The Power of the Mastermind

As I hit the half way point of my latest trip to the Philippines, I have had the honor of delivering 3 of the 6 planned talks I have scheduled on the power of the mastermind.

At this point in my career, I’ve had enough experience with masterminds to know what makes them work and what doesn’t.

If you are surrounded by people whose only goal is to keep everyone down in the miserable place they are, you will fail. Stop taking advice from people who are never gonna be as successful as you plan to be. You need to leave them behind and get signed up to be part of a business mastermind.

Now as a recap for those who hadn’t heard of the term business mastermind before, a mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring concept used to help members solve their problems with input and advice from the other group members.

The concept was coined in 1925 by author Napoleon Hill described in more detail in his 1937 book, Think and Grow Rich. Find the book, the audiotape or do a google search. If you truly want to Think and Grow Rich, it all starts here!

So to help me build my first mastermind in the Philippines I’m looking for Filipinos from a certain mold. These are exactly the kind of people you will meet at my talks.

I will be giving a talk on Sunday to an audience of mostly accountants, bookkeepers and financial experts at the NETWORK, LEARN AND HAVE FUN

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 ( 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲)
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟏𝐩𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝐩𝐦
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐜.
𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫, 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂, 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱, 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞, 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐭y

Then on Monday I’ll be in Makati @ Warehouse 8 for the next Vision to Wealth meet up.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/82517816009

And finally at our 3rd Vision to Wealth meet up in BGC on Wednesday.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/82519206167

The goal at these events is not just to sign them up to be in my mastermind, but to get each one to a point where they can run their own mastermind as well.

Finally want to share feedback from a couple of recent events, where I had a chance to share my story, talk about masterminds and build a team of like minded entrepreneurs who are ready to level up.

A.I. for Marketing — Makati

“I had so many Aha moments and insights from the Mastermind event, I felt I need to google the words I took some notes during the discussion.”

Vision to Wealth — Ortigas

“I would like to thank you for such a paradigm shifting night for me.”

Daniel Meyer heads Sonic Analytics, an analytics firm with offices in Manila, the San Francisco Bay Area and Ocala, FL. With over 20 years in Big Data, Dan is one of the most sought-after public speakers in Asia and offers big data coaching and analytics training seminars on both sides of the Pacific. Dan has also recently joined the Powerteam International family as a small business analytics resource speaker.

Sonic Analytics(www.sonicanalytics.com) brings big data analytics solutions like business intelligence, business dashboards and data storytelling to small and medium sized organizations looking to enhance their data-driven decision-making capabilities. We also advocate the use of analytics for civic responsibility through training, consulting and education.

As citizens of this great democracy, we need to look at the data (analytics), plan a course of action (strategy) and share our data-driven viewpoints (presentation). This approach to a data savvy work force starts in school. So, we started an internship program to empower our youth to use Analytics, plan Strategy and Present their insights… ASP!

When not training current and future analysts, you can find Dan championing the use of analytics to empower data-driven citizenship by volunteering his expertise with schools and non-profits dedicated to evidence-based social progress like Saint Leo University’s Women in STEAM 2020 Conference.

I Need Analytics Training. Where Do I Start?

If you put yourself in the mind of the typical Filipino professional looking for analytics training, it is not easy to figure out where to start.

The ecosystem is not very unified, with a hodge podge of public training solutions available and only dozen or so schools offering analytics.

To someone who is relatively new to using big data to solve business problems, it can all seem very nosebleed inducing as well. Data science, predictive analytics and machine learning can all sound complicated and expensive.

So where do I start? That is a very common question I get asked when I talk about analytics in the Philippines.

The answer comes in three parts. First we need a framework to set certain standards and definitions of what a Data Science and Analytics enabled professional should know.

We base that on the set of 10 DSA competencies as defined by APEC’s Project DARE,

(Props to my fellow AAP board member Sherwin Pelayo for the awesome images)

Since few people need to know everything about everything, it is best to figure out which competencies you want to focus on first.

Once you have an idea of where to start, then the next step is determine what kinds of job skills match the competencies you are looking to develop.

This can be done by determining where in the data life cycle you are looking have an impact,

Once you have a firm idea of the skills you want to build and where they fit into the analytics life cycle of your business, then it is a matter of planning out how to level up.

This is where the AAP has take APEC’s competency list and broken then out across the various job functions along the analytics life cycle by level of skills required.

This allows us the ability to determine where we are in terms of analytics maturity and design the appropriate plan to level up.

And that will lead you to one of the AAP member companies for the appropriate type of corporate training or to one of the AAP member schools for the right higher education solutions.

And that is how you can get a better idea of what type of analytics training is best for you and your business to get started with.

Analytics Leadership – DMAIPH is a founding member of the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP.PH) and specializes in arming the Data-Driven Leader with the tools and techniques they need to build and empower an analytics centric organization. Analytics leadership requires a mastery of not just analytics skill, but also of nurturing an analytics culture. We have guided thousands of Filipino professionals to become better analytics leaders.

Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to discuss a uniquely tailored strategy to ensure you are the top of your game when it comes to Analytics Leadership.

So What Is #DataRockPinas?

It is a movement.

It is an advocacy.

It is a great cause.

#DataRockPinas is all about taking analytics training out of Manila and bringing it to the provinces.

#DataRockPinas is all about taking what has traditionally been an expensive, corporate only training and delivering it to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos.

#DataRockPinas is an initiative of several member companies of the Analytics Association of the Philippines. http://www.aap.ph

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Data Night UM (University of Mindanao)
Big Data 101 Davao
Davao Analytics Executive Roundtable
Mindanao Analytics Freelancers Meet Up

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Big Data Analytics & Data Value Chain
Train the Analytics Trainer
Data Night Bacolod

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Big Data 101 – Iloilo
Visayas Analytics Freelancers
Data Night Iloilo

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Big Data Analytics & Data Value Chain
Data Night Cebu 2018

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Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions.

Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to discuss a uniquely tailored strategy to ensure you are the top of your game when it comes to Analytics Leadership.

Moonshot: Unifying the Analytics Ecosystem Across the Philippines

(above image from zazzle.com)

For most of the past five years my efforts to upskill train Filipinos in analytics have been focused on Metro Manila.

A few times a year I’d get a chance to conduct a training, speak at an event or attend a conference outside the National Capitol Region, but for the most part analytics adoption has been slower in the provinces.

That has significantly changed in 2017 and the analytics focus around the provinces is primed to explode is 2018.

As I sit here today in Batangas for the mid week holidays, I can’t help but feel proud for the recent string of partnerships we have been able to build outside the nation’s capitol.

We were just in Cebu twice for a Data Night, a Big Data 101 training and an Analytics Freelancers Meet Up. We followed that up with a Data Night and several speaking engagements and media appliances in General Santos (Gensan to the locals).

Next month we will replicate these events in Davao with the contacts we made in Gensan. In December we will do the same and even add a Train the Analytics Trainer event with a key business partner in Bacolod.

And just yesterday we started laying the ground work for a Data Night and a Big Data 101 training in Iloilo for January.

Our plan for 2018 is to spend one week a month in a different province promoting our analytics advocacy, signing up members for the Analytics Association of the Philippines, conducting trainings with companies like DMAIPH, Cirrolytix, BagoSphere, and Spectres Solutions, using co-working spaces like A Space, the Mabuhay I.T. Park and Dream Space, and working with schools like the University of Mindanao and ACLC Davao.

At the same time we are building upskill training relationships back in Manila with companies like Wells Fargo, Accenture and Emerson, teaching analytics at schools like College of St. Benilde, University of Asia & Pacific, Enderun College and the University of the Philippines just to name a few.

We are also orchestrating the OJT experiences for students from schools like UST, De La Salle, Ateneo, Informatics, and URS in Rizal. Again, that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Simultaneously, we are building relationships with influential organizations like IBPAP, CCAP, PSIA, Young Engineers and HIMS to give talks on analytics followed up with upskill training for their members.

And last but not least we are having conversations with provincial LGUs, with central government entities like CHED, DeptEd and TESDA as well as with key members of the Senate to promote the large scale adoption of analytics across the Philippines to keep our workforce competitive in the increasingly data driven world.

I could go on and list more. The names above are just a sample.

When you set out to facilitate the upskill training of half a million people, you have to think big. And thing big is what we do.

That’s our moonshot.

Putting a man on the moon took a national effort from all parts of society to build a space age ecosystem capable of the previously unthinkable.

We have guided thousands of Filipino professionals to become better analytics leaders. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to discuss a uniquely tailored strategy to ensure you are the top of your game when it comes to Analytics Leadership.

DMAIPH & Cirrolytix present Big Data Analytics 101 in Cebu on October 16!

Big Data was supposed to make things easier, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us.

This program is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your company initiatives.

The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, managers must consider the practical side of big data…what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions.

Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge. The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it.

This seminar goes beyond the qualitative side of data analysis to explore proven quantitative techniques and technologies for identifying, inventorying and integrating data, so that more informed and reliable business decisions can be made.

With that in mind, DMAIPH has created a learning session entitled: Big Data Analytics 101. Join us on October 16 in Cebu for the next run of the program.

Our resource speakers: Dan Meyer, Executive Director of the Analytics Association of the Philippines and Doc Ligot, Founder and CEO of Cirrolytix Analytics Consulting Services. Between them, Dan and Doc have over 40 years of Big Data Analytics experience in banking, finance, education, training and data science.

Learning Session Objectives:

Apply Best Techniques and Cutting Edge Technologies to Organize, Interpret, and Summarize Quantitative Data
Create a Process to Analyze Data and Identify Patterns Not Apparent at First Glance
Master the art of Data Storytelling using Predictive Analytics

In this session, your organization will be able to use:

Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
Strategies to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy

In this session, your participants will be able to:

Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
Identify and explain tools for data analysis
Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions
Understand the entire Data Value Chain from data collection to data visualization

Who Should Attend: All business professionals who need the basic tools to quantitatively and accurately analyze the mountains of data that come across their desk each minute of every day. Managers of analysts or staff who spend a significant amount of their time collecting, analyzing and reporting data.

Section One Title: Big Data—It’s Not Just Size 

Ascertain the current state of Big Data Analytics in the Philippines
Describe the Importance of Effectively Analyzing Big Data in Business Today
Establish Clear Objectives When Analyzing Big Data
The Three “I’s” of Big Data Analytics
Assess Your Current Analytics Culture

Section Two Title: Unlocking the Data Value Chain with Big Data Analytics  

Recognize and Apply Various Data Collection Methods
The importance of Good Data Governance
Identify and Resolve Problems Associated with Data Collection
Discuss the difference between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
Utilize Business Intelligence Tools

Section Three Title: Moving from Descriptive Analytics to Predictive

Determine and Analyze Risk, Uncertainty, and Probability
Spot Patterns, Trends, and Fluctuations Through Correlation, Regression, and Descriptive Statistics
Understand when to employ Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics
Build Data Models
Exercise: Building a Predictive Model Prototype

Section Four Title: The Art of Presenting Big Data  

Discuss the concept of Data Visualization
Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly
Select the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience
Case Study: Using Data Storytelling to determine the Best Team in NBA History
Use Findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions Within Your Organization

Too often people dive into the data only to be lost in haze of data. This discussion will be pragmatic and immediately applicable to analysts, professional using analytics and managers of analysts across all industries.

Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help.

Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

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