Les Owen recently conducted a training course in Managing Discipline for the Senior Managers at S.A Rugby in Cape Town.

Some of those in the photograph have been seen on the rugby fields of the world, plying their trade as prominent South Africans. Owen Adendorff are proud to be of service to this Globally recognized body.

These are the delegates who attended our Employment Equity Committee Training at Richards Bay Minerals.
The course is highly interactive.  it is an essential component of the development of successful Employment Equity Committee.  In terms of the Employment equity Act members of the Committee have specific obligations and duties to perform.  These obligations include the signing off of the Annual Employment Equity Plan and the Employment Equity Report.  The Employer is also obliged to consult with the Committee when compiling a Plan and the Report.

The present Global Finance crisis is now hurting many South African Companies.  This has caused many organizations to begin retrenching employees.
Employers who retrench employees and employees themselves need to be aware of what employers must do when retrenching employees.

Our training programme entitled effective Negotiation skills has gone international.
For many years, Les Owen has been considered an expert trainer in negotiation skills in South Africa.  This status received international acknowledgement when he was invited to train Arab delegates in the fine art of negotiation from the 9th to 11th June 2009.  He facilitated the programme for a group of 12 delegates from the National Oil Refinery of Abu Dhabi
Some comments from the delegates were:

I learn so much in this, so I hope you can give us another course.
Very interactive, …

“Modern civilization is teetering on the brink of an epidemic in ‘emotional idiocy’”.
Anna Maravelas “How to reduce workplace conflict and stress”
We have seen a disturbing trend in the South African workplace: intra-group conflict is on the rise. Conflict within management teams and between departments is an increasing part of the workplace reality. Our observation is that this problem generally is handled incorrectly. Managers “manage around” the conflict without realizing the unmeasured but real costs of this approach. Organisations need to learn how to reduce workplace conflict and stress. Organisations that have done …

With the many pressures felt by most Managers within today’s competitive environment, the responsibility for increased productivity is frequently left in the hands of the Supervisor.  Many Supervisors feel quite alienated and lonely because they are often left by themselves to deal with a tough workforce.  When faced with a  difficult situation such as a subordinate arriving late for work, the Supervisor has two options.  He can either stop what he is doing, engage the late-comer and the Shop Steward in a difficult time consuming …