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The Women Enterprise Alliance (WenA) - an organization dedicated to producing world-class and diverse entrepreneurs that meet the needs of an ever-changing marketplace in Nigeria and across Africa - announces its upcoming entrepreneurship program. In the second stream of the WenA Entrepreneurship Program, we will be selecting 200 innovative and growth focused female entrepreneurs from across Africa. Selected entrepreneurs will be provided with coaching, capacity building, mentoring and access to finance to support and grow their businesses. You stand a chance to be selected as soon as you complete the registration process. Registration opens on the 4th of December, 2020. Make sure you don't miss out!. #wena #wenainitiative #womenenterprisealliance #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #womenentrepreneurs #womeninbusiness #aishababangida #femaleleaders #womendevelopment #womenempowerment #supportingsmallbusinesses #womensupportingwomen #sme https://www.instagram.com/p/CINpcyCr4eB/?igshid=f6stzkls605e

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Have you signed up for the WenA Global Entrepreneurship Week Conference yet? If you haven't now is a good time to do so. The conference is geared towards; - Providing necessary information for Entrepreneurs facing challenges in specific areas. - Promoting the Creation and Growth of industries and Enterprise - Examining the role of the public sector in preparing enabling environment for women Entrepreneurs. Hurry now and register for free by visiting the link in our bio. See you there... #WenAGEW2020 #WenAconference2020 #GEW2020 #wenainitiative #wenapreneurs #entrepreneurs #innovator #creator #womenentrepreneurs #womeninbusiness #femaleleaders #supportingsmallbusinesses https://www.instagram.com/p/CHhd-h-jVUy/?igshid=1oyxqnc36uhl8

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To differentiate your company from the pack, you need to build a culture that matches your brand. If your company culture is aligned with that identity, your team members and employees are more likely to make decisions and take actions that deliver on your brand promise. Start by considering the different types of brand identities. Once you know the type of brand you have or want to build, the next step is to identify the kind of culture required to deliver on it. Below are the top organizational values by brand type: - Innovative brand: Inventiveness, experimentation, and continuous improvement. - Disruptive brand: Competition, standing out, and risk taking. - Conscious brand: Purposefulness, high commitment, and transparency. - Service brand: Caring, humility, and empathy. - Value brand: Accessibility, fairness, and pragmatism. - Performance brand: Achievement, excellence, and consistency. - Luxury brand: Sophistication, distinction, and status. - Style brand: Design, discernment, and creativity. - Experience brand: Entertainment, enjoyment, and originality. Which one matches your ideal brand? Use these values as starting points for drafting your own unique core values. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHM_p96DQpZ/?igshid=1uutnmgqzwg5f

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Do you ever feel too busy to focus on learning new skills? We all need to keep learning new things to grow ourselves and our businesses. But sometimes the urgency of our schedules gets in the way. - To find time for learning, make it a part of your day-to-day tasks. One way of easily achieving this is by exploring ways to pick up skills from those around you. Take note of how your mentor handles a negotiation, get feedback from your team members and close associates, regularly scour the internet for the latest trends in your business industry, etc. - Of course there will be times when something piques your interest but you're too busy to explore it. When this happens, try creating a "to-learn" list: write down concepts, ideas, and practices that you want to return to at a later time. Go ahead to incorporate a dedicated learning timeline into your calendar. - Learning in the flow of work is one of the most powerful levers available to business leaders today. Make sure that you and your business are on top of it. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHHvkpGj_uC/?igshid=jt1o0e22am4j

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If you look back over the last decade, you will realize that the speed of change seems to be accelerating. The implications is that the only way businesses today - whether large or small - are going to survive and thrive is through continuous innovation in the face of constant change. - Today's market is saturated with competitors seeking to attract and hold the attention of clients. For your business to stand out, you need to accept that offering clients something unique is crucial, whether it is through the development of new products or more robust service. - Business, like nature, is very simple. If you’re not growing, you’re dying. You can’t afford to remain stagnant and hope to compete in today’s market. - Today marks the beginning of a new month and a great opportunity for you to take stock and develop fresh innovative ideas for your business. Be sure to take the time to consider the numerous innovative opportunities available in your business industry. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHCphgejusc/?igshid=9yivtulw12s0

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While part of our capacity to deal with the unknown is innate, a larger portion is learned. Entrepreneurs who are able to successfully develop this capability are more creative, more successful, and better able to turn uncertainties into business possibilities. - These set of entrepreneurs are able to thrive by framing challenges so that they can cope with them. Here are a few ideas on how to do that: - 1) Focus on learning. Ask, “What can I learn from this challenge?” - 2) Know that frustration is all part of the game. Rather than beat yourself up when you lose something, see that while you may lose today, you could win tomorrow. - 3) Recognize all that you already have. - 4) Consider that much of life is random. What happens to us isn’t always our doing. Entrepreneur Jon Winsor puts it this way: “We have this perception in business: We think we control the world. I think what is probably more correct is it’s more about interpreting the world instead of trying to say we control it.” - 5) See yourself on the hero's journey. Just like the heroes in our favorite stories, we can see obstacles we face as opportunities to learn, overcome, and push us closer to our goals. https://www.instagram.com/p/CG4WacQjvTs/?igshid=ooqjrgsfzetk

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Keep forging ahead! #wena #wenainitiative #entrepreneurs #motivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CG4TOKKD-vy/?igshid=ilbzblaafkm8

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A lot of people erroneously believe that who they are today is who they will always be. They cling to labels like "I'm not good at doing this" or "I'm an introvert". The truth is such thinking leaves little to no room for growth. The reality is that we can and do change. - As you set out for a new week, don't be so wedded to who you are today. Instead, make the commitment to intentionally focus on who you want to be. Start by recognizing how much you've grown and changed from your former self. This will help remind you that growth is possible. - Proceed to imagine who you want to be in the future. Maybe you want to be more confident in your professional skills or to be more comfortable in connecting with new people. Keep that vision of yourself on the top of your mind. Then hold yourself accountable by regularly reminding yourself of the improvements you need to make. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGzZ_HXDpv0/?igshid=1fj7ynzim0qdq

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A decade of research into top entrepreneurs and executives shows that expertise can actually impede performance in two important ways: 1. Causing overconfidence. 2. Allowing deep knowledge and experience to leave leaders incurious, blinkered, and vulnerable - even in their own fields. - The solution is clear: Rededicate yourself to learning and growth. Start by challenging your own expertise: untether yourself from that identity, be more modest, and remind yourself of your intellectual limitations. - The second is to seek out fresh ideas: look to teammates as teachers, tap new sources of talent, and connect with more role models or "learning buddies" (colleagues who challenge your thinking and with whom you can bounce around new ideas). - Finally, embrace experimentation: push the limits of your comfort zone - even if it scares you. You can do this by taking on unfamiliar assignments, and treating them as experiments. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGre9CuDCGY/?igshid=98aq23sjk72t

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Starting a new project can be uncomfortable. You might experience insecurity (I can't do this) or an impulse to procrastinate (I should probably do something else first). You can't stop yourself from having such feelings, but you can stop yourself from acting on them. Often the biggest challenge lies in getting started. To push yourself towards getting things done, think about a small first step you can take. It might be picking up your phone to ask someone for input, or sitting in front of your desk to come up with a plan. Remember, no matter how big a project is, the transition to kick-starting it can be a small, easy step. Once you get started, you'll feel a lot better. #wena #wenainitiative #entrepreneurs #businessmanagement https://www.instagram.com/p/CGjw4cJDmEz/?igshid=6qgfe3azgvpi

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What if you could choose one of two possible outcomes: a narrow win (you just beat your closest competitor) or a near miss (you were this close but didn’t make the cut). Which would you prefer? Most of us would choose to be the winner. Yet recent research shows the right choice may not be as simple as it appears. Researchers examined more than 1000 early-career scientists. who had narrowly won or just missed winning a key grant and found that, in the longer run, the near-miss researchers ended up producing higher-impact work, on average, than their narrow-win peers. The takeaway? No matter what your profession is and how much you excel at your job, it’s safe to assume that at some point, things won’t turn out the way you’d like. And when that happens, there are reasons to be optimistic. Yes, you’ll need to put in the time and effort to incorporate feedback and strengthen your approach. But good things definitely await those who persevere and stay the course. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhPpQXD_9X/?igshid=1tay0mbdbp6pi

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When it comes to building a successful business, having a strong mindset sets the super successful aside from the mediocre. - You have to believe your goals are possible and be convinced you can achieve them. Self belief counts for more than what you know or what you do. If you don’t think you can do it, you won’t. Resourcefulness, resilience and positivity are essential elements you must possess in order to attain your desired heights. -⠀ Here are 5 tips on building a strong mindset and steadying your business boat. ⠀ ⠀ 1. Surround yourself with the right kinds of people. ⠀ 2. Realise that comparison is the thief of joy.⠀ ⠀ 3. Always see the good in every situation. ⠀ 4. Be willing to learn and improve at all times. ⠀ ⠀ 5. Show gratitude. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGcDgMdjUKB/?igshid=1crk6f3i43qc6

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A lot of businesses have good objectives and vision, but lack what it takes to realistically attain a sustainable upward trajectory. - Here, we bring you five keys towards achieving sustainable business growth. - 1. Being innovative helps you grow your business and makes your brand unique. Innovation also gives your product/service a competitive advantage. - 2. Having the right workforce is also key as your workers are your brand ambassadors who represent the values of your organization. They should be properly trained in order to maximize your operational efficiency. - 3. Making the commitment to ensure that the needs of your customers are consistently and satisfactorily met is of utmost importance and will reap great benefits. - 4. Seeking strategic collaborations is a good way to strengthen your brand and reach a larger customer base. - 5. Keeping track of the constantly changing environment and updating your product/service in response to new trends will help keep your business at the top and enhance the value of your products/services. #wena #wenainitiative #wenapreneurs #smallbusinesses #businessgrowth https://www.instagram.com/p/CGRuYZxD2rz/?igshid=4cmvetple6jq

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Computer modeling shows that the best predictor of a cheetah's successful hunt is not its top speed. Rather, it is how fast it stops and turns. - For businesses, it is true innovation is needed to thrive amd survive, but it is not enough to simply pursue new ideas faster. Just as the cheetah, your business also needs to develop new muscles for skillfully decelerating and adapting to unexpected twists and turns, in order to avoid coming up empty-handed. - The ability to quickly adapt is a skill your business can hone. By focusing on three specific actions, your business can be more agile and adaptable to change. - 1. Creating room for reversing some of your decisions will help ensure that your business won't have to live with bad consequences for very long. - 2. Making it possible for you and your team members to track every work stream will afford your business the opportunity to improve or stop unproductive work. - 3. As a business leader, you need to realize that fearful workers will cling to the current work no matter how unproductive it is. Make the commitment to take steps that will help you and your team replace the fear of loss with the fear of missing out on something better. - Practicing the above will help your business evolve to match its acceleration muscle with faster stopping and turning skills. As you do, your hunt for growth will grow more fruitful, your competitive capabilities will strengthen, and your position in the food chain will improve. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGKFnnrjhx6/?igshid=1b27varfy7jvv

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Everyone has the power to improve their creativity. Whether you are an established entrepreneur or you've ust launched your startup, you can boost your creativity more than you might think. Like sharpening a saw, you can hone creativity into a razor-like edge. - Whatever your goal is — to uncover opportunities, create innovative products or boost sales — the more you work at being creative, the closer you get to your goals. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGE1jQUDr2S/?igshid=1hgy9mr7zkun3

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What does it take to come up with a truly innovative idea — and to successfully bring it to the market? Research examining pioneering thinkers and changemakers, from entrepreneurs to medics to chefs, reveals five key things unconventional thinkers do. - First, they focus their attention closely, with a fresh mindset and without preconceptions. Second, they step back to gain perspective and to avoid rushing into problem solving too quickly. - Third, they free their imaginations and challenge orthodoxy, asking “Why not?” and “What if?” Fourth, they experiment once they have a promising idea and aren’t afraid to change directions if necessary. - Finally, when it’s time to pitch their idea, they learn to navigate potentially hostile and competitive environments in order to bring the right people on board. #wena #wenainitiative #wenapreneurs #entrepreneurs #womenentrepreneurs #innovation https://www.instagram.com/p/CGCQBtsDk9Y/?igshid=1xnvfhq1pqjbp

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Passion is a simple yet profoundly all-encompassing narrative to describe the essence of a true entrepreneur. Passion is the chief driver of successful entrepreneurship anywhere in the world. - As an entrepreneur being passionate about your business as you head into the new week will provide you with an inherent fuel and inexhaustible stamina that will constantly drive you towards fulfilling your vision. - This superior energy will not only help you overtake and surpass various challenges, it will also inject you with the strength to continue pursuing your goals even when difficulties arise. #wena #wenainitiative #entrepreneurs #MondayMotivaton https://www.instagram.com/p/CF9LfM7jQRZ/?igshid=1fip62turkvtf