I’m a big advocate of temp work. Doing temp work for a period of time changed my career direction and ultimately changed my life. It was the best decision I could have made at that time – not that I knew that then. Let me take you back to 2006. I was at a career […]
Month: May 2018
Employability Skills – are they becoming extinct?
More and more employers want people with employability skills. Less and less job seekers seem to have employability skills. Where is the disconnect? By employability skills I mean the skills and attributes, the values and personal qualities an individual has to offer an employer. The skills and attributes that help a person to succeed in […]
Procrastinating does no one any favours when terminating employment
If you are a people manager, chances are at some stage you’ve been confronted with having to make the decision to terminate one of your team members employment. I don’t think I have ever met a people manager who enjoys this element of the job or hasn’t lost sleep over making a decision that will […]
Care first – Manage second
We have all experienced a high pressure work situation. The looming critical deadline. The tender that needs to be submitted or the manufacturing production schedule that needs to be obtained to make a shipment. Or the sales budget that needs to be achieved to hit the targets. No matter what role you work in or […]
Smashing open the “thinking” box – Lessons in Leadership from the 2018 VRCLP Leadership Summit
Leadership. Many of us aspire to be a leader. We spend our working life trying to climb the ladder to get to a leadership position. Some of us get there and end up deciding leadership is not for us. Others shy away from being appointed to a leadership role – to having that official leadership […]