Project Griot is a free, selective programme for NYSC and pre-NYSC corps members who want a real career in HR and Operations — built on the same organisational behaviour research StreetOps uses with real companies.
Workplace productivity isn't a personality trait. It's a function of intentional workplace design and team management — and the people responsible for that design are HR and Ops. Project Griot trains the people who'll build that into Nigerian workplaces.
Not task management — the structural decisions that shape how teams actually operate day to day.
Onboarding, recognition, and feedback aren't HR admin. They're business systems, built and measured like any other.
Applied, research-backed understanding of how people behave at work — used to fix real dysfunction, not theorise about it.
StreetOps is a lifetime student of organisational behaviour. Project Griot isn't only a free bootcamp — it's a live research initiative, tracking this cohort over time to answer real questions about how productivity actually forms in African workplaces.
Which onboarding signals actually predict a new hire settling in and performing within their first 90 days.
How early-career HR and Ops practitioners build the judgment that separates good people decisions from procedure-following.
What actually separates a manager people trust from one they merely report to — tracked across real placements.
Findings are published as part of StreetAsk, StreetOps' public research output — not held back as an internal-only study.
A seat in Project Griot is earned through real screening — not a form you fill and forget. The bar is what makes the cohort, and the credential, mean something.
Short application covering your background, interest in HR/Ops, and current NYSC status.
A real, structured interview — assessing judgment and communication, not just enthusiasm.
30 seats per cohort. Selection criteria double as the baseline for the research study.
Structured training, plus ongoing tracking as part of the longitudinal research panel.
Graduates waiting to be called up, who want to walk into their service year already building toward an HR or Ops career — not just waiting it out.
Corps members who want their service year to translate into a real placement, not just a certificate at the end of twelve months.
A mix of written reflections and short video clips from applicants, corps members, and the companies they're placed with. The cards below are placeholders — ready to carry real voices as Intake 01 progresses.
"[Placeholder] A short, honest reflection on what made this applicant want to build a career in HR or Ops goes here."
"[Placeholder] A reflection from a selected applicant on what the interview and selection process was actually like."
"[Placeholder] A quote from a hiring organisation on what a Project Griot graduate brought to their team."
"[Placeholder] A reflection on how the research/tracking side of Project Griot felt to be part of, not just the training."
This section fills in as Intake 01 progresses. First real voices go up after selection and early training milestones — not before.
Project Griot sits directly inside two global development goals, and the national policy built around the same gap it addresses.
Target 8.6 calls for reducing the share of youth not in employment, education or training — a near-exact description of who Project Griot recruits. Target 8.5 is the deliverable: full, productive, decent work for young people, measured by placement, not attendance.
Target 4.4 calls for increasing the number of young people with relevant technical and vocational skills for employment. This covers the training itself — the mechanism that makes the SDG 8 outcome possible.
This also plugs into Nigeria's Youth Employment Action Plan (NIYEAP) and the recently approved NYSC reform, which now builds career engagement and skills training directly into the national service year. Project Griot is private-sector capacity already doing the work that policy is reaching toward.
The Griot Programme is our paid, cohort-based bootcamp for companies, HR/Ops teams, managers, and founders — built on the same OB framework.
Applications for Intake 01 are open now. Selection is by interview — the bar is real, and that's the point.
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