Personal Branding 101 At Garden of Hope Foundation Kibera.

Garden of Hope Foundation is a faith based community organization in Kibera slums Nairobi, Kenya. They are located at Olympic Kibera just next to the Olympic stage. They are passionate about restoring hope through empowering youths on leadership; Entrepreneurship and menstrual hygiene management
for more about them please visit https://www.gardenofhopefoundation.org.

On 6th June 2019, I was tasked to train 20 young people from Kibera on how they can improve their personal brands, below are some of the key take away or you can call them session's objective

1. To train on personal brand awareness. 
2. How to have a meeting with SELF. 
3. How to work in a team and contribute effectively.
4. How to develop  and manage a personal brand. 
5. Understanding what personal brand. 
6. Understand how our values, behaviour, character, and habits influence our personal brands. 
7. Understand brand association especially take an example of friends that we keep. 
8. Understand the Johari's window and SWOT analysis in relation to personal brand.

 Highlighted questions of the day;

• What is personal branding? 
• Why should we hire you?

 #Insight All of us have something unique we can do than anyone else sometimes it's in form of talent or skills. The question to ask ourselves have we developed the talent or skills to the level where people can pay us for work done? In conclusion, we agreed that there are many factors that can affect our brand visibility either directly or indirectly.  My mission is to influence and impact youth space with soft skills that would enable the youth work either  as employed or self-employed despite their backgrounds.

Contact me for a session with your team, you can reach me on wilson.masaka@gmail.com

CITC Leadership Forum 2019

 #SkillUp2019

On Friday 24th June I had a great privilege to interact and train young leaders from Christian Industrial Training Centres (CITC). The forum was held at Ikon gardens in Muthaiga, where 30 young leaders from different departments attended the full day session from 9am to 5pm.

The forum was designed to train, inform and inspire the youth to take charge as leaders of different departments by ensuring they leave a legacy through their leadership abilities. The aim was to ensure team work, problems solving skills and knowledge transferred to them through the most appropriate way without excluding the element of fun, learning and team challenge.

To achieve the set objectives we used;

1. Role plays.
2. Games 
3. Group assignment 
4. Individual insights
5. Indoor and outdoor activities. 

 Key take always; the session emphasized on many aspect of leadership namely;

1. Qualities of a good leader.
2. Personality and leadership.
3.  Leadership styles.
4. Change management.
5. Culture ( team, company and organization).
6. Communication. 
7. Environment 

Christian Industrial Training Centre (CITC-Nairobi) is located next to St John's Church Pumwani, behind Pumwani. They offer different TVET training with a mission of providing quality technical and entrepreneurial training in a Christian environment, for more information please visit http://citcnbi.ac.ke 

Our Now and Future depends with how we engage the youth in the private, public or government sector. #YouthInMindSpiritAction

 Young people; 

Need to be trained 

Need to be coached

Need to be motivated 

Need to be appreciated 

Need to be supported AND as a result a great future will be guaranteed for ALL. Any nation that sidelines its youth and youth agendas is bound into a blink future of series of crises from unemployment, crime, drug abuse etc.

#SkillUP2019 Are You Looking for a Professional Youth Facilitator?

My name is Wilson Masaka, I am a professional youth facilitator, photographer, social entrepreneur, graphic designer and web developer. I have worked in the youth space for 17 years, especially teaching and mentoring youth from diverse backgrounds in different fields. What I can say for one to train others on particular skills you need more than knowledge and talent. Apart from skills and talent I bring passion, professionalism and participation in ensuring quality and lifelong learning in the youth space.

I speak the youth language; I’m knowledgeable, inspirational, versatile, and outgoing. Contact me on web design, graphic design, entrepreneurship, photography, social media, life skills and personal branding. The lessons are packaged well to connect with what participants know plus what they need to know to scale into the next level using the ASK model (A= Attitude, Skills and Knowledge). My philosophy; Learning by doing, everyone learns, fun learning and participatory learning. . More about me www.wilsenx.blogspot.com Email; Wilson.masaka@gmail.com