Khanyisile Tokota

• Lead talent management across the business which includes the full talent life cycle from pre-employment psychometric assessments, onboarding new joiners, development and growth, succession planning, career pathing and retention
• Manage individual employee, traineeship, graduate and leadership development programs
• Coordinate team buildings across all teams
• Foster inter and intra-departmental communication and collaboration through team-focused initiatives
• Manage organisational development which includes facilitating initiatives focused on enhancing organizational culture, strategy and company values alignment, rolling out engagement and culture surveys and mini diagnostics surveys and managing organisational change
• Enhance internal communication through driving focus groups, offsite culture and strategy leadership sessions
• Facilitate diversity and inclusion through implementation of DEI strategy
• Drive corporate iocial Investment (CSI)projects
• Manage training budget
• Manage stakeholder engagement(SETAs, Suppliers, Business Leaders)
• Act as company SDF for the Workplace Skills Plan & Annual Training Report
• Responsible for BBBEE reporting on the Skills Development and the Socio Economic Development elements
• Manage personnel in the training department

Key Achievements

• Introduced and successfully managed the organisational culture change program
• Serves as Diversity and Inclusion Champion in the Europe & Africa division and successfully rolled out local initiatives
• Launched the Middle - Senior leadership development program
• Launched the learning academy
• Formalised the graduate, learnership and traineeship programs

This role includes the management of :

• Individual employee development
• The KZN-Based Training Academy
• Training Budget
• Learning curriculum for in-house training
• Graduate development programs, learnerships, AET, Skills programs and succession planning programs
• Psychometric and personality assessments e.g. DAT-K, Giotto, Shadowmatch
• Stakeholder engagement (SETA, Educational Institutions etc)
• Reporting training through the WSP & ATR and BBBEE Skills
• Personnel in the training department

Key Achievements

• Chairing of the KZN skills development and employment equity committee
• Successfully launched graduate program
• Introduced formal leadership development and coaching
• Successfully changed the organisation’s learning culture

• Manage employee wellness initiatives including monthly lunch-time talks on wellness topics, wellness day, SASA Race, Company Choir,
• Coordinate Diversity and Inclusion programs and coordinating diversity awareness training
• Drive employment equity and diversity communication through driving meetings for the workplace consultative committee
• Coordinate individual & company-wide learning initiatives
• Promote learning culture through the HR library material like books, DVD etc.
• Training reporting to the SETA and BBBEE auditors
• Stakeholder Engagement

• Promote participation in the implementation of SETA-funded learning programs
• Provide support to client companies in developing and submitting workplace skills plans and annual training
• Monitor learning interventions funded by the MERSETA e.g. apprenticeships, learnerships, special training
• Guide and support training providers and companies on the accreditation process
• Identify suitable companies to participate in Merseta projects
• Manage training budget for portfolio of clients
• Stakeholder engagement

• Manage learning programs & projects
• Identify viable community projects for training
• Promote participation in skills programs and learnerships
• Manage projects for training of unemployed people
• Prepare and present the training budget
• Identify and award tenders to training providers
• Process claims submitted by training providers
• Create awareness and facilitate the implementation and support of the Skills Development Related legislation
• Stakeholder engagement with Training providers, SETA's, Employers, Municipality
• Participate in briefing sessions, career exhibitions and conduct presentations to stakeholders