FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

August in South Africa is Women’s Month. In this issue we focus on women in business, these articles are ‘must reads’ for both sexes.

Some of these women graduated in 2010 from CIDA City Campus and have just started their working careers. Others are continuing their learning. Some women are Managing Directors of multinational organisations such as T-Systems South Africa, and others are successful General Managers at Carling Black Label that have created new and exciting positioning for their brand. We also feature the journey of one of the directors at Symphonia, a woman who has stepped down from a CEO position so that she can focus all her energy on developing school principals.

We interact with visionary organisations and dedicated lecturers that create work- ready graduates. We share the concept of Neuroleadership and how it stimulates much needed creativity in business. We discuss how an internal programme is used as a tool to enable employees to live lives of purpose.

Some articles highlight extraordinary skills development programmes. Some of them offer advice to managers on how to improve their own efficacy. All of this and more!

We hope you find this issue as exciting to read as we found it to compile.

Regards, Amanda Domehl

(This month’s guest editor) Forthcoming Events

August 15 Lean Six Sigma, Johannesburg 17 Talent Management and Retention, Johannesburg 25 SA Business Schools Expo, Johannesburg 26 Rising Stars Expo Eastern Cape 29 Henley Business School MBA Info session, Johannesburg 29 21st

Johannesburg 29 SA Labour Law Reports 27th

Century Leadership, Dr G. van Rensburg, Seminars,

various dates and cities 30 SA Innovation Summit, Johannesburg

September 06 The Skills Summit, Pretoria 14 2nd Annual Global Learning Academy, Johannesburg 19 Lean Leadership UCT GSB, Cape Town 19 21st

Century Leadership, Dr G. van Rensburg,

Johannesburg 26 Branding in Banking & Financial Services, Johannesburg

October 04 The Star HRD Expo, Johannesburg 19 Business Process Management in Government & State Owned Enterprises, Johannesburg 30 Institute of People Management 55th Annual Conference, Sun City

For more details see the pages inside this issue or go to our website www.management-today.org

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