“I am a Mini-me version of my manager”. Thats what a delegate on our first-line management program announced when we asked, ‘where or from who did you learn to be a manager?’ This sparked a great debate about the importance of walking the talk as...

Most of the people around you battle with understanding what Organisation Development is, and what it can do for the organisation. As you get clearer, you can help to grow this powerful alternative to the traditional ways of managing organisational life....

This week our first OD café for 2024 marked the kick-off of the new year. We appreciate the colleagues and clients who graciously accepted our invitation and contributed their real-life experiences to enrich the discussion. We shared stories of successful leadership development and explored current...

Effective Leaders are instrumental in driving organisational success, we all know and believe this, right? Yet, in a global study by the Josh Bersin Academy, they found that that out of the more than 1000 organisations that took part in the study, 60% of the organisations...

Last week I was fortunate to facilitate our Purposeful Teams program for a Mining client. I was reminded how powerful this programme is!  When a team is lost in busyness and have not had time to breathe out, be together and anchor in their purpose, a great team...

It is really exciting to get a call to meet with a client. The chance to start a new relationship or rekindle an old one is awesome. Of course, the first meeting is often a clumsy one – there is so much ground to cover that...

This week I had the pleasure of witnessing two business partners reunite after they amicably parted to explore different paths for a few years. This to me proved that building and maintaining healthy professional relationships allows for endless possibilities.    In today's fast-paced and dynamic business landscape,...

In one of our previous newsletters, we discussed how Effective Business Partnering has become pivotal in building and maintaining successful organisations. Unfortunately, often when organisations adopt the Business Partnering model not much consideration is given to empowering the people to ensure its success.  Recently a...

This week we had the September edition of our monthly OD Talk that focused on the curse of middle-management as incited by several recent encounters we have had with clients who are in middle-management.  In support of the client anecdotes that we are privy to we...