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Create Your Career Strategy In Ten (10) Steps

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Making a decision on what you want to do in the future can often be difficult. Career strategy simply means developing series of actions that you will take each day on your career goals in order to achieve them. You need to decide where you want to take your career, what the options available are, and how you can make an informed decision on the right career path for you. How do you attain your career goals? This is to develop or come out with career strategies in a manner as discussed below. Assess Yourself Developing a career strategy starts with assessing yourself to know your strengths and weaknesses. Before you can start to explore the right areas, you need to focus on yourself. Also, you need to know the things you are really passionate about, your interests, your hobbies, your career preferences, your career aspirations. You need to consider; what your strengths and weaknesses are? What motivates you in the workplace? Assessing yourself is a combination of what yo...

Ten (10) Ways of Motivating Teachers in Their Career

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Students of today bring a lot more than just pencils and textbooks to school; many harbor behavioral or family issues, learning disabilities, and more. Teacher motivation is vital to the growing and evolving field of education, yet it is not investigated enough. Sinclair (Sinclair, 2008) defined teachers motivation in terms of attraction, retention and concentration as something that determines 'what attracts individuals to teaching” Need for rapid growth of higher education, issues in compensation, developments in information technology and dearth for teaching and technical skills brought teacher motivation to the center stage.It takes patience, passion, resilience, and a lot of commitment being a good teacher. Here are a ten (10) ways to motivate them and inspire their best. Encourage Teacher-Student Relationship Here, teachers are to be encouraged to go close to student, know more about them and create good teacher-student relationship. This will give students t...

THREE (3) EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES OF FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP 2018

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In 1998, France won the World Cup with Didier Deschamps lifting the trophy as captain. Twenty years later he led a younger France team to be crowned as world champions under very similar but also different circumstances. France came into the tournament with very talented teams of diverse origins, race and religions benefiting their national team Les Bleus immensely. Indeed the 2018 team had as many as 19 players from different countries with 14 originally from Africa. If you are a believer of omens, both teams met Croatia and beat the former Soviet state to win the trophy going undefeated in the process. We have pointed out 3 major lessons Africa can learn from France, the winners of the World Cup 2018 Team Work for the Right Results The main strength in the 2018 squad is the abundance of talent in all positions across the pitch. World class players like Hugo Lloris in goal, Spanish league giant duo Raphael Varane and Samuel Umtiti in defense, Manchester U...

SEVEN (7) REASONS LEADERSHIP IS A NEED FOR I.T PERSONNEL

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Information technology (I.T) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade in many organisations worldwide. I.T leadership is a critical area for many organizations because of their increasing dependence on it, both for operational stability and for enablement of process innovation and business strategy. I.T leadership is the group of senior executives in an organization responsible for the information technology infrastructure and applications that enable and drive the overarching business strategy and goals. I.T Leaders are quite distinctive from leadership in general because they are expected to combine highly technical skills with an in-depth understanding of the organization across all functions from operational to strategic. Here are seven reasons why I.T personnels need leadership training to function effectively in their firms. A Good Operator of I.T Tools Strong leadership training for I.T professionals is crucial to alignin...