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COACHING CAN BE A VALUABLE EXPERIENCE

Jacquie Bhana Consulting, organisation ideally positioned
High Performance for your strategic aspirations?
Coach, Mentor and What would your organisation
Counsellor look like if you had to design it
from scratch?
ome people 4. Do I understand why we do
think that things this way? Often the
Skeeping answer to that question is
busy is a way because that’s the way ‘it’ has
of being
effective, always been done.
regardless of 5. What might be the long term
whether their consequences of our key
actions are strategic actions?
important and urgent…or not.
Coaching can be a valuable and
Have you ever caught yourself helpful way of getting leaders
saying ‘I’m so busy’, or have to reflect and think through
you noticed that when you ask the dynamics impacting on
someone at work how they are, their business and how to move
they are very likely to say ‘Busy’, forward successfully. This process
and expand on how busy they are can be enormous fun when you
– rather than say they are well. are able to see the potential to be
better and to be working towards
According to Marisa ■ Busy isn’t always productive your best.
Murgatroyd’s teachings on – working smarter not harder STOPPING TO THINK products and business models.
Transforming ‘I’m too busy’ – is a well understood concept, - LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS Therefore, leaders must make Coaching is not only for business
99% of us have, so join the club. and leaders must try and foster There are many examples of time to reflect on these changes leaders or executives but applies
BUT, if you are busy all the this culture. successful leaders who, even and systematically analyse and to: supervisors, managers,
time, it can be a problem if you ■ Don’t feel stressed if you have though they are busy, make the think of appropriate and relevant professionals and new graduates
are in a leadership role, either downtime. This time can be time to think. Bill Gates, for business responses. Many leaders in business. Coaching can be
as the head of a business or in used constructively. example, was famous for taking don’t make enough time for this. used as a sounding board to be a
management. Being too busy a week off twice a year, spent in COACHING CAN HELP TO high performance employee, lead
means that you are not finding ■ Baby boomers are well known private, just to think and reflect IMPROVE ‘THINKING’ high performance teams, be more
the time to think and reflect, for working their fingers to the about Microsoft and its future. confident and more effective and
which is important for assessing bone – with Gen Z Another world renowned and Here are five questions add more value to the business. 
professionals entering the
performance and developing respected leader Warren Buffet taken from an article by Freek
business strategies. Simply workplace, this can create spent a lot of time, every day, just Vermeulen, “Leadership is about Contact Jacquie Bhana if you would like
quite a challenge. They don’t
living like a ‘hamster on a wheel’ see busy-ness as a badge of to sit and think. thinking: make time for it”. coaching to become a high performance
does not make you effective. honour, and want careers to 1. What does not fit? Ask employee and leader of a high
Busy-ness is a trap that stops you have meaning, value, purpose If you can’t find the time to yourself if the various business performance team.

from finding control, meaning and joy. Good leaders need think, it probably means that you activities make sense together, C: +27 83 386 8343
and fulfilment in life and at to find ways of motivating haven’t organised your company, or does your business model E: Jacquie.bhana@mbhana.co.za;
or team very well and are putting
work, when you are stuck in the them and bringing the best out out little fires all the time. It need to change? jacquie@jbhana.co.za
quicksand of being busy. in them. also means that you are at risk of 2. What would others do? W: www.jacquiebhana.co.za

leading your organisation astray. Companies often suffer from
The only constant in our lives past success – but now things
Stop saying you’re busy, think about and in business is rapid change have changed and continuing
in the same way no longer
being productive and adding real value. – and many of the components makes sense.
of a strategic plan are dynamic,
and have to respond to emerging 3. Is my organisation consistent
events, e.g. customers, markets, with my strategy? Is your

DIVERSITY WITHIN THE WORKFORCE

The revised targets prioritise The new system replaces goals towards achieving the
achieving diverse leadership teams. individual quotas for African, relevant five-year targets.
For example: Coloured, and Indian employees It is important to note that
■ In manufacturing, 40% of with a broader “designated these are draft targets and the
top management should be groups” category. final version might be adjusted
from designated groups with at Provincial and national targets based on public feedback. The
least 15% being female are merged, creating a single
n 1 February 2024, the Minister of Labour to set sector- draft targets for the various
Minister of Employment specific targets for designated ■ In administration and support national target for each sector. sectors are open for comment
Oand Labour published groups across all levels for any activities 50% of top The department aims to until 2 May 2024.
the new Draft Regulations on national economic sector. management should be from accelerate progress towards fairer All public comments must be in
Proposed Sectoral Numerical Consequently, the Department designated groups (30% male representation in workplaces,
Targets for the Employment of Employment and Labour and 20% female) while 85% acknowledging the slow pace of writing and forwarded to:
Equity Act in the Government has revised its targets, with the of professionally qualified and previous efforts. 1. Christina Lehlokoa
Gazette for public comment. middle management should be E: christina.lehlokoa@labour.gov.za
aim of increasing diversity and from designated groups Of significance is that the
The Employment Equity representation, across the full ■ In the agricultural sector the prescribed targets are five- 2. Julian Mohale
Amendment Act 4 of 2022 was range of management positions, skilled technical employees year targets, and designated E: julian.mohale@labour.gov.za
signed into law in April 2023 from junior to top management, should be 78% from designated employers will maintain the
by President Ramaphosa. This professionally qualified people groups (50, 4% male and 27,6% power and responsibility to 3. Innocent Makwarela
legislation empowered the and skilled technical employees. female) determine their own annual E: innocent.makwarela@labour.gov.za

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