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My 6month Internship experience at Gtext Media and Investment.
Today is my 6th month at Gtext Media and Investment and obviously my last day as an intern here, will probably return as a Consultant or a Facilitator, I am sure Stephen Akintayo is seeing this …LOL. Continue reading
The Relevance of Entrepreneurship Education, a tool to Self-Reliance.
Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business. According to the national bureau of statistics (2009,2003,2010,2012) ,the national unemployment rates for Nigeria between 2000 and 2011 showed the number of employed persons,31.1% in 2000,13.6% in 2001,12.6% Continue reading
Entrepreneurs prevail in trials
Count it all joy when faced with the trials of life. As entrepreneurs we take more risks than others. Sometimes when we strike a number of deals and they fail, we ask God, “WHY ME?” “Why not you?”, Continue reading
#TuesdaytellwithTAI joins “the girl entrepreneur” team as we celebrate Mrs Ibukun Awosika.
The girl entrepreneur twitter community celebrates Mrs Ibukun Awosika, a mother, pastor, author and role model as she becomes the first female Chairman of First Bank Of Nigeria PLC. Ibukun Awosika’s appointment came up as the former chairman, Prince Ajibola Afonja retired. This appointment will take effect from the 1st of January 2016.
The Africa Entrepreneurship Award Application closes 12midnight register now.
Dear Entrepreneur,
The African Entrepreneurship Award, is a competition to find the best ideas for businesses impacting education, the environment, or uncharted domains in Africa. While the AEA is a competition for funding of your business, it is also a journey of mentorship, partnering you and your business idea, with business professionals from all over the world.
The Application closes by 12midnight today.
Study Reveals Why Female Business Owners Aren’t Setting Limits
You say you care about work-life balance, but do you, really? By
A new survey found that while women small business owners claim to value work-life balance more than men, women are less likely than men to actually take steps to achieve that elusive goal.
Capital One’s latest Spark Business Barometer polled small business owners about various aspects of their businesses, including how they define business success.
The most commonly cited measures of success are typical ones for a business – customer satisfaction led the pack, cited by 94 percent of entrepreneurs, followed by revenues and profits (cited by 77 and 76 percent, respectively; respondents could choose more than one answer).
However, work-life balance ranked fairly high, too. Sixty-nine percent of women define success as achieving work-life balance, compared to 58 percent of men.
How Do Entrepreneurs Achieve Balance?
Forty-three percent say they take vacations, 33 percent set specific times for arriving and leaving work, and 27 percent limit how much work they take home.
But women are less likely than men to “set boundaries,” as the study puts it, that could help them achieve better balance in their lives. The male business owners polled are more likely to set ground rules for how many hours they work, how many days they travel on business or how many speaking engagements they attend. Three-fourths of men say they set ground rules, compared to 69 percent of women.
Why Aren’t Women Business Owners Setting Limits?
After all, it could help create the balance we crave.
I’m sure some women entrepreneurs, just like some men, don’t care about work-life balance. They know that, especially during startup, you’ve got to pour almost everything into your business to help it succeed.
Perhaps others, like me, are passionate about what they do and would rather work than do practically anything else.
But there are two more insidious causes behind women’s work-life imbalance.
First, the study quotes the Bureau of Labor Statistics saying women working full-time earn 82.5 cents for every dollar men working full-time make. Maybe women feel we can’t stop working for fear of falling even further behind.
Second, many of us just plain have trouble saying “No.” (I suffer from this myself.) Most women (although this is changing a bit) are raised to be “people pleasers” and help people out; putting ourselves first feels wrong. But as the flight attendants say before takeoff, you need to put on your oxygen mask before helping others. If you don’t set boundaries around your life, business will encroach.
How Can You Solve These Problems?
Is it Time to Raise Your Prices
Especially in service industries, women may feel we have to undercut others to get the job.
If there is a legitimate reason to raise prices, go for it!
If you’re spending too much time on clients that pay too little, consider cutting some of them loose so you can go after bigger, better-paying fish.
Start Saying No!
Think about all the commitments you have coming up in the next month that you wish you hadn’t made.
When someone asks you to do something, you don’t have to reply right away. Tell them you’ll get back to them as soon as you’ve checked your calendar. Then decide if the effort is worth it to you.
Could someone else do it? Do you want to do it? Do you NEED to do it?
Eliminate low-value activities from your life, and you’ll have more time for what matters most to you.
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