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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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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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TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS The ‘toxicity’ referred to in the term ‘toxic relationship’ refers to, not only the behaviours such as name-calling, physical, emotional, sexual and mental abuse, lies, stealing, etc., but it also refers to the consequences of these behaviours –...

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...

SEVEN HABITS OF BORN ENTREPRENEURS

SEVEN HABITS OF BORN ENTREPRENEURS Some people are natural-born entrepreneurs. Find out if you are one of them. Some people are born to be entrepreneurs. There are many people who start their own businesses young and become successful early in life. Such people...

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...

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...

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...

EIGHT STEPS TO ACQUIRING YOUR GOALS

EIGHT STEPS TO ACQUIRING YOUR GOALS For any personal development plan to succeed, it is necessary that you incorporate the following eight steps to ensure the successful implementation of your goals. Write your goal as a significant future event or behaviour. ...

DECISION MAKING

DECISION-MAKING “You can assess the quality of your decision by the quality of life resulting from the decision” (Anon) No one makes the right decision every time, but by developing your decision-making skills, you can increase your success rate. We use...

SELF-SABOTAGE

SELF-SABOTAGE ‘Before you can empower the reality of being fulfilled and complete, you have to stop empowering the reality that you are not …’ (Anonymous) If you have the desire, skill and knowledge to achieve something but you are not achieving it, you are probably...

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.