Training and Development
Releasing Your True Potential to Produce Results
Our company had the opportunity to facilitate this topic (Releasing Your True Potential to Produce Results) as a staff development programme at a progressive company in Uganda. Its mandate depends on effectiveness, efficiency, client service, delivery and ultimately, helping and saving lives. The Training Manager, who influenced the title and design of this programme, genuinely…
Read More4 Things to Support Salespeople Succeed
“Sales is the lifeblood of any business. Nothing happens unless a sales is made. Everybody sells something. The purpose of business is to make and keep a customer.” You’ve heard this before? And yet, sales is viewed as taboo: unclean, embarrassing, sleazy and pushy. And a further paradox: sales people are usually the highest paid…
Read MoreUsing Employee Climate Surveys in the Workplace
Companies that engage their staff are more likely to improve workplace satisfaction and inclusion than those who do not or simply assume what’s best. Workplace Climate Surveys or Employee Climate Surveys can help scan internal environment of employees. This can be the start of making better decisions, an important input into strategic planning or showing that your company cares about how their people ‘think and…
Read MoreDiversity and Inclusion in the workplace
After 23 years into our new democratic South Africa, diversity and inclusion still remains a challenge in the workplace. This is not just a mindset or issue of cultural incompetence – but now a strategic priority in organisations. Diversity and inclusion encompasses acceptance and respect. It means that each individual is unique, that we should recognize individual differences, BUT also our…
Read MoreWorking under an autocratic leadership style
We’ve all dreaded this; but sometimes in our working careers we experience a leader who exhibits an autocratic leadership style. What do we do? Do we curse, bemoan, play victim to such a leader – or do we make adjustments within ourselves? I think the latter is more appropriate. What is an autocratic leader? A…
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