Teenagers Life Coaching Skills Part 3 - Leonard Mudhangu

Guiding teens on Career Coaching
Passion, Persistence, Commitment, Desire and thoughts are some of the
qualities a teenager must have in order to be successful.

One of the subjects that l love and talk about when coaching teenagers is career coaching. Helping teenagers in the work that suits their skills and what they want in life. Many at times, young people face the dilemma of choosing career, because they have seen someone prospering from another job. Sometimes they are pressured by their parents to do a certain job, but they will later discover  that they do not like the profession and they can easily get bored with the Job. A lot of people in this world are doing what they do not like because they made wrong choices from the onset and that may be the reason why they will not succeed in life. They find the jobs boring, hence, no need for determination and eventually will lead to their failure. Let me just try to provide some few tips for coaching a teenager about careers.

1) Passion

Passion is a fuel for success, when you have passion you don’t necessarily get pushed in doing something. You will really do that job out of passion. When you have passion you do not need someone to tell you what time to wake up and go to work. Passion gives you the energy, it drives you to wake up early and start to work on your dream. If you want to go into music, ask yourself this question, am l passionate about this? Passion leads you to success.

2) Your Character determines

Ask yourself if you are the kind of person who is interested in talking to people or not .What kind of a person are you? If you define yourself you will be able to know whether you are an office type, an employee or an outdoor employee. If you do not like associating with a lot of people, then you can either choose to be an accountant or any other job where you do not necessarily work by mixing with a lot of people. If you want to meet people then you can think of outdoor jobs like journalism.

3) What is your area of interest in school?

This is a very important question that any teenager or youth should ask himself if he wants to be successful. Chances are very high if you want to be a doctor or an engineer. If you are not good at mathematics, then these jobs demand a lot of intelligent skills and if you are not good at Maths you will be a bad doctor or engineer. So every profession has its own requirements, you must make

sure you enter or join that profession being able to meet its requirements.

These are some of the skills required when guiding a teenager in choosing a career. I will continue with more of these in my next article. I am one of those people that believe that the best way to build Africa is by coaching young people to be great leaders of tomorrow. Great leaders means great Africa. l am proud to be African.

Leonard Mudhangu is a cutting edge Certified Life Coach /Author/
Personal development Speaker based in Zimbabwe. He has coached
a lot of young people in his country who are doing good in different
sectors. He has also spoken on various youths and teenagers seminars.
He can be contacted on:
email: chifambamudhangu@gmail.com
Facebook: Leonard Mudhangu
cell number: +263 771 978 270

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INGREDIENTS OF SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP- PART ONE By Adam Abubakar and Leonard Mudanghu

A great leader’s courage to influence his vision come from passion
not position – Dr. John C Maxwell

A Leader is best when people know he barely exists, when his work is
done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves.-Lao Tsu.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

 – John Quincy Adams

Leaders are the people that are the core center of any institution from a small family to large corporations. In each and every institution there are leaders. When we talk about leaders we do not only mean political leaders. But as mentioned earlier, from a family to large corporations there are leaders and they are the managers and elites in the society. In each and every institution, there are managers who run this institution and the success and failure of the institutions depends on the kind of leaders that run them. It is their responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly, effectively and successfully.

A leader should take responsibility and not make excuses because leadership is about doing the right things and the capacity to translate mission and vision into reality. Leaders are born we agree with this school of thought that some people are born leaders. However we are also of those people who still believe that leadership can also be inputted into someone's life successfully by training. You can train some today and he/she can become a great leader tomorrow.

Africa is a great example of how bad leadership affects the development of a nation. For so many years, we have been captive to bad leadership. Africa is a great continent blessed with a lot of resources and talents. But because the managers of these resources, the leaders, have failed in their responsibilities, Africa is far behind it’s contemporaries in other continents of the world. Africans are living in situation of hopelessness, poverty and disease as a result of bad leadership.

The biggest challenge confronting Africa however is how to get good and effective leadership. In these series of articles we shall be taken our readers on a journey to ingredients of successful leadership. We shall take you on this journey because it is our belief that only when we have good, well trained and focus leaders can Africa develop and achieve its dreams.

To be continued………………