Self-Development

[Recommended] 16 Essential Terms You Must Know To Learn VBA Programming

February 5, 2017

This week I refer members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club to an excellent article (by By Jorge A. Gomez) that discusses key VBA programming terms that one needs to understand, in order to succeed in developing useful VBA applications. Like I continue to emphasize to my club members, I believe in exposing […]

Career Development

One New Skill Modern Extension Professionals Need to Succeed

February 1, 2017

Findings from a 2013 questionnaire survey I conducted of Farm CEOs in Nigeria, for an international agribusiness paper I was engaged to write revealed 55.6% bought commercial feed (from "2 sources" or "anywhere they can find"). 66.7% of that percentage said their animals' performances varied noticeably with different sources of feed. Their farm output tended […]

Career Development

PII 051: One State of Mind You Need to Defeat Adversity

January 30, 2017

In last week's issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I talked about how you need to share your vision with others. How you need to infect other people with your enthusiasm and insights. Now, in this issue I'm going to talk about poverty. I'm sure many who read the above will wonder what […]

Career Development

Video Part 2: [Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook

January 29, 2017

Today, I emailed the second and concluding part of the screenshot video tutorial titled "[Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook" - announced on this blog 2 weeks ago - to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club. Click here to request a copy of the video tutorial - […]

Career Development

Succeed Even In Economic Recession by Developing Multiple Competencies [Hint: Become a Multipreneur]

January 27, 2017

When I decided to become - and later begin calling myself - a MULTIPRENEUR in 2004 (2 years after I became a startup), many people criticized me for "doing too many things". Some said I was trying to be a "Jack of All Trades" and anytime I had a setback they readily pointed out that […]

Excel-VB Solutions

Study Your Child's Naughty Actions to Discover Her Genius [True Story: Secretly Keeping a Pet Turtle - Then Getting Caught & Flogged!]

January 25, 2017

Kids will always get into trouble. Every parent must accept this as a reality. What matters is how we help them LEARN from the mistakes they make, so they arrive adulthood as well rounded and competent individuals. I for one got into all sorts of trouble between the ages of 10 and 16. Today, I […]

Career Development

PII 050: You Cannot Achieve Your Goals All Alone (Hint: How to Get Others to Gladly Support You to Succeed)

January 23, 2017

2 weeks ago, in issue “PII 048” of this Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I explained why “You Need to Habitually Study Successful People", if you wish “To Make Success a Habit. In that piece I also explained why you need to analyze your failures (and they will be MANY) also in order to learn […]

Career Development

Fear Can Be Very Costly!

January 20, 2017

This is a true story. Names, dates and locations have been changed. ---- It was a quiet afternoon in March 1995. She was visiting me as usual in the Training Centre, during break time. Annogu looked at me and said “Tayo, I hope you’re not going to get so busy as you often do, and […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook

January 15, 2017

[This is the first tutorial emailed in 2017 to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Tutorial] Sometimes you have a multi-worksheet workbook in which you'd like to apply blanket password protection to every sheet, without having to do so manually. The two macros in this workbook enable the user apply and remove password […]

Entrepreneurship

Tayo Solagbade's One-on-One Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Training [Hint: Maiden Edition for 2017 Holds for a Startup Farm CEO from Benin City, Tomorrow 13th January in Lagos]

January 12, 2017

[Event] Ola Mojeed, a Benin City - Edo state, Nigeria based startup Farm CEO will (from 10a.m tomorrow) - meet me at a Feed Milling company's premises in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos (near the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture), to attend my one-on-one 4 hour practical Livestock Feed Formulation training he paid in advance for […]

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