Founder of Engaged Humans in Johannesburg, Paula Quinsee, tells SmartProcurementNews that already, only six months into the year, so many people are feeling exhausted. What will they feel like by December? Burnt out, stretched and hanging on for dear life? McKinsey research found that workplace relationships account for 39% of employees’ job satisfaction. Moreover, relationships […]
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In today’s rapidly evolving marketplace, skills are currency. And like all currencies, says Cape Town-based Chantal Kading, Executive Coach and Leadership and Talent Strategist, they can depreciate over time. According to the World Economic Forum (2017), she says, your skills lose about half their value every five years, and approximately 25 percent of adults report
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What we innovate, invent, advance, or know today started off as research fueled by our curiosity. Research is essential in understanding problems and challenges, which, says Oumaima Ben Amor, independent scholar at the Ronin Institute, involves the development of new ideas and solutions. It has shed light on the global threats that we face today.
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In this episode of Peak Performance Conversations, leadership and talent strategists, Chantal Kading and Kholofelo Mabila from The People Shop, discuss burnout and the idea that we shouldn’t be seeking the elusive balance between our work and personal lives, but rather ways to integrate them.
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The recent Africa Supply Chain in Action (ASCA) Conference saw almost 3 000 African supply chain and procurement professionals from 75 countries gather online to examine the skills, strategies and solutions needed to accelerate African economic development and growth in a post-pandemic new world. The theme of this third ASCA event was “Borderless – Unleashing
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Several questions arise when it comes to negotiating. As one goes into a negotiation, there is one striking question that one needs to ask oneself: “Is the price the only subject for negotiation?” Ronald Mlalazi (MCIPS), Managing Director of Commerce Edge South Africa, discusses here the need for procurement professionals not to limit their negotiations
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The pandemic compressed what should’ve been years’ worth of change into a few months. As leaders struggle to keep up with today’s highly unpredictable and rapidly changing business environment, a different kind of leadership is beginning to emerge; one in which constant transformation and continuous improvement is embedded in everything the organisation does. Addressing the
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Perhaps the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devolopment (UNECA) said it best when it argued in 2019 that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is not just about intra-African trade, but about “dispelling the crisis of implementation” that had persisted in the telling of the African narrative. Now that AfCFTA is alive, its
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What if I teach you and you teach the next person, and the next person teaches the next person? Creating a human chain of experience and learning can go a long way to improving the rather bleak public procurement space in South Africa, says Sanele Khomo, a Deputy Director at the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Treasury.
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Political pressure from stakeholders in supply chain management (SCM) is a reality. We must just find ways to collaborate with our colleagues in government successfully, advised Thandy Pino, Founder and CEO, Ntakha Consulting, and former Chief Director of Supply Chain and Asset Management at the Gauteng Department of Health, at the recent SPW Indaba 2022.
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