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press releases »

• Business travel increases as SA's spend R22bn on trips
  (November 2008)

• Five-star venues suffer as the office Christmas party is downgraded to a braai in the office park
  (17 November 2008)

• Getting global markets off their knees
  (16 October 2008)

• Words build and words can destroy reputation
  (29 September 2008)

• Business travel increases as SA’s spend R22bn on trips
  (18 September 2008)

• Failures in confidence and assertiveness lose graduates jobs
  (24 June 2008)

• Rising household debt leading to increased workplace fraud
  (19 May 2008)

• SA: world’s worst skills shortage, highest brain drain, productivity plummeting (15 April 2008)

• South Africa's service industry becomes more important as economy tightens (17 March 2008)

• What load-shedding, politics and sport tell us about failures in team leadership (February 2008)

• A third of all emails are badly written, business writing needs
  to be better (3 February 2008)

• Ensuring that the office frontline is not a war zone (January 2008)

• Analysing trends in skills training (3 December 2007)

• 200 000 graduates are unemployed according to StatsSA: bosses say they lack assertiveness (16 October 2007)

• Easy solutions to South Africa’s problems (17 September 2007)

• Training customer service agents essential to economic growth and job creation (27 August 2007)

• Bad debt - R780bn in SA – will threaten economic growth, training company warns (July 2007)

• How to ensure foreign tourists do not get eaten and the keynote speaker does not go to jail (July 2007)

• So much unemployment; so few decent staff (March 2007)

• Top South African training company launches new business targeted at previously ignored mid-level employees and newly employed graduates (February 2007)

articles »

• The challenges of marketing business training by Nicole Jooste (BizCommunity, 12 December, 2008)

Matriculants making bad choices (Fin24, 30 November 2008)

• As marketing budgets collapse, imagination needs to stretch (Marketingweb, 18 November 2008)

• Companies downgrade office parties (IOL, 17 November 2008)

• Venues suffer as office parties are downgraded (Citizen, 17 November 2008)

• An economy called Scrooge (iAfrica, 17 November 2008)

• Building and destroying reputation through words (Biz community, 8 October 2008)

• Confidence is key to building success in the workplace (Cape Argus, 24 June 2008)

• Lack of assertiveness costs graduates jobs (The Voice of the Cape, 23 June 2008)

• Be assertive and confident (Women24.com, 19 June 2008)

• Team player (Media24, 27 May 2006)

• SA has highest brain drain (Cape Argus, 15 April 2008)

• SA has highest brain drain (East Coast Radio, 15 April 2008)

• SA HAS HIGHEST BRAIN DRAIN (Zululand.co.za, April 2008)

• SA suffers from brain drain, low productivity (theswitchboard.net, 14 April 2008)

• SA suffers from brain drain, low productivity (SABCNews.com, 14 April 2008)

• Managers should plan ahead for power cuts (Citizen, 14 April 2008)

• Managers should plan ahead for power cuts (IOL, 14 April 2008)

• I told him to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words (Marketing Web, 20 March 2008)

• Teach frontline staff to imaginatively meet the needs of the customers who pay to keep the business operating
  (Cape Times, Career Times,4 February 2008)

• Degrees of Success – Why are so many graduates unemployed?
  (True Love Babe Magazine, February 2008)

• ‘Bad attitudes’ cause job loss
  (Citizen, 28 August 2007)

• Bad attitudes stymie business development
  (Cape Times, 27 August 2007)

• Bad attitudes lead to job losses in SA
  (Mail & Guardian Online, 27 August 2007)

• Bad attitudes costing jobs
  (Fin24.co.za, 27 August 2007 )

• Debt part of SA lifestyle
  (Fin24 July 2007)

• Bridging the knowledge gap
  (Dispatch March 2007)

• Spring the employment trap
  (Gauteng Business, 27 March - 9 April 2007)

• Biztech BBBEE Certificate
  (April 2007)

• Act the part to get the role
  (Sunday Times, 8 April 2007)

radio & tv »

• Radio Islam - Matriculants making bad choices
  (December 2008)

• Heart FM - News
  (December 2008)

• Highveld Radio - Cut down on Christmas Events
  (November 2008)

• Radio 702 - Businesses Downgrade Christmas Functions
  (November 2008)

• Lotus FM - Global Financial Crisis
  (November 2008)

• Kaya FM - Economic Crunch
  (November 2008)

• Gagasi News - Decrease in booking for End of Year Functions
  (November 2008)

• Jacaranda FM - Businesses Downscale End of Year Functions
  (November 2008)

• SABC News International - Competitiveness Yearbook
  (October 2008)

• SABC News International - South Africa’s Brain Drain
  (October 2008)

• Classic FM - South Africans getting deeper into debt
  (July 2008)

• E-News - Bad debt
  (July 2008)

• SABC News International - South Africa’s qualified graduates fail to secure jobs due to a lack of assertiveness & confidence
  (June 2008)

• Lotus FM - Lack of Confidence & Assertiveness contributes to high unemployment
  (June 2008)

• Summit Interview Transcript - SA productivity drops
  (April 2008)

• Summit face to face video- SA productivity drops
  (April 2008)

• Good Hope FM News - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• SAFM News - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• East Coast Radio News - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• Jacaranda FM News - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• Thobela FM Interview - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• Fine Business Radio Interview - SA has the highest brain drain and worst skills shortage
  (April 2008)

• YFM radio interview - Going to universities may not be only way for people to advance themselves
  (January 2008)

• Radio Pretoria Onderhoud - Kliënte Diens
  (September 2007)

• SAFM Interview- Job losses due to bad attitudes
  (August 2007)

• Lotus FM Newsbreak Interview- Job losses due to bad attitudes
  (August 2007)

• Channel Africa- Economic growth and the training of customer service agents (August 2007)

• Kaya FM News- Job loss and the training of call centre agents
  (August 2007)

• Biztech Radio Interview (March 2007)