Tag: professional development

The government’s latest critical skills list includes the occupations of 'Tax Professional', 'External Auditor' and 'Forensic Accountant'. The full list comprises 101 occupation codes and these critical skills are open to South Africans and foreign nationals that meet the skills requirements.

The notion of what makes a good leader has been examined from every angle over the years, leaving leaders with an overwhelming number of qualities they are expected to possess in order to be considered a good leader. While fads come and go, the one constant every leader must consider is people.

As we celebrate Women’s Month, we share our views on how far South Africa has come in transforming its patriarchal society - and what still needs to be done. If you were to review the Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report, you would note that South Africa scores 1.00 on the Gender Disparity Index, indicating that there is no legal difference in how women are treated relative to men under the law.

e-Learning has changed, thanks to COVID-19, and there’s no going back to the way we were, however much organisations may want to do so. COVID-19 arrived and new technology came to the fore - like Zoom, Meets, Teams and so on.

This book is a well-researched principle-based book that explores the relationship between self-leadership (leading me),leading others (leading them), leading teams (leading us) and leading for results (developing solutions). Leadership: The Exponential Effect is a cumulative expression of 25 years’ experience working in the areas of leadership development in more than 80 countries.

This article by Graeme Codrington is about what is needed to unlock what the future holds for tertiary education, learning and professional development in the aftermath of COVID-19, and is the second part of a five-part series on the Future of Education run by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

Few people find it easy to get up and give a speech in front of their professional peers, but a degree of public speaking is required in most professional spheres.

The ongoing parliamentary enquiry into the SABC has eluded to the suggestion that one of the causes of the public broadcaster’s poor performance was...