Simply Communicate
People-management Solutions
Employment Equity worries Employment Equity reports are due, which usually creates worries for finance and HR executives at this time of year. Failure to submit can have disastrous effects on your …
Continue Reading about Employment Equity training and reporting – get help today →
How will we do business after Covid-19? What will business look like. There is an old story of a man who had recently arrived in the community. He asked one of the residents what the people there …
Continue Reading about ‘Take your chair home’ – How does your business feel? →
It's our BIRTHDAY! Simply Communicate is NINE YEARS OLD TODAY!! What has filled your last nine years? Joys and sorrows, struggles and (hopefully) success – and some stories to write home …
Performance management focusses on rules, standards, goals.... Important stuff, but performance agreements aren’t much help when customers are clamouring. Because of the way we are wired, our …
Continue Reading about Roots and fruit: Why performance management doesn’t work →
Compliance nightmares tempt us into forgetting that Human Resource Management is about humans and not just data. There are Covid-19 protocols, SETAs, Employment Equity, B-BBEE, COIDA, Health and …
Continue Reading about Compliance nightmares: Keeping Human Resources human →
Job descriptions One of the problems with job descriptions is that they are static documents which, at best, only reflect the job as it was when it was written. In reality, jobs and roles within an …
Continue Reading about Job Descriptions: A dead end or a road map? →
I have been editing a client’s policy manual. Too many of the policy manuals I have come across are over-long, over-complicated and unwieldy. Have you read yours lately? Does anybody? The great …
Continue Reading about Drowning in policies? Focus on culture →
South Africa is still reeling from the shock of the looting and destruction unleashed last week on the roads and in the cities and malls of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – Pietermaritzburg in …
Continue Reading about In the midst of chaos, it’s people who matter →
Chief White Eagle of the American Hopi nation is said on social media to have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic: ‘This moment (we) are living through can be considered a door or a hole. …
Continue Reading about A hole or a door? How do you see what is in front of you? →
