Career Development
Fun Strategy for Quickly Improving Language Skills
December 5, 2013









Learning a foreign (or new) language is not easy. I share a strategy developed from my obsession with improving my proficiency in French. It’s so simple, yet effective, that you’ll wonder why you never thought of it before! Career persons in paid employment, with interest in language learning, will find this strategy useful. What Is […]







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Career Development
3 Timeless Strategies for People Management Success
November 28, 2013









Do you want your employees/team members to work in your organisation as if it was theirs – with unrelenting passion and dedication? If yes, this article explains simple zero cost steps you can take to make that happen. Practical ideas that will enable you get better performances from them perpetually. Preamble In 2000, while still […]







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Career Development
Smart Exercising Will Keep You Fit, Healthy, and Alive
November 23, 2013









Yes, that's the key to good health, looking young, and LIVING LONG. Sweating enables your body expel many "bad things" that can weaken it! I took the photo below, this a.m (Friday 22nd Nov. 2013 at 10.00a.m): Above: Photo taken in 2013 - I was 43 at the time Below: Photo taken in March 2017 […]







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Career Development
Frequent Secondments Can Lead to Career Success
November 21, 2013









Do frequent secondments, transfers or movements in your current workplace bother you? This article offers ideas you can use to make the most of them. Recognise the Opportunities They Bring, and Use Them While majoring in Agricultural Extension Services in the University of Ibadan, I took courses in Sociology and Psychology. Exposure to those courses […]







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Career Development
(FREE PDF) Using MS Excel® Solver for Least Cost Feed Formulation Can Be Easy - But Also Dangerous (How to Protect Yourself)
November 8, 2013









Everybody knows a little MS Excel. It’s so easy to use. However, I make sure to warn – from over 20 years of supporting users of Excel-apps I develop – that Excel’s “friendly“ nature is also what makes it a potentially dangerous tool. Especially for users with inadequate knowledge and experience, or indeed absent-minded competent […]







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Career Development
How to Make Successful Employers Want You (2 Simple Steps) – By Tayo Solagbade
November 7, 2013









"All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, people who think, people who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." -- Charles M. Schwab You can get better career advancement opportunities from your current employer, and simultaneously attract better employers to come knocking on your door.  Simply implement the […]







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Career Development
How to Safely retire into Self-Employment (A True Story)
October 31, 2013









A client once told me how the first boss he worked for often told him: "Look Alooya, if you work 8 hours in a day for an employer, start making effort to work one hour per day for yourself as well. Think of things you can do for yourself to earn income that will benefit […]







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Career Development
Is Your Job Straining You?
October 24, 2013









Quick Tip: This article ends with a download link to the MS Excel template for my 10  item Employee Morale Guage Quiz, which you can customize for your use. People who don’t love their jobs are likely to feel this way (i.e strained) more often. But I’ve also met others who love their jobs, but […]







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Career Development
What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed
October 23, 2013









I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]







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Career Development
NEVER Let Anyone Tell You What YOU Cannot Do! (Transcript Slideshow Version of ESPN’s July 21 “SportsCenter” Profile video about Richie Parker)
October 19, 2013









I created this PowerPoint slideshow (and published it on slideshare.net), to give people with poor (or zero!) connectivity, an alternative means of “learning” about Richie Parker. NB: To get the Power Point file version, CLICK HERE NOW to download it in a zipped folder (3MB approximately). === Read the article I wrote about Richie: It's titled […]







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