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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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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. ...

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...

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...

JOB INTERVIEWS

Job interviews are nerve-racking, even for those who have chosen to find a new job. Applying for a position and going to job interviews are very stressful activities - especially if you have lost your previous job. Fear of rejection and financial worry can be...

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...

SPEND TIME WITH YOUR CHILDREN

Make time for your children. Have meals with them. Talk to them. Listen to them. Converse. Don’t watch TV during this time, and ban cell phones at meal times – for good. Have you noticed how much more you converse with your family during load-shedding? Mealtime should...

GOOD NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES WHO EARN LESS THAN R18 673 PM!

The new annual earnings threshold under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), and the Employment Equity ACT (EEA) will be R224,080.48 per year (R18,673 per month) from 1 March 2022. It was R211,596.30 per year (approximately R17,633 per month). The BCEA and...

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...

LISTENING

LISTENING Most people spend about 70% of their waking hours in some form of verbal communication. Yet, how many of us have ever had any formal training in the art of listening? Real listening is an active process that has three basic steps. Hearing Hearing just means...

PROCEDURE TO DISMISS AN EMPLOYEE

People often dismiss an employee without following due process. An employee stole from the employer and the employer caught them red-handed and fired the employee on the spot. Demanded that they leave the premises immediately. The employee has laid a grievance against...

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.