Owen, Adendorff & Associates is a firm of consultants that specializes in Employment Equity, BEE, Reducing Conflict Training, Industrial Relations, Wage Bargaining, Leadership and Business Strategy. We offer keynote addresses and motivational talks.
We have associates in Gauteng and Western Cape. Our offices are in the Pinetown area of EThekwini, KZN, South Africa

SA Greetings (Pty) Ltd South Africa’s largest manufactures and distributors of greeting cards and gift wrapping, recently put their sales and marketing staff through our Negotiating Skills Course. 
 

 
The picture above show some of the delegates that attended.
 
Some of the comments from the delegates include the following: -

Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable
A wonderful learning experience
Practical skills which can be transferred into the business world

2 – Day Training Program
Presented by: Mr. Les Owen of Owen Adendorff & Associates (Pty) Ltd
Introduction
The ability to be a good negotiator is an essential skill in business. Most of us negotiate several times a day without realizing it.
However, when we negotiate in a formal or business setting, we often find this experience quite stressful. As a consequence, we lose confidence in our ability to negotiate and this negatively affects our ability to get what we want.
This course will help delegates to improve their negotiation skills in a …

Predictions for 2010
Much has been written by the experts predicting what will happen in 2010.
Economists in particular have been some what guarded in their predictions given how wrong they were in predicting the Global Financial Crisis.
We thought it might help if we gave you our views on the areas in which we specialize.
1) What we know.
We know the following:

The World Cup will take place in June 2010
The inflation rate in South Africa has stabilized
The rate at which our economy has slowed is not as severe as 2009
Whilst many of the …