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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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Hearings

We chair 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...

MANAGE YOUR EMOTIONS UNDER PRESSURE

MANAGE YOUR EMOTIONS UNDER PRESSURE Do you struggle under pressure? Let’s face it – successful business is built on successful relationships. Your career success depends on how other people feel about you and how well they support you. The problem is that you...

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...

DO YOU NEED TO GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER?

DO YOU NEED TO GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER? Are you as organised as you should be? Do you know how to write accurate yearly, quarterly, monthly and/or weekly plans? What do you know about daily planning and time management? You may have staff who are well qualified but they...

PROFESSIONALISM WHEN INTERVIEWING FOR JOBS

PROFESSIONALISM WHEN INTERVIEWING FOR JOBS I would like to discuss your behaviour when interviewed, today - not your CV or your qualifications and experience. Your behaviour (everything you say and do, including your body language) will be scrutinised from the...

HOW TO BUILD YOUR CHILDREN’S SELF-ESTEEM

“No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” (Eleanor Roosevelt, This is my Story, 1937) What is self-esteem? Self-esteem refers to the beliefs you hold about yourself and whether you like who you are. If you suffer from low self-esteem you probably hold...

PARENTING: BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL

Children learn from the people they look up to – mostly their parents. Display behaviours that you would like your children to display. Be kind. Be honest. Be calm and behave well when things go wrong. Watch what you say in front of them – even your toddlers. They...

Coaching & Counselling For Teens

Is your teen under-performing or rebelling? There are many reasons why a teenager would under-perform or rebel. The problem may be motivation; unhappiness; feeling misunderstood or unloved; dysfunctional or difficult relationships with important people in their lives...

COMMUNICATE WITH INTEGRITY

COMMUNICATE WITH INTEGRITY How do you respond when there is conflict or a stressful situation? Do you avoid the subject or person? Do you get angry? Do you go into denial? Communicating with integrity means to show more compassion and respect toward our conversation...

PROCRASTINATION

PROCRASTINATION If you feel deeply passionate about achieving a certain goal then nothing should be able to stop you from reaching it. How many of us actually complete projects? Why do we put things off until tomorrow? I know someone who was still sewing her wedding...

AWARDS

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

Elsabe Manning was selected as Best HR & Training Consultancy 2026 South Africa by African Excellence Awards.
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.