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Vanguard, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2017 — 25
Work at home?
A little discipline
won’t hurt
Everything has its pros
and cons, and working
from home is no exception
Whatever the case might be,
working from home is a reality
with which most working
mothers are confronted.
Better to know the pros and
cons of such a choice to make
more informed decisions.
There are a number of
strategies for coping with these
“working lifestyle” issues.
Dress for business
You could make a point of
dressing for business every day,
and going through a ritual
every morning to get yourself
in the mood for work. This can
be as simple as shutting the
door to the home office and
turning on the computer, but it
serves the purpose of focusing
your energies on the job.
Screen all calls
Make a practice of using an
answering machine to screen
all personal calls during your
business day.
Network
Attend networking lunches
several times a week to avoid
feeling isolated. Only you can
tell whether you’ll be able to
overcome these potential
problems, because they’re
based on your personality,
working style, and your family
and other individual
circumstances.
Location, location, location
Some businesses operate
most efficiently when they are
located close to customers,
suppliers, or certain other
facilities or businesses. For
example, law offices are often
located close to the county
courthouse, in part to
minimize the time spent
running back and forth to
court. Also, many customers or
clients seem to feel that a
business with a permanent
address other than someone’s
Brandzone Consulting in
collaboration with the Centre for
Values in Leadership held the
inaugural National Branding
Conference 2017 recently at the
Oriental Hotel, Lagos. This edition of
the Brand Innovation Conference, with
the theme “Branding: A Catalyst for
Development and Growth was flagged
off as the first ever National Branding
Conference in Nigeria.
In her welcome address, the
Managing Partner, Brandzone
Consulting LLC and the Convener,
National Branding Conference, Chizor
Malize, stated that the conference was
birthed out of a burning desire to stir
the nation towards adopting a
deliberate approach in promoting a
home is less likely to be a flyby-night
operation, and more
likely to be able to deliver on
guarantees.
Make expansion plans
Businesses with outside
locations tend to be easier to
sell and to bring higher prices.
For one thing, the new owner
doesn’t have to scout out a
new location and go to the
expense of moving; for
another, customers and clients
We must promote the external image of the nation to the world — Utomi
are already accustomed to
visiting a particular office and
can continue to patronize it
despite the new ownership.
Finally, don’t forget that
commercial real estate can be
a great investment.
Queen of branding brings brands to the national scene
positive national narrative. She noted
that the National Branding Conference
2017, the first of its kind in Nigeria,
brings to the fore the need to be
deliberate and strategic about building
a strong, positive, unified public
narrative for our nation that citizens can
own and be proud of.
Malize said: “This year’s National
Branding Conference comes in
recognition of the need to take ownership
of and promote more positive narratives
around our Nation’s brand. It is a
strategic response to the need to
consistently convey an appropriate and
progressive public narrative that ensures
our diversity, strengths and attributes as
a nation are projected positively and
consistently around the world.”
Speaking further Malize noted, “We
must be systematic about building a
strong national brand by seeking to
promote the commonalities that unify us.
We must evolve and embrace a
uniformity of message as a nation, that
projects our strengths, diversity and
capabilities positively. We must play our
roles as great citizens in our various
capacities. As a people we must imbibe
a positive mindset, develop and be
driven by positive value systems, we
must consistently demonstrate love for
our nation through our words and
actions, we must be intentional about
selling to the world our brand story
rather than allow the world tell our
stories as they see fit. We need to
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