If you want to grow your business, do not miss out on the following events.
| Date | Title of talk | City | Time | Read More/Register |
| 16-18 May | Sirdar Business Summit | JHB | 17:00 | Gerhardbarnard@sirdargroup.com |
| 24-May | How To Be An Effective Business Owner | CT | 08:00-10:30 | amandatshaya@sirdargroup.com |
We would like to welcome the newest addition to the Sirdar Group – Michelle Gerber.
Michelle Gerber
Michelle has a Diploma in Financial Management and has worked in a variety of industries. She began her career at an accounting firm where she was responsible for VAT and PAYE, and later worked in both the music and hospitality industries where she fulfilled various financial duties. She has experience in cashbook administration, revenue and income auditing, general cashiering, creditor reconciliation and general financial administration.
Michelle joined Sirdar in 2012 to further her career in the corporate environment, as she believed that she could learn a lot from the highly motivated Sirdar team. She currently works as an expedition financial administrator at Sirdar South Africa, Cape Town. Michelle is passionate about achieving optimal results through hard work. She constantly strives for excellence, and believes that dedication, accuracy and attention to detail are the keys to success.
Roger’s Hamilton book, Your Life Your Legacy, is available in South Africa through Sirdar. This inspiring book provides invaluable insight for entrepreneurs and managers alike about how to maximise your natural energy and that of your team members. It makes you question fundamental assumptions about how you use your time, and what it is that you should be doing to create wealth.
The book takes you on a journey through the eight different Wealth Dynamics profiles and shares stories about various global success stories. It enables you to explore your own path to wealth, and to determine which entrepreneurs you should learn from.
Sound interesting? If you want a copy of Your Life Your Legacy – The Sirdar Global Edition, contact Sirdar South Africa on southafrica@sirdargroup.com for more information.
Once you have transformed the previous seven Sirdar Management Compass segments into sustainable success factors in your organisation, you would naturally want to maintain tight control over the process to ensure progress. This is where the eighth segment of the Compass, Perfecting the System, comes into play. Sirdar’s BaseCamp programme is designed to develop and support all areas of the Sirdar Management Compass, including Perfecting the System. We aim to help you maintain tight control over your success by documenting what exactly your success entails. In this process, we help you to capture your organisation’s blueprint in the form of flowcharts, procedures and policies, as well as using technology and systems to support and drive the process. This involves capturing style, method, approach and methodology in a step-by-step manner, which enables you to replicate the success factor. This could mean repeating what you are doing well in another geographic location or even in different divisions within an organisation, be they existing or newly established.
Franchises are good illustrations of this segment. For example, a McDonald’s hamburger from any outlet in South Africa will taste the same as it is prepared in the same manner. The process of how the hamburger is prepared, cooked and presented is meticulously detailed and prescribed.
Here are some tips for perfecting the system:
Once you have mastered one process, you can move onto the next. With time and on-going re-evaluation, you begin to improve the system until it literally becomes perfect. Thereafter the process is more focused and successful, and it is easier to mirror the process and leverage the systems application.
Lise-Marie and Renier Keyser of Add-Life Productions attended the Sirdar Business Summit in November 2010. Approximately a year and a half later, the value of this experience is becoming increasingly apparent. Lise-Marie states, “We are getting more and more value from it as time goes by. We found the Sirdar Management Compass especially helpful, and the more we’ve applied the guidelines, the more apparent their value becomes.” She adds that the Summit enabled them to examine their business objectively, with great results; “It showed us the importance of asking critical questions, instead of just maintaining the status quo. The results have been life-changing.”
Add-Life Productions has been creating and producing large-scale musicals in South Africa since 2008. Previous productions include the critically acclaimed Houtkruis Die Musical and Ester Die Musical. Their latest production, Dawid Die Musical, will open at the State Theatre Opera House on 29 May 2012. For more information, please email dawid@add-life.co.za.
Consistent evaluation by business owners and directors of an enterprises’ business model ensures that the enterprise remains a learning organisation. The evaluation should incorporate the review of legal activities to determine improvements in legal activity as well as resolving any unnecessary or unresolved legal matters. In some instances this review process may lead to the closing of specific business units, or may identify opportunities to take into account in preparing for the next round of enterprise growth and the replication of the business model. Directors should accordingly ensure that the foundation required to support sustainable growth is legally sound before embarking upon any form of business replication or expansion of the business into new markets, regions or areas of operation.
The legal aspects of business replication and the most appropriate replication system, which could consist of licensing, franchising, formation of branches or subsidiary companies, require careful consideration in order to ensure that the most suitable structure is utilised for ensuring the effective expansion of the business model. Advice should accordingly be sought from legal advisers, such as Sirdar Legal, who understand business model expansion and replication in the SME sector. Ad hoc business replication or business model expansion, in the absence of detailed evaluation and legal structuring, is seldom successful. Consistent evaluation of the business model, together with the formulation of the most appropriate legal structuring for the business model replication, will place the business in the best possible position to achieve long-term sustainable profitability.
If you want to grow your business, do not miss out on the following events.
| Date | Title of talk | City | Time | Read More/Register |
| 18 Apr | Governance – How to be an effective Business Owner |
Midrand | 07:00 – 09:30 | Gerhardbarnard@sirdargroup.com |
We would like to welcome the newest additions to the Sirdar Group – Michelle Solomons, Faiza Arend and Valancia Maralack.
Michelle Solomons
Michelle is an experienced personal assistant with extensive administrative skills. She is highly efficient and reliable and pays great attention to detail, thus setting a high level of quality standards for office services. Michelle is currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology.
Michelle joined Sirdar in 2012 because she wanted to be part of this warm and committed team. She is currently based in Cape Town where she works as an expedition services administrator at Sirdar South Africa. Michelle believes in continually striving for excellence in the work place, and is passionate about making every opportunity a success. She enjoys working with people, and always strives to provide others with the assistance necessary for them to achieve their goals.
Faiza Arend
Faiza has worked as a personal assistant in the financial services industry for over five years, during which time she mastered organisational and administrative skills. She is meticulous and efficient, and ensures good organisation in the office at all times. She also has a keen interest in events co-ordination, and is currently working towards a qualification in this subject.
In 2012 Faiza decided that it was time to embrace new challenges and joined the Sirdar team. She currently works as an expedition services administrator at Sirdar South Africa in Cape Town. Faiza is passionate about good organisation in the workplace, and enjoys interacting and networking with Sirdar clients.
Valancia Maralack
Valancia has worked in a variety of industries, ranging from engineering and manufacturing to the petroleum industry. She began her career as a receptionist and junior personal assistant, and worked her way up to the level of executive personal assistant. Valancia has completed courses in business development as well as management and supervisory skills.
Valancia chose to join the Sirdar team in 2012 because she wanted to be part of an organisation that is confident about the value of its brand, and that is genuinely passionate about assisting their clients to achieve success. She works as Sirdar South Africa, Cape Town, where she fulfils the role of expedition services administrator. Valancia is passionate about providing services of the highest quality, and ensuring that processes are streamlined to eliminate unnecessary timewasting. She enjoys making people smile, encouraging a positive attitude in a deadline driven environment.
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