Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Developing financial marketplace funding strategy


Our goal is to be 75% self funding re material and other operational expense. There have been a significant growth in this area in the current year since the start and building of the function in May 2007


Presenting radio programme Wisdom at work

Made 45 programs of 30 minutes on Wisdom at work together with the new language of the entrepreneur with Handre De Jongh and doing all the content research around these programs

Seminar and business forum and marketplace leader and consultant for Africa (Crown teaching events, leadership development and coaching)


1) Training session in Namibia ( evening session with 25 delegates on Character Development and Back to Basics
2) Breakfast session in Pietermaritzburg for 25 delegates
3) Launch new marketplace website
4) Sending our marketplace newsletter to about 4000 members (part of coaching activities)
5) Doing initial work on Splitting Heirs or Inheritance by the Book 4 chapters
6) Doing a presentation to 75 delegates at Saldanha Chamber of commerce
7) Doing a weekend session for Piet de Beer 40 participants on Stewardship
8) 75 delegates on a session with Montagu Chambers of commerce on developing a Character First Culture-based excellence
9)Married for life presentation for about 25 participants
10) Attending headmasters conference with 300 other delegates in Langebaan
11) Starting a small business forum and six breakfast sessions on average 7-8 parrticipants monthly for six months
12) Guest speaker at CBM annual meeting in Wellington with Johan Crous 120 delegates
13) Talking on transformation with DS Gawie Hugo in Paarl 45 delegates
14) Presenting Business by the Book for 18 delegates in George
15) Doing session for 60 Haggai alumni in AFM Goodwood
16) Start with the two weekly business forum in NEOS at our Crown offices for approximately 8 people
17) Attending the FCCI strategic session in Parry Sound Canada and developing new initiatives to grow Business forums
18) Doing Goal setting session for 30 delegates from across the world in Maui Hawaii
19) 40 People at a Malmesbury breakfast session
20) Training a group of 8 participants to be Crown Stewardship/faculty leaders and later with another Group in Johannesburg
21) Attending the FCCI 30th preconference and marketplace conference in Naples and visiting various institutions and key ministries Os Guinness; the two worlds that changed the world; Dr Blackaby Secular or Spiritual leadership and the emphasis to put people on God’s agenda; Bill Bliss; Selecting and developing great leaders; Horst Schulze on leadership; Kent Humphreys on Surviving and Thriving with failure; Jon Shaw; increasing your Business ministry impact; John Duncan: Achieving Desired Organizational results and ministry in marketplace
22) Married for Life presentation for 11 couples
23) Entrepreneurship that Prosper seminar to 10 participants
24) Showing and discussion the Crown Videos to about 107 delegates in different sessions
25) Doing two CF short 3 hour session for 53 delegates from Vital Health
26) Doing Stewardship/faculty training for 48 leaders at Joshua Ministries in Johannesburg
27) Lecturing at Reims, Euromed and Leipzig Germany as visiting Professor ( 45 students)
28) Coordinate the mentoring seminar with Dr Dick Wynn for about 30 delegates
29) Doing an Emotional Intelligence programme for 5 delegates
30) TGIF session with Piet de Beer 15 members attending the Friday morning session





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Establishment of Character First as a strategic marketplace intervention


1) Printing 2000 of Basic and Advanced Character First training manuals
2) Doing a CF seminar for Clanwilliam secondary school (10 participants)
3) Trained delegates in Benoni, own office at Crown, Vital Health, George Hospital and Metro Police
4) Training 228 delegates on CF of which came from George Hospital and Metro Police
5) Behaviour- based safety audit and presentation to XSTRATA Mine in Witbank
6) Doing training in Ghana on CF and talking and doing devotion lecture at the Correctional services (75 attended the session)
7) Start with printing a 1000 CF bulletins per month
8) Getting agreement and tender to train 200 policemen in Western Cape Metro Police
9) Talk to 150 delegates on bahaviour-b
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