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.

emakhiomheayo@yahoo.com

DISCIPLINE - REPORTING

DISCIPLINE- REPORTING

By Ayo Emakhiomhe

In a lot of work places we have an unstated culture of not reporting our peers for wrong doing as long as it does not affect us directly until the person is caught or until justice catches up with the person.

For being aware and not reporting, you are as guilty as the person that committed the crime.

Sometimes, the supervisors simply transfer the person at the slightest opportunity and not deal with the situation of the person or report the incidence.

Remember that what goes around comes around, run any organisation you are in as if it were your own, would you take that from your staff if that were your organisation?

Organizations that do not have an anonymous complaint apparatus/system for staff to report others should create one, organizations that have such should encourage their staff to use it and ensure that the principles of transparency and privacy are of highest standards in such a system. But ensure that all cases are properly investigated and errant staff properly dealt with.

A reminder of how important this issue is can be found in the Bible, the story of Joshua. Joshua even after victory had to deal with the recalcitrant soldier (Achan) so as to continue winning. If this was not done, the people of Israel would have suffered the fate of the 36 people destroyed by Ai and your work will be ended and your victory short lived. Somebody might have seen him taking or hiding the artifacts but kept mute.

The bigger you get, the more decisive you have to be.

SUCCESS IS YOURS!

emakhiomheayo@yahoo.com

NINE LESSONS IN WEALTH BUILDING

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THE ENTREPRENEUR NETWORK

…EMPOWERING THE ENTERPRENEUR.

Businesses thrive on ideas and information which are resident in various degrees within different individuals. It therefore requires some level of association and networking to bring ideas and information together for the mutual benefit of all.

Coinbox Entrepreneur Network (COBEN) is an avenue for business empowerment through networking.

ACTIVITIES

•  Organisation of monthly business seminars and trainings including project related training in association with established institutions like USAID, Pan African University, FATE foundation, POISE Nigeria, Harvard business school, etc.
• Business clinics: provision of business advisory services, mentoring relationships.
• BOARDs Club: Members that own companies have the advantage of having a varied board with a wealth of experience that creates a limitless capability to the organisation and meets corporate governance standards.
• Business funding through our cooperative as well as opportunity to access Venture Capital.
• Organisation of trade events like fairs, exhibitions and trade missions.
• Creating various avenues/platforms for advertising and marketing members’ businesses-products/service
• Provision of accounting services and training at a discount
• Exports/imports opportunities

BENEFITS

•  Provides avenue for Personal and Business development through knowledge and experience based events.
•  Provide a platform for savings, investment and capital accumulation with attractive return rates.
•  Provide avenue for personal and business finance opportunities.
•  Provides Platforms for marketing company’s activities in both local and external arenas.
•  Provide members with subsidized services in training and financial services.
•  Provides direct income from membership registration/network building activities.

MEMBERSHIP

Membership is at 2 levels:

Level 1: This is the first level of membership. At this level, one is expected but not mandated to make a fixed minimum amount of monthly savings to benefit from personal loans and event discounts. Members are also entitled to annual bonuses declared by the network from income generating activities. Membership here is open to individuals only.

Level 2: Investment club member: This level of membership make lump sum contributions to the club which can be built up over time or paid once. Your investment has guaranteed minimum returns of 20% per anum as well as a share in the annual declared bonuses. Membership here is open to both individuals and corporate. You have access to various business loans, group insurance, trainings, higher share of network bonus, venture capital support, export/import finance and support, etc.

REGISTRATION

Registration is by filling and submitting our registration form and paying a registration fee of five thousand naira for all levels. Upgrade to a higher level is allowed at anytime during membership.

For further details, you can contact us at our office at 5, Soji Adepegba close, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Or call Ayo on 08023526682, John on 08024288862. or email coinboxlimited@gmail.com.

This is powered by the Coinbox Entrepreneur Network Limited in collaboration with Incapint Limited and Coinbox Limited.

TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS

TIME MANAGEMENT (3)

By Ayo Emakhiomhe

TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS

The tools stated here are not all conclusive, it is actually using what works best for you. They are those things you need to apply to achieve effective and efficient time management and become the time lord!

It starts with zero based thinking-ZBB; ZBB states ‘knowing what I know now and if I had to do it all over again, would I get into it again?’

Next thing you need to do before using any of the tools is effective planning and being deliberate. It also involves the willingness to pay the price – sacrifice.

Having done all the above, you can now employ the following primary and secondary time management tools;

The primary tools are the main tools you need to manage and plan your time effectively; the primary tools are those that you use to support the primary tools

                PRIMARY TOOLS

v  Goal maps: This involves 7 questions;

1.   What do you what to achieve?

2.   Order: which goals take priority?

3.   Draw: communicate your goal to your subconscious

4.   Why; identify your emotional drivers

5.   When; define your timeline

6.   How; what are the actions you will need to take?

7.   Who; choose the people or organisations that can support you.

v  Pros and cons: This is used mainly for deciding between 2 options. This is especially when the 2 options benefit your goal equally.

For example choosing between getting a promotion and learning French for your trip to France for holidays

v  Time style: Effective time management is a matter of style- working with your strong personalities and delegating the rest.

It is based on the principle that there is no right way to manage your time except your way.

‘T’ are good decision makers and can whip up a task list in no time.

2. ‘I’ are great enthusiasts and can get any show on the road

3. ‘M’ has tireless patience and are excellent team players

‘E’ are meticulous and will always finish the job on time and within budget.

Understand your own time style so you can conduct yourself accordingly; enlist help in areas of personal weaknesses

Know your time style and work with it today.

Priority quadrant

It involves prioritizing your activities and deciding:

1.   Which activity directly affects your goal/objective

2.   Which activity indirectly affects your goal/objective

3.   Which activity does not in any way affect your goal/objective

You focus on, spend more time and energy on activities in 1 and 2 above and completely eliminate activities in 3 above.

SECONDARY TOOLS

v  Use organizers (digital and manual)

v  Set daily priority lists/”TO DO lists”

v  Delegation/’other peoples time’

v  Saying ‘NO’, learn to use the power of the word ‘NO’. say no to time wasters, say no to quadrant 4 activities, say no to those activities/requests that do not contribute to your goals.

v  Use your diary

v  Use your computers, ‘Tablets’, IPODS

v  Use your mobile phones, IPHONES

v  Use the web

BE THE TIME LORD!

Are you ready to be the time lord? Have I been able to help you double your effectiveness?

Remember, the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step and failure is not denial, just an opportunity to learn and be better.

Practice! Practice! Practice! And you will be the time lord.

Shalom.

Paper based on inspirations from the works of Simon Phillips and Brian Tracy.