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Eight Ways to Evaluate your HR Function
27 August 2017
HR is under scrutiny to manage costs better, demonstrate its effectiveness and show how its contributions add value to the…
Understanding Business Processes
20 August 2017
Working in a new paradigm A “way of seeing things” is also a way of not seeing other things and…
Managing the GIFT of feedback; a tool for organisational transformation
6 August 2017
Ask any athlete, without feedback there is no rationale for improvement. Knowledge of results is a spur that pushes top…
The Management Trends: The Right Management Style
23 July 2017
Know your Management Style Now! Ever wondered how you perform as a manager or supervisor? Have you tried assessing yourself…
A Reflection: Do we need Leaders or Managers?
16 July 2017
A Leader vs. Manager Discourse It is easy to spend some time discussing the difference between managers and leaders, my…
Leadership for Administrative Leaders
11 July 2017
Are you Leadership Material? I often ask people what they believe is the first step required in order to gain…
Practical Business Planning
10 July 2017
Developing and Delivering and Effective Business Plan “To fail to plan is to plan to fail” – Benjamin Franklin, 1750…
Leading the Way: Defining Strategy
28 June 2017
Understanding the External Environment in Devising a Strategy How much time should organisations devote to strategy? How effectively can one…
5 Things to Consider When Choosing a Training Provider
13 June 2017
Training and developing your people should be a key focus of any organisation, as we know it’s the people that…
Managing Employee Performance, Behavior and Attitudes
1 June 2017
Why almost everybody including employees and managers dread Performance Reviews and Appraisal? This is because we FEEL before we THINK.…
Does HR have a future? What needs to transform to keep HR relevant?
29 May 2017
Human Resource Management is at a crossroads. For the past twenty years, HR has increasingly found a seat at the…
Beating Your Comfort Zone, Welcoming More Risks
23 May 2017
Benefits of being motivated to have bigger dreams Imagine standing on top of a large skyscraper. In front of you…
Scenario Planning in the Oil and Gas Industry
14 May 2017
The oil and gas industry has experienced a decade of extreme price volatility, unheard of technological disruptions and changing geopolitical…
Negotiating & Dispute Resolutions
1 May 2017
Business, and life for that matter, is really a succession of negotiations from the moment we are awake until we…
It’s Time to Change
2 April 2017
There has never been a more important time for organisations of every kind to embrace change proactively. For organisations with…
The Newly Appointed Manager: Guidelines for Interpersonal Success
26 March 2017
Newly appointed to a supervisory, team leadership to management position? Congratulations on your new role. But just how ready are…
Money – Motivator or Demotivator?
19 March 2017
Whenever I discuss the topic of motivation on training courses, the response is often ‘Yes, money is a motivator’. I…
Managing your Projects as Unique
9 March 2017
Project managers pride themselves on past successes, and rightly so. However, sometimes that causes issues – as we can’t expect…