Baranaye Marcus

Baranaye Marcus

My life passion has been to contribute to sustainable peace-building efforts especially, in Nigeria and across the world.

Location Abuja, Nigeria

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    What kind of job would you like?

    I would like to work in the creative industry

    I enjoy working with people

    I would prefer not to work in a conflict laden environment

    I do not mind working extra hours

    I do not want to receive badly written reports.

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    What do you like doing?

    I am good at writing and cooking. I enjoy writing and making analytic briefs.

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    How could they improve?

    Good deck - he could have made an introduction of himself to the audience to better connect with them.

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    Case study: A live presentation

    For me, the two most important things from Jennifer's feedback to Ross are to breathe and to ensure that the deck does supports your content not taking away the attention of the audience from your presentation but supporting your presentation.

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    Body language

    The advice not to stand behind the podium but in front of the deck is a real good one for me.

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    Preparing for your presentation

    The suggestions by Jennifer are essential for a successful presentation.

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    Your experience

    It was great and is a very good calming technique.

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    How the slides work for you

    I am in agreement to all.

  • Baranaye Marcus replied to Carla Longa
    Write your story

    @CarlaLonga This is a fine story using the building blocks of a story quite well.

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    How would you like to tell stories?

    I am familiar with the first three storytelling techniques. I can now identify the storytelling techniques wherever they are presented.

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    Who's a great speaker?

    Speakers who inspire me include Joel Osteen, Sanusi Lamido, Nelson Mandela (all-time favourite), Chimamanda Adichie.

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    Introduce yourself

    Hi, I am happy to have found and joined this course! I wish to improve my presentation skill especially the art of capturing an audience with great slides.

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    Conflict and its potential sources

    I have experienced aggravated conflict in projects - mapping below:
    Parties: Team Leader, Project Manager, Project Staff
    Goals: Schedules, priorities, Knowledgebase
    Authority: Technical and administrative
    Interpersonal: Personality

    It can be soul-draining to walk around eggshells when in such a team and causes staff flight.

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    Multiple team membership

    I do not work in multiple projects though I have concurrently worked on multiple activities while on a project - I prefer keeping it to no more than 3 to avoid fragmentation. The advantage of this is that I am not easily bored as I work on each task which lessens boredom.

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    Identifying the costs of quality in a project

    One thing in projects is learning never to compromise on quality due to time constraint or budget.

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    What is quality?

    Quality should be considered from the beginning of the project.

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    Developing the project team

    Tasks assigned to less experienced team members in my experience turns out as a learning moment for the less experienced team member when he/she is paired with a team member more experienced and they work as a team to deliver on the task.

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    What is a project team?

    Great team leaders who believed in diversity, inclusion,
    effective communication and collaboration.

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    Apply what you’ve learned

    I would consider applying both methods to various project activities to which they are best suited.

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    The challenges for projects

    Those within the Project Manager's control are Project Planning and Review, Competent Project Teams, Appropriate Standards, Proven Methods and Tools.

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    Complexity and ambiguity

    Having just learnt about VUCA, I find it very interesting. In the organization I work, we use a risk analysis template. Having learnt about the VUCA framework is an added asset to me in my Project Management work.

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    Acting ethically

    I have tried severally but the PDF document is not opening. Please is anyone having this same challenge?

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    The scope of ethics in projects

    The organization I work for values integrity, accountability, transparency, professionalism, mutual respect, and results orientation (through principled performance; these values are in the core of all the work we do.

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    Getting to know you

    Hello, I live and work in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The reason I joined this course is to get a better mastery at writing as that is effectively what I do at work on a daily basis.

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    Comparing country data

    The key factor affecting the difference between these countries is governance. With bad/poor governance in a majority of the African countries comes corruption, and bad policies made to favour only the political elite.

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    What do you think?

    Yes, I believe there is a right to development. In every region (even in Sub-Saharan Africa), citizens pay tax and these monies should be used to develop the respective countries while new governments when elected in office should build upon the work of the previous government.

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    Your definitions of sustainable development

    Continuous progress in all spheres of life, Growth

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    Human Development Tree
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    What is trending about development this week?

    Currently trending over the media in Nigeria (radio and TV) is the spread of Lassa fever, and much talk about zika virus with advise on how to stay safe from both diseases. Also trending is the news about African Union (AU) wanting to leave the ICC (on TV) and researching further on this, I found some news item about it online...

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    Segregation and linguistic diversity

    Writing in your mother tongue is a thing of pride and so is speaking in your mother tongue. You know you have a root somewhere. The global language has no depth...my mother tongue has a depth that cannot be explained in the global language as it literally loses its meaning if translated to the global language.

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    Popular definitions of development

    Effective and efficient use of available resources

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    Your definitions of development

    Sustainable growth be it infrastructures, economic, and social growth affecting all areas of society.

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    What words do you associate with sub-Saharan Africa?

    bad/poor leadership

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    Getting to know the course leader and introducing yourself

    Hello Everyone,
    Greetings from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I work in the development sector and hold an MSc in Sociology of Development. I am interested in this course to broaden my knowledge of development issues across Sub-Saharan Africa and why some countries within this region are doing relatively well while others are struggling, and what can be done by...