On Wednesday evening at the Pegasus Hotel, Nekisha Prince-Haynes launched her first book, “Your Client is not Your Friend.” It is drawn from her own experiences as a far too generous business-owner who ignored her own axiom, seriously injuring her business in the process.
It is one of those errors from which Prince-Haynes, 30, wants others to learn. Not one to dwell on the negatives that taint people’s lives from time to time, her focus now is on building her business, Prestige Administrative Services, which offers a range of services that include administrative tasks, proof reading, delivering speaking and writing engagements and event coordination.
Beyond that, she wants to also excel as a mentor and a motivational speaker. It is, she says, her way of helping people to realise their ambitions, perhaps in the same way that she has been doing. She is, she says, a “self-made woman.”
Prince-Haynes was born in La Penitence, grew up mostly in Mocha and afterwards migrated to Barbados. These days, she holds both Guyanese and Barbadian citizenship and lives in her adopted homeland with her husband and her eight-year-old son.
She told her story at the launch with the polished ease of a practiced public speaker and the sharpening of her communication skills, she says, derives largely from her exposure to the image-building influence of the Toastmasters Club in Barbados. To that experience she adds the vast array of experience she has secured interacting with people in the course of doing a number of jobs in the construction and postal sectors and as an accounting assistant.
Mulling opportunities that may lie ahead in Guyana, Prince-Haynes believes that her skills as a motivational speaker and trainer in service standards can contribute to honing the right attitudinal mindset as demands for higher service standards within the local workplace grow to match the demands of an oil and gas economy.
