Featured Why you need to unlearn in order to learn
We are living in an era of digital disruption. In order to stay relevant, companies and the people who serve those…
Month: May 2018
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Featured Great leaders are great students
As you progress through your career, what type of learning path do you choose to take? You could either choose to…
Featured Managing Talent: Fact or Fiction?
I recently watched an Interview with a panel of leading SA recruitment agents and employers regarding how to manage up and…
Featured Prioritise what you learn
If you know and understand the importance of continuous learning, how do you focus on what to learn. With the benefit…
Featured How to entrench a new skill
Mastering a new skill and learning and adapting to new trends is not optional in today’s business environment – it is…
Featured Developing Global Leaders
With the dramatic growth of international business, leaders and professionals who have global mindset are in high demand. This is also…
Featured Write a professional Bio
As a leader in business, knowing the skill of writing a professional Bio is critical to getting you noticed, increasing your…
Featured Interview Advice: Fact or Fiction
Preparing for an interview and just the thought of being interviewed can be daunting to most people. The last thing that…
Featured Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist?
You have studied for your degree and qualified in your area of specialism. You completed the required number of years for…
Featured Holding on to a job for too long
People stay in particular jobs for many reasons. Sometimes its loyalty to their manager or to the company. Perhaps the person…
10 steps towards becoming a better listener
In her book entitled, ‘A time to think,’ Nancy Kline wrote about the importance of business leaders to give people the…
A More Assertive You!
Self Assertiveness means to have self-confidence about what you want and to be able to communicate effectively about it. It does…
Body gestures and its global interpretation!
There are some common socially accepted interpretations of body language within business circles. For example: Openness is displayed by: Showing open…
Business lessons from Warren Buffet
I recently read the book, “The Tao of Warren Buffett,” by Mary Buffett & David Clark. This book contained some great…
Dealing with criticism
In our daily interactions with people, both in and out of the working environment, we need to deal with criticism. In…
Cubicle Etiquette
Most offices adopt the “open-plan” concept of work. This essentially means that there are fewer offices with doors and more use…
Dealing with anger in the workplace
Within the working environment, there could exist many triggers that result in you becoming angry. Some of those triggers include: Being…
Dealing with office gossip and grapevines!
It is bound to happen to you sometime within your career, or perhaps even, more than once: You are the butt…
Demystifying Psychometric Tests
When looking at the word “psychometric” you might be tempted to think that these are tests aimed to gain a metric…
Failure: A Feedback Mechanism towards our Success
Any individual who is deluded into thinking that we can live our lives without going through some sort of failure are…
Guidelines to help you with any interview!
For some reason, most people are petrified about getting into an interview – and I can never understand why! An…
Invited to a cocktail party? No problem!
By its nature, a cocktail party is conducted over a short period with the objective for attendees to network. As with…
Is there someone who is pushing your ‘buttons?’
As a trained facilitator in The Demartini Method© myself, I regularly consult with people who are either highly infatuated with, or…
Leadership Lessons 201
We have all heard about the leadership lessons from business icons. Some of us too might have, or currently hold leadership…