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Who Is This Website For?
This website -
www.spontaneousdevelopment.com
- is especially targeted at people who desire
to learn how they can take advantage of the
virtually limitless opportunities for self-determination,
accessible through diligent application of
proven self-development techniques in conjunction
with technology and The Internet.
Spontaneous
Development Dot Com is home to Self-Development
Academy Limited on the World Wide Web. We
offer New Ideas, Information, Articles, True
Stories, Strategies and Services for Career
Development, Performance Enhancement, Small
Business Best Practice, Spreadsheet Automation,
Professional Web Design, Copy writing, Freelance
Writing and more. Spontaneous Development
Dot Com is a dynamic online resource for ANY
individual, group or organisation passionately
driven to continually function at their best
in whatever they do.
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What Can It Do For You?
This site's
primary objective is to offer useful, real-world relevant
information, and education, that shows people what
they can do by themselves for themselves to achieve
their set goals - with minimal trial and error. Articles,
books(print
and electronic), learning events(talks,
seminars, workshops) based on practical experience
are available. In addition, the Self-Development Academy's
Business
Support Services and Custom
Excel Software can help you increase your profits
by enabling you to do what you do at less cost, in
less time and using less resources/effort are showcased
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Why The Focus On Information And Education?
"..the
biggest challenge facing most African nations is to
creatively adapt ideas to their unique environment."
- Mr. Patrick Boateng, Adviser for
Africa, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
at the African Internet Summit and Exhibition(AFRINET)
2002, held in Abuja, Nigeria.
In the October
20, 2000 edition of Newsweek magazine, Tim Berners-Lee,
inventor of the World Wide Web(NOT the Internet, which
was created 20 years before the web) in an interview
expressed his belief that the Internet presents a
"real chance" of integrating the Third World
with the rest of the world.
He narrated a story(told to
him by someone who had been a missionary in Africa)
about a woman who had taught herself English through
the Bible, and subsequently began earning a living
by translating documents received in English over
the net into the local dialect. As Tim put it, Internet
access can enable a person earn income in a way that
would not have been possible before, and can even
benefit an entire village. He added that there are
numerous jobs which are just "information-in,
information-out" that anyone anywhere in the
world can do if they are given access to the Internet.
(SDAc invites you to visit www.freelanceworkexchange.com
to see countless examples).
The SDAc, through
this website aims to demonstrate practically, specific
ways any individual or group can successfully utilise
self-development, in conjunction with technology and
the Internet, to empower themselves economically,
socially and politically. We will provide real-world
relevant information and education that will equip
our target audience with competencies they need to
more frequently achieve authentic personal successes,
and also show them how they can help others like themselves,
achieve similar successes. |
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Business Profit Making Combined With Social Development
"I want
to be part of a South Africa and Africa sending out
a new message to the world, of taking responsibility
for our own challenges. The world has got used to
a picture of Africa asking for support, with cupped
hands. It's time we create a new image of Africa.
It's time that we ourselves start giving and assert
our sense of dignity. We deserve respect. It is time
we stop apologizing for ourselves and acknowledge
our achievements".
- Graça Machel -Mandela
Even though we
are engaged in people development and empowerment,
the SDA is NOT - and has no intention of becoming
- a Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO). We maintain
a profit making focus, and believe that by so doing,
we will be better able to empower our target audience
with income-generating skills than if we ourselves
depended on grants and other unearned income sources
to fund our operations. Click
here to learn more about the Self-Development
Academy Limited. |
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Do You Know What Successful Communication Means?
In my opinion, successful communication
has occurred when the words I write/speak (or the non-verbal
message I send) are received and understood by my target audience
exactly as I intended it.
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(Published Online: 16 February 2010)
However, there are two sides to the
communication process - that of the communicator and that,
of the communicatee. If the former does a good job of passing
his/her ideas across, it does not necessarily follow that
the latter will receive (or "admit" receiving) the
intended communication!
This may be so for 2 main reasons. One,
the communicatee may unconsciously have "noises"
(like biases, preoccupations, past experiences etc) interfering
with his interpretation of the message. Secondly, he may simply
deliberately feign misunderstanding to make a point.
Both cases happen all the time. Indeed as many adults know,
some people will only hear what they want to hear - no matter
how many times you tell them what you actually mean. In this
case, the hearer chooses to deliberately misunderstand, or
twist the meaning of what has been said to him/her, with the
intent to create conflict or confusion (Re: inter-tribal/ethnic/racial
conflicts).
For a sincere hearer to fully understand a message s/he must
be objective, listen actively (and not pretend to) and be
able to make finer distinctions i.e. apply intelligence. But
then not everyone knows how to do the last part - that is,
make the finer distinctions.
You can read my article titled "What's Your
Definition Of Intelligence? The Importance Of Making Finer
Distinctions In Life". In it, I wrote about
Robert Kiyosaki's father and his illuminating illustration
(using real-world relevant examples) of "intelligence
as the ability to make finer distinctions".
Self-Development/Performance
Enhancement Specialist - Tayo Solagbade - works as
a Multipreneur, helping individuals/businesses develop and
implement strategies to achieve their goals, faster and more
profitably. Download his latest e-book titled "How To
Start Your Business With Little Or None Of Your Own Money"
from http://www.lulu.com/sdaproducts.
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