When you collaborate with partners, it might not always seem to be efficient. It can take a lot of time to really team up, there are always discussions about money, and it is difficult to manage staff from other organisations. Herman Snelder and Barbara Cruz recently facilitated a masterclass on forming and successfully managing partnerships and share 4 lesson learned on effective collaboration.
If you are working in the development or humanitarian field, you know that the way changes happen is not linear. In most cases, we try to influence human behaviours. That is not something that is amenable to predictable patterns of change.
At MDF’s West Africa office we have been building our entrepreneurship services since 2014. Over the years, we have worked with entrepreneurs, trained business advisors and are building a network of investors in the West African region. All this was unveiled during the launch of the innovation hub!
This is the second article in our 3-part series on cultural sensitivity at the workplace. In this article, we pay special attention to managing in a multi-cultural setting to get the best from your team. Read on!
This is a time of historically unprecedented change for most organisations. Change and the need to manage it well, has always been with us. Change is inherent to development. But people who work in an organization may still not like change.