by Dianne Bayley | Jul 7, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The government’s recent commitment to create an additional 2 million jobs over the next decade is simply not enough to resolve the youth unemployment crisis, says Martin Pienaar, COO Mindworx Consulting. Our numbers are worse than poor; 55% for those aged 15-24 are...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 2, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Today’s workforce is unable to regularly refresh the knowledge and skill levels needed to capitalise on new challenges and opportunities, writes Kirtan Sita, Sales Managing Director for Accenture Technology, Africa. This situation threatens to worsen over time unless...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Security and Legal
The past few weeks and months have seen arguably the biggest exodus and purge of leaders from the country’s top companies and SEOs in recent history, with more heads expected to roll in future. Some are justifiably walking the plank, due to egregious performance in...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 11, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Chris Buchanan, Director Client Solutions, Dell South Africa, asks: “What does it take to keep good people?” Back in 2003, Rudy Giuliani wrote in his seminal book Leadership that “one quality every effective performer shared was a sense that their...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 10, 2019 | Workplace 2020
There’s good business sense in hiring South Africa’s skilled young graduates, and 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year’s Job Creator of the Year®, Phillipa Geard, founder of RecruitAGraduate.co.za and RecruitMyMom.co.za, asks South African businesses to see the sense in...
