A year before I left Guinness Nigeria (to pursue my longstanding dream of self-employment), I was nominated, along with a senior colleague, to attend a 6 week International Brewing Course – organized by the UK based Institute Of Brewing (IOB).
The course was attended by over 20 delegates from Argentina, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Croatia, USA, Nigeria etc.
Click https://youtu.be/Nn8sJmrGKIQ to watch.
Some of the photos in this video’s thumbnail (larger versions appear in the video proper) show me with some of my fellow attendees from brewing companies in their respective countries.
During the 6 week programme, we were taken on tours across breweries and related establishments, research institutes and tourist attractions in the UK (especially England, Wales, and Scotland). The experiences I had, along with the knowledge I was exposed to, were truly enriching.
I have no doubt in my mind that my workplace accomplishments in developing and implementing time, and effort saving spreadsheet automation solutions across multiple departments, using my spare time, was key to my getting nominated to attend that prestigious event, despite being only 6 years old in the company.
It is my hope that as I share my experiences through this podcast series, others nursing ambitions to excel in paid employment will find the insights I offer useful.
Click https://youtu.be/Nn8sJmrGKIQ to watch as I explain how I retrieved over 350 of the photos I took during that trip, from the Kodak Picture CDs they’ve been stored in since 2000.
Posted on 2 August 2023
Tags: WANT TO GET PROMOTED/SUCCEED ON YOUR JOB? ALWAYS GO THE EXTRA MILE-My UK Brewing Course Photos/Story
About the Author
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, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™, the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, and developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator - as well as the increasingly popular Monthly Poultry Farm Manager app.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, writes and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, in the French Speaking Benin Republic on the first lap of his slow travels 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).
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 previews of paid issues of The Farm CEO™ Newspaper (www.thefarmceo.net), in addition to his FREE Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter - which he uses to promote Burt Dubin's Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts across the African continent.
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