Tag: Advaita Naidoo

As 2025 draws to a close, employees planning to resign in the coming months or in the new year should prioritise leaving with grace. Resignations today are far more than a mere formality. They are a defining moment in a professional’s career. Resigning with integrity ensures that professionals maintain both their reputation and future opportunities.

Leadership has been equated with charisma, assertiveness and a commanding presence for the longest time. The loudest voice in the room or the most outgoing personality often tends to dominate. This leaves introverts, those quieter and more reserved individuals, overlooked for leadership positions.

Poor candidate experiences in corporate hiring not only drive away top talent but also inflict lasting damage on company reputations. Organisations would do well to consider the unintended impact of flawed hiring practices, a leadership expert says. Ultimately, losing talent, losing trust become a predictable outcome when companies fail to value candidate experience.

With boundaries between work and personal life growing blurrier than ever, a growing movement has emerged across the globe. This movement seeks to formalise, and even commit to policy - the right of employees to disconnect completely during personal downtime.

Meetings have been a part of the business landscape and company calendar for as long as anyone can remember, and indeed have played a valuable role as a forum to communicate, collaborate and innovate. However many, perhaps even most meetings today no longer serve a strategic purpose and have, instead, become reflexive diary entries that contribute little and can, indeed, hurt more than help, a leadership expert.