Self Awareness - Lesson at KFI, Arusha Tanzania

I love teaching and sharing insights with the young people, in return I learn and discover new ways of either presenting by understanding their youth world from their own mirrors and lenses, It was a great privilege to conduct a session on Self Awareness at Kilimanjaro Film Institute where in attendance were 1st year and 3rd year students and some staff members.

This topic is dear to me and my tools for trade are always the SWOT analysis of Self versus Team and the JOHARI Window (A model for self-awareness,  personal development, group  development and understanding relationship)

Brief Lesson Outline;

1.  Introductions; get to know to what extent the participants are aware of themselves by doing a self rating out of 100% and writing down three things they are good at and three things they need to work on. These notes are collected and we pick some similarities and differences in term of learning points. There’s no need of writing names on the notes…
2. Group assignment; Each group was given a product to find the best way they could sell it in the marketplace within 3 minutes presentation. The groups were free to choose their presentation mode.
3. Feedback from the facilitator
4. Q & A.

This is a quick bullet list of the lesson I facilitated today, my style of facilitation is based on; participants presentation, group assignments, Question and Answers, some insights and examples, brainstorming etc.

Next time I'm in town send me an invitation to talk with your youth groups at zero cost
In the spirit of knowledge sharing society which is one of the philosophy at Wilsen Initiative (Wi)

Pictures taken at the session;

Explaining the Johari's window and SWOT analysis as applied for teams and individuals

Participants presenting their ideas

Role plays; selling the perfume. How to pitch your idea within 3 minutes!

Feedback and Q&A session

Video Launch; Leading SELF & OTHERS – Build to Last Leadership

Key words towards creating the video; Inspiration, Story Telling, Putting our Ideas into action, Doers community, leadership, the champion in you, Leading SELF and OTHERS, Journey, idea networking, social capital, shaping your future.  Donate time and skills sharing, bridging the knowledge gap, Talents and Skills, building from the door steps, changing making, Theory of Change and Network Marketing


Leading Quotes

#LeadingSelf “It doesn't mean we can't be better, it depends with the kind of exposure we receive and decisions we make from different stages of our lives" ~ Wilson Masaka, founder Wi.

“The creation process didn’t stop in 199BC, it’s with us today and tomorrow”. ~ Wilson Masaka founder Wi.

“The hardest challenges is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you somebody else” ~ E.E. Cummings

"Don't pick a job. Pick a Boss. Your first boss is the biggest factor in your career success. A boss who doesn't trust you won't give you opportunities to grow." ~William Raduchel

“Our CAPITAL OR CURRENCY is what's within us; Talent, Knowledge, Skills, Aspiration, Experiences, Passion and Self-belief ~ Wilsen Initiative, the power of self discovery.

Inspirational video - I'm great fan of Simon :)

Copy & Paste vs. Copy & Progress

There may be no new ideas under the sun, but there are plenty of fresh ways to use old ideas in creating new innovations. Instead of copying and paste, let us copy and progress.

In this World of technological advancement, a lot of power is with the users and the makers to an extent some of the players don’t want to crack their minds to develop new progressive concepts.  It’s approximated that we are seven billion people in this planet earth and big chance is that whatever you are thinking of doing somebody else did it a long time ago, one of the ways you can come in is to give a fresh look and innovate new trends which are simple, easy and powerful.

Powerful example is how great brands evolve, I love sports and let look at how Addidas and Puma emerged  in brief and I quote;

“Every great story has a beginning. This one started in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. After first steps in his mother’s wash kitchen, Adi Dassler registered the “Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik” in 1924 and embarked on his mission to provide athletes with the best possible equipment. Gold medals in Amsterdam (1928, Lina Radke) and Berlin (1936, Jesse Owens) were first rewards and milestones – and only the start of our story.” Source http://www.adidas-group.com/en/group/history/

“Adidas was founded in 1949 by Adolf Dassler, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and his older brother Rudolf. Rudolf had earlier established Puma, which was the early rival of Adidas. Adidas and Puma are both currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas
So, what is the difference between Copy and paste versus Copy and Progress?

Copy and paste is whereby somebody or even a company imitated a certain product with almost zero additions just a flip of maybe color, shape, typeface and names. This is witnessed in even electronics, food products etc. the creators are clever enough to either ride on colors or naming their product. Nobody owns a particular color that is the hard fact.

Copy and progress which I advocate for in another way of looking at things, building the visual muscles by appreciating other peoples work to evoke advancement of ideas to what has been developed.  Great ingredients in copy and progress are curiosity, compare and contrast, appreciation, imagination, research and prototype,