News and OriginalSteps.com Projects

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: News; Published: 07 July 2011; Last Updated: 14 March 2016

Monday, 27 June 2011
Introducing Breaking Stereotypes – a travel documentary that alters the way people
interpret the world and themselves. Filmed and produced by a South African on a
mission.

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: News; Published: 24 June 2011; Last Updated: 09 February 2016

– INVESTING IN EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE

The success of graduate programmes is well documented with many of the world’s leading organisations offering graduate programmes across their territories in some of today’s most exciting and versatile industries. Ingrid Glover, Human Capital manager at The IQ Business Group says that formal programmes coupled with practical training and the support of senior management plays an instrumental role in the success of graduate programmes.

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: News; Published: 15 March 2011; Last Updated: 09 February 2016

Young Business for South Africa (YBSA) is helping young entrepreneurs to confront their fear of failure. On 17 March 2011, YBSA is hosting a “Fail Fast, Fail Forward: How failure makes successful entrepreneurs” at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Illovo, Johannesburg.

Telana Simpson, YBSA Director and entrepreneur, will be chairing a panel of experts gathered to dispel the myths around failing in entrepreneurship, and to start changing the mindsets of our young leaders towards failure.

Sitting on the panel are Yashivan Govender of FirstStep.me (Entrepreneur and author of the ‘Fun Side of Being Serious’), Danny Tuckwood of MetaCo (professional Leadership & Entrepreneur Coach), Allon Raiz of Raizcorp (founder and CEO of Raizcorp, the only privately-held, unfunded, profitable business incubator on the African continent), Dr Marius Pretorius (Associate Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Turnaround at the University of Pretoria). The panel will discuss what attitudes would be more beneficial for encouraging entrepreneurs and those who support them, to develop business in our country.

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: News; Published: 10 April 2011; Last Updated: 25 February 2016

A new parenting website called www.tum2mom.co.za was launched on Tuesday 5 April.

Tum2Mom’s aim is to become the first port of call for South African parents and grandparents who are looking for accurate, up-to-date information about parenting. It outlines developmental milestones from birth to age 3 and provides useful tips on how to stimulate and play an active role in a child’s growth during this exciting time. Tum2Mom’s content is a mixture of anecdotal experiences from a mom’s perspective and factual information from Sr. Elizabeth Beavon who is an experienced midwife, clinical nursing sister and parenting coach.

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: News; Published: 15 March 2011; Last Updated: 25 February 2016

Nicole Bolton

Nicole Bolton from Danville High School in Pietermaritzburg has been appointed 2010 HIP2B2brand ambassador of the year. HIP2B2, an initiative founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2002, which seeks to stimulate interest in science-, maths- and technology-related subjects as well as develop entrepreneurial skills, has continued their focus on actively encouraging learners to engage with the brand by hand selecting learners from across the country as part of their brand ambassador team.