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A healthy BALANCE

by Jane Stevenson
In today’s fast-paced world, the demands of career and personal life can leave you drained and stressed, without any time for yourself – which makes balancing one’s life all the more important. And balance is not just a 2-sided work/life issue either, but rather a constant juggling of the many areas of our [...]

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The Cost of Complaining –

Office Politics and the Bottom Line
by Carey-Lyn Kurten
“Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.” – W. Edwards Deming
Most of us would place office politics in the same category as death and taxes – a painful and inevitable fact of life. An office is made up of different [...]

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What are the merits of speakers and team coaches?

by Dr Janin Vansteenkiste
The Chamber of Commerce recently approached me with a question about the value of motivational activities for team building.
Here is my reply, in a nutshell!
I always ask: what makes your business perform? You may have the best procedures and processes, but you depend completely on the people who operate and perform them. [...]

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The value of Teamwork

by Carey-Lyn Kurten
Give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world – Archimedes
What if I were to suggest that that lever might be teamwork?
Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is of the opinion that “Teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped.”
Reality: How can [...]

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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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