While working in the United KingdomI discovered that there were gaps in my knowledge when it came to the practical aspects of working effectively. Despite a pretty good education and qualification as a lawyer; I realised I had learnt and been trained to pass exams. The critical skills, soft skills required for working effectively were unfortunately absent in my toolkit.

Hence I lost my job. At about the same time, I got involved in a personal development programme where I discovered the concept of goal setting. Critically, I got introduced to Steven Covey’s 7 habits for highly effective people. The introduction sparked a desire to identify what my core natural giftings were. My enquiry led me to a psychometric assessment book which helped me understand from the results of taking the test contained in the book that my natural core giftings is verbal reasoning; this is the gift that teachers, lawyers, trainers and sales people deploy in their vocation.

At this point in my life I was sure I did not want to practise law as a profession.My new found insight into my natural abilities encouraged me to focus on training so I embarked on a deliberate process of acquiring knowledge and skills that would enable me train people. Considering what I knew of the gaps in the education and training I received from secondary school to university, I realised that there will be people who will be served by my ability to fill in the gaps in their knowledge specifically around the skills that relate to the ability to work effectively.