Business Development Series

Is our task to developed  your business: It is very important that you remain focus and keep checked on your business growth by consistently making relevant skills improvement which can enhance your business towards sustainability and success. 1. Hire an expert . Hiring or contracting an expert to look after some areas of your business does not mean giving up your responsibilities. While some persons have ideas on how their businesses are performing on a daily basis others need to employ the services of experts in skills that are germane to their businesses and still being very much attentive to everything. 2. What are your aims and objectives? Setting your aims and objectives is critical to success of your business. Your aims and objectives will help you in ensuring you deliver on your p romise, success and make your business big. 3. Marketing You should employ a marketing strategy that can improve your business. You can do that by checking on some few strategi

New Code of Conduct at police checkpoints in Nigeria, by NPF 1. Endeavour to slow down your vehicle. It shows that you are not reckless. It also douses suspicion that you are a criminal and may want to speed off. 2. Turn down the volume of your car stereo. Courtesy demands this. Besides, you are able to hear each other better. This simple act will also help you to win the confidence of the security operative. 3. Keep your hands visible to avoid unnecessary suspicion or fear by the officers that you are attempting to bring out a gun or other harmful objects to attack them. 4. Turn on the inner light of your vehicle while approaching the cops (if at night). It readily sends an unspoken message that you have nothing to hide. 5. Be friendly and cheerful. Commend the officers especially when you see them working under very unfriendly weather conditions such as the rains, the harsh harmattan conditions, excessive heat, cold or sunshine. We know it’s their job, but a little kind wor

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Your business has three steps: 1. The business: Your business is what you offered i.e. products or services. If you don’t know what business to do, you can start by consulting the business development experts for assistance and be honest with yourself when asking for help; don’t worry about having butterflies in your tummy or being nervous about it. 2. Environment: this does not replace what you offer; the role of the environment is to help your products or service in order to give a best description of where to locate your business it is not made to diminish it 3. Customers: In business when you come across a wrong customer you are in for trouble because you cannot afford to make a mistake. Don’t let go your products or services until you are sure of whom you are dealing with. This must be taken seriously because you are responsible for your business and must account for it. If you have a business and met with the wrong customer there will be a great conflict, it is your

COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK The importance of skills acquisition in contemporary world cannot be overemphasized. This is because lots of people tend to pride themselves as knowledgeable and intellectuals; but most times these knowledgeable lacks the necessary skills to back up their knowledge especially in work places. While knowledge is tools acquired through observation and study via senses such as listening, watching, reading, touching, etc. that can be transferred from one person to another, in another side skills are tools refers to abilities to apply a gained knowledge to a specific situation, and are developed through experiences, trainings or practices. If one must excel and become better prepared individual to meet a desired performance, she or he must therefore acquire the necessary skills for such tasks. There is no doubt for one to develop skills, the only way is through practices; the more you do something, the better you get at it. Practice, they say, makes pe

Do you want to be among those who celebrate men and women that excelled through the right way or those who got their way through dubious and dishonest means? Have you heard about the saying that “idle mind is the devil’s workshop”? If yes please read and enjoy this story as you allow INTEGRITY AND HONESTY be your guiding principle. There was a town whose king realized he has no one to take over as his heir to his throne if he died, therefore he decide to adopt a child. In order for him to do that, he set up a competition for selection and 5 young boys made it to the next round of the competition. The king said to them, I have one last test for you, whoever among you that come first will become the adopted son of mine and the heir to my throne. He then handed each of them a corn seed to take home, plant and nurture it to grow with instruction of getting back to him with the plant in 3 weeks’ time. The boys took the seed home and planted it, but after some days, one of the