All Blog Posts Tagged 'leadership' (52)

The FNB "You Can Help Campaign" is an attack on the ruling party and its leadership, the ANC said on Monday.

"The African National Congress is appalled by First National Bank (FNB) advertisements in which the ANC, its leadership and government, is under attack on an commercial masqueraded as youth views," said spokesperson Jackson Mthembu.

"What is of concern to the ANC is that the advert content is [an] undisguised political statement…

You know who they are... The individuals in your company blessed with that indefinable X factor for success. The ones you know are destined for senior executive roles in your organisation, the ones whose names always crop up when succession planning is discussed. Well they may still be waiting in the wings, but you have an opportunity to let them know that you recognise and appreciate their talent. Nominate them today for a place in the coveted Tomorrow's Leaders Alumni…

Many, specifically engineers and economists argue that it is time to mechanize mining, given the current labour unrest and also the wake of Marikana. The basic idea is that it current depths and other physical considerations actually demands it and at the same time will the cost savings eventually benefit the economy as a whole. Here are some of my ideas on the issue:

1. The issue is not only about cost saving and making profit. It is about reasonable…

We should be careful that our perspectives reflect a mind-set that will perpetuate the current climate of industrial anarchy in the mining sector. In terms of the Marikina incident several factors that require further investigation. Some of these include:…

Companies like to use the word "innovation" all the time. CEOs, Annual Reports and Press Releases are full of it. Businesses throw around the term to show they're on the cutting edge of everything from IT to customer service. But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating. Instead they are using the word to convey everyday progress.

Innovation has become a cliché. Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of 'The Innovator's…

Greg Smith did not agree with the corporate culture at his employer, Goldman Sachs, so on 14 March, 2012, he resigned. And he did so publicly, very publicly – the reasons for his resignation was explained in a scathing column in the New York Times of the same date. Greg, an expatriate South African, was the London-based executive director of equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs, one of the more successful investment banks on Wall Street. In his New York Times exposé he described a…

Mobilising citizens and communities to partner with teachers to educate our children

Dear Sylvia

We have received many requests for more information about the School @ the Centre of Community societal change process and specifically the Partner for Possibility leadership development part of the process. I am sure you would know that this makes me very happy as we remain committed to mobilise South…

Employees who resign from a company leave for better pay, right? Well, that is what most managers seem to believe. According to Leigh Branham, author of The Seven Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, a recent analysis of California-based Saratoga Institute’s database of 19,700 employee surveys found that ‘89% of managers believe that most employees are pulled away by better pay’. However, the same analysis also showed that 88% of the voluntary resignations…

9 Feb 2012



Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly,

Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces;

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP;

Deputy President of the Republic, Honourable Kgalema Motlanthe;

Former Deputy President FW De Klerk,

Former Deputy President Baleka Mbete,

Honourable Chief Justice of the Republic, and all esteemed members of the Judiciary;

Honourable Chairperson of the SADC…

Coming from a psychological background, one of the fundamentals that I worked with was change. People would bring their past into the room and, through exploration and challenging, hopefully leave with a fresh perspective about their lives and their future.

The difficulty though was that, for many, the prospect of actually facing up to their past’s and challenging them was a daunting task and it was safer, and easier, to simply hold onto what they knew. This gave them a…

So there you are – in control, quite content, coasting along, impressed with yourself. You have settled well into your new job, the team is chugging along just fine, and their overall performance is OK – not spectacular, but OK. You are doing a good job, right? Maybe, maybe not. The question you have to ask yourself is this: have you actually made a difference since you took over as manager, have you actually added any value to the job? Think about it – if you were to leave now, what…

Are you wanting to make a difference? Dave Sherwood-Adcock, a business and life Coach and Founder of The Client Service Factory, shares his effective questioning techniques on 'How to make a real difference' and more importantly to ascertain 'How great is your actual reason why?'

Very often the reason a person is seeking to make a difference will already be known or be obvious to you. However as a Coach you only need to…

The person most influential in the motivation level of employees is the supervisor or team leader followed by co-workers, support personnel, higher management, and the organization itself, i.e. structure, policies, and systems.  This workshop will help improve communication, increase productivity, promote self-awareness and acceptance of differences, enhance individual and team performance, and reduce conflict.  

Did you know that a recent study…

Ever wondered what makes the one soccer or rugby team perform better than the other? Is it the quality of the coaching or the number of super-talented (and expensive!) star players or perhaps maybe the level of teamwork and tactics they employ? No doubt these aspects play a part…

 Salary £58,358 to £100,526 per year inclusive of London allowance, dependent on assessment through the College's Professorial pay banding scheme

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 Posted 27 June 2011 14:51:00

 Closing Date:26 July 2011 12:00:00

 Description Professor of Organisation Studies: We would welcome applicants working in any areas within this field, but especially in work and employment, leadership, organisational psychology, organisational change and…

Nobody can be forced to be a leader. To be a leader one has to want to be a leader – it requires a conscious decision. I know a few talented individuals who simply do not want to be leaders – they don’t want the responsibilities and stress that go with leadership positions. I also know some executives who are not great leaders, because they have not taken the conscious decision…

The BANKSETA invites you to attend information sessions to prepare for training service provider (TSP) registration

for the 2011 phase of the Training Voucher Project.

Join us to find out how the registration process works and how to participate in the project to increase learning and

development opportunities for small and micro-enterprises in the microfinance industry.…