It is a challenge to find the best possible individual who can fit within your culture and contribute in your organisation. Keeping the best people, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These specific actions will help you with recruiting and retaining all the talent you ne...

The hotel general manager is a very important job role within the hospitality sector, this is the person that can balance several tasks while still keeping a smile on their face. In the last 10 years the industry has changed significantly, these changes can be aligned to the recent financial crisis....

“Ethics - Moral rules of conduct that guide one’s decisions.” Many of us don't consider the importance of ethics in our business and work environments, though they surround us wherever we go. Think about it - most of us want to work for ethical organizations. We also want to feel good about ourselv...

What does a training manager do? Training managers are present in all companies to provide a service; they organise and manage training programmes within an organisation. They are there to ensure that people gain and develop skills needed to enable them to carry out their jobs effectively. They usu...

What is enterprise resource planning? Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software application which helps businesses to manage and connect information from all core areas of the organisation with the aim of improving effective decision making. ERP software solutions promote visibility througho...

What is business budgeting? A budget is a financial plan for the future, this looks at the revenue and costs of a fully functional business. The budget is about much more than just financial numbers, but also consists of controls. The budgetary control is the process in which financial control is e...

Today’s consumer lifestyles, values, habits, expectations and methods of communicating have changed totally. The way you market your enterprise must keep up with change. Your marketing must keep up with the changes in society, lifestyles, values, technology, economy, shopping habits and demographics...

As an employee, we often sit back and wait until our annual or monthly performance review to identify any areas that we need to improve. It is important to be in a position of accountability, to improve your skill set, learn by setting your personal benchmarks and to review them regularly. This will...

Public Relations can be a vast and confusing field. What exactly is Public Relations, or more importantly, what isn’t? Rather than dig into the deep history, we thought we’d share six facts about things you likely didn’t know about Public Relations. In doing so, we hope you learn a little bit more a...

IT business management is present within many organisations today, the IT side of most businesses still continues to struggles in making a partnership with the business side. Today’s IT managers seem to be more like acrobats than technologists, they are made to juggle technology and teams along with...