Lerato Mosiah Boss


of the Year 2010


C 14 issue 1 • careersuccess


Congratulations to Boss of the Year 2010 Lerato Mosiah, General Manager of Healthcare at Afrox, SA’s leading gasses and welding product’s company.


Lerato, who began her career as a medical sales representative in 1995, holds several science degrees as well as a GIBS MBA. Her training included completing her pharmacy internship at the Florence Nightingale Hospital.


Lerato’s attitude toward leadership is refreshing and honest: “ When faced with challenges, you must always have an open mind and you must tell yourself that you will never know everything all the time.


“If things don’t turn out the way I expect, I do some introspection...and it’s a lesson again...one of the traits as a leader is to always, always make sure that you take in lessons.”


This flexibility and recognition of others’ opinions and strengths resulted in her nomination for Boss of the year 2010 by employee Jenny Young who says: “Lerato really cares for her staff. She is a real people’s person who motivates, rewards, finds solutions and backs up her staff.


“Our department has a great diversity of people and she treats all the same; she respects each person and has no favourites.


She is a great listener and takes everyone’s opinion into consideration.”


Lerato says her greatest achievement as a leader has been to create a sparkle in the eyes of her team: “The biggest thing really has just been to see them grow, to see myself making a difference in their lives.


“... to see people’s eyes sparkle, because they always want to be at work, and simply because I’ve made an effort to listen to people, I collaborate well with the team...I give them the right to be who they are, and to grow into who they are.”


Lerato is also a strong believer in giving back to the community and volunteers as an Orientation Leader for First Year students at the University of North West.


MTN SA Foundation is the patron and main sponsor of this prestigious Award, which celebrated its 21st anniversary in 2010, and is widely acknowledged and lauded for the role it plays in identifying and developing workplace leadership in SA.


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