Podcast! UNIT 37, Conduct 32, Self-Leadership and Being In Control! This unit focuses on self-leadership, a crucial skill for staying in command of your broadcasting and streaming. As we grow, we learn to become leaders. Being a leader is natural for some and learned for others. No matter how we become a leader, it is essential to remember that we must lead ourselves before we lead others. Take the time to motivate yourself and realise that you can do it. This conversation aims to understand self-leadership, motivate yourself, set goals, reward yourself when positive things happen, and think positively. Self-leadership involves working on yourself and developing your skills from the inside. A self-leader takes responsibility for their actions. A self-leader has the ability or has learned to have the ability to influence their thinking, behaviours, and feelings. This person guides themselves in positive ways and achieves personal success. Before becoming a self-leader, you must understand the steps involved in reaching that goal. Self-leaders are built from within. They work hard for what they want and even harder to keep it that way. Sources of self-leadership involve (a) Self-awareness: Knowing your intentions and values. Being aware of what can keep you from becoming a good leader. (b) Self-confidence: Knowing your strengths as well as your abilities. Taking actions to develop skills to build confidence. (c) Self-efficacy: Believing whatever comes your way is something that you can handle.

Learn to represent your listeners effectively through communication strategies. We communicate with others for the better part of every day. Whether it’s the speech you deliver in the boardroom, the level of attention you give your spouse when they are talking to you, or the look you give the cat, it all means something. The communication strategies conversation will help participants understand the different methods of communication and how to make the most of them. These strategies will provide an excellent benefit for any organisation and its employees. They will trickle down throughout the organisation and positively impact everyone involved. The conversation objectives are to understand what communication is, identify ways that communication can happen, identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them, develop non-verbal and para-verbal communication skills, use the STAR method to speak on the spot, listen actively and effectively, ask good questions, use Appreciative Inquiry as a communication tool, adeptly converse and network with others, identify and mitigate precipitating factors, and establish common ground with others. “Communication is the only way to form a genuine connection”, John C. Maxwell.

PODCAST! We are in conversation with Ms Zinhle Marrengane, Lecturer and WIL Coordinator, Biotechnology and Chemistry, at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT). Zinhle shares with the listeners her childhood and basic education perspectives, her transitional experiences from high school to university to the world of work, her professional growth to date, her current work environment and challenges and opportunities, and most importantly, her future professional aspirations from her career development and management perspectives. This monthly show is the initiative of the VUT Co-operative Education Under The Centre for Academic Development in partnership with COMETSA Friends & Supporters Club NPO, www.CometsaMember.Com. It airs live on the last Wednesday of the month from 18h00 to 19h00 (CAT, SAST), except in December and January, via Podbean Business Platform. For easy access to our station, you must download Podbean App, register and follow COMETSA Radio Worldwide (CRW) to receive notification when we go live. To listen to previous episodes of the show check our INSIGHTS Online Podcast (IOP), www.InsightsOnlinePodcast.Com. The INSIGHTS Online Podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Podbean App, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio, Player FM, Listen Notes, Samsung Podcasts, and Boomplay.