Gen-Z are Zesty and Zen and I’m here for it.

 Of all the employees I have had, the people I have volunteered with and worked with and trained, Gen Z are by far the most loyal, committed and innovative. They are able to carry meaningful conversation and can hold their own. They are born between 1997 to 2012, approximately 11 to 26 years old.

My most recent employee Terry, who had to stop when her university schedule became hectic, was highly innovative, listened and shared her own ideas. We never argued and she never ever made demands on her time or pouted for recognition amongst clients. She knew her space and created it into a real gem.

After her, I hired another Gen-Z from the Phillipines. She was an English teacher and equally delightful. Thoroughly organized, innovated with her communication and her style was well received. I learned a lot from the time that they worked for Rich Diction and we’re still in touch.

I have volunteered with organisations and again, the Gen-Z are loyal, fun to be with and never make you second guess who you are. They’re respectful, open to dialogue and immensely inventive. They also gossip far less than Generation Z or Generation Y. Gen-Z are here to mean business and they are definitely the leaders that the world needs.

According to Forbes, ‘15 Ways Leaders Can More Effectively Manage Gen-Z Workers,’ Gen z are open to dialogue and to suggesting important and effective changes in work places. The article also states that we should expect innovation to climb at a global scale.

One of Terry's posters.

I would want my next accountant to belong to Gen-Z. I would want to coach a Gen-Z and let them take over my company.

Generation X whom I consider friends, have the same energy as Gen-Z, they are committed to being who they are, and do not have that nasty jealous spirit that was birthed in many of our peers and manifests in the most bizarre way.

Gen-Z, I know that once you take over as C.E.Os, Presidents and Kings and Queens, the world will experience necessary change.

 

Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva

Founder and Team Lead, Rich Diction Enterprises Ltd.

+256 751 703226

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Discipline is A Full Tank of Petrol, while Motivation is just a teaspoon of it

 

I worked as a weekday morning radio host from 2003 to 2005, on a Christian radio in Kampala, Power FM. I opened the station promptly at 6:00am every single weekday, during the two years that I worked there.

Naming the show, ‘Masters of The Dawn,’ I scripted my lines, ideas, nuggets and humorous punch lines. Sometimes I worked with a co-host and for a while, I worked alone. No matter which, I worked diligently and never missed a day, not even on Christmas. On Christmas of 2004, I actually hosted parents of children that were born on 25 December and gave the families gifts.

Working on radio requires a consistent dose of high energy, creative charisma and consistency. For the most part, motivation carries only 1% and for the 99%, you just need discipline. For me, being a highly motivated person, it is humbling to recognize that the inner butterflies that stir me to wake up Kampala City by 6:00am, reading the messages that validate my existence and hearing how I encouraged hundreds of people daily, was not enough. Discipline ruled the day.

You don’t need motivation to reach your goals, or to achieve your targets. You need discipline. It takes discipline to be creative and not just motivation. It takes discipline to be cheerful and encourage hundreds of people every day, and not motivation. Discipline is long-lasting, stronger and is free from emotional burdens.

Discipline got me to wake up before 5:30am, every weekday that I was on Power FM. The only week that I missed was when I went on leave to Kigali, in 2004. That was my first ever visit to the’ land of a thousand hills.’ I returned with stories of Rwanda, which coincided with the tenth anniversary of the genocide and the opening of the Rwanda Genocide memorial centre. Rwanda was an extension of whom I was born to become. I listened to stories of people around the towns, visited Butare National University and various restaurants. Rwanda was always an extension of my desire to travel around the world and to establish friends without borders.

Discipline carried me through the two years at Power FM, launching new programmes and learning and unlearning.

Fridays was the time for African Christian music. Mondays were job postings and cash prizes to be won. Everyday was something new, created by a consistent set of disciplinary standards.

We all want something this year, 2023. Try discipline. You’ll achieve it much faster than if you just rely on motivation.

 

Bless!

Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva

Speaker. Poet. Long-distance swimmer. Author.

Team Leader, Rich Diction Enterprises Ltd.

Founder, Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation

I'm searching for an artist: Poem

 

I’m searching for an artist

 

Artists use broken glass

Glue it together and paint

Over the fragments.

It’s abstract, they say

They colour the fragments

With blue, green.

It’s abstract, they say.

When they say that,

The brokenness turns into expensive art.

 

I’m searching for an artist

To glue my brokenness

Glue the fragments together

With blue, green

I want the artist to say, “It’s abstract.”

Because when they say that,

My brokenness will turn into expensive art.

 

 

Written by Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, April 2021

I MISS THE DAYS: POEM BY BEVERLEY NAMBOZO NSENGIYUNVA

 

I miss the days

when friendship was

an invitation to laugh

at everything

and nothing

At shadows that danced like brooms

At spinach that got stuck between the teeth.

I miss the days when friendship

was a time to fly kites

in between bites

of hotdogs, maize,and simsim balls

A time to ride bicycles

And count the passing clouds

Creating our own musicals

On a stage made of grass.

I miss the days when friendship was

walking to church in long white socks

Whistling at flowers, throwing rocks.

Now, conversations are a patronizing

Drumming to the ears

Dreams have turned into sermons

Invitations have turned into a trick

To join a mastermind class.

"If you don't buy my book, you don't love me!" They scream.

Even if the book doesn't speak to you.

Keep your honesty aside

And enjoy the ride

Of self-help

Business for breakfast

Lectures for lunch

Tidbits of tips for tea

And all of this, they say, is to make you grow.

And yet each time they call, you shrink.

It's another condescending call

About your commitment, or lack of it

So many people are committed these days.

Are we all lunatics?

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Three steps to becoming great again!

And yet all I want

Are the three steps to

My friend's heart again.

It's not the years that have changed us.

It's lazy to blame it on our age

It's preposterous to claim that life happened.

Our friendship wasn't a thing that just happened.

It was who we were.

....

By Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, April 2021

Kampala, Uganda.