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How SpurtX! helps African teams build the future of work
Insights, updates, and innovations from SpurtX! — all crafted to help you build stronger, smarter, more aligned teams.
Opeyemi Odunsi
November 21, 2025
TL;DR
Discover how anonymous surveys build stronger team culture. Try Spur! Today
Fix team misalignment with one centralised tool. Try Sync! today
Highlights from Gen Z Summit Africa: see what went down
Find your recruiting style, Take Spot!’s quiz
Why flexibility is the foundation of modern work. Read Moyin’s insights
Hello
November at Spurt! has been all about learning, building, and empowering teams for the future of work.
From strengthening our internal culture to partnering with one of Africa’s strongest youth tech communities, we’ve been focused on initiatives and collaborations that prepare African teams for the future of work.
Here’s what we’ve been up to.
At Spurt!, building a great remote team isn’t about assuming what people need but about listening deeply and creating space for real, unfiltered feedback. Anonymous surveys help us do exactly that by ensuring every team member can speak freely without hesitation or fear of judgment.
With Spur!, this process becomes seamless. We've been able to:
Gather honest feedback – Run anonymous surveys team-wide
Spot culture gaps early – Prevent small issues from growing
Turn insights into action – Improve clarity, alignment, and morale
These anonymous insights have helped us build a workplace that’s more transparent, more supportive, and more human; even while operating as a fully remote team.
Team misalignment is one of the most common and expensive problems modern teams face. Whether you’re remote, hybrid, or scaling fast, it’s easy for information to scatter across tools and teams to work at cross-purposes unintentionally.
Misalignment doesn’t always show up as one big crisis, but appears as duplicated work or unclear responsibilities, which results in reduced trust. And when teams lack a single source of truth, even smart people doing their best can still move in different directions.
Sync! brings teams back together by
Centralised updates, decisions, and goals
Structured milestones and shared dashboards
Improved accountability and clarity
Instead of juggling multiple tools or hunting for the latest information, everyone sees the same priorities, progress and expected outcomes. Sync! Helps reduce drift, improve accountability, and strengthen team alignment.
Want your team to start moving with Clarity and purpose? Try Sync! today
The Gen Z Summit Africa is a premier gathering for young changemakers, innovators, and entrepreneurs across media, technology, and business. Organised by Purpose-Driven Global, the summit brings together Gen Z leaders to engage in power talks, panel sessions, open-mic reflections, and interactive workshops.
Earlier this month, SpurtX! partnered with Gen Z Summit Africa as part of our commitment to supporting youth-driven innovation. The event was vibrant, insightful, and deeply engaging — from the bold ideas shared on stage to the meaningful networking moments that connected young builders across different fields.
Through this collaboration, we reinforced our commitment to empowering the next generation of African builders. Together, we’re helping shape the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and problem-solvers.
A lot of us think flexibility at work is just about setting your own hours, but it’s much more than that.
Moyin dives into why flexibility has become the new standard in today’s workplace, showing how trusting teams to deliver results in their own way drives creativity and long-term success.
She also explains how startups and fast-growing companies can use flexible work arrangements as a strategic advantage for accessing global talent, fostering innovation, and building a culture of accountability and trust.
Her full write-up reflects where the global workplace is heading and how African companies can stay ahead.
We all know hiring is tough, but knowing and sticking to your hiring style helps ease the stress.
This month, we released a new Spot! interactive quiz that helps recruiters understand their strengths, blind spots, and decision-making patterns.
Whether you’re an intuitive recruiter, an analytical recruiter, or the automation King/queen, this quiz helps you understand your hiring style better.
Take the quiz, discover your recruiter type, and share your results on social media - let’s see which style dominates.
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