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PICTURES FROM THE FASHION & LIFESTYLE SHOW AUGUST 2013

Our Fashion & Life style show organised by Marvelous Markets, a member of COBEN-the Coinbox Entrepreneur Network, was just concluded on Sunday, August 4, 2013. below are shots from the event.

above from L-R is Ese, MD TO2 Ltd, Roy MD August Eye Security Services Ltd. and Tolu, MD, Cilia Unique Ltd. all COBEN members and participants at the fair.

Above in the MD of Marvelous Markets - Miss Rukevwe Jarikre in the Orange top. Fair was organised by Marvelous Markets Ltd.

From L - R- Ayo, Roy and Zana in the middle at the fair.

Visitor at the fair, Mr.Viroro 

Look to weaknesses to find your leadership strengths - CBS News

Look to weaknesses to find your leadership strengths - CBS News

CARING FOR YOUR TEAM MATES

CARE FOR YOUR TEAM MATES.

By Ayo Emakhiomhe.

At every point in time we stand out as leaders who have people looking up to us on the job.

And our duty is the leadership assigned to us. But among the many demands placed on our shoulders is the ability to care for our subordinates and even our superiors.

If we are asked to define what it means to care for our subordinates and superiors in and organization, a lot of definitions would arise and to a good extent, none will be wrong. Generally speaking, we can say that caring for our colleagues and most especially our subordinates just entails assisting to create an emotional balance and ensuring that all their needs to achieve superior effectiveness on their job for which is within our abilities to provide is readily available.

This definition is very broad and can be contended. But I will be looking at care giving for colleagues from a different angle.

I would look at it from the angle of John Maxwell who sees caring in leadership from 4 angles which are:

1.  Communication

2.  Affirmation

3.  Recognition

4.  Example

COMMUNICATION

When was the last time you appraised your style of communication and its effectiveness? Have you ever sampled your feedback to be sure that the response in the information you are passing is effective? Or are you yourself sure of the information you are passing?

In everything you do as a leader, you must always ensure you communicate in as precise terms as possible what you expect from you subordinates.

Be strict but gentle, a hostile environment stops information flow. Be open and discourage gossip and bias. These items seriously distort and cloud up information. Always ensure that you make you communication a 2-way road at all times.

Know in as precise terms a possible what your subordinates expect from you for superior effectiveness on the job. When these 2 expectations are available a middle point can be reached for which compromises can be reached and work flows seamlessly to your advantage.

AFFIRMATION

You should never stop doing this. Always affirm to your subordinates (truthfully) your trust in their abilities, and what you would do to assist in making them better at the job. Affirmation builds trust and motivates for effectiveness.

When you affirm a colleague honestly; and not as a lip service, you create a bond that gives you respect and trust from them. It makes them to believe in you and do more to be able to get more affirmed with you.

If you had subordinates or colleagues that worked this way with you, would you not have less headaches on the job?

RECOGNITION

More often than not, when we catch our subordinates doing the right thing, we do not even in any way make them aware of this fact, but if it was the wrong thing, we will not only notify them, we will persecute and crush them. Have we ever thought of flipping this and recognize in some way, no matter how small our subordinates when we catch them doing right especially those ones that even go the extra mile.

Not all rewards should be monetary, what happened to notes, emails, public applaud, notices on public boards, etc.

Everybody has an innate craving for recognition especially when the act is a norm in the environment. It motivates and creates a sense of belonging.

EXAMPLE

This is the tough one. As a leader, you should never lay the rules then break all of them but be the first to wield the big stick when your subordinates decide to follow your bad footsteps.

You have the great burden to lead by example; what you can’t do, don’t make your subordinates do it.

If you want them to come to work early, work at being the first to the office, don’t make excuses, there were so many reasons (excuses) for which you would have not been made the leader. Now that you are one, lead by example. When you make mistakes, don’t hide it, admit it and resolve the issue, it shows you are human and not superman so they can trust you more and even rely on you.

Note that they are relying on you even though you made a mistake on the grounds that you had learned from it and will not make that mistake again. Also, that mistake was not a fundamental mistake like misappropriation of funds or outright theft.

Remember, don’t teach you subordinates to do what you say only, but to do what you do – Lead by example.

Always remember that your colleagues are your team mates be they your subordinates or superiors or even mates. The whole idea is for all to succeed as a team and you as a unit head or leader is the team leader on whose shoulders lies the onus to stir the ship to this destination.

One of the ingredients to achieving this is what we have just discussed.

Please go ahead and CARE for your team mates.

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Inspired by the works of John Maxwell - MAXWELL LEADERSHIP BIBLE

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PROVIDE FOR YOUR TEAM MATES

PROVIDE FOR YOUR TEAM

Ayo Emakhiomhe.

When entrusted with leadership as a team leader, you become a typical farmer with seeds to grow.

The seeds here are your subordinates/colleagues; the field is your organization

The job of leadership is a 2 lane road where you have the first task of leading yourself and then leading others around you.

Using John Maxwell as a guide, Success on this assignment means personal success for you also. But I must admit from the onset that this is not an easy assignment. To succeed at this job, you must provide for your seeds (team mates)

To provide for your team mates means that you must equip them to realize their full potential on the job and achieve their God-given potentials too. Your primary assignment is to reproduce yourself in your subordinates. And to effectively reproduce yourself means that you have to PROVIDE for your subordinates. To do this means that you have to be;

PURPOSEFUL: Approach others with a purpose; to add value. Set a target each day that your colleagues will be better off today than they were in the morning when they came to work because they interacted with you.

RELATIONAL: you have to be warm and inviting and work at having and maintaining healthy relationships.

OBJECTIVE: assess strengths and weaknesses objectively. Share job functions to your colleagues based on this assessment and not on favoritism.

VULNERABLE: model self disclosure, honesty and transparency always.

INCARNATIONAL: practice what you preach

DEPENDABLE: be consistent and responsible in all your dealings

EMPOWERING: give power away and train your staff CONTINUOSLY

RESOURCEFUL: use every tool at your disposal to grow your people. The bible says that only a bad workman curseth his tools.

To achieve the above as a provider, the following 8 steps are essential

1.  Labour: be ready to fold your sleeves and dive into the work with your staff, don’t just lord it over them.

2.  Strength: you have to push yourself and your team beyond the limits.

3.  Learning: when you stop learning, you and your team start dying. Learning must always go with teaching. Learning produces growth.

4.  Focus: don’t allow any form of distraction. Don’t drift from the organisations goals; write it somewhere and let all decisions be guided by this. Let this pattern tinker down to your team mates.

5.  Accountability: ensure that at all times you are as accountable to your people as they are accountable to you.

6.  Experience: make sure that every day is an experience and that all experience, no matter how small (be it positive or negative) is used as a learning point.

7.  Practice: always apply learned experiences.

8.  Celebration: always celebrate victories and milestones no matter how small.

As the man at the helm of affairs, your team success defines your success. For your team to succeed you have to provide for them and engage the items listed above and you will always stand out and be celebrated.

Today is a good day to be the best leader, what are you waiting for? PROVIDE for your team.

emakhiomheayo@yahoo.com

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WHAT DO YOU SEE?

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

BY AYO EMAKHIOMHE

In the Bible, When God took Ezekiel to the mountain of dry bones that was what God asked him.

What was his answer?

‘I SEE DRY BONES’ but God now said, ‘Prophesy to those bones, he did and what happened? The dry bones started having tissue and sinew and flesh.

If we go by the simple meaning of prophesy; revelations of events in the near or distant future spoken by men anointed by God as influenced by the Holy Spirit of God to also ensure that what is said will come to pass. Then that means that as the prophet prophesied life, hope, greatness, flesh, blood to those dry bones, his words were backed by God to become a decree that the DRY bones had to obey.

From that passage it shows that it is not what the eyes see that matters, it is what our minds see and what we can back up with words from our mouths to become decrees.

We know also that what you believe for yourself you get.

Some of us might not have realized this but, the mind; that innate part of man is so powerful, that if you indulge it long enough (backed by the spirit of God) will go all out to ensure that we achieve that thing we most desire. It is your mind that determines your success or otherwise. That is why a truly successful man even when stripped of all and put in a desert would still be able to replicate such success.

When you put your mind to a feat, even if you don’t have the materials, your mind would act like a magnet and go out and attract those things you need to succeed in that feat to you. That is why success is for the mind that is prepared for the opportunity it comes across or creates.

Therefore, it goes beyond our prayers alone, beyond our mere words, beyond the words of others, but it is about what we say about ourselves, our business, our jobs, our future, our nation, our neighbors, and our family.

 What prophesy are you preaching? Is it doom or glory?

Do you have dry bones in your business, your job, your family, your life?

Prophesy to those bones, do not use mere words, but prophesy in faith, see it happening , set your mind to it, it will happen, it might  be slow like the bones in the valley, or instant like the raising of Lazarus, but it will come.

The next level is what do you see around you? Is it dry bones in form of financial crisis or lack or is it an environment full of opportunities?

What you see as your prophesy you get.

So I implore you, go out today and prophesy to those dry bones speak life to that financial situation, speak hope, speak victory and it shall be yours.

Do not procrastinate, do not slumber, go out and prophesy, go out to the farm of business/life to plant in the midst of dry bones this year, and your harvest shall be bountiful, do not say like the farmer, the weather is not fair and go to sleep; he who plants in sorrow shall reap in joy.

Great men in the bible sowed in the midst of famine/dry bones/financial crisis and God multiplied them greatly,

Go and get a seed today of business idea, investment idea, sow those seeds, and God will multiply you. You shall have a bountiful harvest this year.

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