs are slippery. Very difficult to climb up. Uganda hopes to plod through a slithery growth track to middle-income status by 2026, mainly driven by the oil sector. That FIDs are signed and the hope that field development will…

10 HR Compliance Facts Every Supplier To The Ugandan Oil And Gas Sector Must Know Uganda’s oil sector is brimming in action. With preparations for the development of Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields and the construction of the 1,443-kilometre East African crude oil pipeline in full swing, the optimism is…

Collaborative Working, The Orphan Of A New Normal With the reducing rates of COVID, we all can hear the soft, collective sigh of relief. Life is beginning to return to the good old days. We are reminded, though, that it is the new normal. Having to learn to work from…

How To Rediscover Your Leadership Velocity In A Socially Distanced World A 360 Degree Survey is the First Step COVID pandemic has reshaped the world. You now have the new normal and remote working. But the old challenges of business growth, profitability, and efficiency stay. The difference is that you…

Boost Employee Engagement Before It Fails Like A Long- Distance Relationship. In a Socially Distanced World, the First Step is an Employee Engagement Survey Let us face it. Work-from-Home is another term for social distancing at work. If your staff are working from home, they are distancing themselves. Social distancing…

Why Do You Work Longer While Working From Home? With the freedom to work from home, are you bartering away your time? Opinions on the benefits of WfH differ. Many find it beneficial. Some disagree. But everyone agrees on one thing: With WfH, you end up working for longer hours.…

How COVID Elevated HR To A Truly Strategic Level Lockdowns are Unlocking HR Ingenuity. Do you agree? Pandemics are challenging. The lockdowns are frustrating. They have affected all of us, both personally and professionally. When a crisis hit, the CEO called the respective head of the function for a solution…

Old Normal, New Normal And Near Normal In a crisis, we are near you. Uganda announced COVID-19 Lockdown 2.0 on 18 June 2021 for six weeks. But we, Future Options  Consulting, want to let you know that our operations are Near Normal. Near Normal means you can access all our services normally. More…

Do You Hire For Skills Or Attitude? Right fit means both Every HR Manager wants to make sure that each recruitment is a success.  You want quality at the gate, you want to make sure that the people joining the company have the right attitude and cultural fit. “Hire for attitude…

The Business Case For Employee Engagement Surveys Improving employee engagement means achieving better results using the existing resources. HR Managers dream of high-achievers. If you can build an organization of high performers, you are successful. So is the organization. Question: What does an excellent performance take? Angela Duckworth has given…