Define Your Position: Values, Ethics & Leadership

Jack Prot

Some call it wearing one’s heart on the sleeve; others call it wearing their emotions. If the discussion is of values and ethics, leaders must wear them openly, constantly encouraging, mentoring, and coaching others to operate within values-based and ethical standards the leader expresses. Values and ethics exist in a […]

Teacher Education and Teacher Quality

Jack Prot

1.0 INTRODUCTION One of the sectors which fosters national development is education by ensuring the development of a functional human resource. The institution of strong educational structures leads to a society populated by enlightened people, who can cause positive economic progress and social transformation. A Positive social transformation and its […]

Private Equity vs. Venture Capital

Jack Prot

What is the difference between Venture Capital and Private Equity? The text book answer that would be given by most B-School professors is that venture capital is a subset of a larger private equity asset class which includes venture capital, LBO’s, MBO’s, MBI’s, bridge and mezzanine investments. Historically venture capital […]

Professional Development – Pros and Cons for the Employer

Jack Prot

From an employee point of view professional development is about further learning to lengthen and enhance your career skill set. For an employer professional development is about ensuring employees have the knowledge and enthusiasm to do their job in the best possible way. Companies and individuals benefit from professional development […]

Roadmap to Achieving Sustaining Development in Nigeria

Jack Prot

The ancient and mystical order of The Rosicrucian Order, (AMORC), has identify some critical factors that are indices to achieving sustainable national development in Nigeria. This is coming at a point in time when the country, with an estimated population of 203 million people, led by Muhammed Buhari, is facing […]

Five Building Blocks of an Integrated Talent Management System

Jack Prot

What is an integrated talent management? Integrated talent management (ITM) refers to the management of traditional HR sub- functions (recruitment and selection, workforce planning, performance management, learning and development, reward and recognition and succession planning) in an integrated fashion to strategically leverage talent. An integrated talent management strategy must be […]

The Benefits of Making Choices

Jack Prot

Among the riddles, the hardest questions asked, making choices and settling down with a final decision seems to be the most challenging of all. As the act of making choices not only requires one to set aside various factors deemed important, one will also find it difficult to categorise and […]

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