Experience
Dealing with the emotion that is fear!
ear of the unknown. Uncertainty is part of our lives, whether we like it or not. While others may thrive in uncertain times, others become emotionally paralysed.
Experience
A Holistic Look at Marketing
A Holistic Look at Marketing with Kelebogile Mashigo. In our career conversations today, we talk all things marketing. Businesses recognise the role that marketing plays in achieving the desired results and the importance of integrating marketing into their wider strategic mix. Whether you are interested in looking at new markets, Read more…
Experience
Unpacking Arrogance vs Confidence
It is key to understand that there is no fine line between confidence and arrogance. They are two worlds apart. Always take time to sit down with yourself and conduct a personal
Experience
Data Analytics is the Future
Data analytics assists businesses in utilising their data to identify new opportunities. Once new opportunities have been discovered, management can make informed and intelligent business decisions, more systematic operations, which in turn lead to the bottom line – higher profits. In other words, business analytics help both small and big companies to maximise the value of their data, bring out insights, build plans and respond in real-time to customer demand.
In Conversation
Why you might not get a job even after a great interview?
Sometimes you walk away from an interview and you think I nailed this one, it’s mine and then you get that dreadful email or phone call that says you were unsuccessful without much explanation or you just never hear anything and you finally conclude that I did not get it. Read more…
Experience
Finding a Mentor
In my language, Zulu there is a proverb that says ‘indlela ibuzwa kwabaphambili’ and loosely translated it means ‘the way is asked from those who are in front’ meaning ask the way from the people that have walked in front of you. This makes a lot of sense to me Read more…
In Conversation
Who are you? Can you answer this question…
Are you able to answer the question who are you? I meet a number of people that find it difficult to answer this question. It’s seems like a very easy question but why is it that other people battle to answer it. The initial instinct when answering this question is Read more…
Experience
How do you define success?
I have always been fascinated by how success means different things to different people. I always get to understand who the person is by hearing their answer on what success is for them. I was being interviewed this afternoon for a podcast and I was asked the question about whether Read more…
In Conversation
How do you define fulfillment for yourself?
The word fulfillment is very much part of my vocabulary for some reason. It really matters to me that I feel fulfilled on a daily basis or ninety percent of my life. Fulfillment is defined as the achievement of something desired, promised, or predicted or a feeling of happiness because Read more…
In Conversation
Bouncing forward from retrenchment
Last year September I wrote a blog called “You have lost your job, now what?” unfortunately the situation within South Africa has not changed much and the headlines in the past few weeks have been about job losses in the different industries. Retrenchment can be a very difficult time for Read more…