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Focus on your talents –

outsource the balance
by Jane Stevenson
So you’ve got yourself a “Virtual Assistant” in Bangalore. Or you’ve appointed a team of web-developers in Beijing to vamp up your website. Probably a great idea – as long as you do it right! The world is a small place and outsourcing has gone way beyond our borders.
Here are some [...]

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From the Coach…

‘No you can’t! Yes I can!!’
by Dr Janin Vansteenkiste
The annual complimentary calendar from my insurance agent has been upgraded to include a motivational quote for every month. My favourite one says: ‘The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do’.
These words definitely define my own career and personal achievements.
Whilst coaching a [...]

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Outstanding Men using their imagination

by Dr Janin Vansteenkiste
The whole workshop was down on their knees hovering over their posters. In concentrated silence, everyone tried to draw a scenario of how they wanted their life and career to turn out in ten years time. They visualised their ‘created future’. Indeed unusual to see all these managers surrounded by crayons. Most [...]

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Expectations Shape Reality

by Carey-Lyn Kurten
“Cognitive scientists are finding that people’s mental maps, their theories, expectations, and attitudes, play a more central role in human perception than was previously understood.” Jeffrey Schwartz- Neuroscientist
Two individuals working on the same customer service telephone line could hold different mental maps of the same customer. The first, seeing customers only as troubled [...]

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Whose house is it anyway?

Young architects in action.
by Dr Janin Vansteenkiste
For several years I was involved in an enjoyable project at the NMMU’s School of Architecture. I took 4th and 5th year students through an applied sociology course pertaining to ‘things that would matter to them’ once they started out in their professional careers.
The start of the course was [...]

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