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13 August 2024
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Story Anthony Mthembu
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Photo Sibahle Dayimani and Amandla Kulu
Prof Peter Roseel, Managing Director of Management Consulting and Research – a spin-off of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium; and Prof Nicolene Barkhuizen, Director of the UFS Business School.
The Business School at the University of the Free State (UFS) hosted Prof Peter Rosseel, Managing Director of Management Consulting and Research – a spin-off of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium – for a guest lecture during his visit to the UFS Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS).
The guest lecture took place on 19 July 2024 in the Business School Auditorium and was attended by academics from the UFS.
Reflecting on the lecture
The lecture presented by Prof Rosseel focused on how combining strategy, strategy implementation, culture transformation, leadership, and learning successfully leads to sustainable growth, creates engagement, and delivers tangible results. Throughout the lecture, Prof Rosseel spoke about how experts tend to make bad leaders and therefore stop change from happening within an organisation. In fact, he highlighted that, “Experts stop change from happening within the workplace because experts, by definition, look through the eyes of their expertise, but you cannot reduce the world to different forms of expertise, as it is holistic.” As such, he argued that to change an organisation, one must see things from the point of view of others.
Furthermore, Prof Rosseel delved deeper into the hierarchical operating model within organisations. He indicated that the above model should be one community within organisations; however, unfortunately it is not. This is because organisations are made up of several departments such as finance and human resources. As such, he regards these departments to be silos that could prove to be detrimental to organisations, as each silo can create its own culture as opposed to an organisational culture. These are some of the points he discussed throughout the lecture.
After the lecture concluded, the audience had the opportunity to engage with Prof Rosseel on his viewpoints. In fact, Lyle Markham, Academic Head of Department and Lecturer in Industrial Psychology at the UFS, was one of the audience members and described the lecture as insightful.
Four from Kovsie Hockey represent SA
2013-06-01
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Tanya Britz against Tuks Photo: Varsity Sports SA 14 June 2013 |
Four of the University of the Free State’s finest hockey players will represent South Africa in various international clashes over the next two months.
Izelle Lategan and Tanya Britz are part of the Protea squad that will play preparation matches in Scotland from this week, to later partake in a tournament in London. Both Izelle and Tanya are also key players in the SA Under-21 side to contend at the Junior World Cup in Germany from 27 July to 4 August 2013.
Furthermore, two men’s hockey players from Kovsies, Jaco Fourie and Luke Sanan, are part of the SA Student Squad en route to the World Student Games, which will take place in the Russian city of Kazan from 7 to 16 July 2013.
Jaco and Luke are the first two Kovsies to be included in a SA Student Squad for the World Student Games.