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Elsabe Manning’s training courses are designed to improve your team’s communication, collaboration, productivity and customer service.

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Disciplinary Hearings

We chair disciplinary hearings at very reasonable rates, and we provide our findings, in writing, within 24 hours.

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Labour Consulting

We consult for companies and domestic employers alike. The Basic Conditions Of Employment Act and Labour Relations Act is applicable to all employers and employees in South Africa.

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Personal Boundaries

Personal boundaries are the guidelines you put in place regarding how you want to be treated by others and your expectations regarding their behaviour in your presence. Healthy reasonable boundaries can create mutually respectful relationships. Your response to...

COERCIVE CONTROL

Some forms of domestic violence include physical, verbal, emotional, financial and/or sexual abuse. Coercive control is a form of oppressive bullying using fear and isolation to control. The abuser would limit or prevent access to money and transport, their partner’s...

DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S SELF-ESTEEM

Small babies can read body language and they respond to tone of voice, so if you get angry because they’re crying, they will be negatively affected. Remain calm and speak in a kind, soothing voice. Even tiny babies read your facial expressions and tone of voice. Your...

A NEW YOU

A NEW YOU It is that time of year again… We start thinking about New Year’s resolutions but we don’t really believe that we can achieve them because good things happen to other people… Take Deliberate Action The fact is that you can make your dreams come true. You...

INFLUENCING OTHERS

INFLUENCING OTHERS Having influence over people means that you have the ability to gain support for your opinions, views, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, goals and objectives by using language to persuade people to buy into your way of thinking. If you make an effort to...

RETRENCHMENT

CORRECT PROCEDURE Consultation must take place as soon as the employer contemplates retrenchment: With a workplace forum. With a registered trade union whose members are likely to be affected or With the employee/s likely to be affected. An attempt must be made to...

HOW TO DEAL WITH A TOXIC PERSON

What Is Toxic Behaviour? A toxic person is an angry, hurt (and often bitter) individual who has low emotional intelligence and doesn’t know how to, or doesn’t want to, take responsibility for their pain, feelings, needs, expectations, behaviour and problems. They lash...

EMPATHY

EMPATHY Empathy is the ability to be aware of, understand and to appreciate the feelings and thoughts of others. Empathy is the ability to be sensitive to what, how and why people feel and think the way they do. Being ‘empathic’ is the ability to ‘read’ other...

PROFESSIONALISM IN THE WORKPLACE

PROFESSIONALISM IN THE WORKPLACE ‘PROFESSIONALISM’ is the term used to describe the internationally accepted standards or expectations that society has of people’s conduct and levels of competence in the workplace. These standards of conduct are set by society,...

AFFIRMATIONS

AFFIRMATIONS Affirmations were used successfully by Dr Emil Coué around the 1880’s to help alcoholics and drug abusers to overcome their destructive habits. Affirmations are widely used to help people to form new positive beliefs about themselves and to achieve...

AWARDS

The Coach Foundation has identified Elsabe as one of the premier executive coaches in the industry.

Elsabé Manning won the Business Acquisition’s Business Excellence Award 2020 as the ‘Best Business Coaching Consultancy in South Africa.’
Elsabé Manning won the Excellence Business Acquisition’s Business Award 2019 as the ‘Best Business Coaching Consultancy – Gauteng’
Elsabé was selected as one of The Most Inspirational Women of South Africa of 2012 as featured in Volume 2.
Elsabé won The 2006 Mijima Award!
Winner of the 2004 GreenPepper Enterprise Award which is awarded to South African companies that excelled in their industries, created economic growth or new job opportunities for the people of South Africa

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Professionalism In The Workplace

by Elsabe Manning

A practical guide to what true professionalism and competence entails, this book guides one through all manner of business interactions, from how to conduct oneself professionally while meeting with people from other cultures to the often overlooked rules of e-etiquette. Topics include: time management, networking, self-sabotage, travel etiquette and dressing for success.

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