Thoughts about Covid-19 lockdown & three things to do
‘See you in three weeks’ has never seemed so serious. What’s different with the Covid-19 lockdown? Anticipation and expectation. Three things to do
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Improving your hiring skills: A toolbox talk
A 30-minute toolbox talk on hiring
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An HR Workshop for the Chamber of Business
It is always a privilege to lead a workshop for the Pietermaritzburg and Midlands Chamber of Business. This week it was a half-day workshop on Human Resource Management (HRM). The subject of HRM is broad, complex and, some would say, messy. In many smaller companies it is the Admin or Finance Manager, the Marketing or…
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2020: Ready, steady, GO
What do you want from your employees in 2020? My guess is engagement: acting with skill, commitment and confidence. It won’t just happen. Employees respond to your lead. Offer employees training to encourage their engagement with the business and with your customers. Will training help? Training provides employees with skills, but training also improves their…
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Parental Leave: A New Year gift from DoL
The parental-leave provisions of the amended Basic Conditions of Employment Act have been implemented. Effective 1 January 2020
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Do you Christmas? Religious festivals and the workplace
Our many religious festivals are signs of our differences. When we celebrate our differences, we learn to engage with new ideas and our customers notice
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Christmas pain and power — A poem
The real Christmas gift, the heart of the story ….
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New skills for a new age: Skills your team needs in 2020
What skills will your team need in 2020 and beyond? Simply Communicate specialises in developing people skills that, according to research, will be critical
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Four elements of engagement: James Cook and parental discipline
Might is not right. Relationships matter. Long-term success emerges from engagement, not confrontation.
Here are four key elements of engagement
Listening, a radical new skill for the world’s new problems
It is said that people at the turn of the last century thought they needed faster horses but that Henry Ford recognised the underlying problem: people needed faster, safer and cheaper transport. Recent research suggests that, by 2020, 42 percent of core skills will have changed. It points to huge disruption in the way work…
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