Personal Leadership and Human Resource Management Archives

December 1

3 days

Refining your Interpersonal Skills

The complexities of today’s business environment elevates the importance of communication and relationship management. In the face of economic uncertainty, a surge in the virtual side of business, an increase in intricacy of expectations of stakeholders and competition styles, relationship management has changed greatly from what it used to be a decade ago. Economic, social [...]

September 30

2 weeks

Happiness and Productivity

Studies show that happy workplaces encourage productivity by over 31%, increase retention by 44%, grow the bottom line and sales by 37%, and enable greater innovation by over 300% (Seligman, 2002). Likewise, a 2015 study on happiness cultures in workplaces found that when employees are motivated by curiosity in work, rather than out of fear [...]

November 2

5 months

Leading and Managing Organisational Change

We live in an era of rapid change. Some of it is planned, a lot more is forced upon us. It is, therefore, necessary that managers and leaders are equipped to lead and chaperon teams and organizations through seasons of change to get the outcomes they want and not that thrust upon them. The Leading [...]

October 22

6 days

Search Inside Yourself (SIY)

Originally developed at Google and now available to everyone, Search Inside Yourself takes an evidence-based approach combining neuroscience, attention- training, and emotional intelligence. The program is highly interactive and integrates individual and small group exploratory sessions. Companies such as SAP, Deloitte, Salesforce, Ford, United Nations, and Hyatt to name a few, look to Search Inside Yourself [...]

September 29

2 weeks

Workplace Conflict Management & Resolution Skills

Conflicts are inevitable in every human relationship. They are a natural feature of human communication that managers often have to deal with among their employees on a daily basis. Conflicts need not be seen as negative; however, if not resolved effectively, they can have devastating effects on employee morale, productivity, and customer relations. On the [...]

July 6

6 weeks

Authentic Leadership

The Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment presents unique challenges for organisations that want to ensure longetivity. Today, the preeminent factor in ensuring long-term business survival is leadership: Decisive , Accountable and Strategic Leadership. People with the ability to create and sustain engaging business climates for harnessing the thoughts and ideas of others, to [...]

September 2

3 weeks

Leadership in Health and Safety Management

Health and Safety management has moved from being a reactive programme about procedures and concern about merely avoiding injuries and complying with legislation to being a proactive, forward looking enabler of sustainable competitiveness through astute assessment and management of risks and an organizational culture that behaviourally conditions staff to be ethical and highly empowered value [...]

November 9

5 days

Executive Team Leadership

Globalisation, economic uncertainty, stiff competition, and the general complexities of today’s business are compelling CEOs to depend on inter-disciplinary diversity-based strategic thinking for organisational success. Consequently teamwork has become an indispensable organisational tool for developing and managing strategies required to successfully tackle today’s global challenges. Teaming behaviours exhibited at the executive level dictates the level [...]

November 23

5 days

Mastering Human Resources Management

In 2014 Boston Group interview of CEO worldwide on Business priorities in the next 10 years, talent management was number one. Employee Engagement was second followed by leadership in general. Details of this survey and how to meet these prorates demand an enhanced role for HR and HR professionals. Increasingly, HR will be required to [...]

September 15 - 16, 2020

2 Days

Advanced HR Management

For a long time, the HR function had to struggle to get a seat in the boardroom of their organisations. Today, the issue is different. Now that the HR function has a seat, the question is “What does HR bring into the room and what should HR bring”? Related to these are questions around how [...]

September 8

3 weeks

Winning Skills and Tools for Negotiation

Negotiation is a pervasive activity that permeates all spheres of human endeavour. Particularly, within the realms of international relations, labour management relations, international and domestic trade, equipment sourcing, peacemaking with host communities, marketing of organizational products/services and the development of various forms of strategic alliances etc.; negotiation becomes a compulsory activity that people must undertake. [...]

November 23

3 weeks

Winning with Influencing and Assertiveness Skills

Increased intercultural interaction and diversity – a consequence of globalisation and the attendant virtual nature of today’s work across national and cultural boundaries – is drawing attention to the inter-cultural dimensions of interpersonal and cross-organisational communication. Over time, the workplace has witnessed a multiplicity of generations. Managing and relating across these various generations of the [...]

September 29

3 weeks

Employment Law and Industrial Relations

In a constantly changing, knowledge based and conflict prone national and global economy managing employer-employee relations is so critical on so many levels. Getting the best out of human capital is critical to creation of value and winning against competition. Society is becoming more legal rights conscious, regulations and legal trip wires are steadily exploding. [...]

November 9

3 days

Building and Leading the 21st Century Team

As business and social environments are continually faced with economic uncertainty, competition and ever-increasing customer expectations, organisations constantly seek ways to more than just exist. With solutions such as mergers, acquisitions and a deliberate collapse of Organisational hierarchies, the task of getting people (of different backgrounds) to work together productively becomes even more challenging. This [...]