Success Tips From The Winner of the UK Apprentice In 2007

In the center of June, the highly entertaining 2007 United Kingdom Apprentice series drew to an end. Sir Alan Sugar commented:

"And so the end is near. All Iodine am looking for is person who is driblet dead shrewd."

In the concluding episode, Sir Alan had to take between Kristina Grimes, the tough gross sales director from Northern Ireland, and St St Simon Ambrose, the 'posh boy' with a Cambridge University dual first.

Kristina and most of the public fully expected that she would win but Simon got the nod. Why? What success lessons can we larn from him?

Simon, unlike any of the other candidates, had been astute adequate to make his homework. In the interviews which took topographic point in the hebdomad before the concluding episode, his thorough research paid off.

He, alone, had studied Sir Alan and his concern history. His tough interviewer was impressed. Later, Sir Alan remarked:

"Simon, here, could have got been my biographer."

Simon was enthusiastic. Throughout the series, St Simon maintained his enthusiasm and was willing to make anything to accomplish success for his team. In one episode he did some interruption dance and rap.

His public presentations were not perfect and Tre Azam, who liked to criticise everyone except himself, was not slow to point this out. However, St Simon was willing to have got a spell and hazard looking an idiot. Sir Alan seemed to appreciate his versatility.

Simon not only risked but achieved looking like an imbecile in a television advertisement show where his presentation of how to set the legs on and off a little trampoline became a television classic.

Simon, typically, was focused on doing his best to publicize the benefits of the trampoline and did not recognize how suggestive his handling of the short legs of the trampoline was.

In his innocence, he had leaned the trampoline against his inguen country so that each leg appeared to protrude from his less organic structure as he twined it into topographic point and uttered remarks like:

"This is an ideal exercising accessory. You can really bask yourself. Just leap on it - just leap away. If you're a immature child, you can make it. If you're an grownup you can have got fun!"

Sir Alan watched with increasing consternation: "Look where you've got the bl**** thing resting on! What a pillock!"

The professional advertizers were in stitches in the studio as the significance of Simon's public presentation dawned on them. Later, when he realised how his public presentation looked, St St St Simon took it on the mentum and bounced back from an embarrassment which would have got got made lesser work force run for the hills.

In the concluding episode, Simon fielded questions, from a case-hardened grouping of place developers, like a professional.

Simon's background and instruction may have influenced Sir Alan who realised that he needed at least one spokesman for his place concern who was not a self-made adult male like himself.

Genuine desire is a cardinal ingredient of success. St Simon clearly wanted the occupation of learner to a baron and was willing to work very hard:

"I will work my cotton wool socks off. I will make whatever you state me to do."

This remark about difficult work clearly impressed Sir Alan who later presented St Simon with some cotton wool socks of many colours! By then, St St Simon had go his Joseph.

Simon was more than obviously an learner than Kristina. He admitted that he had much to larn and was willing to 'do whatever you state me to do.'

Kristina, on the other hand, did not present herself as less than perfect. In the boardroom, she told Sir Alan:

"You won't have got to throw my hand. I will just work with whatever you give me and I will convey in the money."

These are not the words of an learner although, to be just to Kristina, Sir Alan had said that he did not have got the clip to throw the manus of his adjacent apprentice.

Sir Alan saw defects in St St Simon but knew that these could be corrected:

"Simon, you are not a good leader. That is something you will have got to work on."

Simon was probably influenced too much by Tre who saw him as a 'good boy' who would make what he was told. However, in the last undertaking of creating an iconic building, St St Simon was astute adequate to allow Rory Laing take over from Tre.

Rory, after his confrontation with Tre in the 2nd hebdomad of the series, kept seeing mental images of fire fire extinguishers wrapped around Tre's head.

Fortunately, Rory had enough concentrate to also see an challenging mental image of a edifice called 'The Wave' which provided an oculus catching Centre piece for Simon's presentation.

Tre, of course, was not happy to be 2nd best! St Simon told off his squad for squabbling with each other like children and tried to actuate them with the prospect of a trip to Barcelona if he won the task. But there is no pleasing everyone!

Tre commented:

"Taking me on a trip to Barcelona with those is like stabbing me in the oculus with a rusty screwdriver."

Rory also got his manner with the thought of having dance misses in the place presentation. Tre saw all sorts of jobs in this thought which, in the event, was spectacularly successful.

Kristina had Paul, a trainee surveyor, on her squad and eventually her presentation earned a 'Well done!' from Sir Alan.

Although St Simon may not have got been a good leader yet, he did understand people. He was astute adequate to understand what motivated Tre.

"Tre wishes to experience that he is top dog."

Rory Laing, who had been fired in hebdomad two largely thanks to Tre, admitted that St Simon dealt better with Tre than he ever had. In one memorable scene early in the series, Rory kept telling Tre: "I am your boss!"

Tre with equal strength and insisting kept repeating "No! You are not my boss!" He eventually added: "You are nil to me."

Simon never became Tre's foreman but at least he was able to maintain him on undertaking without too many arguments.

Kristina was probably more than focused and organised than Simon. She also had a very determined attitude. She had a 'fire in her belly' which she knew would never go. At the end of the series she commented on the pressure level she and the others had felt:

"If you last the twelve weeks, then you cognize you can make anything. That human race out there is my platform now and I can make anything."

Sir Alan agreed that the human race was her oyster.

Kristina loves a challenge: "The best any 1 can state to me is: 'You can't make that' and then I will. I'll turn out them wrong."

Eventually Sir Alan had made up his mind:

"Simon, make you cognize what? Bloody old sap as I am, I'm going to take that risk. Simon; you're hired."

Simon was elated but Kristina was deflated. St Simon commented on his victory:

"I'm in daze to have got won. Kristina was such as a formidable opponent, I thought she would walk it. I'm ecstatic that I won."

Kristina later admitted to feeling gutted: "I can't state any more. I didn't win the thing I wanted".

However, she was reasonably gracious to her winning opponent:

"He is such as a bright cat and a loveable fictional character and I'll maintain in contact with him. We're very good friends."

She threatened to come up after him if he 'screwed' up his opportunity. St St Simon said he was not certain whether he was more than afraid of Sir Alan or Kristina.

Sir Alan commented on his pick of Simon over Kristina: "This was the hardest thing I had to do. They're both employable. I would offer her somes occupation any twenty-four hours of the week."

What tipped the balance? Sir Alan explained his pick of apprentice:

"My concern is moving in the way of existent estate. St Simon is made for the existent estate market. He looks like one! St St Simon is also a very bright lad."

What 'secrets', then, can we larn from Simon?

Do your homework. Not many people do. You will soon stand up out from the crowd.

Be willing to take hazards and expression foolish to accomplish your goals. Like the Red Pimpernel, St Simon succeeded by appearing, at times, to be a brainless fop.

Be enthusiastic and willing to seek different solutions without a follow of negativity.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Mistakes can be the stepping rocks to success. If you do make mistakes, bounciness back from them quickly.

Be willing to work very hard. A former editor of Cosmopolitan wrote:

"The lone thing that offprints successful people from the 1s who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard."

Be loveable and see the loveable facets of others.

Have fun. St St Simon believes in having a good laugh: "There is room in life to laughter at everything and I'm happy to convey my sense of temper to the tabular array and shoot some comedy into the proceedings."

Simon had once attempted an feeling of Sir Alan speech production to the quiet and punctilious Lohit Kalburgi! He managed to impart the immense and amusive difference between the gruff, no-nonsense tycoon and the docile, mild-mannered Lohit.

Desire your dreaming intensely. St St Simon had respected Sir Alan from an early age and really wanted the occupation of learner unlike Katie Hopkins, the 'pantomime villainess', who suddenly decided that she did not desire to travel house in chase of a occupation offering which was not that superior to the 1 she already had.

Simon showed he would travel to great lengths to sell. Katie described him as a great salesman. He was willing to give out invitations to aliens in the street. He even performed some interruption dance near a autobus stop! He could sell almost anything except trampolines!

Be good at presentations. Sir Alan was especially impressed by Simon's presentation to a existent estate audience in the concluding episode:

"He had the flooring that night. He cognizes what he is doing. He cognizes how to set a presentation together and he had those people eating out of his custody and these are difficult nosed existent estate people."

Sir Alan admitted that he had not and would not ever maestro the fine art of presentation. He probably saw 'posh' St Simon as being able to fill up this spread in his organisation.

Keep going and show staying power. St Simon admitted that Sir Alan was taking a hazard in choosing him over Kristina. The hazard was that St Simon would give up before his undertakings were finished. But St Simon was determined not to allow Sir Alan down. He was in it for the long haul.

Be energetic. Natalie Wood described St St Simon with admiration:

"Simon is full of energy - a existent bouncy Labrador - very intelligent, very witty, very bubbly - absolutely cracking chap."

Be able to look over the apparent horizon and see the possibilities. Be able to bring forth ideas.

Be willing to prehend the day! St Simon had fully grasped the demand to travel level out to accomplish his dreams. His words are a message to us all:

"Sleep when you're dead. Live the dream!"

The great philosopher, Plato, have sent us the same message down the centuries:

"Follow your dreaming as long as you live, make not decrease the clip of following desire, for cachexia clip is an abomination of the spirit."