by Jenny Reid
The AI Act is a European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI)—the first comprehensive regulation of AI by a significant regulator anywhere. The Act assigns AI applications to three risk categories.
Read moreHow To Create An Ideal Average Day
by Lori Milner
What will it take to create your ideal average day? Notice I didn’t say your ideal day because that probably involves being on a beach somewhere sipping cocktails. Those are the exceptions throughout the year, but what if you could get better at creating your ideal average day with work commitments, school runs and the usual in-betweens?
Read more10 Benefits of Individual Financial Coaching in Today's Challenging Economic Climate
by Kathryn Main
In an era marked by rising living costs and stagnant salaries, achieving financial stability and prosperity has become increasingly challenging for many individuals. In such a landscape, personalized financial coaching emerges as a beacon of hope, offering tailored guidance and support to navigate the complexities of personal finance. Let's delve into the tenfold benefits of individual financial coaching and why it's indispensable in today's world.
Read morePuleng Kgosiesele, a mindset coach helping people to maximise their full potential in Botswana
Puleng Kgosiesele, Founding Director, MindGYM (Botswana)
Startup Story
Puleng Kgosiesele is the Founding Director of MindGYM in Botswana. A Mindset Coach, Facilitator, and Speaker, her business is focused on empowering others to show up and participate in work and life in new ways, making new choices, and practicing new behaviours needed for lasting change in the area of personal growth. She offers solutions based on elevating mindsets, to strip away misguided self-beliefs that hinder and thwart people at every turn, helping them mature into a more complex understanding of themselves and maximizing their full potential.
Read moreMastering Self-Coaching: Questions to Move from Resolutions to Results
by Lori Milner
Are your New Year's resolutions going strong, or are they a distant memory, and the year feels like it's running away without you? You may also feel that your resolutions are irrelevant because circumstances have shifted beyond what you'd expected, and they seem immaterial in the scheme of things. To recalibrate, consider booking off time for a mid-year annual review. An offsite planning day just for yourself; it doesn't have to be a full day, even a few hours.
Read moreCV Reference Checks, A Lifeline for Employers
by Jenny Reid
CV Reference Checks are a valuable part of the pre-employment screening process as these days, it is incredibly simple to falsify prior employment, references, and education. A CV reference check verifies all the information provided by a candidate in their CV and either confirms the information is factual or proves that the information is false or exaggerated.
Read moreAre Criminal Record Checks Relevant to Your Employee Screening Process?
by Jenny Reid
Criminal record checks are one of the world’s leading forms of pre-employment checks. Should you be able to deny a candidate employment based purely on their criminal record check?
Read moreCreating Respectful and Trusted Workplaces
by Paula Quinsee
People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and rewards - Dale Carnegie
One item that regularly comes up as a low rating in our employee surveys is: "The company makes enough use of recognition and rewards other than money to encourage good performance." Recognition makes a person feel valued, appreciated, and most importantly visible (i.e. I see you).
Read moreHow to Coach Your Team When Your Time Feels Stretched
by Lori Milner
The most common challenge among leaders is balancing coaching and mentoring their teams with the demands of everyday work. What if you changed your mindset from needing dedicated time to coaching individuals to integrating it into everyday conversations? Can you adopt a coach-like mindset by helping individuals see a solution they couldn't see on their own? The goal is to guide people to think differently and, more importantly, think further ahead than one hour, one day, and one week.
Read moreHow to Give Feedback That Inspires Confidence and Enables Growth
by Lori Milner
When delivering feedback, you tend to focus on the conversation itself. While important, have you considered what must happen before the conversation? There is work before the work to ensure you can deliver your feedback with grace and compassion and the outcome of building this person rather than breaking them. Sometimes, you need to deliver hard outcomes, but how you do it will leave the person appreciative and inspired to change rather than defeated and resentful.
Read moreUnderstanding New Laws and Regulations FICA Act
by Jenny Reid
Often you will hear employers in South Africa complaining bitterly about the complex regulatory landscape that they have to operate in. This now includes the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA). While FICA primarily focuses on combating money laundering and financing terrorism, its impact extends beyond financial institutions to encompass various sectors, including many other businesses and employers. Ignoring FICA requirements can have significant consequences and it is now essential for employers to understand and comply with FICA regulations.
Read moreTaryn Marcus, a South African change-making entrepreneur helping organisations to thrive
Taryn Marcus, co-founder, Reinvent CoLab (South Africa)
Startup Story
Taryn Marcus, co-founder of Reinvent CoLab in South Africa, prides herself as a devoted change agent and positive disruptor, with an enterprise perspective. She collaboratively works to create organizations where people perform better, feel engaged, deliver customer value, and have fun - all at the same time. Taryn has a special focus on methodologies that aid individuals, teams, and organizations build mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets to make continuous reinvention a competitive advantage. She brings almost two decades of Human Capital experience in both established and emerging markets, 15 of which have been at Executive management level for listed complex multinational (pan-African, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North American) organizations. Taryn is a registered Industrial psychologist and Harvard Business School Alumnus.
Read moreDo You Need to Add PEP and Sanctions Tests to Your Employee Screening Policy?
by Jenny Reid
In South Africa, PEP (Politically Exposed Person) and sanctions tests are typically used by financial institutions and certain designated non-financial businesses and professions to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations.
Read moreShould You Take Employment References at Face Value?
by Jenny Reid
With unemployment rates continuing to escalate and the cost-of-living soaring people are increasingly desperate to find work and will stop at nothing to get their job application to the top of the pile.
Read moreA Skills-Focused Workplace Model, The Future of Work
by Jenny Reid
A “job” is defined as “a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price”. A “skill” is defined “as the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc.” Work has traditionally been focused on jobs, completing the tasks required to fulfil a certain job description. However, Deloitte, suggests instead of looking at work as a series of jobs, we should be focused more on the set of skills held by employees and how those benefit the company as a whole.
Read moreThe Age of Technology and the Rise of Workplace Misconduct – How Should You Protect Your Business?
by Nicolene Schoeman-Louw
Unfortunately, some employees may engage in acts of misconduct from time to time in the workplace. The figures related to the number of disputes referred to by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration ("CCMA") and bargaining councils confirm the truth of this statement. Misconduct can take many forms, including theft, unauthorised possession, dishonesty, negligence, and absenteeism.
Read moreShaping The Future of Work: 2024 Workplace Trends
by Phillipa Geard
The year 2024 is in full swing and stands as a crucial juncture in workplace dynamics, setting the stage for the future of work. Traditional, rigid work practices are fading into obscurity, making way for a landscape characterized by technology, skill diversification, and flexibility.
Read moreReturnships are a smart way to hire female tech skills
by Phillipa Geard
In the dynamic landscape of today's workforce, career trajectories are no longer linear. Often, women step away from their careers to raise children, and when the children are of school-going age, these women wish to resume their careers without starting at the bottom and working their way back to their mid-to-senior levels. Returnships are short, paid internships for professionals who have been away from work for some time and are now ready to return to mid-to-senior level positions. Women with skills can start over in their careers by choosing a returnship with a company that knows how valuable work experience is, especially in the tech industry. Returnships enable women to swiftly reenter the workforce, brush up on their skills, and get the required mentoring while resuming their management roles. A few businesses that are effectively using returnships to reintroduce tech skills into the workforce are IBM, Deloitte, and Paypal.
Read moreTravel as Therapy - Embracing Adaptability and Growth on the Road
by Anja van Beek, Talent Strategist, Leadership & HR Expert and Executive Coach
Let me just start: I.love.travel. A little-known fact about me is that I travelled abroad for two years after I completed my degree and before starting in my first corporate role. I was in my early 20’s and it was my first time abroad. This is where my love for travelling was ignited as it was amazing to be exposed to new cultures, food, and people, and most of all, to be part of the different communities for more time than usual.
Read moreHow to manage the silent stress of leadership cognitive load
by Phillipa Geard
Leaders are burdened with an immense amount of pressure and accountability. While it is the norm for employers to prioritize employee wellness, it is also critical that they recognize the potential hidden costs of stress on their health and productivity.
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