Dr Dumisani Magadlela and Sam Tsima will co-facilitate COMETSA PMS The LEKGOTLA Way Networks & Forums 2017. Background Information: goo.gl/gqRfjc ; Monthly Events Schedule: goo.gl/fmAIjb MONTHLY DIALOGUES The Lekgotla Way, OUR HERITAGE: Knowledge Creation - Knowledge Consolidation - Knowledge Sharing - Knowledge Appreciation - Knowledge Exchange - Knowledge Application - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Preservation - Growing Together THE 20th ANNIVERSARY INITIATIVE: We are marking COMETSA 20th Anniversary Celebrations in 2017 with the launch of the monthly COMETSA Professional Management Services – NETWORKS & FORUMS. These take a form of presentations, round-table discussions (dialogues and conversations), and questions & answers format facilitated by COMETSA Methodologists, Experts, Associates and Partners. In this fast changing world, it is impossible to remain at the required level of knowledge, expertise and information without formal and forums as part of continuous professional development. As a human capital development and management consulting company we see a need to coordinate and host such forums. Initially these forums will be hosted in Gauteng Province. In the near future we will make these Forums available across the country, in each Province, on demand. BRAINSTORMING (THE LEKGOTLA WAY): the African brainstorming concept is the Lekgotla concept. The participants demonstrate the highest respect to fellow members of the dialogue. The participant who is on the floor is given full space to raise issues without being interrupted. Once all the participants have raised their issues and have been fully heard, the chairperson summarizes the inputs and a resolution is taken. People are also allowed to agree to disagree. This is the best South African export in negotiations and conflict resolutions to the world.

1. Dr Dumisani Magadlela (Dumi) is a Certified International Executive and Life
Coach. He is also a Coach Trainer and Leadership Development Facilitator.
Dumi has been involved in coaching for almost 10 years. He currently coaches
in some of the leading businesses across South Africa and in the region. He has
a Behavioural Science background and teaches both leadership
development and coaching skills. Dumi is currently part of coach-training
faculties in at least two leading coaching schools in South Africa. In his spare
time he supervises Masters and Doctoral students in various universities around
SA. He recently returned from a brief Visiting Professor stint at Hitotsubashi
University’s Institute for Innovation Research in Tokyo, Japan, where he
published a paper on African Skills and Capacity Building challenges and
opportunities. He is passionate about the development of people skills in
Africa’s workplaces, and believes that coaching is one of the leading vehicles
for transforming and ‘disrupting’ old workplace cultures safely while
safeguarding the bottom line. (Twitter: @CoachDumi1; Dumi@netactive.co.za;
Mobile: +27 82 321 2213).