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Setting a vision for your life is one of the most effective ways of improving your life. A clear vision helps you see possibilities and opportunities around you. It is important to define a clear vision because, oftentimes, it feels like you are wasting your time because it feels like you won’t be able to achieve most of your goals or we don’t see the bigger picture, however, if you have a positive mindset and you apply it daily, it will be easier for you to achieve your goa

Coaching has become an integral part of managing employees and improving their performance. Coaching is often confused with career counseling or performance reviews as it comprises similar activities. However, coaching is fundamentally the day-to-day, hands-on process of helping employees recognize opportunities to improve their performance and their capabilities. Over the years, coaching has evolved to become an expected competency for supervisors, and through its evolution

When it comes to Performance Management the process is applied differently in all organisations, where the components of Performance Management are split into different departments to hold the accountability, each working independently. This is the mistake made by most organisations. An effective Performance Management process should be integrated and work together as one process. It requires the commitment and dedication not only by HR but by all the executive teams and empl

Firstly, we need to understand what Communication is to be able to understand why it is so important. Communication is the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another using mutually understood signs, symbols, and language. The main process fundamental to all communication is the formation of communicative motivation or reason, the message composition, and the message encoding. Simply put, communication is not only verbal talks, it ranges from the audio to im

As many of us are still stuck at home during this pandemic. Many are searching for ways to stay productive without comprising the work-life balance. Our new office has become our home and for many of us, we find it challenging striking the balance between completing work tasks whilst at home in a world of constant digital distractions. Three-quarters of employees experience burnout every year. While COVID is going to be around for a while, without the right processes to adapt

Effective performance management is more than just creating a work environment that works. Effective performance management is about having the right leadership driving the organisation towards a performance culture. Accountability plays a big role in effective performance management as employees need to be given the space to perform their tasks however the buck stops with them and they will be accountable for their delivery. Here are 5 tips to make things run more smoothly a

Here are ten tips on ways to create and share ownership within your Organisation.

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In my previous article, I wrote on “Top 10 mistakes when trying to implement the balanced scorecard” I discussed various mistakes organizations make when implementing the balanced scorecard system. Let us have a look at some of the benefits of the implementation of the balanced scorecard framework within your Organisation. 1. A useful tool for strategic planning The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful tool for building and communicating the organization’s strategy. The BSC

The balanced scorecard is a management framework. It is widely adopted by many Organisations in both South Africa and globally. Research has shown that companies who have implemented the balanced scorecard system have achieved a high level of performance improvement compared to those organisations without a strategic management framework in place. If your organization chooses the balanced scorecard to manage and measure its strategic growth, there are some common pitfalls tha

Crises is a complex phenomenon, and it can be difficult to wrap our heads around them in a useful way. To help us understand and reason about crisis, we are going to enlist the help of a metaphor, that of Crisis as a Spotlight. The idea is that a crisis begins, and a spotlight turns on, and shines down on you and your organisation. In normal times, there is relatively little attention on you. Your customers, your suppliers, employees, families, a few stakeholders, are paying

Reputation is important in crisis management. It requires us to ask, What is Reputation? At a personal level, reputation is something we are all familiar with. Are you nice? Are you generous, mean, selfish? Your reputation is beliefs about your habits or characteristics that are widely held. Having a good reputation is valuable in life, at home, among friends, and at work. Corporate reputation follows the same logic. And surprisingly, the sources of corporate reputation paral

For those remote working parents currently in this boat, these simple 6 tips can help you stay afloat. After the President’s announcement of the 21-day lockdown in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, most employees are forced to work from home. For many of us, this is a challenge, especially if you have kids! Schools and day-care centres across the country have closed, and social distancing means help from domestic workers, au pairs, grandparents or other relatives of

One of the greatest demands of our working time is sending emails. It is important, as it is in line with the demands of our jobs. However, many people send out emails to more recipients and with a higher frequency than is often required. Let us look at how we can analyse the efficiency of the emailing process. Firstly, analyze: See what kind of impact it has on your day in terms of the timing. 1. How many emails do you receive on an average day? _____ 2. How many of those em

70 000 people in the Yokohama Stadium, Japan, rose to their feet in rapturous applause as Siya Kolisi lifted the Webb Ellis trophy of the Rugby World Cup 2019 on Saturday, November 2. The crowd and millions of viewers around the world were celebrating a magnificent performance from the Springboks vs England match. It is easy to get swept up in the emotion of the Boks winning Rugby’s premier prize for the third time, but South African rugby’s first African Captain underlined t

7 Tips for Becoming a Better Listener

Here are some common listening problems, and some ways you can prevent or resolve them:

Active listening means that we try to understand things from the speaker’s point of view.

Automated processes can set the right activities into motion, but it can take a lot of initial hard work. However, once set up, the results will be worthwhile. When you automate your business processes, which typically make up the disorder and frustration in your Organisation, you essentially wipe out the stressful tasks faced by your Employees. When there is chaos in an administrative environment, it tends to lead to human error, which could end up being costly to the organi

We have identified and listed the top 5 Issues which might be affecting your productivity and how you could avoid them. We live in a world with constant #distractions and though we try to be more productive and stay focused we often end up in a state of chaos. In our day and age there is an overload of information that occupies our every minute. As companies are downsizing the burden is on individuals to get the work done which was previously done by more people. We need to w