Gavin Watson has been a champion of human rights from early childhood. He and his family under the Apartheid regime paid the price by living a Human Rights Charter.
His family has endured incarceration, attemped poisoning, arson and public humiliation under the regime. Teaching black people to play rugby became the Regime's crime against humanity. Teaching them rugby to Gavin Watson and his family was a Human Right, an opportunity to develop formidable talent that would one day help us to win the World Cup. Show him an opportunity to demonstrate these values and he will be there with his leadership team.
Concern for Human Rights runs central to the Bosasa ethos. Gavin Watson has entrenched these from inception. How do you know when such a vision is being achieved? That is not a difficult question. Clients tell you. In this case Bosasa's clients are the offenders in correctional centres around the country where it has a national footprint. Bosasa has championed a human rights approach to understanding an offender's needs with regard to health and diet. Six dieticians visit offenders throughout the country, interviewing them after a medical doctor has advised customised diets for special conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney conditions and even cancers. Bosasa under Gavin Watson's leadership introduced a three meal system with variety of presentation and content. Herbs and spices that contribute to health were also included leading to grateful offenders. Bosasa also provided accredited chef training for offenders who are able to use this skill at leading hotels when paroled.
Women's Day provide an opportunity for a special treat of Malva Pudding which led women offenders to write glowingly of their experience of the Bosasa experience in Correctional Centres. Read these letters and you will understand why Bosasa and Gavin Watson's records speak for themselves in the new South African Bill of Rights business environment.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Gavin Watson's Business Philosophy
Gavin Watson is a visionary with a strong business philosophy. Either build your company to last or get out of the game. Leadership is not for sissies. Neither is the art of playing in the global competitive technology arena. Like global leader George Soros who said on leaving Davos at the World Economic Summit ten years ago - 'I have seen the future and it lies in technology', Gavin was ahead of his time predicting this competitive edge. For twenty years Gavin Watson has encouraged staff to think and live technology in a future paradigm which is how the name Bosasa was born - it means the future.
Gavin believes that companies that last have been shown to have a core ideology. They may have divisions but they share a common identity. They pursue different tasks but they think as one giant organism. And Bosasa's global partners share the same fundamental principles. Building the Bosasa Group was the result of intense introspection - what are our values, who are our people and how do we grow into a sizeable business from there? To Gavin Watson people come first. Carefully recruited to match the ethos of Mogale Business Park, head office to the Bosasa Group, personnel with specialised skills work as a cohesive team towards a achieving his vision.
Gavin Watson's vision is of a leading, integrated, high end Technology Company with knowledge management down to a fine art. A 'hands on' CEO he articulates his vision to each of the units and business entities at Mogale Business Park. Staff at Bosasa are given total freedom to develop their creative potential. Like the late Steve Jobs, co- founder of Apple, Gavin Watson creates a fluid environment geared to results. Developing a giant business park in the heart of Mogale City which provided food for the soul and intellect was Gavin Watson's vision. Today Mogale Business Park is not only the largest employer in the region, it is a fountainhead of leading customised technology such as Trustmaster used by the Dept of Correctional Services and the Department of Justice today. The customised Green IQ environment is a home grown oasis.
It comes complete with running paths for the many Comrades achievers Bosasa boasts on the Bosasa payroll. Golf goes on record for honing competitive skills and keen judgement. A mashie course at Mogale Business Park was designed by experts, providing opportunity for this. For the contemplative geniuses that produce our prized software, there are foliage and pond rich corners for brain storming.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Gavin Watson is accessible by first name to all his staff 24/7 and it is this level of communication that has enabled his vision to be articulated from top to bottom. Today the Bosasa Group with a growing number of international business partners leads the field with customised software and knowledge management for the public sector. Gavin Watson showed his metal with his participation in the struggle for a liberated South Africa despite opposition. Gavin Watson rose above that - but he took his people with him.
The aspiration to build a great group of Companies was an easy step for Gavin Watson understood the building blocks that create the end the result. Gavin Watson saw his leadership function
Employee Wellness Program
Bosasa on Hotfrog
Gavin believes that companies that last have been shown to have a core ideology. They may have divisions but they share a common identity. They pursue different tasks but they think as one giant organism. And Bosasa's global partners share the same fundamental principles. Building the Bosasa Group was the result of intense introspection - what are our values, who are our people and how do we grow into a sizeable business from there? To Gavin Watson people come first. Carefully recruited to match the ethos of Mogale Business Park, head office to the Bosasa Group, personnel with specialised skills work as a cohesive team towards a achieving his vision.
Gavin Watson's vision is of a leading, integrated, high end Technology Company with knowledge management down to a fine art. A 'hands on' CEO he articulates his vision to each of the units and business entities at Mogale Business Park. Staff at Bosasa are given total freedom to develop their creative potential. Like the late Steve Jobs, co- founder of Apple, Gavin Watson creates a fluid environment geared to results. Developing a giant business park in the heart of Mogale City which provided food for the soul and intellect was Gavin Watson's vision. Today Mogale Business Park is not only the largest employer in the region, it is a fountainhead of leading customised technology such as Trustmaster used by the Dept of Correctional Services and the Department of Justice today. The customised Green IQ environment is a home grown oasis.
It comes complete with running paths for the many Comrades achievers Bosasa boasts on the Bosasa payroll. Golf goes on record for honing competitive skills and keen judgement. A mashie course at Mogale Business Park was designed by experts, providing opportunity for this. For the contemplative geniuses that produce our prized software, there are foliage and pond rich corners for brain storming.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Gavin Watson is accessible by first name to all his staff 24/7 and it is this level of communication that has enabled his vision to be articulated from top to bottom. Today the Bosasa Group with a growing number of international business partners leads the field with customised software and knowledge management for the public sector. Gavin Watson showed his metal with his participation in the struggle for a liberated South Africa despite opposition. Gavin Watson rose above that - but he took his people with him.
The aspiration to build a great group of Companies was an easy step for Gavin Watson understood the building blocks that create the end the result. Gavin Watson saw his leadership function
Employee Wellness Program
Bosasa on Hotfrog
Music of the heart - thank you Gavin Watson
CEO of the Bosasa Group, Gavin Watson is community centred. Look around you and you will see in any community where Bosasa has left a footprint, some social responsibility landmark that is part of his ethos. It is to the community that he owes his exceptional staff. It is to the community he believes Bosasa will always owe a debt.
It has only been four months since Gavin Watson and his senior executives dropped everything in their busy schedules in order to personally present music instruments to FJL Wells Music School in Bhongweni Village, Randfontein. It was during this moving encounter with ambitious but disadvantaged students where he made a generous donation of a broad range of musical instruments. From music skills comes mathematical skills say the gurus. It is about reading, understanding and manipulating symbols Gavin Watson has been driving the growth of personal talent as well as scientific knowledge.
Science and art have always found a home at Mogale Business Park. Gavin also announced the payment of tuition fees for all the music students in the school. Gavin Watson all gave all the students enough pocket money for the month. His 67 minutes of Mandela Day would be a gift that will keep on living and giving to the heart and mind of a child. This November the school released its interim results and the outcome of competitions into which Bosasa had entered them.
Among their top students, they received Diamond, Gold and Platinum Awards in the RACA and Segarona Arts Festivals. They also held a Gala Concert which the chairman of the SGB, Benedict Moeng sang the praises of Gavin Watson and the Bosasa Group. Mr. Moeng who is also a district official in the Department of Education, commended the students for taking music as a course in life. "Music transforms lives. We can thank Gavin for seeing this as a golden opportunity. Don't look back five years down the line and have any regrets. Look back and say, I have succeeded. You can only do that through your convictions,"
Gavin is also familiar with the research that has definitively shown - children who play sport and musical instruments are less likely to become deviant and hang around street corners and malls with nothing but time on their hands. Music he believes enhances spiritual growth as well. "We would not have done it without our sponsors, Bosasa." To Gavin Watson Mr. Moeng said "We thank you. You didn't sit back and watch while we struggled helplessly. You heard about our needs and you responded immediately. You gave these children an opportunity to grow their full potential, believe in themselves and give something back to a needy community." Gavin listened to the results of the Bosasa Group's donation. Strains of popular classical tunes La Donna e mobile and Blue Danube Waltz were among the hot favourites. But so were well known pop songs performed with a classical twist such Endless Love and the Lion King theme song as well as Amazing Grace. It made for a night to remember. The African drums orchestra was original and moving.
The music school is one of fifty social responsibility projects that Gavin Watson has identified for the enhancement of personal growth and the community this year.
Bosasa on a global platform with HTA Chef training
Bosasa - Growing leaders in DCS
Transforming Lives
It has only been four months since Gavin Watson and his senior executives dropped everything in their busy schedules in order to personally present music instruments to FJL Wells Music School in Bhongweni Village, Randfontein. It was during this moving encounter with ambitious but disadvantaged students where he made a generous donation of a broad range of musical instruments. From music skills comes mathematical skills say the gurus. It is about reading, understanding and manipulating symbols Gavin Watson has been driving the growth of personal talent as well as scientific knowledge.
Science and art have always found a home at Mogale Business Park. Gavin also announced the payment of tuition fees for all the music students in the school. Gavin Watson all gave all the students enough pocket money for the month. His 67 minutes of Mandela Day would be a gift that will keep on living and giving to the heart and mind of a child. This November the school released its interim results and the outcome of competitions into which Bosasa had entered them.
Among their top students, they received Diamond, Gold and Platinum Awards in the RACA and Segarona Arts Festivals. They also held a Gala Concert which the chairman of the SGB, Benedict Moeng sang the praises of Gavin Watson and the Bosasa Group. Mr. Moeng who is also a district official in the Department of Education, commended the students for taking music as a course in life. "Music transforms lives. We can thank Gavin for seeing this as a golden opportunity. Don't look back five years down the line and have any regrets. Look back and say, I have succeeded. You can only do that through your convictions,"
Gavin is also familiar with the research that has definitively shown - children who play sport and musical instruments are less likely to become deviant and hang around street corners and malls with nothing but time on their hands. Music he believes enhances spiritual growth as well. "We would not have done it without our sponsors, Bosasa." To Gavin Watson Mr. Moeng said "We thank you. You didn't sit back and watch while we struggled helplessly. You heard about our needs and you responded immediately. You gave these children an opportunity to grow their full potential, believe in themselves and give something back to a needy community." Gavin listened to the results of the Bosasa Group's donation. Strains of popular classical tunes La Donna e mobile and Blue Danube Waltz were among the hot favourites. But so were well known pop songs performed with a classical twist such Endless Love and the Lion King theme song as well as Amazing Grace. It made for a night to remember. The African drums orchestra was original and moving.
The music school is one of fifty social responsibility projects that Gavin Watson has identified for the enhancement of personal growth and the community this year.
Bosasa on a global platform with HTA Chef training
Bosasa - Growing leaders in DCS
Transforming Lives
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