Woman & Home South Africa

Make yourself HEARD

Helene Vermaak is a director and managing partner of The Human Edge, a company she founded in  1996 with the dream of creating a top development and training consultancy that could implement organisation-wide culture change. Today she works with key leaders to influence positive behavioural changes. Here, Helene answers some important questions about those pivotal, often awkward, workplace conversations...

1 I need a raise, but don’t know how to ask for one. What do I do?

My advice is to take

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