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One of the many skills you must possess as a leader is delegation. The ability to effectively share your workload amongst employees to achieve set goals is imperative to maximizing productivity and ensuring a work balance. However, delegating can be hard, especially when you’re used to gett [Read more]

If there’s one thing we cannot buy, it’s time. Time is fleeting and it is important for us all to make the most of the time we are allotted. We all get 24 hours, but what we do with those hours is up to us. And this is why spending our time efficiently should be of utmost importance. [Read more]

With the coming of a new year, it is very easy to fall back into old habits. This is especially possible if you’re not actively thinking and practicing how to have a new kind of year. You might end up feeling like you’re in a ditch or stuck. And that’s not good.  It is im [Read more]

Preamble - The ability to negotiate with people and strike deals or reach favourable agreements is considered by some to be a specialist skill in certain professions like diplomacy, sales, legal practice and stock-broking. But the reality is we engage in negotiations of all kinds almost on a daily b [Read more]

Despite the fact that emotional intelligence has been heavily criticized within the scientific community, substantial evidence still supports its relevance in the workplace. Emotional intelligence has been linked to career success across various fields of endeavor and its importance will most likely [Read more]

In the 2018 Future of Jobs Report published by the World Economic Forum, critical thinking been identified as one of the skills that is increasingly required in the workplace. This report underscores the relevance of critical thinking skills at work. As simple as the term may seem, many people do no [Read more]

Defining Work-Life Balance As exciting and captivating as, novel business jargon may seem, having a good grasp of some of them could be a difficult task and work-life balance is without doubt one of such jargons. If having enough understanding of it is difficult, then applying it to the wor [Read more]

As much as we emphasize the impact of leadership in running an organization, many are yet to fully understand and appreciate its vital role in the success or failure of an organization. A typical organization is essentially its people and not necessarily the material and financial resources it has. [Read more]

A typical human resource professional confronts a myriad of challenges daily and chief among them is convincing senior management on the need to invest in staff training and development. This is somewhat surprising because employees cannot be expected to perform their duties without having the requi [Read more]

Synopsis  The way we work has changed in significant ways over the last century and we are on the verge of witnessing unprecedented changes in our work in the years to come. Unless we prepare for these drastic changes, we may not be able to cope with its adverse effects on individuals and t [Read more]