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Creating the Learning Environment for a New Team
When you take over a team, or start a new one, the first challenge is not motivation. It is learning. Most managers assume that team members understand the…
Gamification – Not a New Swearword
You would be forgiven for thinking that gamification describes a new type of weapons technology that shoots gamma rays.
Management Education as Practised Judgement
Serious About Business: The MBA as a Management Discipline By Dr Riaan Steenberg An MBA should not be treated as a badge.
Engagement – the Key to Performance
Performance drives business more than in any other time in history. How do we get to a measure of company performance that is reasonable and that will be a…
Creativity – See the World Differently
To educate yourself is to start to look at the world differently. Through the lenses of those that have gone before us – we are initiated into methods…
The Science of Business
A lot of entrepreneurs focus on their gut feel and intuition to get ahead in the game. This may not be the only or best approach and there is a lot that can…
Emotional Labour
Some jobs have more emotional content than others. This has led to the coining of the term “emotional labour†describing an aspect of all of our jobs where…
Better Change
New ventures and even existing businesses are not immune to the powers of change. Change also happens when it is least expected and the interaction between…
Moving Human Resources from Compliance to Strategy
For most organisations the human resource function is simply one that feeds into compliance.
Meyers Briggs Types
ISTJ – The Duty Fulfiller Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed…
Building Organisational Culture – One Employee at a Time
You walk out of the interview and you think you got the job. The skills matched, the experience matched and you felt that it would be a great place to work….
Is Culture Enough
You walk out of the interview and you think you got the job. The skills matched, the experience matched and you felt that it would be a great place to work….