Tag: training

Imagine that you’re updating your CV or LinkedIn profile. When listing your skills, would you be able to state that you are ‘proficient in the use of ChatGPT3’? This revolutionary Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool was launched in November 2022, so knowledge workers have had several months to teach themselves to use it, and to understand its many capabilities and limitations. 

There is very little doubt that dealing with the global pandemic resulted in a significant shift in how we perceive our workplaces. Whilst society as a whole seems to have gone back to how things were before March 2020, the workforce and the businesses they are employed by seem to be divided on how best to move forward.

Prof. Brandt Savage, grandson of the legendary action hero Doc Savage, is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin.

Proposed amendments to the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) place greater obligations on employers, which is to be welcomed in some respects, but other amendments are problematic and may be open to legal challenge.

Back in 2007, Michael Hammer, the father of the process-centred organisation, wrote in the Harvard Business Review that few executives question the idea that by redesigning business processes - work that runs from end to end across an enterprise - they can achieve extraordinary improvements in cost, quality, speed, profitability, and other key areas.

A large proportion of the South African students who have fled Ukraine was studying medicine there. They had all applied to study in South Africa after matriculating but were unsuccessful, due to the limited number of applicants that government training facilities can accept.

OVID-19 has shone a sharp spotlight on diversity and inclusion (D&I) in our organisations. The pandemic has had a harder impact on many diverse groups, including women, working parents and LGBTQ+ employees, with magnified challenges around caring for family and working. As we ponder what our future world of work will look like, there’s never been a better time for us to make our D&I initiatives even more inclusive, by encouraging dialogue across all hierarchical levels and enabling creativity and innovation.

This article by Kerryn Kohl, co-founder of 4thTalent, is about developing competence for the future world of work and is the first-part of a five-part series on the Future of Education run by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

The Rugby World Cup hosted by Japan is almost coming to an end. The final will be played this Saturday at the International Stadium Yokohama. The Bokke have made it to the final and will be playing against our northern hemisphere rival, England.

In a business environment that is now largely driven by innovative IT and software, there is massive demand for skilled and highly trained IT professionals. Sadly, as has been well documented, there is an increasingly dire shortage of these individuals in the local sphere.