Women have come a long way in transforming the gender demographics in the corporate world, but there is still a long way to go. They need to be proactive in being the change they want to se. According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2020, there is a global labour force…
As South African corporates gradually return to the boardroom, road warriors are longing to take back to the skies and resume business negotiations, build relationships, and discuss new business opportunities. Although business travel is permitted in South Africa, the pandemic has kept everyone on their toes with regulations changing frequently. As consulting firm McKinsey put…
Tau Game Lodge is preparing for domestic travel post-COVID-19 lockdown by ensuring that health and hygiene measures are strictly adhered to at the lodge as well as on game drives. The Tau team has been working on and will be adopting additional health and hygiene measures to provide guests with complete peace of mind during…
With ‘working from home’ becoming the ‘new normal’ in South Africa in the light of COVID-19, many organisations are being forced to transition from being an input-based time watchdog to an output-based productivity matron. In my experience, the ‘old school’ directors who I work or worked with and those within my network are now entering…
‘The times they are a-changin’ … and with lockdown they surely have! If you’re tired of lockdown, have reached saturation point with home-based isolation and have been nostalgically dreaming of travelling again, then you should be looking for an alternative area to isolate where you can take a fun and relaxing time-out breather from lockdown.…
Ask Simonetta Giuricich the most useful quality a leader can have and her answer may surprise you: empathy. While empathy may traditionally have been thought of as a soft skill, Simonetta insists it is her ability to understand the qualities of each of her team members, and her respect for their individual viewpoints, that has…
It’s is not an easy task to juggle being a professional musician with her executive role, but Lize Lübbe does it and it fills her life with a great deal of joy. And she has great ambitions of heading her own impact investing fund one day. With her adventurous, go-getter personality, Lize Lübbe, principal at…
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The biggest challenge Meghan Shields had to overcome as a woman in a leadership role has been the limiting belief that women put on themselves − the subconscious feeling of being inherently incapable of achieving success in a leadership role. Meghan Shields, head of operations at VAT IT, says two major points greatly impacted the…
Itu Barnard flaunts many hats. She is a director and founder of Browned Skyn (Pty), a company that imports raw materials from Ghana for use in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. However, since the lockdown came into effect, this has changed to procuring PPE for humanitarian purposes in collaboration with other black-owned businesses. But she hopes to…