Two Swiss Kiwis on a Tonga adventure
After spending three days on the island of Ha’apai, it felt like coming back to the ‘big smoke’ when I landed back in Nuku’alofa. Ha’apai is a group of 51 coral atolls an hour’s flight north of Tongatapu.
Continue reading “A Piece of Paradise”
Over the last two weeks, 20 further businesses have called out for mentoring support! This is in addition to the nearly full workload my colleague and I already have! How can we respond to this growing demand? The answer is in the title: We need to STEP UP!
Continue reading “Stepping Up”
What do a furniture factory, a construction company, handicraft manufacturers, a bakery, a kava exporter, a few restaurants and resorts, a coconut-oil-based cosmetics manufacturer, a new retail shop, a whale-watch operator, and a pearl jewellery centre have in common? You have guessed correctly: These are all businesses which are part of my growing mentoring portfolio.
Some of you have asked me for an update on my business mentoring job. Thank you for your interest. Here it is:
Continue reading “Pisinisi ‘i he Ofisi”
I enjoy the abundance of fresh produce. But this time, the abundance was a little overwhelming.
Continue reading “Banana-mania”Tongans LOVE parades!
It was LOUD. It was JOYFUL. It was RED. It was ONE BIG CRAZY CELEBRATION.
“So what if you have worked in the job for three months and haven’t achieved a single goal from your job description? What would you do?” This was a hypothetical question placed to me by the psychologist who interviewed us for the VSA assignment back in February 2019.
Critical for the interviewer was obviously the testing of our resilience and how we would cope in an environment where things don’t always go to plan.
Continue reading “The WHY Makes a Difference”Where in the world can you get a handwritten personalised boarding pass? Join me today for a three-day business trip to EUA, flying ‘Real Tonga’ airlines, on their eight-seater plane. The flight takes 7 minutes!
What does a day as a volunteering ‘Business Mentor’ in Tonga’ look like? Well, it is first and foremost about people – people in business doing business with other people.
Continue reading “Lofi’s Daily Grind”Getting up voluntarily at 5.15am for a ‘fun-run’ isn’t everyone’s cup of tea! But I couldn’t let the opportunity pass to have my first run in Tonga!
While still dark, arriving at the Nuku’alofa waterfront, there were already a sizeable bunch of people registered and ready for take-off.
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