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OVERVIEW: Applied Holistic Executive (AHE) Mentoring Development Programme

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MODULE 1: DEFINITION AND BASICS OF EXECUTIVE MENTORING; DATE: Friday, 2nd July 2021, 08h00 - 15h00 (SAST); CONTENT: What is Mentoring? What is Executive Mentoring? Distinction between Training, Mentoring, and Coaching. Methods and Tools for Executive Mentoring. The Role of the Mentor. Uses for Executive Mentoring. The LEKGOTLA Methodology for Executive Mentoring. RSVP URL LINK: https://cometsafriendsandsupportersclub.wildapricot.org/event-4270111 ; MODULE 2: EXECUTIVE MENTORING OBJECTIVES; DATE: Friday, 6th August 2021, 08h00 - 15h00 (SAST); CONTENT: Organizational Development. Promotion of Diversity and Equality. Leadership Development. RSVP URL LINK: https://cometsafriendsandsupportersclub.wildapricot.org/event-4270117; MODULE 3: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EXECUTIVE MENTORING; DATE: Friday, 3rd September 2021, 08h00 - 15h00 (SAST); CONTENT: Development Criteria. Training Principle. Principles of Most Respected Companies. Improving Various Skills Through Executive Mentoring. Expe

GUEST SPEAKER AT THE COMETSA PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK (PRCN) - THE LEKGOTLA WAY!

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Ms Boniwe Dunster, Human Resources Professional, Graduate of Public Relations, and a member of The Institute of People Management (IPM), www.ipm.co.za, to address The COMETSA Public Relations & Communications Network (PRCN) - The LEKGOTLA Way! which is taking place on Saturday, the 10th April 2021 from 08h00 to 17h00, South Africa Standard Time (SAST), via Zoom platform. RSVP using the Event URL: https://cometsafriendsandsupportersclub.wildapricot.org/event-3806442 ; The PRCN / The LEKGOTLA Way! is a professional get together of the public relations & communications practitioners, academics, lecturers, facilitators, advisers, buyers of public relations & communications services and related fields organized by COMETSA Friends & Supporters Club NPO and COMETSA PMS LEKGOTLA Networks, a division of COMETSA GoC International (Pty) Ltd. At the The LEKGOTLA facilitators apply the COMETSA LEKGOTLA Facilitation Methodology in engaging with the participants. The outcome of the ev

Module 1 - The African Heritage Preserved: LEKGOTLA Methodology Facilitation Development Programme

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This Module takes place on Saturday, the 24th April 2021 at 08h00 - 17h00, South Africa Standard Time (SAST), virtually via Zoom Platform. To RSVP use the Event URL https://cometsafriendsandsupportersclub.wildapricot.org/event-4238169 ; The LEKGOTLA Methodolofy is the African Methodology for creating the environment favourable to active thinking, dialogue, engagement, learning, development and resolving conflicts among teams, groups, and clubs. The LEKGOTLA Way, our HERITAGE! We marked the COMETSA 20th Anniversary Celebrations in 2017 with the launch of the monthly COMETSA PMS LEKGOTLA Networks. These take a form of presentations, dialogues, conversations,and questions and answers format facilitated by COMETSA Methodologists, Experts,Associates and Partners. There is a strong case for learning this methodology. In this fast changing world, it is impossible to remain at the required level of knowledge, expertise, and information without formal and informal continuous professional develo

The Internal & External Mentors Network (IEMN) - The LEKGOTLA Way!

The Internal & External Mentors Network (IEMN) - The LEKGOTLA Way! & The Holistic Human Capital Development Tours Way! by both COMETSA Friends & Supporters Club NPO and COMETSA Radio Worldwide takes place annually in March. It is that time of the year now. This year’s event happens virtually via Zoom. It takes place on Saturday, the 6th March 2021, from 08h00 until 17h00, South Africa Standard Time (SAST). The line -up covers the following: Definition, Basics of Mentoring, Mentoring Objectives, Leadership Development through Mentoring, Types of Mentoring, Mentoring Styles, Mentoring Process, and Mentoring Checklists. “The term mentoring has its roots in Greek mythology. In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero Odysseus entrusts his friend Mentor to look after his son, Telemachus, while he is away at war and prepare him to be king. The word mentor came to mean teacher, educator or role model”. During the LEKGOTLA we will look deep into: The Role of the Mentor, Uses for Mentoring,

COMETSA DJ/Broadcasters Development Programme (2020 - 2021)

All the current paid up members of COMETSA Friends & Supporters Club NPO qualify to be registered as DJs/Broadcasters at COMETSA Radio Station, and participants in the COMETSA DJs/Broadcasters Development Programme 2020 - 2021. They will be invited by our radio production team to either host, co-host or be guests at any of our shows.  The requirement is to be fully paid up member for the current period. Any member whose membership has expired will not qualify for this opportunity. The registered DJs/Broadcasters who fail to renew their membership within the stipulated period, after receiving renewal notification from our digital platform, will be disqualified and deregistered from the programme. To get back into the COMETSA DJs/Broadcasters Development Programme 2020 - 2021 after late renewal of their membership they will have to apply manually at COMETSA Offices. There is no guarantee that they will be restored to the programme. We are also extending this opportunity to the next 1

HR Director, Adelha Rhoda, speaks at Development Summit 2020

LEKGOTLA 2020 KICK OFF: The HR Director and Country Cluster Head for Sub-Sahara AFRICA at Glaxo Smith Kline (Pty) Ltd is the Subject Matter Expert guest speaker at COMETSA Development Summit 2020 - The LEKGOTLA Way taking place on Saturday, the 25th January 2020, from 08h00 till 16h00, at aha Kopanong Hotel & Conference Centre in Benoni, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The theme of the Summit is: Practicing Meditation, Mindfulness, Wellness and Spirituality. Adelha is an accomplished Human Resources practitioner. Her career spans over thirty years. In these roles Adelha serviced multinationals in Logistics, FMCG, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals. In her illustrious career has strategically initiated alignment of HR strategy to business objectives, successfully implemented total rewards, retention programmes, enhanced performance management system, fast tracked employment equity strategy and implementation, and successful talent programmes amongst other things. Adelha was one of the c

Part 2: Mentorship Programme for Life-Long Holistic Human Capital Development (OBJECTIVES, METHODS & TOOLS)

Although everyone may become a mentor, we would like to advocate for the professionalization of mentoring programme. As a mentor you have huge responsibility to your protégés and sponsors of your programme. Many books have been written on Mentorship. In this series I am intending to consolidate some useful insights on the subject from various contributors. I am a practitioner Mentor-Coach, Mentor, and Coach, and enjoys sharing knowledge that can be applied immediately to the real situation. My overall purpose is to introduce, promote, and support the concept I call LIFE-LONG HOLISTIC HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, which I have been practicing for more than twenty two years. My company, COMETSA, has evidence of many young people who went through development programmes using this concept. Mentorship is one of the main pillars of the concept.  Some of the commonly listed objectives of Mentoring are to; create opportunities for new contacts and networks; utilize the organization’s existin