Not long a ago a prominent Ugandan Journalist stopped our Franklin Covey display at the entrance to the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom and made a comment to my Client Partner Boba Kabaramagi ''this stuff doesn't work..I don't believe in self help''. And he left leaving Boba reeling from his harassing behaviour.
When Boba narrated the story, I thought ''this stuff doesn't work?''. Now for those who do not know about the company, Franklin Covey is the product of the merger between the late Dr, Stephen R. Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) Leadership Centre and Hyrum Smith's Franklin Planners. Today Franklin Covey is a New York stock exchange listed company with a mission to enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere and vision to impact billions of people throughout the world in how they live and work to achieve their great purposes.
At Franklin Covey, we help, as Bob Whitman, the global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) put it ''organizations achieve results that require lasting changes in human behaviour, often the most difficult challenge any organization faces. When accomplished, it is also the most durable competitive advantage. We believe it is one thing to for an organization to announce a strategy-it's quite another to reshape peoples' behaviour and the organizational culture to successful execute that strategy''
Building on the work of Stephen Covey and Hyrum Smith in leadership and productivity, Franklin Covey deep expertise now extends to helping organizations and individuals achieve lasting behavioural changes in seven crucial areas: leadership, execution, productivity, trust, sales performance, customer loyalty and education. Today, Franklin Covey has a global footprint in 165 countries who account for 66% of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It's client list include Shell, Bayer, China Mobile, BMW, Daimler, Lego, Google, Microsoft, etc. Locally, Stanbic Bank, Vision Group, Ecobank Uganda and Rwanda, Citi Bank, Vivo Energy, Ministry of Finance are some of Franklin Covey's clients.
So what doesn't work? Self help? does gravity work everywhere? well so does self help. Writing in 1859, Samuel Smiles captured the power of self help ''The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless''.
So what doesn't work?
When Boba narrated the story, I thought ''this stuff doesn't work?''. Now for those who do not know about the company, Franklin Covey is the product of the merger between the late Dr, Stephen R. Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) Leadership Centre and Hyrum Smith's Franklin Planners. Today Franklin Covey is a New York stock exchange listed company with a mission to enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere and vision to impact billions of people throughout the world in how they live and work to achieve their great purposes.
At Franklin Covey, we help, as Bob Whitman, the global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) put it ''organizations achieve results that require lasting changes in human behaviour, often the most difficult challenge any organization faces. When accomplished, it is also the most durable competitive advantage. We believe it is one thing to for an organization to announce a strategy-it's quite another to reshape peoples' behaviour and the organizational culture to successful execute that strategy''
Building on the work of Stephen Covey and Hyrum Smith in leadership and productivity, Franklin Covey deep expertise now extends to helping organizations and individuals achieve lasting behavioural changes in seven crucial areas: leadership, execution, productivity, trust, sales performance, customer loyalty and education. Today, Franklin Covey has a global footprint in 165 countries who account for 66% of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It's client list include Shell, Bayer, China Mobile, BMW, Daimler, Lego, Google, Microsoft, etc. Locally, Stanbic Bank, Vision Group, Ecobank Uganda and Rwanda, Citi Bank, Vivo Energy, Ministry of Finance are some of Franklin Covey's clients.
So what doesn't work? Self help? does gravity work everywhere? well so does self help. Writing in 1859, Samuel Smiles captured the power of self help ''The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless''.
So what doesn't work?
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