Real World Group engaging in major FE leadership programme

Posted on January 31, 2012

Real World Group is excited to be embarking on a major new leadership and management development programme with Leeds City College – the third biggest Further Education (FE) organisation in the UK. Leeds City College, which has expanded significantly in the past two years, has even greater ambitions for growth over the next few years in creating excellent learning experiences for individuals, businesses and the community.

The College recognises that key to its success will be creating engaging leaders who truly harness the potential of all their staff. They are therefore investing the time of all their managers from the highest level in a programme of culture change to build on strengths and push ahead in creating great value for their learners in spite of global economic challenges.

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Engaging and Derailing – the two sides of leadership come together

Posted on January 31, 2012

The flip side of effective, engaging leadership is “derailment” – when an individual dramatically falls off their career trajectory as a Executive or CEO because their inappropriate, self-serving behaviour has finally come to the end of the line as far as their organisation is concerned. Such individuals tend to leave a “body count” behind them, as they have ruined others’ careers by playing them off each other on the slippery pole to success. You might be surprised how common this is…

Expert psychologist in the field of derailment is Professor Adrian Furnham, author of “The Icarus Syndrome: Leaders who fail and derail”. He and Real World Group’s Chief Executive, Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe will be presenting keynotes at the upcoming British Psychological Society’s Psychometrics Forum on 15th February in London. Expert in Engaging Leadership (where leaders positively harness the potential of others for a win-win situation) Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe will be presenting the positive path to career success at the forum, a clear juxtaposition to derailing behaviours.

With two of the world’s leading leadership psychologists inviting debate, the event will certainly provoke interesting conversations about the leadership selection criteria that organisations must apply to ensure that their performance is sustainable, rather than under the spell of a “toxic” leader.

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Office closed over the winter break

Posted on December 14, 2011

RWG Seasonal Greetings 2011

We would like to take the opportunity thank all clients and individuals with whom we’ve worked over the past year — your support has been much appreciated and we wish you all the best for a happy & healthy 2012.

The RWG offices will be closed after the 23rd December and we reopen again on 3rd January 2012.

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Real World Group Presents at CIPD Annual Conference 2011

Posted on November 24, 2011

Real World Group was excited to present at the CIPD Annual Conference 2011 in Manchester this month. As HR professionals know, the opportunity to run a Masterclass at this event is a highly sought after opportunity for which a company must present a clear business benefit to the attendees, most of whom are already expert in their subject area.

The Masterclass, entitled ‘Better Leadership Today‘ was run by Real World Group Chief Executive Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and attended by over 150 attentive delegates. The content included updates on understanding of leadership in the new global context, an exercise to explore leadership in the delegates’ current context, and new research on High Readiness for Change.

This is a fairly new concept in organisational culture that is critical not only for successfully negotiating ongoing uncertainty in organisations, but also serves as an important foundation for implementing new business processes such as LEAN, SAP, and other types of reengineering. High Readiness for Change diagnostic tools for teams will be available in a 360 format from Real World Group in 2012.

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RWG and Sequoia Group host in style at Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Posted on October 19, 2011

Following a whirlwind three days of high level presentations including the Ministry of Health conference, and an invited talk to the Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service College and her colleagues, Real World Group and Sequoia Group hosted current and new clients at Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
Raffles Hotel, Singapore
The event for 40 participants was a great success, with attendees furiously writing notes as Real World Group’s Chief Executive, Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe gave a lively and passionate presentation on the nature of effective, engaging leadership, and its impact on the bottom line for both public and private sector organisations.

The surroundings were beautiful and the refreshments were as you would expect at Raffles – elegant and just right. Attendees came from the public and private sector with a number of multinational corporations among the audience, including the CEO and top team of a large, privately-owned utilities company based in South East Asia who have already used Real World Group’s TLQ to lead the way in creating a more engaging culture.

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