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Sales vs Engineering - building effective teams
Sales vs Engineering - building effective teams
[Johan Hanekom] Whether in the workplace, professional sports, or your local community, team building requires a keen understanding of people, their strengths and what gets them excited to work with others... read



INNOVATION MONTH
#InnovationMonth: Transformation, innovation and the critic
#InnovationMonth: Transformation, innovation and the critic

Hywel Glyn-Jones

How change management can enable the cultural shift that defines successful digital transformation in an organisation... read
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WOMEN'S MONTH
Inaugural Small Business Expo, #BuyABusiness Expo has 54% women exhibitors
Inaugural Small Business Expo, #BuyABusiness Expo has 54% women exhibitors
As Women's Month ends, the inaugural Small Business Expo and #BuyABusiness Expo continues to highlight the success stories of businesswomen in South Africa and beyond... read
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Entrepreneurship
SACBW annual gala to honour local businesswomen
SACBW annual gala to honour local businesswomen
The SA Council for Business Women (SACBW) will host its annual national gala dinner on 17 September at Southern Sun Pretoria... read
Winners of CapeTalk Small Business Awards
Winners of CapeTalk Small Business Awards
Card payments company Yoco has been named the winner of the 2016 CapeTalk Small Business Awards, sponsored by Sage One... read
Top young entrepreneurs to speak at Levi's Pioneer Nation Festival
Top young entrepreneurs to speak at Levi's Pioneer Nation Festival
The Levi's Pioneer Nation Festival offers a lineup packed with business lessons and backstories from a diverse mix of 40 of today's hottest young South African entrepreneurs... read
Johan Eksteen is overall winner of 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year competition
Johan Eksteen is overall winner of 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year competition
Johan Eksteen, owner of Agricon and a previous finalist in the Sanlam and Business/Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition, is the overall winner of the 2016 competition, announced in Johannesburg on 1 September 2016... read
Uncovering pathways to funding for (social) entrepreneurs
Uncovering pathways to funding for (social) entrepreneurs

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (a specialised unit at the UCT Graduate School of Business) is partnering with the Awethu Project and LifeCo UnLtd SA this year to take the Pathways to Funding Do-ference to Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town... read
Jobs & Recruitment
Afrillennials: who they are and how to hire them
Afrillennials: who they are and how to hire them

Andy Coe

Millennials are steadily overtaking older staff as South Africa's largest representative generation of workers, introducing an entirely new mindset that businesses will have to master... read
New SAA board appointments
New SAA board appointments
Eleven new non-executive directors have been appointed to the Board of SAA for a three year period starting from 1 September 2016... read
Online jobs scam exposed
Online jobs scam exposed

Shenaaz Jamal

Fraudsters masquerading as government employment agents have conned thousands of desperate job seekers into divulging their personal details, which they use to commit crimes... read
Boris Dzhingarov
Retaining employees is as important as retaining customers

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

It is many times more expensive and time-consuming to earn a new customer than it is to retain that customer. It's the same with top talent. Once you have one in the fold, you really want to be able to hang onto them... read
Labour Law & Unions
What power does a chairperson hold in a disciplinary appeal?
What power does a chairperson hold in a disciplinary appeal?

Michael Yeates and Bheki Nhlapho

Employers often miss out on the opportunity to prescribe important powers to chairpersons especially for internal appeals. This failure may later prove detrimental to the disciplinary process... read
Telkom restructuring deemed fair
Telkom restructuring deemed fair
The Labour Court has found that Telkom handled its restructuring process in a fair manner... read
Security officers' wages to increase next month
Security officers' wages to increase next month
The minimum wage in the private security sector will increase from 1 September 2016 by an average of 7.1%... read
Drunk enough to be dismissed?
Drunk enough to be dismissed?

Hugo Pienaar and Elizabeth Sonnekus

One would think that if an employee is found to be under the influence of alcohol at work, it is a straightforward dismissible offence. Recent case law has shown that this is not necessarily so... read
Management
Why payroll errors can cost employee morale
Why payroll errors can cost employee morale

Lavine Haripersad

Regardless of size, no organisation is immune to payroll errors, and while in some instances the impact will be felt on the bottom line, in most cases the hardest hit will be the employee... read
Are you struggling to understand Generation Y in the workplace?
Are you struggling to understand Generation Y in the workplace?

Antoinette Pombo

Generation Y, also known as millennials, were born between 1982 and 2003. They're between the ages of 13 and 34, so they're either in high school, tertiary institutions or employed in junior to mid positions... read
Five ways a virtual office can benefit a small business
Five ways a virtual office can benefit a small business

Issued by Naija Writers' Coach

The term virtual office often implies many things, which include provision of communication and address services without actually having a physical office space or meeting rooms... read
Skills Development & Training
New R300m floating dock revitalises economy and creates jobs
New R300m floating dock revitalises economy and creates jobs
A R300m investment into a new floating dock will give the shipping industry a major economic boost as well as enhance skills development... read
International
Marks and Spencer to cut around 525 head office jobs
Marks and Spencer to cut around 525 head office jobs
LONDON, UK: Marks and Spencer is to axe around 525 head office jobs and switch some 400 roles out of London to save costs, the British retail group announced Monday... read
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Business
BHF welcomes ARV protocols, but warns against costs
BHF welcomes ARV protocols, but warns against costs
The new test and treat anti-retroviral (ARV) guidelines have been endorsed by the Board of Healthcare Funders... read
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