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Seeking to add value to your organisation? Here’s an opportunity.

Seeking to add value to your organisation? Here’s an opportunity.

Innovations in Workforce Planning, Organisational Development, Business Efficiency and Analysis. July 29, 2018.This is an opportunity for anyone who seeks to add value to their organisation – to attend. This course is new for the 2018/19 season...

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When we value employees….

When we value employees….

Who doesn’t feel to be appreciated and believe that they are of value to others.  Each one of us can contribute to creating a positive environment where all who work for and with us know that who they are and what they do matters and makes a...

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Keys to Successful Business Alliances

Keys to Successful Business Alliances

Periodically, the popular business press reports on very successful high-profile strategic partnerships and joint ventures – or a large consortium that was a ‘win-win’ for everyone involved.  The appeal of such business alliances comes from...

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The Changing Face of Training

The Changing Face of Training

There have big three cyclic changes in the world of work since the industrial revolution:The Capitalist and the `industrialist 1760 - 1980.The Knowledge worker and the Knowledge Manager 1980 – 1990.Generation Y the great inventors  & Generation Z...

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How to measure the business benefits of the training?

How to measure the business benefits of the training?

Today this 3rd blog of the Training Analyst, talks about measuring the business benefits of the training we are being commissioned by our stakeholders to provide. Previous blogs on this topic have discussed the need for a mindset shift by training...

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The World of HR and IT – Change is here!

The World of HR and IT – Change is here!

The world of HR and employment is about to change beyond recognition. Massive advances this year in the area of Artificial Intelligence and in particular the area known as deep learning have set the world on a course for massive employment...

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How to calculate cost of Training and ROI?

How to calculate cost of Training and ROI?

In the second of three blogs explaining the core themes of this upcoming training seminar, we explore the need for training specialists, and others involved in, or responsible for, training, to really understand the cost side of the equation when it...

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Believe that You can Start to measure the Impact

Believe that You can Start to measure the Impact

Imagine the SituationYou are sitting down with a department head to review the impact of a 2 week long programme you have organised for 12 of his staff. You have collected data that says that efficiency has improved to such an extent that the Return...

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Time for Change in HR

Time for Change in HR

There has never been a more exciting time to be in Human Resources. In the next two years, there will be change on a scale comparable with the events during the Industrial Revolution.The interesting question is  - how many HR personnel are ready...

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The Value of Auditing

The Value of Auditing

This article is about the value of analysis and auditing skills in understanding and improving business processes and organisations, whether the organisation is in the private or government sector.As an example from the government sector, consider a...

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Genetic Algorithms

Genetic Algorithms

Charles Darwin famously said that it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but it is the one that is most responsive to change. This concept lies at the heart of his theory of evolution and provides an insight...

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7 Essential Skills of Positive People

7 Essential Skills of Positive People

Positive people will have the following attitudes and attributes:1.    They believe in themselves.Dr. Joyce Brothers said, "Many people succeed even when others don't believe in them, but rarely does a person succeed when he doesn't believe in...

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Do you have the hearts and minds of the people who work for you?

Do you have the hearts and minds of the people who work for you?

We all have heard the expression “our people are the main asset of the organization” and yet not too many organization implement what they say. When companies are struggling to be competitive and revenues and profits are down the first thing the...

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A Practitioners Guide to Strategic Thinking

A Practitioners Guide to Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning brings together challenging concepts. Firstly do ‘thinkers’ know what the future holds for our organisation? The question then is why do we invest huge amounts of time and money in trying to ‘think’...

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The Anatomy of a Supervisor

The Anatomy of a Supervisor

Imagine yourself in the following situation. You have just been offered a promotion to your first supervisory position. Your boss tells you to consider the offer carefully overnight and to come in the next day with any questions and concerns you...

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