Focus on Youth Unemployment

Focus on Youth Unemployment – do you have success stories to share? A recent report released by STATS SA shows that unemployment is still one of the major and most persistent problems facing South Africa. This is despite the finding that less young people were living under the poverty line by the end of 2014.
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4 tips for job hunting in a digital age

Employers continue to try out increasingly sophisticated technologies in their hiring processes. If you are looking for that new next post and you’ve been clicking the ‘apply’ button a lot with little success, there may be a reason that’s not so much about you but what’s in your application. Here are a few insights from

Hot off the press – IPM moves the Annual Convention and Exhibition to Johannesburg

Last year we celebrated 70 years at our Annual Convention and Exhibition. It was a landmark year for us. This year brings a fresh and exciting development – we are bringing the event to the heart of Gauteng! This move will make the event more accessible for a wider range of attendees. It is on
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Managing people in your start-up or small business

Start-ups and small businesses play a crucial role in the economic prosperity of South Africa. They are an important source of job creation. Seeing as though the IPM is dedicated to good people management practice in all types of workplaces, not just large organisations, in this blog we focus on how to manage people in

Round up of the Crucial Debates, Part 3: Strategic Thinking

Here is our latest challenge from the Crucial Debate Series held in March. Lizwe Nkala from the Strategic Thinking Institute is a corporate strategist working at executive and board levels of large companies. He cites strategic thinking as a critical skill for the 21st Century leader. High performance organisations have a deeper level of strategic

Do you take leadership seriously? 3 reasons to attend the IPM HRD Summit

Have you booked your place on the upcoming IPM HRD Summit? Here are 3 reasons why you should.   Change is all around us The world is changing, it always has. We no longer have jobs for life, 9 – 5 working schedules, or as much role clarity as we had in the past. Change

Round up of the Crucial Debates, Part 2: Employee Engagement

This is the second post of a two-part blog on the recent Crucial Debate that ran from the 16th to the 17th of March at the Midrand Conference Centre. You can read the first post here. The Crucial Debate Series asks the questions you should be asking in your workplace and aims to influence what

Round up of the Crucial Debates, Part 1

On the 16th and 17th of March the Institute of People Management ran the first of a new kind of offering at the Midrand Conference Centre. The Crucial Debate Series asks the questions you should be asking in your workplace, and aims to influence what we do and how we do it. We throw critical

Developing leaders to thrive

‘Of 800 executives and talent development professionals worldwide who took part in a Harvard Business Publishing survey, just a third said they felt they had the right leadership talent and skills.’ Multinational, multilingual, multicultural and multi-generational – these are some of the ‘Multi’s’ that leaders must manage within their organisations these days. Not only that,

Building relationships, rather than destroying them

‘If there was one skill that I wish I could bestow on the general population, it would be to be able to speak one’s mind gently but clearly and concisely; in a way that builds the relationship and trust in the relationship, rather than destroys it.’ This is from a blog post we came across