Your Business, Your Needs, Your Way… We Work in Your Reality
Why Us
We passionately believe that every situation is different, therefore we don’t endorse “off the shelf” solutions regardless of the challenge you are facing.
We want to partner with you, taking the time to understand what you want to achieve and then delivering what you need, in your style and in your language. We work where you need us to be and in a way that is right for you that is why we are The Reality People.
We have been fortunate enough to have worked in and led global People & Capability teams and we want to share that experience with others. We are not “just” a consultancy, we want to help develop your teams skills and capability, helping them develop their careers through coaching & mentoring and enable them to meet future challenges.
Together we bring over 50 years experience across multiple sectors leading teams and operations in global organisations. Our deep, hands-on experience ensures that we can help develop solutions suitable for your Exec Team to your Front-line teams
What We Do
Working With You
Given our experience of leading teams globally, we believe we can offer something unique and of real value to your business, we don’t believe in just delivering “products” we want to help you build your legacy.
Working alongside your in-house teams we can help develop their skills, whilst also delivering solutions you need to drive your business forward. We believe that helping to develop your teams will help you create a lasting change in your organisation and show a real return on your investment far and beyond any one-off solution, encompassing:
- Business Partnering – balancing strategic and operational requirements
- Reward & Remuneration schemes & incentive programmes
- Learning & Leadership Development – focus investment on critical capabilities to develop your organisation
- Employee Engagement & Employee Branding – helping you to understand what is most important to your people and ensuring you are engaging with them in the most effective way
Working For You
We have been in your reality ourselves and we recognise that sometimes you don’t always have the resources available in-house. We can also produce an end to end solution and help implement this across your business for you.
Regardless of how you want to work together, we can help in a number of different topic areas:
- Talent Development - Helping you implement a process to define, identify and develop your talent to ensure they develop their careers and in turn your business
- Leadership Development & Coaching– Bespoke leadership development solutions from first line leaders to C-Suite enterprise leadership
- Cultural & Behaviour Change – Working with you to help define the organisational culture you want and then design and develop interventions and frameworks to help embed this. Our experience tells us that when we begin to look at cultural change we often have to refocus the business operating model and ways of working overall, therefore Transformation & Organisation Design is a core part of the puzzle…too often we have seen a focus on one or the other, but to truly transform and develop the organisation you want both need to operate hand in hand.Developing your People Teams:
- Business Partnering balancing strategic and operational requirements
- Reward & Remuneration schemes & incentive programmes
- Learning & Development – focus investment on critical capabilities to develop your organisation
- Employee Engagement & Employee Branding – helping you to understand what is most important to your people and ensuring you are engaging with them in the most effective way
What's New
Stories are amazing, they can take you to places that you have never been and create memories that last forever. I am showing my age, but I still remember my parents reading me The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton as a child with its world of amazing adventures at the top of the tree. These memories stuck with me all my life and I read the same books to my children when they were younger. However, stories aren't just for children, everyone loves a story and its why we believe its a critical skill for any Leader, regardless of the challenge they face.
Being able to tell a compelling story requires practice, thought and dedication to keep your audience engaged. Audiences will engage with different elements, some will hear facts and data; others will connect with the emotion of the story and some will just want to skip to the end of the book and see where the story is taking them!
Story telling is NOT "communication", it is a deliberate process to help engage teams, get them to understand the direction you are going in and what will await them in the future. The best stories are told time and time again and through that process become part of the fabric of the organisation.
We love stories and have been lucky enough to work with several leadership teams recently to help them hone their story, their passion and their purpose into a compelling story to engage their teams. If you'd like to find out more get in touch and we look forward to helping you build your story.
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Darren Bartlett
Global leader of People and Capability teams across Retail, Financial Services and FMCG sectors. Over 25 years experience in leveraging how learning, leadership, talent and executive development are critical components in successful transformational change.
Gert Schrijver
Global senior people leader, lived and worked around the world. Over 25 years experience being responsible of specialized areas like talent development, reward, M&A integration as well as running large Global organizations (HRD/CHRO/BP) delivering (cultural) change and overall business objectives. Working with Co-Active Coach Training Institute to be a certified coach with ICF qualification.
