Greetings Everyone

Another late post today. Apologies. Bear with me; my co-writers are on vacation. Chinatu is on a tour of Greece and George Akpayen is in Malaysia. I envy those guys. Enjoying life and just having zero thoughts or cares in the world. What a life. As your faithful servant, ill do my best to keep the blog going until they both return from their vacation.

Yesterday’s blog got quite the feedback and that is very welcome. But I know it was an incomplete article. Hopefully we will get more juice added to the series. However It’s more concerning though- it doesn’t appear like anyone is keen on anything more than having their pockets nicely lined up. It’s almost like it’s an entire cartel where none of them club owners have sworn for positive change.

Otherwise how do you explain that not any one of them has positive ideas for change. Nor is any of them hiring anyone for the purpose. I mean, you can be visionless yet you can hire people who know a thing or two about how things should run. I understand you may not be able to enroll yourself in the Sports Business Schools – how about training you staff? The cost isn’t even that much.

It reminds me of what we saw In Egypt where Coach Yema was not allowed to be in the dugout for the game. The issue, I learnt had to do with some CAF Certification that he didn’t possess. I understand that as a Coach, he should get all the tools he needs for his work. No doubt. But don’t organizations send their brightest staff out for trainings?

Why make such investment in a coach that will leave the team in 2 or 3 years? I can hear you ask. Oh that’s easy. First, if you establish yourself as an Organization that invests in the support and improvement of their human resources, you’re only spending a little money to buy a lot of goodwill for yourself. Why won’t your staff feel the fulfilment of playing for an organization that cares, even it’s a little bit?

The average African does not think that way. They see their role to be all about paying your salary when due and firing you when they’re done with you. How about coming into some financial agreement with the coach where you’d agree with him to pay for his certification upfront and then deduct an agreed amount from his monthly salary? That sounds not only reasonable but it shows that you care about your most important resources.

It doesn’t take alot to make a difference. You can start with doing things differently. If you are the helm of things, you must be committed to implementing lasting change. There is a reason why we haven’t been able to attract that stand-out player in recent times. Back in the day, the best players played for Enyimba. Alas, that’s the good old days. Now we have 42 players that are filled with, at best 3 star or 2 star players. We need to bring that Enyimba pull back to the club.

Success or otherwise rises or falls on Leadership.

That’s today’s serving. Back tomorrow.

‘EnyimbaEnyi