Tag: time management

Skills development and resource efficiency go hand-in-hand toward achieving business success. The aim is to provide all workers with the opportunity for personal career growth by ensuring they’re up to date on the latest industry developments as well as how to use the newest technology.

Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrated entrepreneurs and aims to inspire more young people to make their mark in society. It's a timely reminder that we need to support youth entrepreneurship in South Africa to address our unemployment crisis and catalyse economic growth.

Life and business are not mutually exclusive. Business can, and must work for you, not the other way around. We have been conditioned to believe that being willing to sacrifice everything is the ‘right thing to do’ and the entrepreneurial way. That is a flawed approach.

With the sudden emergence of COVID-19, companies once hesitant to embrace remote working arrangements have been forced to allow employees to operate from home. The results have been surprisingly positive, leaving some organisations to wonder why they didn’t do it sooner.

This is easily one of the most challenging times to be a first-time job-seeker in at least a decade. Job losses are many, and there are plenty of experienced people taking lower-level jobs to try and get by; but that doesn’t mean it’s all doom and gloom for the first-time job-seeker.

With many people still working from home, prioritising a heavy workload has become more of a challenge for employees and managers than it was before COVID-19. Our new remote working reality means many people are juggling large work volumes with new challenges such as disrupted school schedules, the need to self-quarantine, or colleagues taking time off due to illness.

Procrastination is arguably one of the main reasons we, both in our personal and business lives, don’t perform to our full potential. It is a comfortable human habit that is not very easy to break once it gets hold of you. Allowing procrastination to become deeply entrenched in your life can potentially damage your personal competence and in turn, the efficiency of your business.

Should it be for the reason of the lockdown during this unprecedented time in our lives, or for those who have the opportunity to work from home in general, there are always some challenges in the work environment. For those whose challenge is working remotely, here are some survival tips I found useful.

As South Africans face the reality of a 21-day lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, working from home has become the 'new normal' overnight – and if properly managed, it can be just as productive as being in the office. South African companies now join millions of businesses across the globe forced to learn fast and on-the-job how to manage a completely remote workforce.

Although it sounds cliché, flattened organisational structures mean today’s professionals are expected to accomplish a lot more with less resources. There are times when one person may be working across three different roles, so how can one keep up with the pace of work without having to put in extra hours each week?