This app is currently work-in-progress by Tayo K. Solagbade as an example of useful everyday application of MS Excel Automation. It is based on Nigeria’s MARCH 28, 2015 ELECTIONS results as obtained from PDF Results Summary provided on INEC website.
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Subtitle: Automating a “2 payslips to a page” workbook into a multi-payslip generating app. Watch the 3 part trailer/preview below, for my Home Study tutorial on Building ExcelVB Payslip Generators, which is available ONLY to members of my Inner Circle.
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A few years back, I read an article by a female IT professional who is an internationally recognized speaker from Africa…but whose business is based in the UK. She was complaining about what she called a dearth of “Made-in-Africa” speakers. I agree with her…
Public Speaking is a powerful weapon for achieving high impact business marketing promotion. Compared to conventional marketing, it yields multiple benefits in terms of product sales, name recognition, brand building and more.
[NOTE TO READER: This newsletter serves experts-who-speak. Starting Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read a preview to the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above.]
The title of the above new podcast is self-explanatory. In 13.5 minutes, I tell you what you should be doing DAILY to make your web marketing succeed…and HOW you should be thinking about what your website should look like, or MORE importantly what the CONTENTS should be, how often it should change, and who it should appeal to!
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Listen to/read verbatim excerpts from my new 18minute 27 second audio Performance Improvement podcast (Downloadable as MP3 file)
Title: “How to Respond if Anyone Tells You ‘Spiritual Enemies‘ Are The Cause of Your Failures”
Subtitle: “You Have to Work With God to Create The Miracle You Want”
“…If you want to succeed, you have to start living the way I tell you in this audio…”
“…Take a look around you. Some people don’t even worship God. Some societies don’t even acknowledge God the way we do in Africa, and yet they flourish, because God’s rules are scientific.
The law of gravity is not just a spiritual thing, it’s a scientific thing. That’s why we’re able to build aircraft that fly – because we understand gravity, and how to defy it.
So there’s a science to everything. That’s why we’re able to create drugs that get us to be well, when we are sick. We understand the science of medicine!
So, God is a scientist, as he is spiritual, and therefore everything he does has a scientific basis.
You must therefore understand that there is a science to success. And that science to success, if you understand that science, you will understand that no human being can stop you from achieving any goal you want to achieve!
Your thoughts alone control what you can succeed at, and what you fail at. You are the one that determines your success or your failure.
Please keep this in your mind. Please remember this at all times.
If you know you really want to succeed in life, it is important that you know how to control your thoughts.
Without control of your thoughts, nature will not work for you, because nature was created by God, and nature depends on what you think, to know what to give to you.
Nature will send what you think to you. If you think negative, the negative will come to you. If you think mean, mean will come to you. If you think positive, the positive will come to you. If you think pleasant, the pleasant will come to you.
There’s a law of nature. You’ve heard about Karma.
If you haven’t heard about it, I just told you about it. Karma is what goes around comes around. It will bring to you whatever you do to others. If you send out evil, evil will come back to you. They are laws that are scientific and cannot be broken.
God is the one that set those laws. If you want to please God and get him to give you what you want, you have to obey those laws. It’s as simple as that…”
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Watch below, the CONCLUDING portion of the workbook automation tutorial preview video I created for the National Distribution Manager of a Telecoms Company in 2003 (This 4:13 clip inadvertently got cut off during editing: You can watch the BEGINNING at www.excelheaven.biz)
Most times, except the client requests otherwise, I create the tutorials based on the intended users REAL LIFE work situation.
It’s called Experiential Coaching.
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******NOW HERE’S SOME POTENTIALLY EXCITING NEWS!*****
On Starting 13th April 2015 I announced that ANYONE who purchases Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring products/service to the tune of $500 US dollars or more, WILL get FREE Lifetime Membership of my Inner Circle. If you’re an expert-who-speaks or one aspiring, THAT is an opportunity to eat your cake and have it. You get ALL the benefits of my Inner Circle memberhip (click to learn what they are) AND you also get access to THIS home study tutorial (N100k value)!
Click here to let me know you want t purchase Burt’s offers…as a means to joining my Inner Circle, so as to get THIS home study tutorial offer.
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Watch the video preview for a tutorial workbook I created several years ago, for the National Distribution Manager of a large multinational telecoms company (The Logistics Department hired me).
Click here to watch the Youtube video and continue reading…
If you do routine data recording, analysis and report generation, using MS Excel, I can show you how to optimize and automate your work, to achieve HUGE savings in time, effort and even money!
Over 2 decades of experience in deveoping custom Excel-VB Solutions for business users equip me to develop solutions for clients, and also to teach them to do so for themselves.
The best part is you do can learn from me in the comfort of your home or office. Anytime of the day.
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Whether you’re in business or paid employment, if you feel you don’t earn enough, starting a new business or changing jobs may be too risky.
I propose a SUPERIOR alternative used by millions worldwide, and which YOU can successfully adopt while still working full time.
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NB: The audio recording – from which the text below was part-transcribed – was originally created ONLY for my Inner Circle members (who are mainly Farm CEOs). After listening to it, they will be able to call and speak with me – at zero cost – to get full details about THIS opportunity. However, because I anticipate interest from non-members of my Inner Circle, I have also added instructions such persons can follow into the audio recording. Click here to request download links to the 2 part thirty minute MP3 audio recording ****** Whether you’re in business or paid employment, if you feel you don’t earn enough, starting a new business or changing jobs may be too risky.I propose a SUPERIOR alternative used by millions worldwide, and which YOU can successfully adopt while still working full time.
Few people would walk away from such an opportunity. Especially when it’s one that does NOT threathen your existing (job) security. It is possible. You can do it. I say so because I AM doing it. And I can help you do it as well. But there’s ONE thing to note: This is NO free ride in a fancy car opportunity.You will have to put in the work – and since you want to keep your day job, that means you will have to WORK longer hours, and harder too. So if, for instance, your job is very demanding, possibly you leave home early and come home very late, the question to ask you is: What do you do with your free time? You may say you don’t have free time, but you probably do have free time, because you find a way to attend people’s weddings, burial ceremonies, birthday parties, anniversaries, and you do birthday parties for your kids.Take your kids out to the beach, you do things …those are your free time! They may not be more than 1 or 2 hours in day, maybe the weekends. You can use that free time in nurturing this business. You see, nature abhors imbalance. The Chinese talk of the Ying and Yang. You cannot take without giving. If you do, you create a vacuum that will eventually suck you in. So, if you’re looking for success, be prepared to give something to get it. Now, if you don’t want that, then please stop listening to this audio because I don’t have anything for you. But if you’re ready for that then what I’m trying to say is that you are about to learn a NEW way, NEW HABITS to earn income. And I’m saying that those habits do NOT require you to quit your job! NB: By the way, if you’re thinking this is one of those autopilot schemes (or scams!)…IT IS NOT!Indeed, to use this system I refer to, you WILL have to do what I do. And that is: Create the products/services that people will buy from you AND/OR or intelligently choose rebrandable ones available from others to sell. Subsequently, you WILL have to invest QUALITY thinking time, and effort to make sales happen – EVEN while you sleep. It’s NOT easy to do, but it can be done. I DO IT, and the good thing, for YOU, is that you will have ME to guide and support you every step of the way.Click here to request download links to the 2 part thirty minute MP3 audio recording |
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others. Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organisations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software. He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organisations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others. In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region. His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details). In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited. When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent). You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook. Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. ====
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Imagine you were walking down the road and a haggard looking beggar, called out to you in PERFECTLY SPOKEN ENGLISH. Imagine s/he went on to state his/her request articulately, and in the manner of a person of fine education. Wouldn’t that make you hear him/her out? Or possibly do more?
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A photography marketing expert (C. Lewis) once wrote: “Well developed products don’t sell themselves. Product marketing does!”. I agree. He also said (I paraphrase): The secret to getting many more great customers/clients is NOT in the quality of your offering…”
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We are often told, as kids, to be respectful/obedient to older others. In some cultures, however, the indoctrination goes deeper, such that youths become adults unable to challenge “bad behaviour” by older persons or bosses.
This article offers insights anyone can follow to overcome such a limitation – including 6 tips on what to do, and 3 benefits to expect.
As much as possible I try to do this without showing disrespect to those I ask, but I never let fear of reproach keep me from getting a satisfactory answer.
Here’s a question to ponder: Would it make sense – and be in your best interest – for you to CONTINUE being respectful and obedient to a boss, parent, or other adult who REPEATEDLY deliberately puts you down, or even abuses you?
Are you for instance likely to have a successful career in a company where your boss connives with your colleague (who is his tribesman) to take credit for most of your creative input which help the department meet challenging targets that others miss?
You don’t want to rock the boat or cause any trouble. But they don’t seem to mind causing you pain by denying you long overdue recognition. (In fact they sometimes go as far as “setting you up” to take the fall for things that go wrong in the department!).
Do you think they will ever stop if you don’t take them up on their bad habits? I doubt it.
If you won’t consider making a change for your direct benefit, at least think of how you can use the ideas offered here to EMPOWER your child to deal with bullies and their likes that s/he WILL meet in life.
Imagine your child finds him/herself being bullied repeatedly in his/her new boarding school, even after reporting to senior students and teachers?
Will s/he put an end to it, by acting timid, submissive or subservient before those who torment him/her?
Not likely.
Will getting into fights with the bullies make any difference?
Maybe, but that would depend on how well s/he can fight, but ultimately, the cost/repercussions of violence may not be worth it.
In other words, s/he would master the skills needed to tactfully but firmly challenge others who behave badly in a manner that ensures they CORRECT their “bad” behaviour then/there, and into the future.
The sad reality however is that a lot of people dread having to confront others. Too many assume confronting others implies being combative or worse, being violent. It does not necessarily follow.
1. You do need not to be aggressive or combative to get taken seriously.
Instead, simply learn to learn to assert yourself e.g. many times if you are simply NOT “shy” about telling people what you will NOT accept from them, they will respect you for it.
2. You must master your fear.
There is a useful quote I read somewhere that goes as follows:
“Courage is mastery of fear, not the absence of fear” – Mark Twain
Allowing fear to consume you to the point that you let others intimidate you into accepting their unjust/unfair treatment of you will lead many times to your having very “unhappy” relationships – at work and elsewhere.
Remember: THAT which you fear the most will eventually consume you.
So, conquer your fears – learn to speak your mind about HOW you FEEL to those who make you unhappy – but do so tactfully such that no one will be able to accuse you of being emotional or combative.
3. Stop thinking everyone needs to like you.
It makes no sense to want to be liked by people who do not wish you well or who will not treat you with respect and consideration. Remember, as great as Martin Luther King Jnr. was, some people did not like him, and felt strongly enough to kill him. Same for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi…all advocates of non-violence!
Do you REALLY think you are going to be different. Answer is NO – except of course you choose to become a “hypocrite” or “Social Chameleon” who tells people what s/he thinks they want to hear, and not what s/he really thinks. In which case, the ideas discussed in this article would be irrelevant to you.
4. Learn to ask questions.
You can use intelligent questioning to demonstrate why those you wish to correct need to change their ways. When people know you are going to ask them questions that expose their bad intentions, they are likely to avoid acting that way often – especially where you are concerned.
Examples of questioning styles you can use: “Why did you just say that to me?” or “Is there any reason why you asked XYZ to go for the audition from this department when both of us applied with similar qualifications – and could have been given the chance to contest for the available slot?”.
5. Build A Reputation
Sometimes making a point of doing what you do WELL every time and being committed/reliable in whatever you are engaged in can make it more difficult for others to try to make you look bad. So, if you make up your mind to show yourself to be consistently up and doing, without playing to the gallery, it could help you build a loyal following among a large number of people who watch from the sidelines – who will feel more inclined to treat you with fairly, rather than let themselves be influenced to do the opposite.
6. Act the fool.
At the end of the day, you will find that no matter what you do, some people live to upset others. From what I have seen in my adult life, if they cannot malign/mal-treat others, they never really feel “happy” with themselves. So trying to make them stop never really achieves any permanent benefits. In this case, one would be better off – in my opinion – choosing to act the fool with this type of people.
For instance, if someone chooses to talk loudly in front of your visiting friends about one of your “highlight workplace career mistakes”, you can take it in your stride by choosing to THANK him/her for “helping you remember THAT interesting experience you would like to share”.
Then make a point of describing the details of one of those mistakes in as humorous a manner as you can, making sure to end by explaining how that incident helped you gain additional competence to do your job (which is what always happens in real life).
By acting in this manner, you are likely to end up looking good via an opportunity created by your “tormentor” – the exact opposite of what s/he intended! Believe me, very many of those who misbehave in the ways discussed in this article, cannot endure being mocked. They are very likely to avoid crossing you in future, you when they discover you repeatedly demonstrate the ability to match them in the manner I suggest.
The truth about the kinds of people I have described in this article is that they often get their boldness from the (mistaken) assumption that others will be afraid to challenge them. By doing just that, even if you are unable to stop them, you achieve – at least – three benefits:
1. You put FEAR/DOUBT into his/her mind that that he can get away with treating you like that next time. This will make him/her think twice in future before crossing your path again.
2. Your action can give others useful confidence boosting evidence that it is not impossible to stand up to such persons if one goes about it the right way. Some may decide to follow your example if/when they find themselves faced with a similar predicament.
3. You could end up building a silent followership that over time may grow to a point where others will be willing to JOIN forces with you – as a group – to resist the advances of these “bullies” and their likes, on weaker members of the society.
You do not have to let others push you around just because you don’t want to upset them.
Remember: If they are upsetting you, or some other defenseless person, then they need to be TOLD to stop it.
You must be prepared to consider the possibility that they they do not know or refuse to be bothered. Either way, if YOU don’t take action, they may not stop. Keeping quiet and waiting for someone else to do it for you will often lead to needlessly prolonged suffering on your part.
You deserve better than that!
PS: This article is based on a piece originally published on 5th May 2008 as Issue No. 26 of my (now defunct) Self-Development Nuggets Newsletter
No. 127: Master FEAR, and You’ll Achieve Mastery In Any Field
