Your Business Matters

Guests:

Welcome to Your Business Matters, a podcast of EXIM Bank Jamaica where we bring thought leaders together on thought-provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business.

Hiring new employees can be daunting. As a result, employers usually make it easy on themselves by eliminating candidates with resumes who don't demonstrate a certain level of experience. Personality and interpersonal skills usually come into play at the time of the interview, if at all. When it comes to hiring employees, Business Daily states that much of it comes down to personality, but is that more heavily weighted than the employee’s skills? Many employers state that an employee who possesses both skills and personality is a rare find, one is usually more prominent than the other.

Virgin's Richard Branson in a post on LinkedIn stated "personality always wins over book smarts. Company knowledge and job-specific skills can be learned but you can't train a personality. Time and time again I've seen people with a background of broad-ranging employment and skills hired for a job where they don't necessarily tick the specialist criteria boxes, but become incredibly successful by offering a new level of understanding to the role. With this in mind, we focus on hiring people with transferable skills--team players who can pitch in and help others in all sorts of situations. It's important never to underestimate the power of versatility."

This week, we are joined by Javette Nixon, founder, and CEO of Point Global Marketing, and Kamal Brown CEO and Founder of Digital Global to dissect the topic ‘Hiring: Experience & Technical Qualification Vs. Personality and Potential’’

Some of what we discussed includes:

We also touched base with a member of our audience Ruth Taylor who posed the question “When you have two candidates with similar personality and experience what is your deciding factor?”

Connect with our guests:

Connect with Digita Global at @itsdigita on Instagram or email [email protected]  for products and services available to you  on all social media platforms and visit @pointgm on Instagram or email [email protected]

Thank you for joining us on Your Business Matters hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter of the Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Remember to join us next week for another exciting episode with our thought-provoking leaders as they debate thought-provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business and move closer to your goals.

To stay in touch, you can connect with us on your favorite podcast platforms at ‘Your Business Matters’ where we bring the matters to the table, or visit eximbankja.com for further information and business resources.

As you continue to mind your business, I leave with you this quote from Michelle Obama “Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.’’ Take care.

Guests:

Dr. Ike Johnson, co-founder and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Sygnus Group

David Mullings, Chairman and CEO of Blue Mahoe Capital Partners.

Welcome to Your Business Matters, a podcast of EXIM Bank Jamaica where we bring thought leaders together on thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business.

Mergers and acquisitions are key development and diversification strategies utilized by companies mainly for expansion purposes. It is not unusual to learn of two economically significant competitors merging ( for example, Gleaner and RJR) or the friendly but most often hostile takeover of a targeted company by another company or investor group.

The combination of two or more companies to form one new company is facilitated by a vertical or horizontal merger. A conglomerate merger brings together companies in unrelated business to reduce risk through diversification.

So, are mergers and acquisitions important to a company’s overall growth? Who benefits? Who loses?

This week, we are joined by Dr. Ike Johnson, co-founder and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at the Sygnus Group and David Mullings, Chairman and CEO of Blue Mahoe Capital Partners to dissect the topic ‘Mergers & Acquisition: Which is more Profitable?’

Some of what we discussed includes:

We also touched base with a member of our audience Jason Francis who posed the question “In the case of the developing economies such as the caribbean where capital resources are more limited and we are forced to manage resources effectively, to what extent will mergers and acquisitions be a catalyst to the region? ”

Connect with our guests:

Connect with sygnus group.com or email [email protected] for products and services available to you  on all social media platforms and visit bluemahoecapital.com or email [email protected]

Thank you for joining us on Your Business Matters hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter of the Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Remember to join us next week for another exciting episode with our thought-provoking leaders as they debate thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business and move closer towards your goals.

To stay in touch, you can  connect with us on your favorite podcast platforms at ‘Your Business Matters’ where we bring the matters to the table or visit eximbankja.com for further information and business resources.

As you continue to mind your business, I leave with you this quote from Winston Churchill “Failure is not final, success is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” Take care.

Guests:

Gavin Goffe, Partner at Myer, Fletcher & Gordon with responsibility for Employment, Litigation, Tax and Deformation.

Helene Davis-Whyte, President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions

Welcome to Your Business Matters, a podcast of EXIM Bank Jamaica where we bring thought leaders together on thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business.

In 2020, the prevalence of the outbreak of the Coronavirus over almost every region of the world, led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the disease a global pandemic. Every country, regardless of size or economic and military might, has been impacted by COVID 19. The death of millions, the disruption of families due to illness and the loss of livelihoods, broken health and social security systems have all served to undermine economies and derail development across the globe.

Vaccine hesitancy poses a dilemma for employers who need a healthy workforce and to reduce absences due to illness to improve productivity, employee morale and the bottomline. Can employers make COVID 19 vaccination mandatory for their employees?

This week, we are joined by Gavin Goffe,  Partner at Myer, Fletcher & Gordon with responsibility for Employment, Litigation, Tax and Deformation and Helene Davis White President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions to dissect the topic ‘Mandatory Vaccination: Implementing Vaccine Policies’.

Some of what we discussed include:

Connect with our guests:

Gavin Goffe via myersfletcher.com  on all social media platforms and follow up with Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions at [email protected] for further information on business loans and grant access available to you.

Thank you for joining us on Your Business Matters hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter of the Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Remember to join us next week for another exciting episode with our thought-provoking leaders as they debate thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business and move closer towards your goals.

To stay in touch, you can  connect with us on your favorite podcast platforms at ‘Your Business Matters’ where we bring the matters to the table or visit eximbankja.com for further information and business resources.

As you continue to mind your business, I leave with you this quote from Richard Branson “Business opportunities are like buses, there is always another one coming.” Take care.

Guests:

Lisa Bell, managing director of EXIM Bank Jamaica

Larren Peart, CEO of Bluedot Insights

Welcome to Your Business Matters, a podcast of EXIM Bank Jamaica where we bring thought leaders together on thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business.

All leaders regardless of sex and age have certain traits in common, for example, ambition and native intelligence. However, differences in the socialization of males and females and different ways of applying personal traits, result in different leadership styles and models of behavior.

How do we determine and measure who is the more effective leader- male or female- in any social setting?

This week, we are joined by Larren Peart, CEO of Bluedot Insights and Lisa Bell who is the Managing Director of EXIM Bank Jamaica to dissect the topic ‘Battle of the Sexes: Who is the More Effective Leader?’.

Some of what we discussed included:

We also touched base with a member of our audience Kiddist Cowans who posed the question “In the age where we are focusing on gender equality, do you think it's important to have a discussion on males versus females being better leaders?”

Connect with our guests:

Larren Peart via @BluedotInsights on all social media platforms and follow up with EXIM Bank Jamaica at eximbankja.com for further information on business loans and grant access available to you.

Thank you for joining us on Your Business Matters hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter of the Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Remember to join us next week for another exciting episode with our thought-provoking leaders as they debate thought provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business and move closer towards your goals.

To stay in touch, you can  connect with us on your favorite podcast platforms at ‘Your Business Matters’ where we bring the matters to the table or visit eximbankja.com for further information and business resources.

As you continue to mind your business, I leave with you this quote from Jack Welch “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself, when you become a leader success is about growing others.” Take care.

Welcome to EXIM Bank’s ‘Your Business Matters’. I am your host, Heneka-Watkis-Porter. We are excited to introduce you to our new podcast, where we are “Bringing Thought-Leaders together with thought-provoking ideas and methods on business matters to help grow your business.”

In each episode, guest experts in relevant business matters will join me in a debate and answer your questions as we break down pertinent topics relating to Mergers and acquisitions? Does gender have any bearings on who is better at the task? Should employers pay minimum wage versus based on qualification? Your Business Matters breaks it all down for you every Wednesday at 7 PM on your favourite podcast app. You have questions, and we are giving you answers.

I cannot wait for you to join in on the conversation during Your Business Matters, brought to you by EXIM Bank Jamaica in partnership with Heneka Watkis-Porter of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Please help us spread the word about this new and exciting show. Subscribe or follow on your favourite podcast app. Tell a friend to tell a friend and share the link once we go live! In the meantime visit us at eximbankja.com. See you soon.