Does your organisation have a Human Resources Strategic Plan? If it is a plan for this year only, then it is probably an operational plan. Genuine HR strategies take anywhere from 5 – 10 years to implement.

Like all of the other major business functions, human resources must accomplish a wide range of activities from basic transaction processing to strategic planning in order to be successful.

By Sarah Babb, MD of The Skills Framework

The very term management development implies that managers can all be developed. Yet some of the latest work around leadership pipelines indicates that there is a vast difference between managing oneself, managing others, managing managers and managing enterprises. There is a fundamental shift in values, processes and competence requirements, and not all people will meet these needs.

By Michael Scott, director at the Centre for Conscious Leadership (CCL)

There is at least one guarantee in life: things change. In the corporate world, a lack of awareness of how change is experienced by people has the potential to bring down a business.

People play a crucial in determining the success or failure of mergers and acquisitions in the world of commerce. So claims Vicki Shaw, CEO at the Centre for Conscious Leadership (CCL), who suggests that the human resource factor must be taken more seriously by decision makers.

CCL is a South African networked consulting organisation specializing in leadership learning and transformation. Consultants provide comprehensive leadership development services based on the combination of business acumen and strategic expertise with the science of organizational psychology.

Issued by: CRF South Africa

The concept of employee engagement has gained widespread recognition and credibility in management practice in the last few years, according to Phuti Tsukudu, former chairperson of the South African Post Office and executive director of Tsukudu Associates, a management and Human Resources Consultancy based in Cape Town.