Dear Friend Our letter this month is written by Midge Hilton-Green presently Headmaster of Bishops Prep school in Cape Town and co-founder of the Ka-Ching! Business parenting course. Midge agrees that not everyone is an entrepreneur, but anyone who considers entering formal employment can benefit from developing 'intra-preneur' skills and attributes. These characteristics can help employees be more effective in the work environment. 'Way back in the 80's I attended a school speech Day and the guest speaker was Mike Sander, at that stage CEO of AECI. August 10, 2007: Issue 24 Developing intra-preneur skills from a young age. Earn Money Selling Ka-Ching! Visit Our Newsroom for latest articles Tell Us What You Think! He had a message for the school leavers and the message was simply about "the TEN things that businesses look for when interviewing prospective employees". This topic captivated the audience and myself because there had been much publicity around unemployment and the fact that less than 10% of school leavers were likely to find employment in the formal sector and, worse still, less than 40% of tertiary graduates were likely to find employment in the formal sector!' 'Being the head of a Primary school at the time and keen to provide as much added value for the pupils in my school that I possibly could, I was keen not to miss any important points. As I was an invited guest I did not feel it would be respectful to get a pen out of my jacket and start scribbling down everything that was about to be said, so I fell back on something that I had been teaching our Grade 6 pupils during the previous few weeks. What saved me that day was one of the Tony Buzan Memory Systems which is available in the Ka-Ching! manual. I had been fascinated by his ideas at this stage in my life and had been passing them onto my pupils, but I had not yet tried them out for myself and certainly not in a situation such as a formal Speech Day. It certainly focussed my attention! At the outset, I decided to use the Number/Rhyme system – the easiest one to learn. At the end of the 2 hour function, I raced back to my office, opened a foolscap pad and started jotting down what I had remembered. Here they are – still as clear in my mind as they were 27 years ago. The ten attributes that businesses look for when employing people are: Leadership Teamwork Problem solving skills Interpersonal Relations Drive and Determination Specific skills Honesty and Integrity Communication skills Open Mindedness Thinking skills The skills I used on that day to recall the important speech that was made, can be found in the Success Skills section of the manual, as well as the original images in that system to recall the above ten characteristics – forwards (1 to 10) or backwards (10 to 1) or randomly! Turn to your manual now and try them out – I give you my word that you will use them for the rest of your life. I have taught my wife this system and hardly a week goes by without her bragging to me in the morning about how she woke in the middle of the night with worries clouding her mind and how she was able to apply the system and then fall asleep knowing that she would wake in the morning and recall every issue that was a problem to her all this without pencil or paper and all in the dark! To this day we both use they system regularly, not only during the night, but when we are driving long distances and often when we have to prepare speeches at short notice and cannot use pencil and paper! This is just one of the many tools we cover, but I hope that you have explored the Ka-Ching! manual with your sons and daughters and made use of this brilliant tool – you certainly will not regret it.' Midge Hilton-Green P.S. You can comment on this story on the Ka-Ching! Blog. Some of the July highlights: - Western Province Prep School - Wetpups recently introduced the Ka-Ching! School's Programme. Follow this story on the Ka-Ching! Blog. - The Ka-Ching! Foundation helped out a NPO called Ikamva Youth, and approximately 150 grade 10 to 12 learners from Khayelitsha and Nyanga to enter tertiary institutions, you can follow this story here. Comment on the Ikamva Youth story on the Ka-Ching! Blog. - Read some more feedback from Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta USA. Follow this interesting story from the weeklong Ka-Ching! Entrepreneurship course on the Ka-Ching! Blog. - Broadhurst Primary, Botswana awarded their first Ka-Ching! Certificates to a group of budding young entrepreneurs - Click here to add your feedback. - We will never lose sight of our original focus of encouraging parents to play a more active role in their children's education, the Ka-Ching! School's Programme is receiving tremendous interest. The comprehensive Ka-Ching! Teacher's Guide, has allowed the programme to be used at schools. By involving parents in homework exercises, learners have even greater chance of learning vital financial awareness and business skills. We continue to be most encouraged, with these positive signs from families learning together. Here is some feedback I am repeating for the absolute last time from the independent research completed back in 2005: Case study: "Lindsay has two children - Pumla and Bongi, aged 8 and 5 respectively. It has always been a struggle for Lindsay to get the children to do their daily chores and it is difficult for her to enforce these as she works long hours. Through the Ka-Ching! programme, Lindsay has implemented a Do-It-Daily Pocket Money System. Every morning Lindsay leaves a list on the fridge of chores that Pumla and Bongi must complete that day and checks that they are done when she gets home in the evening. Payment is only given if each and every one of the chores is completed. She has been astounded by the results: her children seldom slip up on their chores these days, because they know that there is a reward in it for them. This has also helped her children develop a sense of responsibility." Impact Consulting, 1 July 2005 EARN MONEY SELLING KA-CHING! How this works is that in return for referring potential buyers to our site we will pay you $45 for each sale made under your exclusive affiliate number, plus $15 for each of your sub-affiliate sales that are made. To do this you have to become a Ka-Ching! Affiliate As a Ka-Ching! affiliate, you have unlimited access to a secure, password-protected affiliate account site. 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