When I left home for the office this morning, I never thought I will receive a surprise today. My office has different buildings housing different departments, I left my building (department) to check in on something with the HR department. On getting to the HR department, I finished with the business that took me there, and alas! The good news to me that; there is something for me. I never envisaged what it was, Until it was pulled out and I was informed of my long service award.
Wow! Aside the death on the Cross, for now, I think this is the best Easter gift ever.
Thank you HR team,
Thank you eHA
I want to say thanks to the Board Chairperson for having trust in me and giving me the opportunity to serve.
Afeme ye ni Tope ooo! meaning; Oh people save me from this girl! This was my mum’s usual exclamation whenever I did not deliver on any assigned task.
Those days, growing up was like hell. Have you pondered your growing years to remember how your parent, siblings, or neighbors send you on multiple errands and they want you to deliver timely without missing out on any of the tasks? I could recall my mum would send me like 4 different tasks at a time – Tope! bring me an empty bowl, come along with the broom beside the big bed, get me the salt container, also with a bowl of tap water, hurry up pls! That’s my mum’s voice. By the time I show up with just the empty bowl and maybe manageably the salt container, that was when you often hear the exclamation aforementioned in my first paragraph. The look alone let alone the screaming will get me taking a summersaulting round-about turn to get the remaining items.
The neighbours in my compound are another matter entirely. five to six persons would send you to buy different things, and you must remember all. You must not mix what you were sent or forget any of it. The height of it is that; whenever you cannot find what you were sent, you are not expected to come back home empty handed. It is expected that you will go extra mile to get whatever you were sent and come back with it no mater where you are able to find it. Hence the map of sabon-gari Kano is in my head. From Aminu Road to Ibadan road, Burma road to Gold Coast road, and France road to Sarkin Yaki. All the streets are in my head as a result of running errands.
While I sing, I will be running to ensure I get there on time without anyone stopping me along the way. By this I did not make many friends because no matter how you flag me down I will not bulge in until I get back. Once the errand is completed, that is only when I will go back to whoever needed my attention. There were time I got one of the trusted children (one who is not playful so as not to pour away the food on our way back) in the compound to go with me especially when I know I cannot carry the entire plates of everyone. Also, there were times one of the elders would assign another child to follow me in running the errands due to the amount of bowls to carry. This is a sort of delegation. The only thing I did not learn then, was pushing back. There were times I would be on sick bed, with high temperature. Yet those neighbours will still send me out even in a sunny weather. Other children in my compound, once sent by an individual would turn down another’s request pending the first is completed. Their response is often someone sent me. Once that is said, he/she has escaped that errand, or the person will wait until the child gets back before sending him/her.
Google defined a lesson as a useful piece of
information learned through experience. In project management, leveraging on
lessons from similar past or ongoing projects is usually encouraged. Learning
from experience is the second core principle of the PRINCE2 7 principles.
Lessons collation is required throughout the life cycle of a project. This is
essential for effective project/program implementation. Other project
management courses also encourage the collation of lessons for closure processes.
Aside lessons from project management, generally, there is a saying that
‘experience is the best teacher’ which denotes you only learn in a better way
from experience.
AVADAR is a program that has lots of lessons to learn from, ranging from set
up to transition. Read more on eHealth
Africa (eHA’s) website.
To read posts on AVADAR on the eHA’s website kindly through the stories on the right of the blog page. You would also learn from other projects implemented by eHA.
Enjoy your reading!.
Ogunseye-Falodun 