Any of you who know me know how passionate I am about the CA(SA) brand. As far as I’m concerned, it represents the best preparatory business qualification in the world, bar none! It’s stringent qualification requirements coupled with its lateral thinking and analytical training makes it the hardest course to pass other than maybe actuarial […]
Reach for the stars! A cliche associated will every glitzy and trashed-up success story. But listen up! If you don’t project yourself into stardom, nobody will do it for you. The biggest epiphany I ever had in my life was getting that I’m fully responsible for my life. I used to hate that idea – […]
Depression! A cunning and devastating illness. A surprising number of people suffer from its effects and I’m not talking about the in-your-face bi-polar type. Low level feelings of exhaustion, disinterest, inertia, drag, dull, uncreative, sluggishness, apathy. The thing is that, when it comes to this stuff, the workplace is brutal! Furthermore, there is a lot […]
This might just be your story . . . . . . Read on! In my business I have the privilege of coaching quite a number of young Chartered Accountants. Part of my program is to get my clients to see their own unique strengths. I then coach them on how to take these strengths […]
A client recently took my course on Executive Presence. He was struggling with his confidence levels, especially around his boss. The thing is, he was the CFO of the company! How could he find himself at this stage in his career battling with self-esteem issues? Not the domain for executives! They are supposed to get […]
Don’t you often find that you are asking yourself the question “I’m a qualified manager, but am I making it? Am I where an executive should be with my years of experience, should be?” It does not seem to matter how many years you have been qualified, there is always this nagging uncertainty that you […]
You’ve probably irritated by the media-attention that cryptocurrencies have been receiving over the last few months. This one has collapsed, that one is on the rise, and a new one is around the corner. But, with the recent collapse in the crypto markets and the number of frauds and hacks that have been reported, the […]
Being an executive of many years standing and a CA(SA) at that, I submit that I am a fairly good judge of character. Sure, I’ve got it wrong but generally I trust my instincts and they mostly do not let me down. So here is a sorry tale of extreme executive manipulation. My client, Jackson […]
Being in an executive coach is a great honour. I deal a lot with emerging executives and it is a humbling profession as it allows me into the deeper parts of peoples fears and courage. Here is an amazing story of just that: Courage. But this story unfolds in a rather different way. It starts […]
We’ve all heard the stuff about stress and health. I for one find the whole thing more stressful than healing. The fact is I just don’t do all those right things that the stress gurus propose – it just takes too much energy and time. But here is something that is very useful and effective […]