YF Talent Partners

Thank You. 3 years, 70 plus clients, diverse sectors. Leadership. Culture. Employee Experience. Talent Management. Purpose. Passion. People. Grace only. To all our Partners who gave our brand their platforms for expression, we are super grateful. Thank you for your custom. Looking forward to more years of collaboration and impact. Thank God it’s Monday! Cheers to another ah-mazing week 🥂.

We did a thing! 8 days of focused conversations on Thriving and Leading in The Now of Work, as we prepare for another year. The changes around us have been massive but no one promised us the changes are over. Our old selves cannot survive in this ‘new abnormal’; the time to brew new coffee is now. The one million Dollar question is, what are we doing today? Cheers to a fulfilling November 🥂.

Self-leadership: First Things First. “To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.” John C. Maxwell. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Maya Angelou. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” Audre Lorde. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” Eleanor Brown. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” Jack Kornfield. First lead self successfully and then be ready to lead others. Committee of e-Business Industry Heads through Intermarc Consulting, Nigerian Breweries Plc, FCMB Group and CIG Motors Co., Ltd, thank you for allowing us engage with your people managers and teams. Our purpose is to change the leadership narratives, so we can have healthy workplaces where employees and institutions can thrive.

It was a great delight to be a part of the FundQuest 12th anniversary celebrations. My conversations around Thriving in the Now of Business touched on the charge to make make a quantum leap, build healthy relationships and foster synergy. The external variables confronting businesses today are changing rapidly, and the rate of adaptation within the organisation must match the accelerated pace without. Congratulations to all members of the FundQuest family, as we embrace new business realities in this ‘new abnormal’ with adaptagility. I am quite positive that the unveiled future of the business will become a reality in due course. Cheers to the next 12 and the next 12 and the next 12 🥂

Great leaders don’t work hard at delivering results by themselves, they work harder at selling the vision, in addition to growing and nurturing their associates. They daily become more trustworthy through credibility, reliability and providing environments that are psychologically safe. They are then proud to release the full potentials of their teams. They become a source of inspiration rather than release the pains of micro-management into their units, functions or departments. And as custodians of culture, great leaders add connectedness, results and people development to their title or position. And the results are usually exponential. Ah-mazing conversations with the team at Bono Energy.

How I defined Executive Presence: what people call us when we are not in the room. It’s the sum total of the feelings we leave people with at every interaction. Communication. Competence. Character. Charisma. If you want to build a solid EP, communicate with value and impact, first time and every time.

Nothing gives more joy than working with our clients to re-vitalize and co-create a new future with culture in mind. It’s been 4 months of engagement, connect sessions and envisioning. And when it was time to hand over the implementation to the leadership team at Murphy Ben International, we were further engaged for the next phase. It has been a rewarding journey and we look forward to further strengthening the ah-mazing culture in the coming weeks. To the leadership team at Murphy Ben International, thank you for partnering with us on this journey. If passion, positivity and fun-loving were an organisation, it would be Murphy Ben International. The future is looking very bright.

It was a full day with the Leadership Team of Toyota by CFAO and below are the exact words of Dr. Peter Kungeke on his LinkedIn page: Leadership Strategy Weekend (LSW) "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail" - Benjamin Franklin This weekend was all about preparation. A special thanks to Toyota by CFAO’s leaders for their participation and valuable contributions. The LSW was well facilitated by Yemi Faseun and team. Thank you for sharing, your guidance and your support. If your organization wants to grow leaders, then YF Talent Partners is your go-to place.

Glad to be a part of the Golden Jubillee anniversary of Punch Newspapers and driving conversations around long-term view of succession planning. There are always choices between the short-term view of talent management and a more strategic approach. Players of value are fewer. Options for talents are more, unrestricted and unbounded. Time and distance collapsed through the power of technology. Pay is taking a backseat and many are willing to sacrifice salary for sanity. The allure of flexi work-mode and earning dollars whilst working from home and from home country is real. Local has changed to GLOCAL. Same old same old approach will yield same old results. Time to think differently about talent management. To Punch Newspapers, cheers to the next 50 🥂

Clientocracy. Esprit De Corps. Professionalism and Integrity. Ownership. Einstein. Meri-Star Delight. It was with such excitement that ALL the participants defined the core values and reeled out the vision, mission, brand promise, philosophy and culture of Meristem Nigeria. Quite impressive! It was 2 days of learning and fun. Leadership and culture conversations took the centre stage and we all left with a renewed commitment to bridge the leadership gap between the generations. Great leaders drive high performance teams and inspired by Einstein, the humans of Meristem Nigeria are well positioned to live out this truth. Ah-mazing leaders…it can be!