INTELLIGENT, insightful, humorous and thoroughly entertaining were words that summed up the talk that guest speaker, author, magazine publisher, TV personality and gardening guru, Tanya Visser gave at the Durban Entrepreneurs Club (DEC) June meeting recently.
Tanya explained the importance of listening to one’s gut when making decisions – a ploy she used when she decided to take up horticulture as a career, and something that has seen her business in good stead through the years.
Sound snippets of advice from Tanya were: “Do what you love and what you know. Everyone has a story to tell, listen to what they have to say, there is so much you can learn from other people’s stories. Never expect someone to do a job you have never done, be hard on standards and soft on people and wear your heart on your sleeve. Always have something uplifting to say and give everyone space to share their ideas. We are living in a world of instant gratification and we’re suffering because of it – take time to sit back and smell the roses.”
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Tanya is one of many top speakers that Grant Gavin, chairman of the DEC has invited to address the growing number of members – entrepreneurs that travel from throughout KZN to attend the monthly gatherings. Grant has started a coaching programme called DEC Multiply for small business owners at the DEC, and at the meeting, he introduced the three students that he is mentoring and who are helping the club with social media. They are Lungelo Saule, Valentine Sterling-Court and Thasmika Mohan. Another student is Jasmine Allan, who is in the Cape. Each student gave valuable insight into how millennials perceive the future of social media and how vital they feel that it is to business.
The July DEC meeting will welcome international speaker, CEO and sales guru, Mark Keating as guest speaker. Book online at www.durbanentrepreneursclub.co.za.
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