Shalomesq Snippet Weekly LinkedIn Newsletter #10

Hello Family & #TGTIG!! (Thank God Today Is Great),

It's the 15th of November 2024 & we are already half-way into the penultimate month of 2024.

Tomorrow the 16th of November is the anniversary of meeting my wife for the first time.

It's another sweet story & the reason why November is an awesome month for us.

I might share a snippet of it as inspired or I might not...just stay tuned!!

About this time based on our family tradition, we start finalizing arrangements for our matching PJs for Christmas & start to look at gifts to buy...It's a good time to take advantage of various Black Friday offerings out there

How are you doing with your set goals & targets for 2024?

How are things moving along towards achieving those goals & targets?

What % completion rate are you at considering today is day 320/366?

If you need support, you can reach out to me here on LinkedIn & I will be more than happy to help.

This is our 10th weekly LinkedIn newsletter as a brand (Shalomesq Snippet) & we happy we could publish as planned for this week despite all of the various activities & projects we were engaged in.

Leading Teams

It was great to complete our discussions on Team Dynamics & I have gotten positive feedbacks on some of the insights shared. If this is your first time here, then take a look at all of our previous newsletters for updates on the topic Leading Teams. The graphic below provides a summary

Career Acceleration

Last month, I had the privilege of speaking at a Career Acceleration Summit 2024 ( CAS 24) & It was a fantastic time.

You can enjoy my session titled "Essential Work Ethics for Career Advancement & Acceleration" & I would appreciate your feedback on things to do to improve my level of delivery & engagement.

For this month, I am inspired to discuss along the career lines & share some snippets that I am sure will be of help to people on their career journey.

No matter what level you are right now, there will be something to gain & glean from these discussions.

Career was also the domain we are looked at for the 2nd month of our 9-month mentorship program. Now in the 3rd month we are looking at Physical Health & Fitness.

Ingredients for Career Acceleration: Skill & Attitude

In other to thrive in your Career, 2 major things are required:

1. SKILL
2. ATTITUDE

Skill

According to Oxford Dictionary, a Skill is the ability to do something well.

A skill is the learned ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

Skills can be taught, it can be learned either formally or informally as the case may be.

There is this HR mantra that I love which says you should Hire for Attitude & Train for Ability & I love how Dan Mian puts it on his X profile as shown below:

ATTITUDE

In psychology, an attitude refers to a set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors toward a particular object, person, thing, or event. Attitude can also be described as the way we evaluate something or someone. For example, we tend to respond positively or negatively about certain subjects.

To get ahead in your career, you need to have both the right skills & the right attitude.

We will take a deeper dive next week.

Mentorship Program

At 9am on the 9th day of the 9th month, we launched our very first Mentorship Program as a brand which is meant to last for 9 months (and yes we played with the number 9).

We are now into our 3rd month at the program.

It's a community of 30 (with 20 Mentees & 10 Mentors) banding together on a 9-Month journey to birth something super amazing as we learn together on the road to becoming a well-balanced, value-adding citizens of the world.

For Month #3 our focus is on the Life Domain of Physical Health & Fitness which is one of the 9 Life Domains that we will be looking at throughout the journey.

FACULTY OF MENTORS BATCH #1

For a vision that was birthed early this year, we are so blessed at ShalomesqSnippet Mentorship Program to have a Faculty of Mentors who have decided to freely give back to our 20 mentees their time, resources, experience & support to ensure the Mentees come through this program to becoming BALANCED, VALUE-ADDING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD.

We have been blessed with seasoned Men & Women who are doing well in their profession (Career), highly Spiritual, managing their Finances well, have a blessed Home/Family, are Healthy (both Physical & Mental) & they also give back to their Community by way of Volunteering in one cause or the other.

These are the 9 Life Domains that every individual needs to be performing well at & the 9-month mentorship program is focused on these Domains.

As we settle into the 3rd month of the program, it is my pleasure to announce that the application form for Season 2 is now open.

Please click on the link & fill the form if you are interested & we will review your application & revert to you accordingly.

We will also start sharing some testimonials from our 20 mentees in the coming weeks/month of how this program has truly transformed their lives.

Newsletter Focus

This weekly newsletter will be focused on sharing applicable nuggets about life & living with a slant on Family, Work/Career & Professionalism based on insights I have gleaned & used over the last 26 years of my Career.

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We are surely looking forward to your subscription & interactions here & on the blog site.

Tots Eclectic Season 1

Tots Eclectic is our maiden podcast that we just rounded off the 1st season with the 13th & final season episode published.

As the names implies, Tots Eclectic are just a compilation of my eclectic thoughts about general stuff that speaks to Life & Living packed into like less than 10mins bite-size audio podcast. You can check it out & engage with your comments.

Tots Eclectic Season 2

We are about to finalize the start of Season 2 & my focus this season will be on Matters of the Heart as we launch the SHMILY (See How Much I Love You) podcast.

Stay tuned for more information on this in the coming weeks.

Achiever's Zone Season 2

We completed & published 7 Episodes of Achiever's Zone Season 2 so far & we are still working to find a way to record all the pending 3 episodes & share with the community as soon as they are ready.

To listen or see all of our previous episodes do get to our Spotify & YouTube channels.

Until we catch up next week Friday, stay liquid & keep moving forward.

I AM SHALOMESQ!!!!!!!