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‘People are people so why should it be, that you and I get along so awfully?’. These are the opening lyrics of the song, ‘People are People’ by Depeche Mode. If you don’t know who Depeche Mode was, don’t worry, it just means you were not a child of the...

April 1 is traditionally a day of fools.  It has made us stop and reflect on the importance of lightness, levity, fun and play. Whilst the world around us might seem like it is falling apart in pandemics, war, loss , injustice and grief; there is no better time to...

International Women’s Day – March 2022 How do you like your coffee? Black, milky, sweet, strong, frothy, single shot, instant, ground? There are so many ways to drink coffee and you probably have a preference for a particular version. Whatever your choice, when making your coffee at home, or when...

TEAMERY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT - BREAKING THE BIAS By Kerrin Miller It was a privilege to join the co-founders of Teamery on International Women’s Day to share our own stories on 2022’s very relevant topic of ‘Break the Bias’. This often focuses on building leaders and teams that shift...

So Valentine’s day has come and gone and perhaps you find that glow of love you were experiencing up to, and including the 14th February, has started to wane. Perhaps it’s come and gone, almost as quickly as your motivation for your new year’s resolutions…! If however, you felt love...

So here we are midway through January 2022 and I wonder how many of you are still feeling the hopefulness and anticipation that the beginning of a year seems to bring? I know I still am although not quite as strongly as in the early days of January. And this...

As I prepare to leave Factor10 Consulting after three years to start an internship at a leading retail company, I have had an opportunity to reflect on how life changes – and how we learn and grow because of those changes. As children, we are filled with dreams, often big...

Resilience and Grit: Knowing when to push or rest / Knowing when to preserve or stop A brief article in the international section of various news outlets, in September of this year, caught our attention, for a variety of reasons. Briefly, what happened was elite athlete, Omar Ahmed, won the...

(by Audrey Riley) As I sit here, trying to concentrate on this blog and get something useful on paper, I am conscious of the thoughts running at the back of my mind and they are consumed with one thing at the moment – Archie, aka The Ginja Ninja, our ginger...

(by Ednah Khosa) There is a different kind of silence, a silence we have grown to live with and make peace with. A silence that says “pray about it and you will be just fine”. October is Mental Health Awareness month in South Africa and this year we are working...