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The biggest fulfilment in life is found around using your talent. Talent is simply a natural ability. Your God-giving talent can take you where your formal education cannot.

In the “Nurturing A World-Class Talent”, Rev. Albert Ocran addresses some of the major pointers to help one identifies his/her one talent. Based on research, he shares seven most common objections people raise when it comes to talent.

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Prof Audrey Gadzekpo is an Associate Professor and the Dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana. She has more than two decades of experience in teaching, research and advocacy on media, gender, and governance. She is an author, feminist, and a social advocator.

Rev. Albert Ocran hosted Audrey in April 2010 on Springboard, your Virtual University, and discussed the critical issues, shared power, and ethical considerations in mass communication as one communicates in an information age. She asserts that communication is a critical success factor for anyone desiring to succeed at the highest level in any field or career.

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Many people are making progress but they are not fulfilled because they compare themselves to others. There are keys to achievement and fulfilments. One of these keys is your ability to pay attention to the three traffic lights of your dreams.

In the “Achieving your dream”, Rev. Albert Ocran addresses the three signs one needs to take note to ensure you get to the high that you are dreaming about. What are the warning signs, the preparation steps and the immediate actions are the questions explore in explaining about the three traffic lights of your dreams. Rev. Albert Ocran adds that, in the cause of achieving your dream, you must pay very attention to these signs. A man who has a dream knows what to give up in order to go up

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Bernard Koku Avle is a Ghanaian media personality, broadcast journalist, public speaker. He is the current host of Citi FM's morning show The Citi Breakfast Show and the host of the Point Of View Show on Citi TV. In 2016 Bernard would campaign against illegal small scale mining also known as Galamsey which has been destroying Ghana's water bodies helping it become a national election issue.

In this presentation on “Creating the Future” delivered at the Springboard Road Show 2016, he highlights the fact that the most important unit of change is the individual. According to Bernard, change is not a product of time. He went on to outline three roles of an individual in creating the future including, developing leadership capacity, living base on values, and being patriotic.

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Prof Pikay Richardson is a visiting fellow of the Manchester Business School. He lectures MBA programs all over the world having travelled several continents. He is an author of several publications.

Rev. Albert and Comfort Ocran hosted Pikay in July 2009 on Springboard, your Virtual University, and discussed why the need to go global and how one can successfully go global. He names exporting, franchising, foreign direct investment, and strategic alliance as some of the strategies for going global.

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Broadcast Date: Monday, 20th April 2020

Topic: Ten Keys to Career Relevance Post 2020

Resource Person: Rev. Albert Ocran

Summary: As the world moves in the next couple of years, certain changes would make lives different from how it has been. The good news is there are some skills that can safeguard you from these changes.

In the “Ten Keys to Career Relevance Post 2020”, Rev. Albert Ocran addresses some of the major sources of disruption in our world like technology, massive localisation, jobless economy, and competition. For one to stay relevant, I share ten attributes to career relevance.

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This episode features playback of a

Springboard, your Virtual University, edition from May

2009 as part of our Talent and Skill Development series,

In this interview, Bishop James Saah draws from his

personal life and experience and intricately blends his

knowledge of leadership, governance, and ministry to

bring home important lessons to help listeners climb all

the way to the next level of their lives.

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In this episode, Comfort Ocran shares about

dreaming big dreams and taking steps to make them a

reality.

As you aspire for greater heights, Comfort recommends

the following steps to bring your dream to fruition:

1. Decide on what you want to do.

2. Carefully write them down.

3. Break your goals down into actionable steps.

4. Plan systematically.

5. Take that all-important first step, and

6. Keep going.

Many of us have a big dream - a compelling and audacious vision that transcends our current reality. However, we often encounter circumstances that challenge our thoughts and discourage our efforts.

In “Ten Objections your Dream will Encounter,” Rev Albert Ocran addresses some of the most common limitations to success, like the size of the dream, the risks involved, the fear of failure, and the big one, financial and material constraints. I also share how you can overrule these objections and keep climbing all the way to the top.