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Welcome back to 2025. Hopefully you we’re privileged enough to take a break at least somewhere over the festive season. I trust you used the time to enjoy family, indulge a ‘little’, reflect, energise and maybe just forget about work [...]

By Craig Lourens, business coach Business coach Craig Lourens brings you 10 strategies to strengthen your plumbing business. As we enter the summer holiday season, it not only plumbing businesses which might experience a slowdown in turnover, buy many other [...]

Catapult your team’s performance – this is how The recipe for business success is, and likely will remain, a work in progress as the corporate world experiences new trends, changing technology, and a shift in professional mindsets with each passing [...]

Two of the speakers are the Director and Head of Life Planning at Chartered Wealth Solutions, Kim Potgieter, and Attorney and Mrs South Africa 2024, Tshego Gaelae. Potgieter is tackling the topic of Midlife and Finances, whilst Gaelae is sharing [...]

This Women’s Month, ActionCOACH Southern Africa is hosting its 5th annual Thriving Women’s Entrepreneur Summit (TWES) on 16 August between 09h00 and 12h30. Free of charge to ensure inclusive access, the diverse, women-only speakers tackle a range of topics intended to empower, motivate and [...]

Leadership is as old as time. From the caveman era (where a hierarchical structure was identified to ensure the tribe thrived) to the more modern-day monarchy (and endless debate as to whether we should emulate billionaire idols as leaders) and [...]

Radio interview on The Yellow Mic had a conversation with Johan Southey and he spoke about the work that he does as a business coach as well as a leadership development and productivity specialist.

The State of the Nation (Sona) address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, was devoid of the usual interruptions and chaos engineered by the comrades in red, I almost felt cheated instead of relieved.

Building ‘wealth’ in lieu of ‘rich’. Money isn’t everything and nor should it be. However, building a sustainable and financially secure life is good planning. Strangely, we’ve found that business owners often prioritise financial security for the business over their [...]

Frantic and frenetic! For so many, this has been their valid experience of 2023. The invisible elastic band that has been holding the world back since the Covid-19 outbreak was released, resulting in fatigue.

We live in a world with the luxury of easily accessible information. Let’s face it – as empowering as that is, it can at times feel overwhelming. To keep things simple, we thought we would share a few tried-and-tested behaviours that [...]

Article written by Andre van Rooyen (ActionCOACH – Business Coach) Unless you are one of the few people who were lucky enough to receive a large inheritance, win the lottery, or marry into money, you will need to create your own [...]

"There are seven steps that can help steer any business through stormy waters, building resilience and a scalable business," says Pieter Scholtz, ActionCoach country partner for South Africa and Botswana, and speaker at The Business Show taking place in Sandton, Johannesburg on [...]

Marlene Powell, a franchise owner of ActionCOACH SA in KwaZulu Natal has been shortlisted for the Standard Bank and KZN Top Business Awards. The Awards celebrate and promote successful large and small companies, innovative programmes, projects, and people that have [...]

Business coaching – a discipline that has changed, evolved and transformed in leaps and bounds since the 1800s. This year marks a milestone for the craft, as ActionCOACH Southern Africa commemorates 17 years of operation. It is a chance to [...]

Business coaching is a discipline that has changed, evolved, and transformed in leaps and bounds since the 1800s. It's been almost 200 years since the term ‘coaching’ was coined by Oxford University. Professional “business coaching,” on the other hand, originated [...]