Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative (KLCI)

Partnership is key to ensuring sustainable development and doing more with less.  Today we took a step forward in our mentorship program and we worked with Kehinde Oloriade Mentorship Academy to mentor students of the Baptist Academy, Obanikoro, Lagos.  After the general sessions on Leadership and Career Development. We had a group mentoring session with the kids based on their area of interest and Strength.  The groups were;  ICT and Tech Health and Medicine Business and Entrepreneurship Creative and Engineering.  Each group had at least a mentor to offer Guidance and Counselling.  It was indeed a great one. We were able to promote collaboration between the students and help them have a goal in mind.  We look forward to future partnership.  Thank you Kehinde Oloriade Mentorship Academy (KOMA) for the opportunity.

In our last class Career Planning 103, we took our participants through on how to create a Personal Mission Statement and part of the requirements is to enter a personal mission statement challenge.  We had four entries for the challenge and we are pleased to announce the winner.  Congratulations Barakat Adepeju for winning the Personal Mission Statement Challenge.  Here is her mission statement;  "To see a corrupt free Nigeria and a situation where vices are reduced to its minimal through counseling and mentoring young leaders." (Adepeju Barakat) At KLCA, we are committed to building and liberating young leaders in the society.  KLCA liberating the leader in you.

One of our facilitator "Kayode Alabi" had a questioning and answering sessions with Kings College Boys Lagos, and we will share two of the questions and his responses to them.   A boy asked, I think I am good at many things and have many dreams, how do I choose the one I can do best and focus?  Response: After this session, get a pen and a paper. Write down your dream list, all the thing you want to achieve inclusive those things you are good at.  Write anything you can imagine. Then  now classify the list into group A, B, C.  A should contain the most important  dreams; B should contain second most important while C should be the least important.  After doing this, now go back to the A group and arrange your most important dream in order of priority…1, 2, 3… The dream that come first in the A group is your purpose and that’s what you have to give your all and ensure you achieve it, because it will lead t...

Today we were at Jobams International Schools, Ketu, Lagos State for our career symposium and mentorship program. Dr. Kehinde Oloriade talk to the students on Leadership. Gave them tips on goal settings and how they can go about implementing the goals. Mr Adedeji, currently a CYFI Fellow, shared with the students on how tech can be used to drive the Entrepreneurship world. The students were also educated on character development. They were educated on how they can build strong values to achieve their dreams. After the general session, we had a one one coaching and group mentoring session. We were amazed by the results we get from the students. At KLCA, we are geared towards understanding students needs and helping them to meet their career needs through Counselling. KLCA...liberating the leader in you!

Reports on the 3 Fridays Career Symposia and Mentorship Program!  Many young people in the African Community find it difficult to discover purpose and forge trajectory for their lives. This geared us towards helping young people to have a goal in mind.  Through one on one coaching, group mentoring and general sessions over 500 high school students were reached.  We cut across all classes from J.S.S 1 - S.S.S 3.  No of students; JSS 1 and 2 = 162 Age range: 8- 16 years JSS 3 and SSS 1= 203 Age Range: 12- 17 years  SSS 2 and SSS 3= 137 Age Range: 13 - 19 years. Total no of students reached= 502 Age Range= 8 - 19 years We share talks on Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Character Training.  We involved about 8 Volunteers and we have different facilitators taking different sessions of the program.  Monitoring and Evaluation is one of the core of our programs at KLCA.  As promised, we said we would ...

Racheal Balogun shared with the students on how they can lead themselves and help others. She said, "the young ones among us are often called ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. While that is true, another truth is if they do not start leading from today they may never get the chance to lead tomorrow." Leadership is influencing, motivating, guiding and directing people towards achieving a common goal. However, to successfully lead people, you must have led yourself. This brings me to say there are two types of leadership: Self Leadership and People Leadership. Self Leadership is knowing who you are, your values and purpose and then pushing and motivating yourself everyday to achieve that purpose. Self leadership precedes People leadership because it builds capacity in a person to effectively lead others. You must have experienced some private victories with yourself before leading people to achieving success. We all need leadership because it helps us have good lives. Self leaders...

We just concluded the first batch of the career symposiums and mentorship program for over 200 high school students in three Fridays. Over 130 were reached so far.  Students between the age of 13 - 19 were reached.