INSIGHTS Online Podcast

Unit 40, Conduct 35, Personal Productivity, Checking Out and Closure

PODCAST! Unit 40, Conduct 35: Personal Productivity – Checking Out and Closure! COMETSA Radio Worldwide (CRW) is signing off from 2024, closing the Digital Online Streaming Mastery Series with purpose, gratitude, and a vision for the future. You may listen to the entire 2024 series, from Unit 1 to Unit 40 at https://www.InsightsOnlinePodcast.Com. We promise you a masterful continuous professional development series in 2025 by our three Global Online Channels (GoC): COMETSA Radio Worldwide (CRW), COMETSA Television Network (CTN), COMETSA Podcasting Network (CPN), and INSIGHTS Online Podcasting (IOP). Our shows are based on the principle called The IDEA! We I = Inform & Entertain! D = Develop & Educate! E = Empower & Support! A = Associate & Network! That’s The IDEA! COMETSA Global Online Channels (GoC)! The MIND! The JOURNEY! The DESTINY! We apply our MIND to the JOURNEY that takes us to our DESTINY! Apply for membership online with COMETSA Membership Club at www.CometsaMember.Com and join our life-long learning journey. Contribute to our Human, Organisational and Community (HOC) Development agenda at www.CometsaDevelopment.Africa

Unit 39, Conduct 34, Critical Thinking In Sourcing Themes

PODCAST! Unit 39, Conduct 34, Critical Thinking in Sourcing Themes! Critical thinking is a questioning approach to form a judgment or conclusion. It encourages reflective and independent thinking to guide us through the hundreds of decisions we make weekly. These skills give you the best chance of making an informed decision. Everything and anything can be a subject of question with critical thinking. In this podcast defined critical thinking, simplified critical thinking process, identified the role of logic and reasoning, recognized the benefits and barriers to critical thinking, identified characteristics of a critical thinker, discussed how to evaluate information using critical thinking skills, recognized ways to improve critical thinking skills, how to explore and revise perspective when necessary, and comprehend problem-solving abilities. 
 
We recommend this audiobook, Critical Thinking Mastery: Transform Your Mindset for Ultimate Personal Growth (Audiobook); https://youtu.be/XFLcHOA-Q0g?si=jimdisrkCp0__rGu to learn more about Critical Thinking and the Process. 
 

Unit 38, Conduct 33, Time Management

PODCAST, Unit 38, Conduct 33, Time Management (by Creating and Maximising the Power of Your Productivity Journal): Time management requires focus and conscious planning to help regain control of your busy day and conquer financial goals. Challenges are often presented in the workplace, affecting our ability to use our time optimistically. However, with the help of prioritisation, goal-setting and appropriate organisation of the mind and space around us, we can overcome time management barriers. A productivity journal is a valuable tool to assist you in conquering your goals. This journal will include the tasks and associated steps you need to take throughout the day to ensure that your goal is completed. 

In Conversation with Saneliso Mavuka, VUT FM Content Manager

PODCAST! We welcomed Saneliso Mavuka, Radio Content Manager at the VUT FM and alumnus of the Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Programme of the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), to our VUT Student Academic Development Support & Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Show, live at COMETSA Radio Worldwide (CRW) on Wednesday, the 20th of November 2024, at 18h00 - 19h00 (CAT; SAST). 
 
Saneliso inspires us with the beautiful milestones of her professional development and growth since she became a Radio Content Coordinator at VUT FM. 
 
Her current work environment at VUT FM is linked to her professional growth. She has developed techniques for contributing to the work and university cultures and their progressive development. 
 
We are motivated by Saneliso’s future personal and professional desires. 

Unit 37, Conduct 32, Self-Leadership and Being In Control!

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.

Unit 36, Conduct 31, Communication Strategies, Serving Interests of Listeners

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.

Honouring VUT Lecturer & WIL Coordinator, Ms Zinhle Marrengane

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.

Unit 35, Conduct 30, News and Media Mastery

POCAST! UNIT 35, Conduct 30, News and Media Mastery! as the focus of the conversation at COMETSA Radio Worldwide (CRW) with the resident co-hosts of this weekly Digital Online Streaming Mastery Show, on Tuesday, the 29th of October 2024, at 19h00 - 20h30 (CAT; SAST). Becoming adept in media and public relations to enhance your brand as a professional is critical. Dive into PR strategies in media and public relations, which are the most successful methods of communicating your value to those around you. Furthermore, good networking skills enable you to tap into those relationships you already have and increase the scope of your network. The larger the scope, the more people know you and offer you opportunities. The objectives of this conversation are networking for success, managing “meet and greet” opportunities, dressing for success, writing effectively, setting goals, managing media relations, planning issue and crisis communication, using social media, and delivering effective employee communication. 

Unit 34, Conduct 29, MENTORING - Meetings and Guest Briefing Management

PODCAST! Master the art of meeting management to hold practical briefings with your guests. From this conversation, you will learn planning and leading techniques that will give you the confidence to run a meeting that will engage the attendees and leave a positive and lasting impression. In short, we are addressing the following objectives: planning and preparing, identifying the participants, choosing the time and place, creating the agenda, setting up the meeting space, incorporating your electronic options, meeting roles and responsibilities, using an agenda, chairing a meeting, how to deal with disruptions, professionally dealing with personality conflicts, taking minutes, and making the most of your meeting using games, activities and prices.
Scenario: You are working on your first project and have to organise and manage the project kick-off meeting. What do you do first? Do you create the agenda or the invitation list? How do you run a meeting? What preparation do you need? All of these are valid and real questions you must address as the meeting manager. There is no doubt about it; meetings require skill and technique to achieve their purpose. Disorganised and poorly managed meetings waste time and hurt your credibility as a meeting manager. Consistently leaving a poor impression on the attendees will haunt you if left unchecked.

Unit 33, Conduct 28, Leadership and Influence (Rules and Principles)

PODCAST! LEADERSHIP and INFLUENCE (Rules and Principles)! Leadership and Influence start with establishing clear rules and principles for leading your team and influencing the direction of your project or programme. They say that leaders are born, not made. While it is true that some people are born leaders, some leaders are born amid adversity. Often, simple people who have never had a leadership role will stand up and take the lead when a situation they care about requires it. Once you learn the techniques of true leadership and influence, you can build the confidence it takes to take the lead. The more experience you have acting as a genuine leader, the easier it will be for you. It is never easy to take the lead, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding. Listen to the episode, using the link below. 
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