Business coaching picks up in South Africa: Do you need a professional to get you to the top of your game?

Business coaching is picking up in South Africa – and it’s not just for corporates that need to shake up unhappy staff members to get on with one another in a messy merger. People who want to transform their careers are increasingly turning to specialist business coaches to help with plotting entrepreneurial moves and generally tap … Read more

Best blogs 2013: Fixing South Africa’s financial education

Can you educate people to do sensible things with their money? Or is good financial management, like common sense, probably something you are born with?  Prolific Biznews.com blogger Alexx Zarr reckons there’s more to equipping people with the skills to make smart personal financial decisions than putting together a financial education curriculum. Addressing basic literacy … Read more

Best blogs 2013: Andrew Horton teaches us how to develop the skill of innovation

Everybody knows they need to be creative and innovative in business, but few people know how to tap into inner resources to come up with ideas that no-one has thought of before. A notable exception is popular South African and international speaker Andrew Horton, who has extraordinary insights into how to do business better. In … Read more

Supporting Dave Woollam: How SA’s education system contributes to bad financial decision-making

It’s no secret that South Africa has a troubled education system. The country’s learners perform poorly on measures of reading and comprehension, mathematical literacy, and scientific knowledge and reasoning, which reduces their employ-ability and productivity, not to mention preventing them from achieving their full personal potential. But the damage wrought by an under-performing education system extends beyond just hobbling the … Read more