Inspiration For Peak Performance

I am convinced that this is a season of progress because the best way to predict the future is to have the power to shape it. History is on our side and it’s another opportunity to seize the moment as we change our attitude towards the past since it is obvious we cannot change it. Why must we wait for every four years only to concentrate on quarrels about who becomes our president at elections rather than agree on where we should be headed? I have followed a lot of discussions in the social media space about who becomes Nigeria’s President in February 2015. Expectedly, these conversations have often led to fights, quarrels and war of words. So many campaigns on the pages of newspapers are merely attempts to attack the personalities of political actors who are seeking the driver’s seat at the next elections in the hope that this tactics will dissuade the unsuspecting public from voting for such individuals. There has been a general famine of clear messages about their pla...

We all have moments when we feel better than our best, and we say "I feel fit for anything; if only i could be like this always!" We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for this workaday world when there is no high hour. We must bring our commonplace life up to the standard revealed in the high hour. Never allow a feeling which was stirred in you in the high hour to evaporate.  Don't put your mental feet on the mantelpiece and say - "What a marvelous state of mind to be in!" Act immediately, do something, if only because you would rather not do it. If in a prayer meeting God has shown you something to do, don't say - "I'll do it"; do it! Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness. Laziness is always seen in cravings for the high hour; we talk about working up to a time on the mount. We have to learn t...

Nowadays, so many people complain about the stress and troubles they go through at work, even after struggling so hard to get the Job. Work spares us from so many evils which boredom, vice and need are part of them. Be thankful for the troubles of your job, for they provide you with about half if not all of your income. If it were not for the things that go wrong, the difficult people you have to deal with, the problems and unpleasantness of your working day, someone else could be found to handle your job for about half of what you are being paid. It takes intelligence, resourcefulness, patience, tact, and courage to meet the troubles of any job. That is why you hold your present job. And it may be the reason why you aren't holding down an even bigger one. If all of us would start to look for more challenges at work and learn to handle them cheerfully, with good judgement, as opportunities rather than irritations, we would find ourselves getting ahead at a surprising rate. For...

We have got a lot to be thankful for in the outgoing year. The year has been particularly busy for me but I thought it wise to return here today to share my reflections about the old year and my expectations as we move into the new year. There has been quite a number of unpleasant stories in the course of the year. Abduction of Chibok girls and many others are among the statistics that has pushed terrorism and insurgency to an unprecedented high level. We still have our many battles with corruption, incompetent leadership at all levels, high unemployment rates, youth restiveness and many more. I can't promise that the story will be different in the coming year but what I can guarantee is that your own story can be different. A new YOU can definitely bring out a whole new YEAR for you. Irrespective of what is happening around you, there is hope for you. At least, our elders say that 'your morning starts when you wake up'. Here are few of my advice for you in the new year...

Our elders usually say that two people can’t miss out on a lie; if the person being told a lie does not know, the person telling the lie does know. Realism matters when the choice is between you and your career progress. Unfortunately, it’s so appalling to see how many people don’t want to confront issues realistically.   To perform at your best, you need to consistently take a realistic view of yourself and compare it with other colleagues and contemporaries within and outside your company or industry. Sometimes you even need to measure your own progress in the light of where you were last year and now vis-à-vis the parameters you have set for yourself previously. Before you complain about being stagnated on a job grade for so long, you need to take a sincere inventory of how you have fared compared to others and what you should be doing. Ask yourself what you are doing right or wrong and be determined to fix the ‘wrongs’ and improve on the ‘rights’. This is the sure way to ...

Are you real or fake? Is your outer person the same as your inner person? Is who you are the same as what you do or say? To grow your career to enviable heights, you must be authentic and this starts with knowing yourself because sooner or later people always spot the fakers. As you grow your career, you will always have to deal with people. Self-discovery and mastery is the foundation of people skills and your success story in this respect starts with convincing yourself that you don’t have all the answers. It’s important that you are honest with yourself. You need to be able to make a candid evaluation of yourself and your realities. Knowing this, you need to keep an open mind and be ready to tolerate from others, the diversity of their viewpoints and mental architectures about you and the way you work, whether it’s what you like to hear or not. Of course, this requires that you keep your ego in check and be more realistic about your problems. Then, you are able to get the coura...

There are many challenges and opportunities on the horizon, and the organizers of this year’s conference are looking at how to incorporate those to make the CIPM event a better, more user-friendly one. It was created to be a valuable resource for HR pros and business leaders, and that mission is about being fulfilled! I may not be fully clear about what will happen at the annual conference this year but borrowing a leaf from what came out of the event last year, the sessions are really going to be amazing and filled with all kinds of new experiences for the attendees! A new session has been included and it’s the HR Clinic! HR Subject Matter Experts will be addressing myriads of issues and practical, real life challenges confronting HR practitioners. The session will be moderated and chaired by the President of the Institute, Mr. Victor Famuyibo, FCIPM and the discussants are: ·       Mr. Collins Taiwo Edebiri, FCIPM, CEO Vital Solutions Inc. ·  ...