{"id":622713,"date":"2022-09-05T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=622713"},"modified":"2022-09-05T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:03:00","slug":"business-talk-21st-century-ceo-chris-blair-discusses-the-importance-of-consultancy-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/622713\/business-talk-21st-century-ceo-chris-blair-discusses-the-importance-of-consultancy-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 21st Century CEO Chris Blair discusses the importance of consultancy services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Blair is the CEO of 21st Century, the largest HR consultancy firm in Southern Africa, and has consulted for over 1,000 organisations in Southern Africa and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>He specializes in executive pay, variable pay, incentive schemes, and a host of other remuneration-related fields.<\/p>\n<p>His vast experience and deep understanding of these topics position him as one of the foremost experts in his industry.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, sponsored by Sage, Blair discusses the importance of businesses using consultancy firms to structure their executive remuneration packages.<\/p>\n<p>He unpacks the most significant mistakes he has seen companies make when structuring these packages.<\/p>\n<p>Blair notes that getting your executive pay packages right is especially important in South Africa as it is one of the most unequal countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He concludes by detailing how long-term executive incentives are vital to creating stable, sustainable businesses that will positively contribute to the South African economy.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Chris Blair can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpUvNgPAAx8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21st Century CEO Chris Blair discusses the importance of consultancy services for businesses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":622719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[17355],"class_list":["post-622713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-21-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622729,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622713\/revisions\/622729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}