Staying Motivated – Lecture at University of West England
Inspired by the launch of my book, I was kindly invited by Doctor Margaret Roberts to speak to a group of Organisational Development & HR Postgraduates on how one can stay motivated.
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You Need a Side Hustle
Everyone is feeling the squeeze, that is, salaries remain the same yet things are getting more expensive. In this generation, it has become apparent to me that we love to talk about big bold dreams, yet we don’t always do things to actually realize them. Some of us talk as if success is something we…
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To be the best you need the best | The Importance of having a Coach
I have come from a space where I didn’t like reading. It was only in 2011 when I was challenged by my former line-manager who said: “You never know what you could find out if you read…” Funnily enough around the same time, I had been listening to Will Smith on YouTube and came across…
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The Power of Proper Facilitation
Google defines a facilitator as “a person or thing that makes an action or process easy or easier.” This is obviously fitting and suggests that a facilitator needs to be skilled in suggest traits in or to demonstrate this. Facilitation is required in many places and is somewhat underrated in a lot of entrepreneurial and corporate environments,…
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The Ultimate Rules for a WhatsApp Group
If you’re not in a WhatsApp group, you’re living in a cave. If you’ve only ever been in one then you need to get out more. Whatsapp groups are being used to create ways to communicate a message amongst a select group of people. This may be for the following: Birthdays Business Groups Close Friends…
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The 9 Principles of Project Management
Project Management has become the de facto skill that pretty much every industry needs. If you are not familiar with its principles, you are already missing out! Whether it is in entrepreneurship or in the corporate work, project management is required. A good project manager stands out from the crowd and is able to handle…
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8 Super Ways to Improve your Confidence
It’s difficult for me to say whether people are losing confidence or growing in confidence. Regardless, confidence is a topic that will come up time and time again and will never go away as long as humans are in touch with their emotions. Before I continue I would like to say that my self-published book Understand…
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Developing a Content Strategy
Developing a content strategy is the difference between creating real value to your audience. Value is important because it is the one thing that allows your audience to continue to read, watch and listen to your stuff. Content is important to have because without it you could argue you have no brand, and with no…
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12 ways to Generate Great Content Ideas
As a blogger, it is important to make sure that you have content distributed to your audience on a regular basis. This can be in the form of video, pictures or blog posts, in order to provide value towards your audience. When first starting out you may be in a natural rhythm of writing on…
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The Importance of a Personal Brand
When you start out on any endeavour or entrepreneurial you need to think about how you communicate yourself to everyone else. Branding has been a growing topic on the minds of many people aiming to start something either online or offline. When we explore branding on a deeper level, we begin to understand how important…
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Defining Entrepreneruship
Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur! But why? What is promised with this lifestyle that other lifestyles do not give you? The word entrepreneur comes from the French word entreprendre which means to undertake. An entrepreneur is enterprising, or in other words, undertaking a bold or complex project. A modern-day definition of the word entrepreneur is: a…
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9 ways to Define your Career Path
In this generation, there is pressure to know what your career path should be. This is propagated by our visual zeitgeist that displays images of what is perceived to be a success. With these exaggerated pressures, we begin to panic and extend our thoughts towards what career path we would like to take. Career is…
