Business Development Series

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 ...

The New trend in global multi-level marketing of products (especially the sale of food supplements) by foreign countries that floods the Nigerian market has made it almost impossible for people to have a wide range of meaning whenever the word “Networking” is mentioned either in a conversation or in a write-up. Networking is believed by the majority to mean a situation whereby one has to register with a company such as GNLD, Tianshi, Longrich, Alliance Global in Motion, etc. and there after gets more people to register with promised of getting rich and other form of benefits from such company. In the words of such companies, the more people one gets to register to purchased their products, the more the person's rank in the company and the more the commission by growing a chain of network. For this reason, many take to struggle to convince people to join the company where they belong and register under them,  once registered, the  struggle   continue to get other peop...