This document contains Charles Cotter's professional work assignments and locations for 2017. It also includes quotes from Charles Cotter throughout the year on topics like career success, education, business success, and future-proofing one's career. The document summarizes Charles Cotter's highlights for 2017, which include growing his social media networks, establishing new training partnerships, completing his PhD thesis, and facilitating training in multiple African countries. Contact details are provided at the end.

1. 2017
CHARLES COTTER
PROFESSIONAL WORK ASSIGNMENTS

4. SAPTA - MIDRAND

8. WITBANK

10. PRETORIA

11. SANDTON

12. SAPTA -
MIDRAND

14. BOKSBURG

15. LUSAKA, ZAMBIA

18. SCENIC VIEWS OF DAR ES
SALAAM, TANZANIA

21. SCENIC DAY-TIME VIEWS
OF MAPUTO,
MOZAMBIQUE

23. SCENIC NIGHT-TIME
VIEWS OF MAPUTO,
MOZAMBIQUE

26. PRETORIA

27. BOKSBURG

30. "The key to career success is 70% aspiration; 20%
inspiration and 10% perspiration."
(Charles Cotter, 13 April 2017)

31. BOKSBURG

34. 300K GLOBAL VIEWS ON
SLIDESHARE

36. 6K FOLLOWERS ON
TWITTER

37. WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA

39. 1/2/2018

41. "A brighter tomorrow will dawn, if you empower yourself
through education."
(Charles Cotter, May 2017)

42. SAPTA - MIDRAND

43. NORTH WEST

44. SCENIC VIEWS FROM
NORTH WEST

48. PRETORIA

49. "Diligently serve your industry and that
industry will diligently serve you.“
(Charles Cotter, 26 May 2017)

50. 7K LINKEDIN
FOLLOWERS

52. "The 7P's of the business success mix -
purpose; passion; potential; people;
patronage, partnerships which all
precede profit."
(Charles Cotter, 2 June 2017)

53. SANDTON

55. "As Learning and Development professionals, let's liberate the
learning like true revolutionaries."
(Charles Cotter, 7 June 2017)

56. ETHICS OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRAINERS
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5B7XLPD
CHARLES COTTER Ph.D candidate, MBA, B.A (Hons), B.A
KAYALAMI ESTATES, 10 JUNE 2017
www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter

57. BOKSBURG

58. MIDRAND

61. "The blueprint of success is focusing on generating and amplifying
positive energy, not trying to purify negative energy“
(Charles Cotter, 28 June 2017)

62. “The 7 C's for start-up entrepreneurs: Concept; Capital; Courage;
Competencies; Connections; Conviction and Clients.”
(Charles Cotter, 30 June 2017)

64. "If you do not stay current, you will become
redundant.“
(Charles Cotter, 3 July 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CAREER - STRATEGY #1:

65. FOURWAYS

66. SAPTA - MIDRAND

67. BOKSBURG

69. ACCRA, GHANA

70. "If you don't differentiate yourself, you'll be traded as a
low-end commodity.“
Charles Cotter, 10 July 2017
FUTURE-PROOF STRATEGY #2:
DIFFERENTIATION

71. KEMPTON PARK

73. "Distinctiveness practiced with diligence and dignity is
a dynamic and deal-breaking differentiator"
(Charles Cotter, 20 July '17)
FUTURE-
PROOF
STRATEGY #3:

75. CELEBRATING
13 YEARS AS
AN
INDEPENDENT
L&D
CONTRACTOR

76. "The business currency of the future, gig economy will be
specialization. The on-demand workforce will be driven and
dominated by expert taskmasters, not multi-taskers.“
(Charles Cotter, 3 August 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF
STRATEGY #4:

77. NORTH WEST

80. SANDTON

81. MELROSE ARCH

82. “Future fit consultants will demonstrate the agility to transition with
stealth-like fluidity and precision from gig conceptualization to
actualization.”
(Charles Cotter, 17 August 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF
STRATEGY #5: AGILITY

85. FOURWAYS

87. RANDBURG

89. “HRM will have to migrate from the fundamentals of people
science to the complexities of data science.”
(Charles Cotter, 29 August 2017)

91. "Just like we constantly refresh our social media
pages and update our status, so we will have to
rigorously reinvent our future career status to sustain
employment mobility."
(Charles Cotter, 1 September 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF
STRATEGY #6:

92. LUSAKA, ZAMBIA

94. PRETORIA

95. “Stop fixating on the cliché, value add – the business
calculator function of the future, will be multiplication, so
rather concentrate on being a value amplifier.”
(Charles Cotter, 8 September 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF
STRATEGY #7:

96. SPRINGS

97. Project Change and Control: Presentation by Charles Cotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys5N9Qz09aE&t=88s
Project Scope - Terms of Reference/Charter: Presentation
by Charles Cotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDD2ISp3jY&t=82s

98. 8K LINKEDIN CONNECTIONS

99. SCENIC NIGHT-VIEWS
OF ACCRA, GHANA

101. “To prosper in the Digital Economy job space, you will have to
innovatively redesign your thinking and business model to
explore uncharted frontiers like independent virtual consulting
gigs and abandon the notion and comfort of your full-time
employment status.”
(Charles Cotter, 18 September
2017)
FUTURE-PROOF STRATEGY
#8: NEXT DIMENSION
THINKING

102. PRETORIA

104. SCENIC NIGHT-TIME
VIEWS OF TANZANIA

105. SCENIC DAY-TIME
VIEWS OF TANZANIA

107. “To actualize to a responsible and responsive digital citizen,
you’ll have to master the ability to navigate, curate, analyze
and communicate via digital media sources across an array
of 5-G technological platforms.”
(Charles Cotter, 13 October 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF
STRATEGY #9:

108. PRETORIA

110. EMPEROR’S PALACE

113. BRAKPAN

117. CRAIGHALL PARK

119. FOURWAYS

120. PRETORIA

121. SANDTON

122. BOKSBURG

124. PRETORIA

126. EMPEROR’S PALACE

127. SCENIC DAY/NIGHT-TIME
VIEWS OF NAIROBI, KENYA

131. SUBMISSION OF MY PHD
THESIS FOR EXAMINATION

133. MAPUTO,
MOZAMBIQUE

134. PRETORIA

135. “The value of your business network will not be determined by the
quantity of your direct connections, but rather by your analytical ability to
penetrate, mine and harvest the business relationship potential and
exploit mutually-beneficial collaboration opportunities within the scope
of your secondary and tertiary connections.”
(Charles Cotter, 14 December 2017)
FUTURE-PROOF STRATEGY #10: HYPERCONNECTED
COLLABORATOR

136. 7K TWITTER
FOLLOWERS

137. 400K GLOBAL
SLIDESHARE VIEWS

138. SUMMARY OF HIGHLIGHTS 2017
• Achieved milestone of 8 000+ LinkedIn connections
• Achieved milestone of 7 000+ Twitter followers
• Achieved milestone of 400 000+ SlideShare views, 25k
downloads and surpassed 400+ followers
• Established sustainable business relationships with 30+
training providers (44% new partnerships)
• Created direct training facilitation opportunities for
10+ other trainers

139. SUMMARY OF HIGHLIGHTS 2017
• Achieved over 2 300 views of x5 published articles on LinkedIn
• Completed and submitted my PhD thesis for examination
• Celebrated 13 years as an independent training (sub) contractor
• Achieved x17 courseconductor.com trainer reviews (of which 82%
are 5-star ratings)
• Facilitated various training programmes in x6 African countries
• Delivered keynote presentations at x8 national and continental
conferences

141. CONTACT DETAILS
• Charles Cotter
• (+27) 84 562 9446
• charlescot@polka.co.za
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @Charles_Cotter
• http://www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter