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Are You a Learning Legend?
Last week we launched our online Learning Legends programme. This allows everyone on our current mailing list to have access to our wealth of information and programmes for developing both you and your business. The [...]
Cutting, pruning and firing
I am not an HR or Labour consultant, so this post is not about how to fire a staff member and not end up at the CCMA. Every business seems to have at least one [...]
Accountability and assessments
You cannot manage what you do not measure and you cannot reward what you do not manage. We see and hear this all the time at productivity seminars, but how does this apply to your [...]
Staff development and education
All staff need to be developed as the business grows and changes. There is nothing worse that a staff member who has worked for a business for many years and only has one month’s experience, [...]
Inducting staff into your business
New staff are just that new. They may have looked and sounded great at the interview but they still remain new and know nothing about what you do or how it is done. You can [...]
Recruiting the right people for the right job
Getting the right person with the right skill, enthusiasm, expertise and confidence for the post within your business is as rare as winning the Lotto. Or is it? What can be done to better recruit [...]
Are Your Staff Developing?
This week we will look at staff development within small businesses. I am convinced that our staff are and always will be our most important asset. But with this comes a huge maintenance bill and [...]
Nation Minimum Wage
Minimum wage set to improve many people’s lives as South Africa will be joining several other countries who have implemented a national minimum wage as a way of economic and social development. Deputy President Cyril [...]