Activities and highlights

Leading a Successful Team – Building Motivation and Performance

In this interactive session Professor Kevin Money shared insights about how to build and maintain team performance. The session allowed attendees to better identify and positively label the roles that members of their team played and to identify areas of collective weakness in their team. The session was interactive and there was space for participants to share and learn from each other.

Leading for Sustainability and Societal Impact

This was a personal leadership programme for people who wanted to better identify, label and communicate their strengths and purpose. It was for leaders to increase their orientation and effectiveness in generating positive societal and sustainable impacts. Importantly, it connected leaders from the Reputation and Responsibility Immersion visit to South Africa (both NGO’s in SA and MBA participants) in a way that allowed the network to continue and have impact.

Morning Summary: A Human Approach to Sustainability and Societal Impact

This day focused on helping participants define their purpose and legitimacy as a leader. It covered the following aspects: What is sustainability? What is a human approach to sustainability and societal impact? What are your key strengths as a leader? How can you define your purpose in a way that builds on your strengths and fosters support from stakeholders?

Afternoon: Sharing Current Challenges and Brainstorming Solutions

This day focused on NGO leaders sharing their key challenges and issues in a safe environment and seeking insights from the wider group. Sub-groups were created to look into issues in more depth and consider how issues could be overcome in practice.

You know more than you think you know – Exploring the gap between what you know and what you communicate

In this interactive online event Professor Doug Saddy and Barry Van Zyl drew on insights from the world of neuroscience and music to help attendees make better sense of the world around them : To better understand when and how they can trust their intuition and to consider how they could better resonate and connect with themselves and others.

Building positive impact in a contested world

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘’Building Positive Impact in a Contested World”.

Participants heard from a wide range of speakers who have been hugely successful in their own domains including Fatima Whitbread, Peter Molyneux, Mdu Dube and Dr James Robey. Each speaker reflected on lessons learned from their experience, how they navigated the different expectations placed upon them and what this could mean for people and organisations seeking to create positive impacts in the world today.

The conference also shed light on how leaders balance the competing needs of stakeholders in both the public and private sectors as well as in the world of sport and how JMCR research has led to positive impacts beyond academia.

The JMCR invites fellow researchers to join for regular research events, with the aim to support idea generation, collaboration and high-quality publications. We aim to meet once a month for a writing retreat, and once a months for a paper development group, the latter in collaboration with the Henley Centre for Engaged Leadership. Dates for both the monthly JMCR writing retreats and the monthly paper development groups for the academic year 2024/2025 will be released in September 2024.