We did it! ๐
The SACCOs Executive Breakfast Series is complete.
Three cities. Three conversations. One mission โ a digitally trusted SACCO sector for Kenya.
Thank you to every leader who joined us.
Stay tuned: our July training, "Securing SACCOs โ Strengthening Governance & Core Systems," is next!
#ISACAKenya
That's a wrap on Nairobi/Kiambu! ๐
What a morning at the SACCO Digital Trust Summit โ Executive Breakfast. Thank you to every SACCO leader who showed up, engaged, and leaned into the tough conversations around cybersecurity, governance, and digital trust.
We're just getting started. Next stops:
๐ Central Region โ Friday, 19 June
๐ Rift Valley โ Tuesday, 23 June
๐ Western Region โ Friday, 26 June
Not in Nairobi? Register for your regional session โ https://t.co/bh8KRJUHo5
#ISACAKenya #SACCODigitalTrust #DigitalGovernance
Now it gets real.
Our expert panel is now on the floor โ practitioners from across the SACCO and technology landscape sharing firsthand experience on digital risk, governance, and resilience:
โธ Kenfrey Muriungi
โธ Josech Mayaka
โธ Dennis Muteti
โธ Tim Theuri
The questions from the room are sharp. The insights are sharper.
#ISACAKenya #SACCODigitalTrust #PanelDiscussion
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1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation: Acknowledge efforts; genuine compliments build rapport & soften criticism.
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3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person: Share your own failures first. It humanizes you.
4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders: Questions empower thinking and enhance ownership.
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Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO
โThe greatest people are self-managing. They donโt need to be managed. Once they know what to do, theyโll go figure out how to do itโฆ What they need is a common vision, and thatโs what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it, and getting consensus on a common vision.โ
Steve continues:
โWe wanted people who were insanely great at what they didโฆ and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.โ
Kenya is a very ironic country. When the youths go to the streets and raise the Kenyan flag, they get shot at and killed. But apparently we have the freedom to raise the flag of another country and live to tell the tale.
Is that the Flag of Somalia? Very interesting.
9.
BRICS officially added 13 new nations to the alliance as partner countries (not full members):
Algeria
Belarus
Cuba
Indonesia
Malaysia
Nigeria
Turkey
Uganda
Uzbekistan
(๐งต 10/13)