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hrri Published by KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES Featured article from the latest edition of Human Capital Review http://www. humancapitalreview.org/content/ NEUROSCIENCE AND THE THREE BRAINS OF LEADERSHIP The complex issues and adaptive challenges facing organisations today require a far more generative response than simply devising innovative strategies and new business models. New strategies, developed and executed from conditioned ways of being and thinking predictably, end up back in status quo. What is required is a new form of leadership. Not a new approach to leadership, but a new form. This new form is not about a particular leadership style or “type” of leadership. It’s about the leaders themselves and their ability to emerge new levels of consciousness and wisdom in their decision-making, write Grant Soosalu and Marvin Oka. Knowledge Resources has generously made a free subscription to this valuable on-line journal available to SABPP registered professionals. Email hrri@sabpp.co.za to sign up. Professor Martin Seligman was in South Africa last November for the FNB Progress Conference on Happiness @ Work. The leader of the Positive Psychology movement and originator of the concept of Learned Helplessness, Dr Seligman is a prolific author in the field of self-improvement and positive psychology. In this latest book, he builds on his Authentic Happiness Theory and elaborates on how to achieve well-being and to flourish in life. He has, through the extensive academic research for which he is renowned, identified five pillars which together build well-being. The five pillars are: Positive Emotion; Engagement; Relationships; Meaning; and Accomplishments. None of these can be addressed in isolation, and if one pillar is missing, well-being in its fullest sense cannot be achieved. His most encouraging finding is that each of these pillars is teachable, and he has wonderful examples from many walks of life, including prepubescent children, drill sergeants in the US Army and from corporate life. The book deals also with the ways to flourish and in this section he introduces his concept of GRIT, which he sees as more than self-discipline BOOK REVIEW: FLOURISH and resilience – it is the combination of very high persistence with a high passion for an objective. He also deals with turning trauma into growth and discusses the biology of optimism – how optimism can produce positive physical improvements. At the end of the book is his Signature Strengths Test which allows the reader to measure his or her strengths and to compare them to global norms on the website. There is also a very comprehensive list of references which can lead the reader to a wealth of literature on the subject. R208 from Exclusive Books website www.exclus1ves.co.za ASTD ANNUAL SURVEY REPORT This survey covering learning and development benchmarks is now available in CD format. It can be purchased through the website for a member price of R100 including VAT. The CD contains, in addition to the full research report, a set of slides for presentation in-house at your organisation. 6
hrri RESEARCH INTO BULLYING AT WORK Are you bullied at work? • Have you ever been bullied at work? • Do you know someone who is bullied, or has been bullied at work? • Are you an HR professional currently employed in the private sector in general, and financial sector in particular? If you answered ‘yes’ to one, or more of the above questions and are willing to share your experiences, you are invited to participate in an academic study conducted by a Doctoral student in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Pretoria. The research will be conducted through face-to-face interviews in Gauteng or telephonic interviews in the rest of the country. If you are interested to find out more about this study, please contact Ngao Motsei on 082 414 7935, or by e-mail on ngao. motsei@gmail.com. Her cut-off date is mid-May 2013. TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Last October, the Services SETA convened a workshop with various stakeholders to discuss how to improve the levels of absorption of persons with disabilities into the South African labour market and the services sector in particular. Penny Abbott represented the SABPP at this workshop. Presentations from the Departments of Labour and Higher Education and Training covered several government programmes for funding and providing access to training and development opportunities for people with disabilities. However, many of the Disabled People’s Organisations present at the workshop emphasized that the key objective is for people with disabilities to enter the workplace, not to continually be trained. its website, “a body constituted by employers who are committed to addressing issues confronting the integration of people with disabilities in the workplace. We have joined together as a group to share our experiences, develop best practices, confront and tackle prejudices that act as barriers to the integration of people with disabilities in the workplace, and form a common understanding of the challenges and solutions required to fully develop the potential of people with disabilities to contribute meaningfully to society and business.” In view of the dismal lack of progress in achieving employment equity targets for people with disabilities, HR professionals should find out more about how the SAE4D can assist them. SABPP PARTNERS WITH BUSINESSBRIEF MAGAZINE SABPP is proud to announce that, as a professional service benefit, we have negotiated online copies of BusinessBrief magazine at no charge, on an ongoing basis. This falls in line with the fact that BusinessBrief has been accredited by SABPP for CPD/E (Continuing Professional Development/ Education) purposes. For your information, BusinessBrief is a Business Management Magazine that provides decisionmakers in business with the information they need to make better business decisions. There are ten regular sections that contain articles dealing with the management issues that affect and influence business decision-making. In order to take advantage of this offer, please click on the following link: CLICK HERE http://www.bbrief.co.za/voucher and then insert the following voucher number: BPP13AM NOTE: This voucher is only valid until 31 May 2013 Dr Jerry Gule, GM for HR and Transformation at Total, gave a presentation in his capacity as Chair of an organization called SA Employers for Disability (www.sae4d.co.za). This organization, comprised mainly of large employers, is, according to The SABPP is compiling a resource to help employers gain access to people with disabilities as employees. If any of our members has any particular interest in this area and can offer a case study or other information, please contact penny@sabpp.co.za. 7
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