Jul 09, 19

Win with People, by Omagbitse Barrow

Relationships are the foundation of leadership and success. Without people, you cannot achieve your vision alone. The challenge therefore lies in how you can effectively utilize your relationships with others to help them and you advance your goals. Some people fail to pay attention to building r..

Jul 05, 19

Managing Your Energy, by Omagbitse Barrow

One of the areas of personal effectiveness that receives a lot of attention is “time management”. We learn to prioritize, avoid procrastination and use to-do lists and calendars to manage our activities and tasks. If you have experience using all of these time management tools, you may find t..

Jul 03, 19

Selling Consultatively, by Omagbitse Barrow

Traditional selling techniques focus a lot on reaching out to as many people as possible with your sales pitch and working the “average”. Assuming that for example if you reach out to 100 people, and an average of 10 people respond, you may be able to close 5 sales. This high- pressure approa..

Jul 02, 19

Who Pays Your Salaries?

One of the most important lessons you can teach yourself and your employees is the answer to this question: ‘Who pays your salaries?’ In many organizations, employees will do anything to please their bosses, and in a small business, they will do anything to please YOU. The truth is that beyon..

Jun 27, 19

The Triangle of Career Success, by Omagbitse Barrow

One of the reasons why people working in organizations fail to achieve their performance benchmarks and add value the way they should is that most people are square pegs desperately trying to fit into round holes. In fact, some will argue that this phenomenon of “square pegs in round holes” i..

Jun 26, 19

Implementing Your Innovative Solutions, by Omagbitse Barrow

Creativity and innovation only truly happen when the ideas are transformed into workable solutions, implemented and add value. To achieve this innovation teams need the discipline of execution. Having ideas is great but without disciplined execution, all of your ideas will translate to less value..

Jun 24, 19

Measuring Your Financial Health, by Omagbitse Barrow

Just as it is important to get a medical check-up from time to time, it is equally important to measure your financial health from time to time. To take stock of the financial decisions you have made over time and measure the state of your finances. Measuring your financial health helps you to as..

Jun 19, 19

How to Listen Effectively, by Omagbitse Barrow

Listening is certainly one skill that most people struggle with. In fact, most very successful leaders have such a strong personality that they tend to dominate conversations and seldom actually listen to the other person. Listening is however one of the most potent way to empower and to influenc..

Jun 19, 19

Refining your Ideas into Solutions, by Omagbitse Barrow

When you have come up with as many ideas as possible, it is important that you and your team use similar disciplined approaches to refine and select the most appropriate ideas and transform them into implementable solutions. The following tools can help you to achieve this…

Jun 19, 19

Managing Remuneration & Rewards, by Omagbitse Barrow

Whether you like it or not, remuneration plays an important part in employee motivation and productivity. Your ability to attract and retain the right employees will depend on the remuneration and rewards that your organization provides. Remuneration like all forms of motivation helps to get the ..