Two big congratulations!!!
A special birthday wish to a supervisor and mentor but also my colleague and friend, Prof Kirk Semple Kirk T. Semple the proud Scotsman!!
I celebrate you sir for the many amazing things you do but especially for your incredible passion for Africa.
A second super congratulations to the 232 professionals from 17 African countries who completed the one-month Flexylearn International Career Coaching Program (ICCP) yesterday.
Now that you have completed the Career Code, may you be bright and may you be bold as I wish you success and career gold!!!
Join me this Thursday, Friday and Saturday for three incredible webinars you don't want to miss - see flyers for details!!!!
#africa #coaching #leadership #career #educationabroad #university
Is it strange that I honestly cannot remember what I did during my two months industrial attachment at the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research Nigeria in the second year of my first degree. It was that eventful🤣🤣
If you are an engineering student, you get to serve tea and coffees and if you are a business student, you can print the reports. But to even get the chance to serve tea and coffees, you must be the niece or nephew of the brother of the Aunty to the CEO. Na who know man!!!This narrative must change!!!
Little wonder over 80% of employers agree that lack of work experiences and employability skills is the single largest challenge they face with graduate employees!!
Yet all African universities have something in common: they have between 100 and 2,000 SMEs within and around them within a 1 kilometre radius. Talk of the potential for consulting and work experiences through paid work or volunteering!!!
Based on this, I have launched the Student Work Experience and Enterprise Program (SWEEP) and it's amazing to see over 20 Universities show interest in the strategic partnerships for the pilot program. We are moving fast.
Please congratulate the eight Year-2 students of Igbinedion University Nigeria: Chibueze, Etuk, Blessing, Lazarus, Mary, David, Emmanuella and Angel for joining the FlexyLearn Student Consulting Team. Together, let’s give other fellow students the work experiences they need!!!
If you want to involve your university in the SWEEP Initiative, send an email to info@flexylearn.com
The SWEEP Initiative....getting rid of unemployability dirts blocking our economic growth😊😊😊
#students #internship #universities #university #summerinternship #consulting #research #business
Congratulations to me!!!
Yesterday I took the day off with family and we completed the 8 km walk of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail in Yorkshire England.
By 6 km we were all shattered but the fact that we were doing it together made it a lot easier to complete the last 2 km. It also coincided with my work anniversary of three years as a board member of the most reputable theatre and arts organisation in Lancaster - The Dukes!!!
You don't have to do it all by yourself. Seek help, seek partnerships, seek mentorship, seek guidance wherever you can. It’s more difficult to succeed and impact others if you are in a bubble!!
I am now compiling a huge portfolio of career questions people want answers to for a career support platform. So, if you have any career questions whatsoever, please drop it in my DM and I will try and respond to them as much as possible.
#career #partnerships #people #jobs #university #professionaldevelopment
When you aspire and perspire to acquire a desire you admire and require. If it backfires don’t retire but be inspired to re-fire!!!
They have come again!!!!
Have you ever attended a talk and felt 'motivated' with a buzz to go out and conquer the world. Then after three days you felt 'motiva' and then after one week all you felt was 'moti'. By the second week, you can't even remember anything from the 'aspire to perspire'. Back to square 1.
I learnt very quickly never to allow the need to 'plan' to jeopardise the need to 'start' or the need to be 'motivated' to affect the need to be 'activated'. You see what I mean??? They have come again!!
So on all my training sessions, I obsessively give simple action points in a simple list to my audience by way of exercises or activities. So you learn by doing!!
For instance, after reading this 'try describing your current and future professional self in 50 words each!!!! Yes try it.
It's an activity I gave last week to the over 220 professionals from 17 African countries currently on my Flexylearn International Career Coaching Program (ICCP). You need to see the huge responses and today I shared with them the secret to describing it well. They are having so much fun!!!😊😊
Why action points though?? This is so that if tomorrow you forget 'aspire to perspire', all you need is to look at my list and do the next thing it says. 😊😊
#coaching #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #career #future #success #goals #universities
