High Performance Caribbean Ring & CoP

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Launch of Entrepreneurs MeetUP and Community of Practice (CoP)

The GTA hub of the High-Performance Caribbean Entrepreneur’s Ring will be officially launched on Saturday, March 31, 2018  by Meegan Scott and Magate Wildhorse Ltd.  At the launch we will engage in B2B networking, getting to know each other as well as add some of your wishes to the objectives and working of the HIPCE Ring.

Because it is a Caribbean Entrepreneur’s group we are looking for others who would love to join us. Let’s have a meeting of minds and joint action for growing high performance Caribbean businesses and outstanding entrepreneurs in the Diaspora.

Meeting facilitator: Meegan Scott will lead the session.

The MeetUP and CoP is a group of Caribbean entrepreneurs in the Diaspora including members of the Caribbean-Canadian group who will meet monthly (Downtown, Toronto), as well as online to learn, share, collaborate and build knowledge in the area of Caribbean Entrepreneurship and success strategies for our immigrant entrepreneurs. Besides networking and information sharing the group serves as a resource for advice, tips, advertising, market and market research hub.

It will remain consistently so.

Join us at: https://goo.gl/AnhZuE (Online home of the MeetUP and CoP).

Be with us on March 31, 2018.

You are welcome to join us for our preliminary online session on March 13, 2018 (details available in the Ring).

We look forward to your active participation!

Please feel free to forward this announcement to others.

 

Call for Papers —The Noësis: MWildhorse Strategy and Performance Magazine

Deadline: April 15, 2018

springcover2018sampleIn a world where the language of business expands almost daily and growth-related concepts can be tough to understand The Noësis aims to bring understanding and simplicity —disambiguation.

Its content will facilitate understanding of tough business and development concepts while accelerating the learning of industry language and how-to; and will help organizations and entrepreneurs get more out of their investment in consulting solutions. Practitioners and consultants can expect content that will help them to improve their craft.

It does this by highlighting successful Caribbean and Canadian entrepreneurs, research findings, issues, trends, companies, stories, commentaries, book reviews and entertainment pieces.  Articles and stories focus on growth related topics such as strategy, marketing, trade, performance management and measurement, intellectual property and the creative industries.

The publication is a hybrid Magazine/Professional Journal geared towards C-level executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, practitioners and consultants with an interest in strategy, marketing, evaluation, organizational assessments, international trade, entrepreneurship and international development. And will be circulated to senior executives, business owners and libraries.

The new Canadian-Caribbean Magazine is the only business magazine designed to promote the culture of Caribbean entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship as a desirable, feasible and viable economic activity for Caribbean immigrants in Canada and other diasporic markets of the Caribbean.

We want to see the growth of high performing Caribbean businesses in all major Diaspora markets. We want to see the Caribbean culture of entrepreneurship and its entrepreneurial DNA deliver significant impact to entrepreneurs and the markets in which the businesses call home— as well as those they serve.

Hence, we provide information, stimulate debate, share research, cases and stories for ensuring organizational leaders and team have the necessary information for strategy success in starting and growing their businesses.  We want to see greater impact from international development initiatives especially in ACP Countries; therefore, we will address those issues and explore solutions.

Publishing Opportunities

Consultants and practitioners are invited to submit articles, case studies, anecdotes and stories.

Academic researchers, consultants, and experts are invited to serve in editorial roles as well as to contribute articles, stories and cases.

Recent Graduates, final year PhD and Master’s Degree students are invited to submit articles based on their final research papers. Submissions should have a focus on the Caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora Markets or Canada.

Business writers and/journalists are invited to submit articles (feature, news stories, historical and opinion pieces, commentaries and tips).

Editorial Policy and Practice

Academic submissions will be peer-reviewed. Other pieces will be reviewed by subject matter experts, academia or magazine editors. However, all published pieces would have met the editorial standards and the objectives of the magazine.

Contributor Guidelines

What to Include in Your Draft or Proposal

Submissions must be in MS Word documents. Illustrations and images should be clear and impactful in communicating your ideas. They may include maps, photos, illustration, tables, infographics and other images that are properly labelled.

Double-blind Peer Review

Please click the link above to ensure your submissions are compliant with the double-blind peer review process applicable to all submissions.

Deadline for final submissions: May 30, 2018
Deadline for submission of drafts or proposals: April 15, 2018.

To submit your proposal, article or query, please contact Meegan Scott by Email at: magatewildhorse@gmail.com

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Living Our Purpose

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Are you a not-for-profit organization?

We are asked this question at least once each quarter.

So, here’s the answer.

No.

We just take the social component of our business seriously.

We believe organizations, government departments, international development projects and professionals should have top-notch yet affordable services in the categories that we offer.

The reason being, those services are fundamental to the success of all organizations.  We offer corporate strategy planning, strategic planning, research, training, performance management and measurement as well as strategic marketing solutions for ensuring organizations can grow and succeed.

We know how important project management and strategy communication is to ensuring success in moving from strategy and plan to impactful execution. Hence, we provide support to organizations as well as to professionals who are looking for that confidential backstopping support or adjunct team member.

Our decision to leverage technology, conduct research and offer affordable yet high quality solutions was driven by the challenges we observed in different types of organizations and economies. Both developed and developing countries share the need for the kind of solutions that we offer.

Without them the nightmares related to relevance, impact, market share, growth, profit or funding can be horrific. Many organizations that became casualties along the organizational start, growth and re-invention cycle could have been thriving with access to the kinds of solutions that we offer. So, could many that struggle today.

Many professionals are now beginning to realize how our solutions can help them to deliver the outcomes expected of them.

Rigour, evidence-based, relevant, value, quality and doable comes with our solutions.

Still we strive to pack in fun, simplicity and shorter planning to execution times.

We are proud to offer our solutions— for a profit.

But we are also proud to ensure some organizations and individuals who cannot afford our solutions but whose work support a greater good for a community, country, region or group can access our solutions.

Each year we live our purpose by doing the following:

  • Make accessible significantly discounted organizational assessments and strategy planning solutions;
  • Contribute of our operational time and expertise to organizations;
  • Provide free or discounted workshops or coaching sessions;
  • Provide guidance free of charge or at a significantly donated rate to a professional in need of support;
  • Contribute a component of a solution to a client whose budget cannot support it; and
  • Share content that will help our clients and audiences to make the most of their consulting or execution solutions.

We do not exclude for-profit entities from our purpose driven solutions— because growing and fledging entities and their leaders are sometimes excluded from free or low-cost solutions. Sometimes they are excluded by their own schedules which conflict with the time for accessing free services during their prime production hours.  Entrepreneurs who are over 40 and just getting into business represent such a group.

The Noësis: MWildhorse Strategy and Performance Magazine serves as a vehicle through which we can live and share our purpose with wider audiences. It also provides an opportunity for practitioners, researchers, academia and students to achieve their goals while contributing to our purpose and to sharing our results.

“Helping organizations transcend expected levels of success, despite the constraint of size.”

We are proud to be a for-profit entity with a lived commitment and investment in the greater good!

Magate Wildhorse Ltd.

My Checklist – Getting Ready for Business Growth 2018

Warning! This is only for entrepreneurs and organizational leaders who are serious about growth and active strategic thinking?

How serious are you about getting value for your consulting, marketing or strategy execution dollar?

If you are very serious you will act to ensure your service provider knows and give you exactly what you need for the best price and in time — we’d like you to help us to be the ideal service provider.

This will take a few minutes and real thinking, so let’s get started right away.

After you have helped us to get it right we’d like you to try this for your business or organization too.

But don’t stop there we’d also love to hear from you regarding how it worked for you.

Our audience would also love to know how this exercise worked for you. Thank you for sharing on at: https://goo.gl/6gC4Yc

How to Help

Help us to bring the action section of the table below to life by answering one or more questions in the Action panel. Thank you for typing the question number along with your answer.

We thank those who answer all of our questions.

Students and academics are also welcome to share.

Click here or the link below to view table in PDF format.

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Double click the image to view – created by Meegan Scott

“Early bird catches the fattest worm”.

Get ready to grow in 2018 and thank you for helping us to grow along with you.

Hey, do this for your agribusiness too!

readyforacceleratedgrowth2018

Meegan Scott

Copyright © 2017 by Meegan Scott and Magate Wildhorse. All Rights Reserved

What’s Your Big Three – Tough Conversations at Pepper Pot Lunch?

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What in heaven’s name is that?
Hold the spoon and bowl for now — read on to find out what we are serving up for your team and you.
Facilitated strategic management conversations—that drive commitment, strategy alignment and help your organization to grow a culture of performance and improvement.
During the week of May 8 to 12, 2017 we are giving organizations a chance to name from  1 to  3 tough conversations that they would love to have a facilitator help them with in a lunch hour session [Only one challenge, or tough issue will be dealt with in a session].
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Message or Emails us with your top 1, 2, or 3.
You might get lucky and win a free session.
After all we are spreading the love around as we celebrate 5.
To find out even more check  out the video at the following link: https://youtu.be/P0Uhk_iTmF8
Click that contact us button, share and be included in the draw for a free session today!
Conditions apply!
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Share and Win
Share this post via Twitter, LinkedIn and or Facebook for a chance to win a free Pepper Pot Lunch Session for your favourite charity or business. Share using #PepperPotAct. At the end of May, we will select the winner by a random draw of those who shared across the three social media channels listed above. The winner may choose a 60-min. or a 90-min. session. If you are outside of GTA you will be required to choose a problem that is suitable to a Virtual Pepper Pot Lunch℠, most sessions are designed for face-to-face interaction though many are suitable for virtual [Monitor or big screen TV required].
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Strategy Backstop – Executive & Corporate Solutions

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Strategy Backstop

Strategy Backstop – Executive & Corporate Solutions

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March 2017