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| The Strategist |
For
those who follow personal development coaches and speakers on
social media especially the whole gamut of
or any of the those that Avance Media classified as the most influential young
Nigeria in Personal development and academia in 2016, then the name, Victor Onyekere Dinachi
aka The Strategist would not be unknown. Victor also known as the strategist “helps
individuals to become productive, growing their excellence and increasing their
value.”
He is the founder of
Love Care Community and a content creator at 9jasound.com. He studied Public
Health Education at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria. Commune Magazine asked the ever busy life productivity speaker and Strategist to put
in perspective everything about value as part of our 2017 Developmental series.
What is a value?
Value is the worth of anything. It is the significance that a
particular person or a thing carries. It can be tangible or intangible.
What is so special about value?
Importance or significance is what makes value what it is. When
something or someone is no longer considered as important or significant, it
invariably means that the value has dropped.
What happens if there is no Value?
The strength and the attention that anybody or anything will generate
is a measure of its significance, relevance and usefulness. When there is no
value, there will be no attraction and attention. Even money follows and
responds to the direction of value. If there is no value, what we have is
nuisance
How can a person add value to him/herself?
First, by crafting out his/her personal mission statement so as to
know where he/she is heading in life. Then he/she will know what type of value
to pursue. Not every VALUE is Valuable to an individual; I will be sharing this
in my ONLINE PRODUCTIVITY WEBINAR
this February. Once an individual has decided where they are headed, the next
thing is to begin to look out for things within that specified area that will
make them better in their chosen path.
Is a business values different from personal values?
To an extent, yes. As a business, you must decide what will guide
your core operational activities. However, most times your personal core values
are reflected in your business especially if you own the business. What you are
as a person will flow into your business. A dishonest individual may be
considered a clown when he says, “INTEGRITY
is one of my business values.” This is largely because you are the business.
How you live your life will reflect in your business. However, you must learn
to separate your business from you if you want it to go global, which is why I
began by responding “To an extent’’
How can we measure or recognize value?
Value is measured and recognized by relevance, worth and
significance. Also, impact is another metrics of measuring value. We can look
at Facebook today and say that it is of High Value because of the impact it has
generated over the years.
What is the difference between value and packaging?
Value is not packaging and Packaging is not value either. The
value of anything is known by the impact it is able to generate. If you package
something of no value, it will not be too long before people will begin to
disassociate from that thing because its true worth will be finally unveiled
behind the packaging. It is better to generate value first and then properly
package it. I totally support packaging as I am into Brand Consulting, but I am
totally against packaging Nuisance (something of less value or no value at
all). Packaging may attract Customers
and Clients, but what retains them is Value.
How do we start to build or develop value?
I think I have answered this in my previous answer or so. Anyways,
first thing is to Define what you want, stay focused on it, be consistent. It
is better to be consistently doing small things than doing big things
inconsistently. Value is not built over night at least I did not build mine
overnight. Anything built overnight will vanish overnight. REAL Value takes
REAL Work.
What will be your advice for small business owners concerning value?
If you are a small business owner, take your focus off money. It
will drain your Brand. Focus on creating value. As long as you keep up with
value, money will respond to it. Value is a Money attraction TOOL. Money will
always respond and to the direction of value.
What do you do?
That is like a CAMBRIDGE question. I help passionate individuals
gain clarity, adjust behavior, achieve productivity and delivering excellent
result to increase their value in their chosen path. I do this via my
mentoring, coaching and speaking platforms both online and offline. You can
refer to me as The Clarity Assistant and Productivity Partner. Though, I am
fondly called THE STRATEGIST.
What
is Love Care Community?
Love Care Community is a Social Enterprise which I started in April
2014 in my 300 Level in the University. We are focused on creating an
environment and a platform where young individuals can leverage on in order to
achieve success and excellence. We do this through Mind Reformation and Mind
Strengthening programmes. We are keenly interested and directly involved in
Human Capacity Development.
What is your past
experience like?
Starting a non-profit organization is a REAL
WORK. It is not like your regular 9 to 5 work, it is practically an all-round-the-clock
work. The likes of Raquel JACOBS, Lola ODENIYI, and Prince Olarewaju can all
testify to this. As the visionary, you have got to be the Director, the
Programme Coordinator, the Social Media Manager, the Advocacy Manager; I mean
you have to do practically everything till your work is able to generate
attention. It is being really tough I must say, starting and still growing
after 2 years. We have gained presence in 4 schools with our Student Leadership Summit Training
Programme specially designed for the School Prefects. I remembered when we sent
a letter to the Lagos State Ministry of Education; it took quite some time to
get a response only for us to be turned down. That did not stop our work. It is
been an experience of continuous learning and having interaction with different
kinds of people. Presently we have about 7 Programme Facilitators and 7
Volunteers working with us.
What are the services you
offer?
We run two programmes at the moment; The Student Leadership Summit
Training Programme (SLSTP) and The Entrepreneurship and Skill Acquisition
Programme (TESP). We will be launching two new programmes this year; High school
2 College Programme (HCP) and College 2 Workplace Programme (CWP). Our Target
audience is young individuals between the ages of 15-30 years.
Who are your clients?
On a personal level, a percentage of my clients are passionate
individuals who are ready to achieve productivity and move to the next level
but are not sure how they will do that. Another percentage are those in need of
Telemarketing services, Brand consulting and Staff training.
How do you help your clients?
I help them through coaching, mentoring and training. I also host
training sessions and classes.
What
is your advice for people on value?
I am not going go around the bush on this one. I will just hit it
hard. For you to be a person of value, you have to build a strong value system.
You can’t deploy value you have not generated. Increase your capacity to
generate maximum value.
What projects are you working on presently?
Speaking about my on-going project, I launched a platform last
year which is centered on Nation Building, The Young Leaders Connect Conference.
This is rationale behind the opening of that platform; I am an active NATION
BUILDER. I am very much interested in Leadership.
According to the National Baseline Youth Survey
(2012), the population of youths (15-35 years) in Nigeria was estimated to be 64
million where female were 51.6 percent and male were 48.4 percent. This
invariably means that Nigeria has a great potential of becoming an undoubtedly
great nation. However, great nations are built by great leaders and Leadership
is simply a mentality of an assumed responsibility.
Unfortunately, the future of Nigeria is not yet
ready to take Nigeria to the next level. Whenever God wants to transform a
nation, he uses leaders. We may not get to the next level as a nation when we
have not created and built leaders that will undertake that transitioning
process. We also don’t just need leaders but we need leaders of excellence
across every sector. Transformation of any kind starts with Mind Reformation
and Renewal as clearly seen in Rom. 12:2.
This largely means that only a renewed mind can bring about transformation
at any level. At the Young Leaders Connect Conference, we shall speak words
that will renew minds and reposition lives.
The Young Leaders Connect Conference is an annual Nation building event which is set to
premier this year in Delta State. YLCC seeks to gather young and highly
motivated individuals annually to critically talk about matters of leadership
going back to its basics and root as it relates to national development and
transformation. It also serves as a platform to connect leaders across diverse
industries with other leaders for collaboration and co-creation and to link up
emerging leaders with established leaders for mentoring, coaching and training.
The Young Leaders Connect Conference is out to build strategic, principled and excellent leaders
across diverse industries. This year’s event will focus on the theme: ‘’REPOSITIONED
TO LEAD’’ which will be happening in March.
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