It is Monday and let’s be honest how many of us like Mondays? A lot of people wake up every morning and say I cannot believe that I have to do this all over again! As you travel to work you can see that the excitement that a lot of people had on Friday has long been replaced by a feeling of dreed as people travel far near to go to the jobs that will pay their bills. A few years ago, I met a man who dreamt to do a lot of things in his life, he got the same train as me when I commutated to the city of Bristol for work. He always spoke about the things he was going to do when the time was right, in the year I spoke to him things were never just perfect to get started and he always spoke about…read more >

I was working in particular place a couple years ago and after just been in that department for six weeks something went wrong. I found myself in situation were the team was against me and my manager was talking about performance review despite being in the department for only a short period of time. I remember leaving my manager’s office and just going walking down the road and asking myself why everyone was against me. The world felt very lonely at that moment as I walked down the road not knowing where I was going. I paused for a moment and I asked myself what I would do despite what was happening right now, I asked myself what has brought me to where I am today? Resilience was the answer, never giving up even when everything was going against me. Not for the first time in my life I found…read more >

Over the last few months I have been involved with a group of people talking about different topics on Zambia’s political landscape. I am passionate about my Country of birth and I wanted to contribute. I got involved just before the Zambian Elections last August. I took a couple months break after the birth of my son. A few days ago after a very long presentation and having a chat with the rest of the crew after the broadcast I walked to my sofa which was going to be my bed for the night as I did not want to disturb my family. As I lay on my sofa I suddenly found myself asking this question “ So Frank, what have you gained from that three hours?” I looked around the room, I looked at the time and it was nearly 1am and I was going to be up at…read more >

Over the last few years the EDI conversation has really heated up, a lot more organisations are talking about EDI and EDI leads have been appointed in a lot of organisations. A lot of people will argue that this is step forward and on paper it is a step forward. However, I am still not excited by this development for a number of reasons, first of all let me take you a step back on my own journey. Over a year ago I started working in the eye department, this was like a dream for me because I have an eye condition called Nystagmus, I had a just left a job because I struggle due to the fact that my line manager did not manage my eye condition so going to work in an eye department was like dream. However very quickly I started to struggle and after seven months…read more >

At the end of last month my wife and I welcomed a little boy in the world. it was the most amazing moments of my life. I can still remember how wonderful I felt as I held this little bundle of joy in my arms for the first time. However, this feeling was quickly over shadowed by a feeling of responsibility, I was now responsible for a life, the way I will bring this little boy will have an impact on their future. My life was changed in what seemed to be in a twinkling of an eye. My responsible now was to build a foundation towards a great future. This in turn brought up something else to my mind, my own dreams and aspirations cane to the fore front. I started asking myself if I was doing everything I can do to create the things that I want in…read more >

This week I am looking at chapter 7 of my book Arise Shine which I tilted Faith. A lot of times when we are working on our goals we expect to get the results we want if we do what needs to be done but sometimes life does not always work out this way. In 2007 I had set a goal to go university, this goal was so important to me because it was going to give me a chance for a better future. However, I discovered that things are not always going to work out the way I thought they would. The job market was difficult and I only managed to get an interview after putting in more three hundred job applications. Some of the jobs I did in my early days did not work out, I have been forced out of some jobs because of my skin colour…read more >

It has been over 10 years since the equality and diversity act of 2010 was introduced and we have not seen a great deal of improvement as was anticipated. There have been some improvements but even though a lot of organisations are happy with the improvement that has been made, progress has been very slow. For a lot of organisation equality and diversity is at the back of their priorities, it is something that is looked at now and again but not in great details. Government institutions are required to have mandatory training of which equality and diversity is one. Whilst this is good idea the emphasis of equality and diversity has been lost because managers are only concerned with the staff being up to date with their mandatory training and not whether they have learnt from the training. The words equality and diversity have become synonymous with mandatory training…read more >

The first two jobs I had after graduating from university taught me that if I wanted to succeed then I had to ensure that my work colleagues do not beat me. This is where the journey of fighting other people began, I did this for the next seven years. I believed that if I wanted to be successful I had to be better than everyone around me so as you can imagine I did not make a very good team player. In one of my jobs I gained a lot of respect from senior management so much so that the chief executive of the organisation would even respond to my emails but I still felt the need to fight people who were at the same level as I was. I found that there was this culture of fighting your corner and wherever I went I found myself fighting my corner.…read more >

There is always a buzz of excitement at the beginning of every new journey because we anticipate so much from it. We think of all the good new skills we are going to learn and we think of how wonderful the people are going to be. These are all the feelings I had when I left a job I had done for nearly four years last November. I was really looking forward to a new challenge because changing jobs for me is very big deal because of my eye condition. I like things to stay the same but I realised that if I wanted my life to change I had to do something that is new to me so I made a leap of faith and changed jobs. I was really looking forward to what the new job was going to give me, I had stepped away from our head…read more >

It was my first day of working in a city called Bristol and as I don’t drive i was going to have to make my journey to work on train. I was just getting into personal development. I did not know what areas to go into but the journeys to and from Bristol gave me a great insight on human behaviour. The one experience that stands out to me was one of the man who did not like his job and he always talked about all the other things that he wanted to do instead of the job he was doing. He would talk about his desired goal everyday but it soon became clear that he was never going to change his situation because all he did was talk about his desired destination. A year and half later I left my job in Bristol and a year after that I…read more >