Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the workplace, tasks that once required hours can now be completed in minutes. Organisations are automating processes, and leaders are being challenged to rethink how work gets done and what skills their...
Why engagement should be treated as evidence of organisational conditions, not as a stand-alone HR programme Recent global research paints a sobering picture of the modern workplace. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report found that only...
By Saloshni Pillay, Managing Executive: CIB SA, Absa Corporate & Investment Banking and Executive Sponsor: Banking on Women South Africa has made real progress in women’s representation in leadership. Grant Thornton’s 2026 Women in...
By Mark Baker, CEO | Psychologist, Mygrow Today’s workplace can bring together people whose experiences of work were formed in very different environments. Someone who began their career in a structured organisation where hierarchy carried...
By Lynn Madeley, CEO of High Performance Matters The old keys don’t fit the new doors. For decades, organisations have been built like pyramids: a broad base of junior talent, a narrowing middle-management tier and a small executive peak...
Executive job evaluation sits at the sharp end of organisational design and reward integrity. Get it right and the grade reflects true accountability, decision magnitude and the risk the role carries. Get it wrong and the entire structure drifts...
Rapid market change, technological disruption, and economic pressures are causing South African companies to no longer be content with incremental improvements to their core operations. To unlock new avenues for growth, businesses are increasingly...
Many organisations invest heavily in technical capability. They strengthen systems, develop expertise and equip people to perform specific roles. But according to Dori Moreno, a growth strategist specialising in the development of individuals, teams...
By Marilize Jacobs, founder of VocalCord PR & Reputation Management and Pigs Can Fly Interiors, and #50 on the Today Africa 100+ African Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2026, argues that the gap between what leaders say and what they actually hear is...
