Capacity Building: Recruit Work-Ready Staff to Advance Organisational Excellence


Date: Jul 13, 2026

CPD hours: 1 Hour

Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Event Type: Webinar

Presenter: Tamryn Dicks

Investing in employee development is key to building a high-performing, adaptable, and future-ready organisation. This session explores practical strategies for identifying skills gaps, developing talent, and creating a culture of continuous learning. Attendees will gain insights into how targeted capacity development can enhance productivity, improve employee engagement, and support long-term org...

Overview

Recruiting staff members who are genuinely "work-ready" serves as a highly powerful lever for achieving organizational excellence. However, a common pitfall for many firms is hiring reactively and rushing into the recruitment process only when they become overwhelmed. This reactive pattern almost always results in a poor cultural or professional fit, low overall performance, and high employee turnover.

This training is designed to break that cycle. Participants will learn how to accurately define the specific roles their organization genuinely needs, identify the exact characteristics of "Top Talent" for those roles, and design a structured recruitment process that filters candidates for both competence and character. Additionally, the course covers onboarding practices engineered to transform new hires into productive, confident contributors in a short timeframe.


Webinar Content

The training program is structured around the following core topics:

  • Intentional Hiring vs. Desperation Hiring: Understanding the strategic shift from reactive, rushed recruitment to planned, proactive staffing.
  • Defining Top Talent for Your Organisation: Learning how to map out what peak performance looks like for specific organizational needs.
  • A Practical, Structured Recruitment Process: Designing a step-by-step hiring framework that screens effectively for key traits.
  • Onboarding That Creates Work-Ready Staff: Implementing integration practices that accelerate a new hire's time-to-productivity.

Competencies Development

By the conclusion of this training, participants will develop the capabilities to:

  • Strategically Plan Staffing Needs: Align hiring requirements directly with overarching organizational goals and workflow designs.
  • Define Role-Specific Top Talent Profiles: Establish comprehensive candidate criteria that encompass technical skills, behavioural traits, and values-based alignment.
  • Design and Execute Structured Recruitment: Build and implement a rigorous hiring process that actively reduces hiring risks while improving the overall quality of candidates.

Presenter

Tamryn Dicks - Burnout Survivor, Multi-Business Owner & "Accidental Accountant"

Tamryn is an international speaker, entrepreneur, and financial expert who transformed three rounds of burnout into a blueprint for sustainable business success. After spending seven years running her accounting firm completely layout-free and nomadically, she mastered the art of building businesses that can run seamlessly without their founders. A finalist for WBC’s 2025 Speaker of the Year , Tamryn blends candid vulnerability with deep strategic knowledge to help audiences conquer overwhelm, master their financials, and build profitable businesses without sacrificing their well-being.


CPD

Attending this webinar and the successful completion of the online assessment will secure a certificate of completion for 1 hours of CPD.


Event Investment

Free for Tax Practitioner, Tax Accountant CPD subscribers and Practice Packages. Not a CPD subscriber yet? Click here to register now.

  • Regular price:  R230.00
  • Group booking discounts available when you register for a group.

Payments and cancellations

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  • Only written notice of cancellation will be recognized.
  • Conditions:
    • If the cancellation occurs more than four working days prior to the event no cancellation fee will be charged.
    • If the cancellation occurs less than four working days prior to the event, a 100% cancellation fee will apply.
  • Delegates who book and fail to attend will be liable for the full event fee.
  • The Tax Faculty’s liability in the case of an event being cancelled will be limited to a refund or credit of the event fee.
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