Hazel Manning urges young people to be passionate

Manning was speaking to reporters yesterday at the official opening of Administrative Professionals Week at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’s.

“Know what you really want to do, do what you’re comfortable with and be passionate about what you do because that is what is going to keep you on this track because it’s going to be difficult.

For the millennials, it’s going to be difficult but you have it in you, you have the confidence, you have the skills, a lot of you are educated, use it, and go out there.” “The industry is going to be difficult, unemployment is going to be an issue but you have the technology to support you. You can stay at home and you can do work, the 8 to 4 is no longer a constraint,” she said.

She also encouraged young people to take a chance.

“Life is more exciting when you do and the technology is going to guide you,” she said.

Manning, who is also the wife of former Prime Minister Patrick Manning, admitted that it has been difficult for her since her husband’s passing last year but added that she has become very busy. She said she’s been involved with a company, The Leadership Firm, a company that does a lot of work in leadership and strategic planning.

“We have been in business for three years. We align personal development with institutional development so we go through a process ensuring that self actualisation takes place. That your vision and your mission and what you’re doing is keeping with the company’s mission and vision.

We have quite a lot of work to do.

We have been busy working, we are seeing lives change and seeing institutions change,” she said.

Patrick Manning died on June 2, 2016 while being treated at the San Fernando General Hospital for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.