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October 21, 2021 Ghislaine Muyangata

Virtual Food Safety Training: The New Normal

Training has always been at the core of system implementations and needed changes, no matter the activity.


October 18, 2021 Adaora Ayoade

A Coaching Approach to Dealing with Stress in the Workplace

In today’s busy world, the workplace too often seems like an emotional roller coaster. Long hours, tight deadlines, and ever-increasing demands can leave you feeling worried, drained, and overwhelmed.


September 24, 2021 Adaora Ayoade

Building A Coaching Culture

According to the 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study, coaching is mainly deployed in organizations via managers and leaders who use coaching skills; however, there exists a la


September 24, 2021 Karen Feeley

Does your Training Suffer from New Year Resolution Syndrome?

What is the most crowded day at your neighborhood gym? January 2. After the end-of-year holiday binging, New Year presents the perfect time to put one on the straight-and-narrow of bodily repair. Sadly, by about February, the gym is back to its normal population, with most New Years Resolutions forgotten.


September 16, 2021 Karen Feeley

What Is Different in Emerging Markets?

Any successful training program begins with a thorough needs assessment to determine the right solution.  When working in a developed country, we often take for granted certain minimum standards.  For instance, we assume that the classroom will have electricity and that, in most cases, our audience knows how to read


September 08, 2021 GLC Team

Non-Financial Services: A Crucial Lifeline in Times of Crisis

IFC enabled financial institutions to deliver skills-building programs for their MSME clients in emerging markets thus bolstering resilience during the pandemic.


August 20, 2021 Karen Feeley

Thinking Inside the Box

“Thinking outside the box” means to think creatively for a new solution to an old problem.  It was a creative metaphor when it first emerged in common use in the late 1960s.  Fifty years later, the expression has become a cliché.


August 06, 2021 Adnan Al-Sada

August 06, 2021 Karen Feeley

From Subsistence Living to Sustainable Farming

For generations, farmers in developing nations like the Philippines have tilled the land and eked out a living.  With little formal education and even less knowledge about business management, these farmers toil hard, sell their crops, and barely make enough to feed their families.  IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and


July 16, 2021 Valentine Kayumbi

Impact of the IFC training: KCB Bank MSME Customers Story

COVID-19 and related restrictions came as a shock to our entire team. We had just finished our first quarter of training sessions in 2020 and we were waiting to get started on the remaining sessions planned for the year.