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The Star HR Summit / HR Africa kicked off yesterday, the premier gathering of HR, Training, Education & business decision makers. Visitors can attend the expo for free by pre-registering on line here, otherwise its R30 on the day.   The expo & conference is an effective way to access the latest insights, pick the brains of experts, learn from [...]

(Source: Schristia) With awards season not far off, I thought this column from last year is useful for those granting awards, and those hoping to receive them. And the Award goes to It is that time of the year again: office parties, gala dinners, annual awards, CEO speeches and corporate gifts. Let your hair down and [...]

  (Source Laurel.Miss) Best Job – Street & World? In my line of work, I am too familiar with disengaged and depressed souls roaming the workplace. The job is a big minus in their life. So when I do come across individuals and jobs that defy the ordinary, I must investigate further. Let us look [...]

The HR Africa Summit, being held 5 – 8 October 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre, will host Clem Sunter, scenario planner extraordinaire, as its guest speaker. His topic ‘The African business landscape & where you fit in – the world and Africa beyond 2010’ will offer delegates an opportunity to learn from one of [...]

The annual HR Africa Summit, organised by the Institute for International Research South Africa (IIR), will this year combine with its newly purchased Star HRD Expo. Possibly the largest HR event in South Africa; The Star HR Summit and Expo (Incorporating HRDE), will run at the Sandton Convention Centre from 5 – 8 October, 2010. [...]

In times of lightning change as we are currently experiencing, countries and organisations have to fall back on their culture to keep their dreams alive. Those shared values, symbols and behaviours are supposed to get us safely to the other side. We have something to hold onto, when everything around us is falling apart. Never [...]

If you don’t have a boss, lucky you!  If you are the boss, you may read about yourself in this post. For the rest of us, I doubt that your boss chases you around the office wielding an axe in one hand and your work in the other. But your boss could be killing you [...]

  (Source: Merwing)   Curtain Call With the 2009 elections long behind us, political parties still gloating over their victories or licking their wounds; and old faces giving way to the new, the country is settling down to familiar challenges. Government and business have to steer the economy through troubled waters, haggle over employment levels, skills [...]