“As a younger first-year scholar in Cape City I made a solemn promise on my method to my first lecture – if ever given the chance, I’ll educate, practice and develop others for the remainder of my life.” ― Vernon Chalmers
“An energetic life serves the aim of giving man the chance to understand values in inventive work, whereas a passive lifetime of enjoyment affords him the chance to acquire achievement in experiencing magnificence, artwork, or nature.” ― Viktor Frankl
Picture 1: Vernon Chalmers Coaching Officer South African Navy
With my college students (I’m again row on the left) after my first ever self-designed coaching course (on Labour Relations). My KPA’s included the lecturing of Army Management / Army Administration / Labour Relations Technique and Consulting for the SA Navy on the Army Coaching College, SAS Simonsberg, Simon’s City and the SA Naval Employees Faculty (for Naval Officer Coaching) in Muizenberg through the early 1990’s.
A few of my (private) largest achievements have been two Chief of the SA Navy Excellence Awards for Labour Relations / Army Administration Coaching (SAS Simonsberg), SADF Joint Senior Employees Officer Faculty Labour Relations Course Choice (as a junior officer) – accomplished Summa Cum Laude (Pretoria). I used to be trusted with the autonomy for steady analysis / improvement of Categorized Army Administration coaching (for Navy Petty Officers and Warrant Officers Qualifying) curriculums and being chosen as one of many youngest members to serve on the Chief of the SA Navy’s Steering Committee for Army Administration and Management Coaching (and the curriculum improvement / facilitation of civilian Labour Relations Coaching to present / future Naval Base Commanding Officers) Naval Officer Employees Faculty (Muizenberg).
Border Responsibility point out: As a part of my preliminary obligatory (conscript) navy service, (SA Navy), I spent three months volunteering with the SA Marine Corps in two operational models within the ‘warfare zone’ (SWA / Namibia) deep into the Caprivi Strip, with the second deployment just a few kilometers north of the Chobe Nationwide Park – the place we usually noticed the ‘enemy’ throughout the Chobe River, Zambia. It was a private devoted (auxiliary) border service, and at occasions volunteered in aiding a number of the Marines with minor psychological challenges – for my border service I obtained the SADF Professional Patria medal. For me, personally, this era was fairly a paradox, as 1000s of younger males throughout the SADF had no alternative. Most of them (SA Military) have been engaged in bodily infantry warfare in Angola throughout the identical time. I nonetheless, as much as in the present day, have many days assimilating this. Sentinel Tasks (by Barry Fowler, Scientific Psychologist, SA Military throughout the identical interval) assisted me in a really considerate means in studying his on-line publication with some attention-grabbing anecdotes / journals from varied SADF members throughout this difficult interval – I beginning studying Sentinel Tasks since 2020. I additionally learn Barry Fowler’s ebook – Professional Patria 2nd Ed. ‘SADF Border Responsibility 1984 -1988’. Books by Barry Fowler.
Categorized Info and Communication Expertise Scholar Employment
As a Human Useful resource Administration and Social Science scholar I used to be unexpectedly awarded a world Curry Benefit Award / Bursary in direction of the tip of my first yr and was subsequently recruited (from my second yr) by a covert Info Administration and Expertise company concerned in Secret and High Secret nationwide and worldwide initiatives for the South African Defence Drive (SADF). After some intense scrutiny I used to be granted an official SADF / SA Authorities Intelligence Secret Clearance and over a three-year interval was uncovered to a number of the greatest Info Expertise (IT) software program engineers / laptop methods within the nation. What was fairly ironic (to maintain a secret) was the numerous days I attended lectures in full enterprise apparel – underneath the pretence of working as a part-time gross sales consultant.
Little did I do know that just a few years later I’d grow to be (greater than) strategically concerned within the consulting / coaching of civilian labour relations / labour legislation to SA Navy officers, non-commissioned officers and civilian workers (within the Western Cape Command). The extra liberal labour relations coverage method of the SA Navy management (through the early 1990’s) provided me this distinctive intervention as an essential organisational / private purpose and accountability (within the context of the nation’s political ideology on the time). The Navy’s management belief in my potential to fulfil my self-defined analysis and curriculum-development targets throughout rank and area motivated me much more. At first I used to be barely overwhelmed with the tutorial freedom of guiding so many alternative ranges of stakeholders, however I used to be nicely supported by my senior naval officers, navy coaching psychologists and different members who, like me, believed within the shared objectives and essence of workers improvement and motivation.
From Human Useful resource Growth Training to Private / Company Computing
It was an interesting time – and this was simply in regards to the starting of the common technological affect of the microchip, independently invented in 1959 by Jack Kilby of Texas Devices and Robert Noyce (Noyce along with Gordon Moore based Intel Company in 1968, California, United States). The introduction of the primary IBM Private Pc (PC) in 1981 offered alternatives for enterprise and people to amass cost-effective multi-tasking desktop computer systems that have been merely not accessible in such small kind issue(s) earlier than. Not lengthy after the introduction of the IBM PC the Intel CPU grew to become the microprocessor of alternative for many desktop and workstation / server (community) laptop information processing all over the world. Thousands and thousands of Intel CPU’s have been built-in into ‘cloned’ IBM PC’s with seamless compatibility and less expensive than most IBM elements (i.e. circumstances, energy provide models, motherboards (suitable with varied Intel CPU’s), DDR reminiscence modules, inner IDE exhausting drives, graphic / sound playing cards and different major enter / output peripherals) when the Intel XT 80286 CPU grew to become accessible in 1982. It subsequently dominated the ‘CPU of alternative’ market because the ‘de facto’ normal for a lot of enterprise, laboratory, workplace and classroom desktop computer systems. Invoice Gates and Paul Allen’s Microsoft offered the ‘disk working system’ (DOS) software program and through the years advanced in tandem with Intel to the present 14th Era Intel (Raptor Lake) CPU’s with Microsoft Home windows 11 as working system software program (OS) of alternative (along with a fairly just a few open-source Linux OS distributions). I used to be at all times conscious of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s improvement of the Apple Macintosh laptop system, however my (historic) fascination remained on the ‘Intel Inside’ aspect solely.
Larger information switch charges grew to become an ever-increasing important requirement for desktop / server info processing and for enabling digital communication / networking between laptop methods (not simply intra-corporate, however throughout industries and the fast-developing worldwide personal / public digital international panorama). A speedy demand for IT abilities, methods, merchandise, providers and subsequent progress in digital commerce redefined (digital) workflows for the continual improve in (international) company competitiveness. Sooner, dependable and scalable computing / networking bandwidth pushed semiconductor manufacturing efficiency necessities for elevated particular person and company effectivity. In the course of the Nineties the revolutionary improvement of the brand new ‘digital financial system’ by way of the Web accelerated change to strategic / operational analytical decision-making for elevated aggressive benefits and effectivity. These ‘inflection factors’ benefited SMEs and huge multi-national / worldwide corporates alike. Many authorities businesses internationally began vigorous analysis and (software program) software developments by way of varied regulatory adjustments, updating worldwide buying and selling requirements and defining new cyber safety danger protocols. ‘Who’s spying on who..?’ Immediately, worldwide enterprise / economics grew to become very engaging topics to review and / or to lecture – proper by the retail dot-com implosion through the early 2000s. All very exhilarating certainly for anyone remotely concerned with semiconductors, silicon processor (CPU) processing, elevated productiveness and making plenty of cash – or dropping it after the dot-com crash.
“A strategic inflection level is a time within the lifetime of enterprise when its fundamentals are about to vary. that change can imply a chance to rise to new heights. However it could simply as seemingly sign the start of the tip” ― Andy Grove, Intel
One in every of my prescribed studying sources throughout my first postgraduate research through the Nineties was Alvin Toffler’s futuristic ebook, ‘Future Shock’. Briefly, the ebook was extra a practical assertion that the accelerated price of structural change(s) in international social and technological environments can have a profound psychological impression on most people and societies. In our small class of about fifteen college students I used to be one of many solely college students who made an try and learn Toffler’s head-scratching future ‘social science fiction’ narrative predictions from cowl to cowl – considered one of our ultimate examination case research was primarily based on varied chapters from Future Shock (not included within the paper) and I couldn’t have been happier. In modern society many scientists and technologists nonetheless acknowledge the literature contributions Toffler has made to worldwide technological revolution, change and improvement. (Supply: Vernon Chalmers Educational, Personal and Company Info Administration Utilized Analysis)
“With the assistance of expertise, lecturers might be leaders within the transformation of training all over the world.” ― Craig Barrett, Intel
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Making use of IT Techniques for Enhancing Administration / Worker Productiveness
I grew to become fascinated by IT Techniques to such an lengthen that I rapidly mastered not solely to design / combine purpose-built desktop / workstation laptop methods, but in addition vigorously researched how company IT structure (and the fast-developing Web) may very well be utilized for enhancing strategic / administration decision-making, organisational productiveness, company communications and analytical / information administration efficiency targets. As HTTP protocols and HTML grew to become extra universally accessible I developed a self-designed Intranet for an educational establishment in Cape City – for enhancing digital communications between the IT division and each PC throughout their campuses. Working for / and be additional educated by Intel Company (EMEA / US) engineers and MBA advertising and marketing just a few years later enabled me to seek the advice of massive companies, universities and SME IT Techniques improvement and future ‘IT roadmapping’. These strategic interventions created many private alternatives for lecturing a wide range of Info Techniques Structure Design, Software program, Social Media, E-Commerce and Web Advertising and marketing modules to varied teams of graduate and postgraduate college students. Nonetheless, my most essential private studying pursuits have been, above all, nonetheless centered on the cognition, improvement and utilized analysis in human behaviour / motivation.
Educational / Personal Sector Training, Coaching and Consulting
The years between Picture 1 and Picture 2 was fairly a journey. Throughout these years I’ve had the privilege of lecturing (and designing / facilitating many coaching programs) at varied enterprise faculties, universities and personal coaching establishments throughout South Africa (Cape City, Johannesburg and Durban). I used to be supplied with many alternatives for consulting / lecturing / facilitating topics resembling Strategic Administration, Monetary Administration, Human Useful resource Administration, Coaching Administration, Labour Relations / Regulation, Industrial Psychology, Self Administration, Small Enterprise Administration, Entrepreneurship, Organisational Behaviour, Client Behaviour / Market Analysis, Company Communications, Enterprise Economics, Macroeconomics, Accountancy, Promoting Administration, Venture Management / Administration, Provide-Chain Administration, Advertising and marketing Administration, Change Administration, Info Techniques Administration, Info Techniques Structure / Design / Integration, Company Web site Technique / Design / Implementation / Analytics, E-Commerce Technique / Software, Web Advertising and marketing Technique / Software, Social Media Technique / Software and Quantitative Analytics / World Client Visitation / Market(ing) Behaviour Evaluation (the place relevant).
