The Blazers & Baby Circle

<h3 class="s3"><span class="s2">Introduction</span></h3> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">This module on work performance and personal effectiveness was designed to help you make the most of the time you spend at work while balancing the multiple demands for your attention. </span></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">You’ll learn the skills top performers use in balancing priorities and executing the most important things, while staying sane. </span></p> You’ll be introduced to work habits that enable you work smarter instead of harder. This session is facilitated by <a href="https://blazersandbaby.com/members/dupe-akinsiun/">Modupe Akinsiun.</a> <h3 class="s3"><span class="s2">Objectives </span></h3> <p class="s4"><span class="s5">After successful completion of this module you should be able to:</span></p> <ul> <li class="s4"><span class="s5">Identify what truly matters to you</span></li> <li class="s4"><span class="s5">What productivity truly means</span></li> </ul>

If you want to build your skills, make good contacts and move up the ladder in your career, a mentor could be just what you need. Essentially, mentorship enables you to learn from someone who is successful or exemplary in their - and your - field. Having the right mentor can contribute greatly to your professional and personal growth. <h4>Topics Covered In This Module</h4> <ul> <li>How mentorship works</li> <li>Defining your mentoring needs</li> <li>Identifying and approaching a mentor</li> <li>How mentorship can benefit you</li> <li>Your role in the mentoring relationship</li> </ul> This module is facilitated by Phiona Martin, of Talent Meridian, South Africa. She is an Industrial Psychologist and Career Coach with a special interest in Career, Talent and Leadership Development. Her key work experience has been within the consulting, education and corporate environment. As a thought leadership enthusiast, she provides regular expert opinions on career development through various media platforms including her own career advice website. She has been featured on TV, radio, conferences, business podcasts and currently writes for South Africa's leading networking platform for HR executives and professionals. Phiona is passionate about helping people transition to gainful employment, enhance employability and navigate various career intersections. In this regard, she has become a highly sought-after content and program creator in the career development domain. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-42961" src="http://blazersandbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AK4A8615-01.jpeg" alt="blazers and baby Phiona martins" width="427" height="640" /> </span>

Effective home management achieves two goals: <ul> <li>It improves your home atmosphere so that the home is truly a place of rest and re-energizing.</li> <li>It frees up your time so you can spend more time on the activities and people you love.</li> </ul> Oreoluwa Sonola is a household management professional with over 10 years of experience in the housekeeping industry. She ensures that families have their homes run effectively either by themselves or by the involvement of hired hands. Oreoluwa founded MAIDforME Services in 2017; a household management company. Her work at MAIDforME involves five major areas. They are: <ol> <li>Hiring Consultation and On-boarding of Domestic Staff</li> <li>Salary Administration and Structuring of Benefits</li> <li>Training and Documentation</li> <li>Correction and Disciplinary Action</li> <li>Contingency Planning</li> </ol> She creates digital resources and tools across these areas so that homeowners are equipped to either manage and run their households smoothly on their own, or hire their needed and ideal domestic staff, and during the employment, be furnished with information and resources needed to make the period of employment drama-free, smooth and rewarding. She has published over 70 articles on multiple platforms and has successfully created and launched about twenty (20) digital resources on household and domestic staff management. She has also created functional household management tools for families across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa and the U.K. These tools include: <ul> <li>4 weeks Maid Orientation and Training program</li> <li>the signature MAIDforME Chore Schedule</li> <li>two online courses for domestic staff employers</li> <li>short video and audio lessons and other specialized packages,</li> </ul> She is married and blessed with two kids. She can be reached via maidformee@gmail.com.

For any woman in the workplace, flexibility and options can be the difference between a truly balanced life and a burn out. In this module, we explore strategies women can use to stay flexible, and make job / career changes when required. <strong>Topics covered in this module include:</strong> <ul> <li>Identify When To Make Changes</li> <li>Build Your Career Within Your Company</li> <li>Amplify Your LinkedIn Profile</li> <li>CV  Strategies</li> <li>Manage Career Breaks</li> </ul> This module is facilitated by <span class="m_6385426294360613289gmail-s1"><strong><span class="il">Janine</span> Esbrand,</strong> the founder of LightBox Coaching. She helps ambitious women to design and launch their dream careers or businesses beyond motherhood through individual coaching, her membership community and her weekly podcast. <span class="il">Janine</span> Esbrand studied for her LLB law degree at City University in London, before spending a year working at a law firm in New York. Upon her return to the UK, she completed her legal training and qualified as a corporate lawyer.</span> <p class="m_6385426294360613289gmail-p1"><span class="m_6385426294360613289gmail-s1">Alongside her legal career, <span class="il">Janine</span> trained as a career and executive coach and is a member of the Association for Coaching. When she is not coaching or practising law, <span class="il">Janine</span> can be found spending time with her husband and two young children, playing netball or travelling.</span></p> <img class="aligncenter wp-image-43046 size-large" src="http://blazersandbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/026-PLEASECREDITWHEREPOSSIBLE-eddie-judd-photography-janine-esbrand-personal-branding-WEBfiles-683x1024.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" />

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43139" src="http://blazersandbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/depth-of-field-photography-of-p-l-a-y-wooden-letter-decors-591652.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" />   This module is facilitated by Belema Ben Ihekwoaba, an educator and a school improvement enthusiast. She holds a BA in Educational Studies from the University of York,UK and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the university of Nottingham,UK alongside many other educational qualifications. During the course of her studies, she volunteered as a classroom assistant in primary schools in the York area. She then proceeded to return to MIS in Port Harcourt where she has risen to the position of Sectional Leader for the Teaching and Learning Development Unit. In addition to this position, she is currently the founder and oversees the day to day running of the MIS Early Learning Center, a purpose built daycare and preschool for children ages 3months - 5years. Though a brilliant teacher herself , her passion is to educate other teachers to improve their teaching skills as well as to empower schools and parents to improve the overall experience of childhood for their wards/children.