Leadership

Effectiveness for
Career
Development
DLD 211

Onyekachukwu Ogwu | 25th October 2022

How many sheep were in Noah’s ark?
Assumption is the lowest
form of knowledge

• According to Genesis
7:1-2, there were 14
sheep and 4 pigs in the
ark
Video 1
Do not ignore the dancing
bear

• It is easy to miss
something you are not
looking for
• Focus on the dancing
bear!
 Who is a leader?

• A leader is not necessarily

the head, but A LEADER
IS AHEAD
• Case Study – The story of
Esau and Jacob in Genesis
27
Video 2
 Must you have a career?

Hobby Job
Activities done Activities done
World for money
for pleasure of
Career works Vocation
Activity done for Activities done
passion for purpose
Key questions
• What if I am not
sure what area to
build my career?

• How do I lead
myself to
accelerate my
career?
“ Instead of focusing on that circumstance
that you cannot change – focus strongly and
“
powerfully on the circumstance that you can
- Joy Page
6 principles of Excellence
highflyers in the
workplace Self Mastery
Competence
Visible
Friendly
Spiritual
1) Excellence
• Highest quality and superior
standard
• Excellence is a moving target;
always improving - Proverbs
4:18
• Yesterday’s excellence is
today’s mediocrity
Excellence
• It is going over and above
what is excepted
• Don’t allow mediocre people,
to pull you down with criticism
• They attack you, observe you,
copy you and never
acknowledge you
2) Self Mastery
• Your career cannot faster than
our personal growth

• Know your strengths and your

areas of improvement

• You know yourself but

exploring
“ to thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day,
- Polonius
“
3) Competence
• You will pay dearly for the
things you do not learn early in
your career

• Be foolish once!

• Leverage your “Gen-Z” power -

Shine with tech
4 levels of competence
4) Visibility
• Your visibility is as important as
your ability

• Light is not to be hidden world

- Matthew 5:14-16

• Be visible by – dressing,
speaking and acting out
excellence
Build capacity before visibility

VS

Be visible in the roasting stage

5) Friendly
• Faults are discounted for
friends
• You achieve career goals
working with friends
• Be friendly above, between and
below
• Friendship must be value-
based
6) Spiritual
• For promotion cometh neither
from the east, nor from the
west, nor from the south. But
God is the judge: he putteth
down one, and setteth up
another. - Psalm 75:6-7
Recommended Books

Born to The Atomic

win Pursuit of Habits
Bishop Excellence James
David Ryan Clear
Oyedepo Hawk

Videos - https://bit.ly/DLDClassbyOnyekaOgwu
Thank You