Rebuilding Deal Lite Team
I just completed my weekly meeting with the Deal Lite team. Our team has shrunk from about 20 to less than a handful. We need to re-energise, starting with building our HR team first. Francisca recently joined from Nigeria. I’m on the hunt for another HR Volunteer – ideally Chinese. Then we are going to […]
TCMCR60 is on 23rd April
The next Techcelerate Coffees Manchester 60 (TCMCR60) will be on 23rd April at Coffee Hive in Manchester Piccadilly. Grab a ticket – respect our rules TCMCR are pure networking events where tech founders and investors alike can mingle with Techcelerate members, partners and specialists. Guests can attend one event free per year. Regulars are asked […]
China50k Plan
What is China50k or Chinese50k? It’s an audacious plan by me to acquire 50,000 of the 150,000 Chinese Students and Graduates in the UK and provide them with an option to acquire UK experience and skills through SkilledUp Life. Crazy, hah! Perhaps. To achieve this, we need to recruit 30 Chinese UK graduates into SkilledUp […]
SkilledUp Life Signs MoU with Accelerate Me
I had the privilege to speak at an Accelerate Me session last Tuesday. Yesterday, I signed a Accelerator Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with their President, Jasper Lee. Under this Agreement, Accelerate Me cohort members can benefit from 20% discount on SkilledUp Life price plans.
Getting things wrong – two resigns
In my effort to be efficient (I’m still a slacker), I seem to have dropped all the niceties. My sentences are straight forward. I still use please but they are more to the point. I don’t write long essays when emailing. I try to keep things compact. I seem to have removed the filters, which […]
Evolving SkilledUp Life Product Team
Started with just me and my lead developer, we started to bring on SkilledUp Life volunteers at the end of December 2024. Now the team has expanded into: Head of Product – me Product Manager Lead Developer (only full timer) Back-end Developer Lead Designer UI/UX Designers Front-end Developers QA User Tester Next would be to […]
Wisdom Bites #2 – Be Yourself
Perhaps a better phrase would be authentic. I think there are subtle differences between being yourself and being authentic. There’s also another term be genuine. We can pretend to be someone else in some cases, but in my opinion, this could lead to heaps of problems. No one is perfect. Painting a picture of perfection […]
Wisdom Bites #1 – Do the right thing
It’s easy to say, “Do the right thing” but what does that mean? When and how do you apply it? Is this the same as listening to your gut feeling? Do you listen to your mind or your heart when deciding? In my opinion, to do the right thing you need to take both the […]
Career transition without spend
Don’t give up your paid working hours to join SkilledUp Life team I just interviewed a Brit for a leadership role at https://skilledup.life – to my surprise, she was looking to compromise paid hours to join us as a Volunteer. No one needs to do this. SkilledUp Life Volunteer Term is designed to be an […]
Attrition rate drops to 58.93%
The attrition rate at the SkilledUp Life team has reduced to 58.93% which is good. However, this is artificially improved due to the very low recruitment velocity experienced at present. So we should not congratulate ourselves. It’s my belief this could be reduced to 40%. This should be the key focus of the Deputy Head […]