Students are usually found to compare their progress with that of their colleagues. You would hear them say, “I had 4 B’s, he had just 2”. They do not understand the harm this is causing them when they do it. What happens when you make comparison as this? Like Maxwell noted, it is usually one
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In a strong team, the leader knows how to capitalise on each member’s strengths. Not everyone on the team has to be a great people person, but some have to be. Not everyone has to be meticulous, but certain members of the team must be. If you must capitalise on individual’s strengths, you must be
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In every school on earth, there are those teachers who are dearly beloved and those ones who are just hated. Many reasons explain this; for while some students hate teachers for being disciplinarian, others simply hate them for no reason at all. In any case, let it be known that students have their preferences with
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A lot of people have locked themselves tightly into a box of norms. They re-echo time and time again that, ‘this is how things are done here” and this inadvertently hampers their innovative ability. According to Wikipedia, Thomas Alva Edison born February 11, 1847 and died October 18, 1931 was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that
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George Lorimer said, ‘You‘ve got to get up every morning with determination if you‘re going to go to bed with satisfaction. One of the most interesting way to live your life as a student is to begin each day with the determination to learn something new, you must determine to experience something different from what you experienced the previous day. One
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A lot of young minds are usually on the lookout for the right answers. I don’t seem to comprehend why this happens but to the best of my understanding, I know there are no entirely right custom-made answers for different circumstances but they are options and better options to get things done. People that are
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About Award: UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the opening of entries for the 2015 edition of its annual National Essay Competition. The competition is part of the Foundation’s initiative to promote creative and analytical thinking in senior secondary students in Nigeria and is a
Although every student leader wants to lead a strong team, those who have done it find that there are certain challenges that come with the satisfaction of leading such team. It is not an easy task to build and lead a team because they are made of people with differing characteristics. Some are gentle and
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Over the years, people talk about what makes a great leader and it was discovered that, great leaders demonstrate bold but reasoned judgment, spirited but calculated risk-taking and an assertive but reflective disposition. According to Bill Treasurer, The list of characteristics that comprise great leadership is so long and contradictory, that the aspiring leader is
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It is obvious that passions give us purpose, but beyond purpose, passion makes us feel that we have purpose in our lives. Passion constantly gets us to have the feeling that we are on the right path in life. This keeps us going even when it is seemingly tough. In the book, “Talent is never
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