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HELEN NICHOLSON
EP.19
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Helen Nicholson
Building better businesses through Purpose
In Episode #19 of One More Question, Ross sits down with Helen Nicholson, CEO of the Networking Company, and author of two best-selling business books, and speaker.
Ross and Helen speak about unlocking people’s potential through purpose, getting into the granularity of your brand, and using your company’s value system to hire the right candidates.
Highlights
I think that you are put on this earth to fulfil your purpose. And I think you have an obligation as a person to find out what it is, and be then to align your purpose with your career, because that's when you will be in flow and things will happen easily.
There's no way you're ever going to fulfil your purpose as a human being if you're spending most of your time focusing on your weaknesses, because all you end up with is very strong weakness.
As soon as that happened, and we aligned our work around women's leadership development, it was a complete tipping point — the business trebled year on year.
There are clues in the companies as to what's important to them — where they spend their time, the kind of people that they've pulled into the organisation, the kind of work they do, the way their clients talk about them.
The team that I have now, it feels like everyone is in the right place, doing the right stuff — right people, in the right seats, doing the right stuff — and that can only happen if our purpose, our value systems, and our passions align.
It's much more than women and men, it's actually around a masculine versus a feminine style of leadership.
More about Helen
Helen Nicholson has been called the “Networking Queen” by many of her clients. She began her career as an accountant and has evolved into the CEO — Chief Excitement Officer — of the Networking Company, where they help people reach their full potential through training programmes, online learning and virtual reality simulations. Helen has published two best-selling business books and has spoken in 43 countries around the world. She is a board member for the global entrepreneur organisation (EO) in South Africa.
Helen has international corporate experience and lived in the Middle East for 5 years where she developed and sold her own successful business in Dubai.
On her return to South Africa, Helen has run the Networking Company for 15 years – she is a passionate South African, was interviewed by GIBS Business School as one of South Africa’s leading female entrepreneurs, has run the New York marathon in 2011 and has been a single mom to 23-year-old identical girl twins since they were 3. She is a passionate connector and walks her Networking talk!
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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 13 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our founder Ross Drakes.
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