Mindset id a requisite for success. How you design your thinking will revolutionize your ability to think optimal and not just better.

Mindset Episode 1

This weeks episode is up. In this podcast I discuss woman in business, the mindset of woman in business and the importance of woman in business. I share views of woman in business and the mindset in which woman use create to achieve success.

Mindset Month

Mindset Episode 2 - Women in Business

In this episode of Gareth Talks I have a chat to Natasha Sutherland and her team from The Creativity Lab about women in business. This women only team is a collective of a remarkable story of resilience and success.

Mindset Episode 3 - Natasha Sutherland

In this episode I introduce the new topic for September, Leadership Month. I discuss what leadership is and how gaining a title doesn't make you a leader. Leadership is a value and a trait that will create belief and motivation into the vision of what we are trying to achieve.

Leadership Month - Introduction

In this episode of Gareth Talks, I discuss empathy in leadership, the importance of a leader to have empathy and the ability of leader to inspire through empathy. Empathy is one of the fundamental traits in distinguishing between a manager and a leader.

Leadership Episode 2 - Empathy

In this episode I had the privilege of catching up with one of the worlds leading CEO's on leadership, Dushyant Savadia. We discussed his company Amber Connect, how it started, his youth and how that has shaped the core belief structures at Amber Connect. 

Please feel free to joint the conversation and leave your comment.

Leadership Month - Dushyant Savadia

In this podcast we explore the current trends in marketing. We start off with a brief understanding of what marketing is and what it comprises of. There are some insightful trends that are spoken about and will give you a good idea into each. 

Leave your comments and join in on the conversation.

Marketing Month Episode 1 - Marketing Trends

In this episode I interview Dushyant Savadia on marketing his products. Dushyant is one of the worlds leading entrepreneurs. 

Dushyant shares his views on the need to solve the problem of a customer, tailor-making your communication to the relivant market, how technology is connecting people to product, product to people and likeminded people to each other and the use of your network to grow your marketing message.

Go to www.garethtalks.com and join in on the conversation.

Marketing Month Episode 2 - Dushyant Savadia

In this episode we are going to discuss Consumer Generated Marketing also known as Consumer Generated Content, crowdsourcing and Co Creation. Companies are realizing that the best way to market to new customers is to use their current customers' feedback and opinions. 

Marketing is forever-changing, especially with the increased use of technology, such as social media, by consumers. Companies are finding that using their customers' presence on social media can be an effective way to market their products and services in this environment. Consumer-generated marketing (CGM) is an affordable marketing strategy that uses customer-created material and feedback, such as user-created content and reviews. The major advantages of this type of marketing are that it is affordable and can be created quickly. But there are also some drawbacks, such as the lack of control over and the relative rawness of this type of marketing.

Marketing Month Episode 3 - Consumer Generated Marketing

In the 1st episode of Motivation Month, we look at how to effectively motivate your team. It is vital to the productivity of your organisation or of your department that you have a dedicated and motivated team. This more so than not is a responsibility of the leadership core of the organisation or department to instill in the team. 

In this episode of Motivation Month, we discuss 9 important points to ensure that your team are motivated and engaged in the vision and mission of the organisation. Always remember that a happy staff is a productive staff. If you have an unhappy staff then this is saying something.

Motivation Month Episode 1 - Motivating Your Team

Welcome to this week’s episode of Gareth Talks, I am Gareth Cameron. This is motivation month and in this episode we are going to discuss the importance of self-motivation. 

The best kind of motivation is self-motivation.

You might not be intimately familiar with the term “self-motivation” but you almost certainly know this to be true.

Self-motivation is a key life skill and something that everybody interested in personal development should think carefully about. It is also a key part of emotional intelligence, one of the three areas of personal skills that are integral to the concept.

So we ask ourselves what is Motivation? Motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel more fulfilled and improve overall quality of life.

Motivation Month Episode 2 - Self Motivation

I briefly raised this topic last year and I will touch on it again now before getting into the meat of the episode. Whilst doing my MBA I came up with the theory of starting with the end in mind. There are 2 types of people, in one hand you get the doers, plodders and grinders, in the other you get the innovators and inventors. There is only 1 fundamental difference between them and that is the way that they think. The doers, plodders and grinders are looking back at how things were done before and think how do I better it? Whereas the innovators and inventors are starting with the end in mind and say how do I get there? 

Therefore with this theme, my intension is to ensure that every episode will give insight into the need of today’s day and age to start with the end in mind. I would also like to discuss real topics and break them down into scenarios where we can discuss the outcomes. These discussions may extend beyond 1 episode however the point will be to continuously grow the mindset of starting with the end in mind.

Gareth Talks Is Back

Perspective is the way individuals see the world. It comes from their personal point of view and is shaped by life experiences, values, their current state of mind, the assumptions they bring into a situation, and a whole lot of other things.

Gareth Talks - Perspective

Schooling, society, history and the way that we do it here, are all catalysts for giving us blinkers. We are taught to do things one way, we are trained to think one way and we are expected to execute in this manner. I am sure that we can all agree that yes there are fundamental skills that we need to learn that form  the basis of all business practice like accounting and the law. My worry for a lot of businesses or rather industries is the lack of change, the lack of innovation and the lack of thinking outside the box.

Thinking Outside The Box

This episode is titled “Jack of All Trades, Master of None”. 
For some reason or other this phrase has come up a lot over the last 2 weeks, either in discussion, implied or metaphorically through circumstance. This is why I have decided to speak about it.

I learnt a valuable lesson over the last few weeks and I have preached this to friends and colleagues before, you cannot do everything. Even the most successful businessmen and woman have people around them that know more in the respective disciplines. A combination of skills is vital to the success of a project.

Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None

The topic is the Millennial Problem. 

This for me is possibly the most dynamic behavioural shift in humanity, professionalism and engagement. There are 2 sides to this story and both have their benefits, both have their truths but 1 for me is not starting with the end in mind. 2 vastly different ways of thinking and I am not convinced that either is wrong or right.

It's A Millennial Problem Or Is It

As millennials continue to join the workforce in droves, companies must be ready to work with these young people, whose values differ greatly from their generational predecessors. In order to maintain employee retention and productivity while improving company services, businesses must understand the importance of the millennial generation workforce.

Understanding Millennials

Millennials have entered a professional world where their realities are wildly different from the ones Boomers knew. They prioritize things that don’t make sense to Boomers because their environment has different demands.

For example, Millennials expect to be fired or let go regularly, so they want work that is directly in line with their own career equity, which are the skills and experiences that help them improve their career prospects. They know their time is limited, so they don’t invest in doing things outside their own path. Boomers, however, are used to working hard for a company in exchange for long-term investment in skills development and for security, like a retirement fund or pension.
But employment security and long-term investment no longer exist in the modern working world.

Millenials Are Here To Stay

Get to work with purpose, do your work with purpose, attack every lead with purpose, interact with your peers, colleagues and customer with purpose. A clear purpose turns individuals into teams and ideas into action.⁣

To get, or stay, on top, requires balancing stability and change. Success is rooted in the ability to organize and evolve at the same time. A winning strategy creates that balance.⁣

But too many well-conceived strategies don’t happen. That’s because they lack a valid purpose. Without a purpose alignment is impossible and results don’t happen.

Live With Purpose

The first step in solving a problem is to identify that there is one.

I’m tired and I am sure that you are too. I have been listening to and reading the terrible things that are going on daily. On Monday night I took a screen grab of the first 10 stories on News24: Kidnapping, Murder, Corruption, State Capture and looting. That is our reality currently.

Here is my view on a few things. This episode is a little different and I am sure controversial. What I say here is without prejudice, with no intent to create divides are any racial connotations. The views in this episode are of Gareth Talks and not of any other institution or platform that I may represent.

South Africa - The First Step In Solving A Problem is Identifying That There Is One

This episode is titled "When Connections are Right". This is quite a cool topic to start off the year, because it is about networking, meeting people, adding to society and finding personal growth in relationships.

When Connections are Right

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