Career Development
Unruly Employees – An Employer’s Worst Nightmare (3 Tips for Dealing With Them)
May 9, 2013









I’ve had many discussions with organizational decision makers, about employee behavior over the past 15 years. At first it was as a high performing employee, then later as a service provider. What frustrates employers often is when some employees act as if the company owes them for doing nothing. Some employees seem to delight in […]







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Career Development
Why You Need To Know A Little Bit About Every (or Many) Things
May 2, 2013









New/Different experiences afford you a multidimensional perspective. When others admire you for your ability to do certain things well (e.g. you’re good at many sports), there is a tendency for you to get carried away if you are not careful. Many people in their workplaces have earned themselves recognition and respect for their expertise in […]







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Career Development
FREE DOWNLOAD: An Automated Data Transpose Workbook That Helped An Insurance Company Finish a Report In Minutes, Instead of Days (YOU Can Build Something Similar)
April 25, 2013









This is a little workbook I created to eliminate the tedious manual work that had to be done – daily - by employees of an Insurance Company in Lagos. Typically, data from an auto-generated text file (see "PRINT15.txt" file in this download package) containing life insurance data of employees of a client company had to […]







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Career Development
3 Ways Speaking a Foreign Language Can Make You Succeed More Often
April 23, 2013









Speaking a foreign language can help you in paid employment as well as in business. I have had the unique priviledge of experiencing the amazing benefits derivable from being able to speak a foreign language, on both sides of the fence. Below I outline 3 powerful rewards you can expect to reap repeatedly, from being […]







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Career Development
Why I've Told LinkedIn to Delete My Profile (Talk About Trying to Give a Dog a Bad Name to Hang It)
April 19, 2013









UPDATE: Isn't it just amazing? I sent the request for linkedIn.com support to delete my tayo@spontaneousdevelopment.com profile at 13.05pm on 19th April 2013, and after failing to reply my previous email sent more than 24 hours earlier, I get a response confirming my request has been carried out at 13.11pm on the SAME day. Wow! […]







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Career Development
Educational Commercials Will Boost Your Marketing
April 18, 2013









If you are a business owner, or someone responsible for sales and/or marketing in the company you work, the information provided here can help you. This article is based on a suggestion I recently sent as an email message to a solo entrepreneur. I ended up making it so long and detailed that I've decided […]







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Career Development
Going The Extra Mile, Can Make You A High-Flyer At Work!
April 4, 2013









This is another in a series of articles I have committed to writing, to help career persons in paid employment. If you aspire to climb high, as fast as possible, up the corporate ladder, in the organization you work for, this article can help you. I outline practical steps you can take to set yourself […]







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Career Development
Walls That Cool Rooms by Absorbing Heat, Helping You Save Energy? Yes, You Can Have Them In Your Company!
March 29, 2013









Disclaimer: I have not been paid or given any incentive by the companies mentioned below, to write this piece. It is not meant to promote or advertise their products. Instead, my purpose here is simply to provide information and education about an emerging technology I consider to be a major game changer. Please apply due […]







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Career Development
My Recommended Posts for W/E 23rd March 2013: Humanity And Corruption Are Strange Bed Fellows | 5 Ways to Use Google+ to Improve Your Search Engine Optimization |Why You Need "Bulldog Blood" (#1 Characteristic of a Lifelong Achiever)
March 24, 2013









Starting tomorrow, the countdown to the opening of a new, exciting - and major - chapter in my entrepreneurial journey begins. I still can't let the big cat out of the bag yet. That will happen via a scheduled post at midnight (Nigerian time) of Sunday 31st March 2013. Most people who read that post […]







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Career Development
What If You‘re Offered A Bribe? (5 Practical Steps To Protect Yourself)
March 21, 2013









It happens every day. People get unsolicited offers and “gifts” meant to influence the job holder’s decision making in favor of the giver. High profile cases of people found guilty of bribe-taking in doing their salaried jobs, have been reported too many times to count. As an employee, depending on the nature of work you […]







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