Shine Internship - HOPE Series by Elizabeth Nkoana Hope (definition)- a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. Throughout the year of 2020 and 2021, I believe one thing that has kept us sane is hope. Hope that the next few months would be better, and as the 31st of December 2020 came upon us, we hoped for a better year. Hope never dies. While you are still breathing, still alive on this planet, hope never dies. Your hope can take you to new height

by Thandie Balfour The first quarter of 2021 is over and when you speak to a lot of people a common phrase that comes up is ‘survival mode’. It appears most people just want to go through 2021 with minimal damage. A lot of people are grateful to have survived 2020 and so appear to be satisfied with just the same for 2021. This is all well and good except for the fact that when people talk about surviving there is usually a heaviness and reluctance that goes with it as well. P

by Cilette Harris The time we live in asks for impeccable leadership. We live and work in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. The effectiveness of our leadership determines how well we, and the people we lead, respond to the challenges and opportunities in the environment. It also correlates closely to sustainable business performance. I believe that right now we are learning much to prepare us for leadership in rapidly evolving human and organisational contex

We are living in a time of great change and upheaval. Between COVID, lockdowns, economic crisis, gender and race conflicts, natural disaster

by Creina Schneier Ease in the Thinking Environment refers to an internal state, an internal freedom from rush, urgency and anxiety. Ease has a very strong physiological component – people are drawn to those who are at ease. Can you think of someone who you are drawn to for their easefulness, their sense of calm? To put others at ease, it is important that we ourselves are at ease. So, what would it take for you to have ease like this? Try this S T O P exercise when you feel

This is the final of this series, and I will show you how, by applying the simple Deep Democracy 4 Step process, how leaders of society can

Making good decisions is hard, especially in these times where we are faced with so much uncertainty and distress.

Making decisions that are well informed is more critical in this time of the pandemic than it has ever been before. As this pandemic unfolds

Blog 1 of 5 on excellence in decision making. In this unprecedented time there are many opinions and no clear obvious way to proceed. This is a real example of what complexity means. There is no simple and obvious answer to what should we do in response to this pandemic, and every choice has both foreseen and unforeseen consequences. Conflict is a natural result with charged views on both sides of the argument. The untenable debate which is raging right now all in South Afr

As we enter this new world of work, soft skills will become the top skills. Technology and machinery can do many wonderful things, however..