Guest Speaker for 26 August 2009!

Guest Speaker profile: Jacque is the Regional Manager of Plumblink SA (Pty) Ltd. He has over 15 years management experience. He has held the portfolio of Treasurer and Project manager on SRC during his university career.

His topic is on business leadership and student leadership.

All are welcome to join us in the NMMU main hall on the 26th Wednesday of August from 13:15 to 14:15.

BLS continues to lead as a student business society in South Africa for developing business leaders.

Maximise your chances - BLS!

BLS adopts: Thembalethu High School

BLS adopted Thembalethu High School on the 31 July 2009. This was a successful event lead by the BLS's event manager (Sandy) and her ad hoc team which worked hard at making the event a success. All members of the ad hoc event team did a great job to assist the event manager of making the day a success. Well done BLS team!

BLS would also like to thank Eric Radermarcher for donating the Yellow-wood tree for the event which was planted and symbolises our committment and future growth with Thembalethu High School.

Guest Speaker: Niel Nel from Kelly Industrial

Dear Members

The Branch Manager of Kelly Industrial, Niel Nel will be our guest speaker this month. Kelly Industrial is an international recruitment agency and Kelly Industrial George will be going into a strategic partnership with BLS to ensure that members remain highly employable and assist in securing that first career.

The event will take place on 29 July 2009 at 13:00 - 14:00 in Auditorium - venue will depend on the turnout. Please take note that media will be present, George Herald and I think Eden FM will be there too.

MESSAGE TO US THE YOUTH FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA

"You have the power to hold your leaders accountable, and to build institutions that serve the people. You can serve in your communities, and harness your energy and education to create new wealth and build new connections to the world. You can conquer disease, end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up. You can do that. Yes you can. Because in this moment, history is on the move.

"Freedom is your inheritance. Now, it is your responsibility to build upon freedom's foundation. And if you do, we will look back years from now to places like Accra and say that this was the time when the promise was realized -- this was the moment when prosperity was forged; pain was overcome; and a new era of progress began. This can be the time when we witness the triumph of justice once more."

BUSINESS LEADERS OF TOMORROW

Here is the beginning of my post.

Leadership Styles

I thought I would use a portion of my thesis which touches on leadership styles. My thesis is entitled "The usage of CRM as a sustainable competitive advantage: A study of Jetline George." CRM stands for customer relationship marketing. We as BLS members should take pride in our univeristy and research should be a cornerstone within BLS's foundation.

Leadership Styles

The leadership style of a manager will have a direct influence on achieving long-term and sustainable growth in CRM. CRM being focused on building long-term relationships with customers must be complimented with a leadership style that can nurture employees in an organisation to work interdependently to achieve long-term and sustainable growth in CRM.

Dr Stephen Covey (2004:49) an internationally respected leadership authority noted that many managers are ineffective generates of long-term and sustainable growth in [CRM] as their maturity level as a leader has not passed the level of independence and as a manager continues to grow and mature as a leader, he/she becomes increasingly aware that all of nature is interdependent, that there is an ecological system that governs nature, including society. This realisation allows a manager to combine their own efforts with the efforts of his/her employees to achieve his/her greatest success.

The following leadership styles in Table 1 and Table 2 below have been identified and classified according to their level of effectiveness in terms of their interdependency or independence nature and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness in achieving long-term and sustainable growth in CRM.

TABLE 1
INTERDEPENDENT LEADERSHIP STYLES (EFFECTIVE IN ACHIEVING LONG-TERM AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN CRM)



Source: Adapted from Leadership Styles (2009¶7)