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Resilience refers to our ability to adapt to life’s setbacks and misfortune. When things go wrong, do you bounce back from adversity, or do you fall apart because of it? 

Project Management is the process of planning, executing, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Change is not always easy, but it is inevitable and so it is important to be ready when changes are made in the workplace.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a drastic impact on our higher education sector that already have dropout rates that range up to 60%. 

If you're new to meditation, here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started:

If you're new to meditation, here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started:

Sometimes one needs a bit of extra ‘protection’ to face a group of students, so try these tips about how you can ‘present’ yourself to that critical audience:

Resilience is a crucial factor in any workplace, as it enables employees to bounce back from setbacks and cope with stressful situations.

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, businesses need to adapt quickly to stay relevant and succeed.

If you're new to meditation, here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started:

After a good break it is not always easy to return to work. You might still be mentally on vacation or feeling tired after your trip (often depending on how you travelled).

In our diverse and culturally rich society, the workplace often mirrors this tapestry of backgrounds, perspectives, and beliefs.

At the crossroads of healthcare education's evolution lies not just digital tools but a formidable ally: Artificial Intelligence (AI).

How to Begin the New Year:

Let’s face it, 2022 is over bar the shouting. As the end of the year approaches, we are all scrambling to complete deadlines while the countdown towards the much-anticipated holiday...

The importance of a good CV (resume) cannot be underestimated. This is your opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

Being burnt-out is not a badge of honour. We all work under enormous stress and taking care of your mental wellbeing is essential to ensure good decision-making, productivity, and creativity.

It is not always easy to express a dissenting view if you are part of a management team. The group think cognitive bias programmes us to default to the majority view.

Despite exponential advances in both clinical research, technology and in the pharmaceutical field over the last decade, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still the leading cause...

In the recent Gauteng TB Performance Awards Ceremony, Tshwane district received a trophy a second (2nd) and third (3rd) position in the two categories.

On 24 March we celebrate World TB Day, the day in 1882, that Robert Koch made the announcement of the discovery of the bacillus that caused TB at the meeting of the Berlin Physiological Society.

Are you the kind of person who always makes fitness goals at the beginning the year but never follow through with your plan?

New tissue needs blood supply, so your vascular system expands to accommodate it. This also means your heart must work harder to pump blood through the new network...

Values are factors that you believe are important in the way you live and work. They are probably measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to...

We know that healthy habits are good practices but do we ever stop to think about why we are encouraged to practice them? Research shows that the impact of good health...

The guidelines for business management are an important part of any corporate culture. They should be embedded in the fixed company principles and therefore be used as the basis for decision making on all levels.

If networking intimidates you or you think you don’t need to do it, think again. In today’s highly competitive world, being a confident and effective networker sets you apart from the crowd.

Opportunities for growth and development help employees to expand their knowledge, skills and abilities, and to apply the competencies they have gained to new situations.

Unproductive employees can drastically affect your whole office’s productivity, efficiency, morale, and profitability.

For many years psychologists have known that people’s behaviour is influenced by their personalities. In 1921 the Swiss psychologist CJ Jung published an article on personality and behaviour.

I have been asked to write on the above mentioned topic for FPD’s new blog, which makes sense given that I am responsible for the commercial sales team.

The business of providing technical assistance and health system strengthening is a very complex and multifaceted undertaking and often times our leaders and ‘manager leaders’ encounter...

Odds are that you have never actually had such a discussion, or if you have it was about slavery in an historical setting, about things that happened many centuries ago.

It seems that more and more authors are writing about the failure of and diminishing importance of strategic management.

Taking Stock can be applied to the way we run our household or the way we evaluate our eating and exercise habits.