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A Youth in Dialogue event, part of the 11th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture programme, was held...

Organizations, and in particularly in development cooperation, experience the necessity to evaluate themselves and their functioning...

Theo Visser has been working for Kessels & Smit since this Spring. He is a graduate...

This post introduces the Diary Method as researched by Penny Plowman (a UK/South African researcher) as a method of organisational analysis that can have great application as a step in an organisational change process.

South African enterprise platform FNB and U-start recently awarded an ‘Enterprise Elevator’ prize - meant for promising new social entrepeneurs. We were very proud that SpringAGE was one of the six nominees! The number of entries exceeded the organizer's expectations by far: “We received an overwhelming amount of entries for the pitch event and have been exposed to a number of exciting innovative entrepreneurs solving big social and environmental challenges” organiser of the event, Max Pichulik, said. “Our final selection was based on the strength of the applications and interviews – this was by no means an easy task.” We can agree on that! As one of 17 entrees we were invited to a Skype session with the judges of the competition. In the conversation we had to pitch SpringAGE –talk about our vision, what we do and if someone would invest in SpringAGE how much would we need and what we would we do with it…. Big questions for an 18month old SpringAGE! But good ones, that forced us to stretch our thinking and go onto the drawing board about where we would like to see ourselves in 10 years from now. Apparently, the judges were convinced and much to our delight we made it to the final six. And were invited to the big end event in Cape Town.

We all feel excited and ready to take K & S SA to the next level at our first meeting of the year held at Open.

In their book ‘Presence’, learning professionals Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Flowers...

Now available in the app store: ' MyCicerone '. MyCicerone is a personal travel assistant for...

Last week, from 13 until 17 August Joeri Kabalt and Pieterjan van Wijngaarden facilitated the South...

'Cultural duty': spending a year in a culture different than yours. It should be a compulsory part of life. Diving into the deep sea of habits, languages and beliefs that are new, confusing, interesting at the same time. In the last year I experienced how enriching it is to go out of my comfort zone and to be challenged in every thinkable area of life. When I look back at last year, I’m proud of how much I learned but even more of the fact that I took the chance and made the change.