About Bioss Southern Africa

Bioss Southern Africa (BSA) seeks to assist client organisations to improve their overall performance through assessing and developing, managing and leading people effectively in their drive to attain strategic objectives.

We contribute to capacity building by empowering our clients to apply the methodologies, technologies and intellectual property developed by Bioss within their organisations (through in-house and public training). This, in turn, enables them to link into our international network of people development expertise.

Experience shows that the vast majority of people are keen to contribute constructively in their working environment, but need guidance and assistance in unlocking their potential and in aligning their talents and aspirations with the company’s mission and structures.

We believe there are two important issues in making people effective. One is their inherent capability and the other is their context, or their ‘fit’ in the organisation. Capabilities are not a guarantee of outputs. People are only effective when they are in “flow” – where they work with enthusiasm and commitment as they are challenged without being overwhelmed or underutilised. Core activities are therefore strongly orientated towards understanding individuals simply because this is a critical starting point in defining people’s current capabilities and determining their potential, enabling clients to match people with work requirements right now and with future business needs. Flowing naturally from understanding individuals is the emergence of competence gaps and development needs.

Our approaches are underpinned by Domains of Work and Matrix of Working Relationships (MWR). This model is recognised world-wide as a sophisticated generic framework for organisational diagnostics and the management of interventions, enabling organisations to position or restructure themselves for sustained competitiveness.

The technology is flexible and well proven, having been used extensively in a remarkably broad range of organisations in many industry sectors – ranging from a village ‘council’ in remote Papua New Guinea to some of the most sophisticated, multinational companies listed on the world’s leading stock exchanges (see list of client organisations).

 

 

Bioss Southern Africa - celebrated 10 years in 2009

For more than ten years, BSA has been the Southern African representative of Bioss International. BSA emerged in its present form in 1999 when Third Foundation Systems incorporated the Bioss International-licensed activities of the Anglo American Corporation’s Central Training Unit (as it then was) to form Bioss Southern Africa.

Through its licensing agreement with Bioss International Limited in the UK, BSA has built on and added to the knowledge derived over more than half a century of dedicated research and development in the practical assessment, organisation and development of people in strategic, as well as operational environments. Expertise has been gained from an exceptionally wide range of international experience in understanding long-term people development, and a deep insight into how organisations can be made to work more effectively through the appropriate selection, utilisation, guidance and motivation of people.

Bioss International has a wide global footprint, including representation in the following areas:

BSA has Associates and Practitioners working across many of the countries shown above, as well as the following African countries: Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Cameroon, Swaziland, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.