Homegrown and Worldclass Podcast

 If Aliko Dangote was able to become a homegrown and world-class businessman and if no foreign or local school can take credit for his great achievements, what does it tell you about your possibilities of becoming a homegrown and world-class African worker from wherever you stand?  Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Le petit tiret sur la pierre tombale est l'illustration de ce que la vie est bien courte. Alors, la question est: "Qu'est-ce que je veux avoir accompli dans la durée que représente ce tiret?" Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

I need your help to find just one other local worker in Africa... I need one of two things from you (or both, if you will): good old word of mouth and new digital word of mouse (click). Will you help me?  Homegrown and Worldclass might not be for you for some reason. But it might well be exactly what your colleague, your friend, or your sibling had been expecting all along to help them grow from w...

Three professional development pathways for a local worker in Africa that I want to cover in this episode are DFY, DWY, and DIY. Let's unpack them. Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

As you follow one course until success, it helps to define areas of focus because life is complex. Success in life is always a balancing act of what some call the wheel of life. Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

As a human being, you have three needs and three needs only: to be, to bond, to blossom. Any other need you might think of relates to one of those three... Let's see how these three needs play out and actually hold the keys to how you manage your life and career. Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Growing as a professional is essentially a learning and communication exercise. In Episode 29, I already dealt with learning... In this episode, I’ll be talking about communication. Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Here’s the number 1 lie hindering your growth: “I don’t have time”.  You may wonder how that’s a lie as you actually think and feel you don’t have time. But there’s the rub: it’s your thought and feeling, not a fact. The fact is you have 24 hours a day every day. The only day anyone might have less is the day they die.     Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or sha...

Communities are built on communication, which is made possible by a common language. It seems so obvious. So, why aren’t we taking advantage of that more to advance our careers? Let me explain... Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Can there be any such thing as job security? And whose job is it to ensure you have job security? Let's dive right in!  First of all, do not confuse job security and job safety... Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

As a local worker in Africa, you will need money for your job search or to start your business. But money is neither the first nor the most important thing you need. So, let me explain what work is about before you let the lack of money stand in the way.  To work is for you to put your Energy, Abilities, and Time to serve the needs of others. That’s how you get to EAT, or to put it another way, th...

I dedicate this episode to my friends Elizabeth Peter and Samm Obathany as well as all Tanzanians who work in the hospitality sector. This short and sweet special episode will focus on one secret I brought back from Tanzania.  Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Certains dons se voient sans efforts d’autres exigent qu’on creuse plus ou moins loin – comparez les ressources forestières et les ressources minières de la RDC, par exemple. Le don, c’est le potentiel. Il doit être non seulement reconnu mais aussi utilisé, comme tu l’as si bien perçu.  Et c’est la connaissance ou la conscience du don qui fait rejeter la médiocrité. Le potentiel connu nourrit les...

Your number 1 skill as a local worker in Africa (and anyone's number 1 skill anywhere in the world for that matter) is learning. Learning is the parent skill of all skills. All knowledge and know-how are acquired through learning.  Whether you are in a formal or informal setting, there are basically 5 ways you can learn and excel professionally... Send a text Click right here to ask your ques...

 Employee or entrepreneur, what should I be? Early on, I decided I wouldn’t be anyone’s employee. I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Then wisdom visited me, and I understood the triple benefit of employment for wannabe entrepreneurs. Are you at that fork in the road as a local worker in Africa? Or do you know anyone who is? Keep listening to this Episode 28 of the Homegrown and Worldclass Podcast on...

In Episode 26, I told you that mastery is about practice started, scaled, and sustained. Nothing highlights the über-importance of starting, scalability, and sustainability like entrepreneurship. So, in this episode, let's talk about Pursuing Mastery in Entrepreneurship as a Local Worker in Africa. Want to build a career as an entrepreneur? I'm going to provide you with a structure that...

In podcasting, as in all professions, three actions matter:  start,  scale,  sustain.  And the last two aren’t possible if you never start. Mastery comes from practice started, scaled, and sustained.  Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Rechercher la maestria dans un domaine n’a rien à voir avec décrocher une maîtrise dans ce domaine. Très peu de diplômes préparent à l’exercice compétent d’un métier. Et c’est encore plus vrai pour les diplômes universitaires. Je partage mon expérience à cet égard dans l’épisode avant d’annoncer quelques un des métiers que j’ai appris en les faisant. En français, il y a cette expression malheureus...

 There is obviously a lot more to say about pursuing mastery in humanitarian aid. But here’s the takeaway: the combination of humanitarian standards and competency frameworks will give you a crystal-clear view of the right direction to mastery.      Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

If you asked me to summarize success at work as a conference interpreter in a single word, I would say: Trusted.  And if you asked the same in 3 words, I’d say Trusted Meaning Broker.  Early on, I figured out intuitively that interpreting was about getting the meaning of discourse in one language as fully as possible and conveying that meaning as masterfully as feasible in the other language.  Sen...

About two decades ago, an international NGO hired me as Training Officer. At the time, I was a self-trained trainer whose only hands-on experience had been to facilitate marriage preparation sessions at my local church for a couple of months.  You rightly imagine all the gap-bridging I had to do quite fast. That's how fast I want to be today in sharing just one trick with you if you are pursu...

In this Episode 21, I want to start a conversation about Pursuing Mastery as a Local Worker in Africa... What is your field of work? Do you want me to include it in this Pursuing Mastery series?  Go to www.homegrownandworldclass.com and leave a private voice note.  In upcoming episodes, I'll take through my own experiences of: pursuing mastery in conference interpreting as a local worker in A...

Today, I just want to focus on the process of dreams coming true, with a special thought for all the young people my wife and I met recently in Accra. All of you who have dreams about your marketplace contribution, your marriage, and your overall mission in life, this is for you. Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homegrown and Worldclass story!

Aujourd’hui est jour de Saint Valentin et il est très difficile de ne pas y faire attention. Dans cet épisode de Francophone catch-up, je veux donc vous parler d’amour, d’attention et d’attention s . Et bien sûr, je vous ferai un point en français de l’essentiel des 8 derniers épisodes disponibles en anglais.  Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or share your Homeg...

 The gate to experience and expertise is exposure. Exposure is the fact or condition of being in the presence of people, places, phenomena, etc.  In this episode, I am going to talk about what experience is, what expertise is, and how you can move from exposure to experience, then to expertise as a local worker in Africa.   Send a text Click right here to ask your question, make your comment or sh...