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The greatest organisational challenges of 2024

Our global series of events brought more than 160 leaders together in New York, London and Singapore. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Collective experience: An opportunity for hybrid organisations

Hybrid work is here to stay. But hybrid does present challenges. Large group, leadership workshops for events can catalyse performance and help drive business results.

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
News

The greatest organisational challenges of 2024

Our global series of events brought more than 160 leaders together in New York, London and Singapore. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace...

Read the article

Change
Leadership
Teams

Collective experience: An opportunity for hybrid organisations

Hybrid work is here to stay. But hybrid does present challenges. Large group, leadership workshops for events can catalyse performance and help drive business results.

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

What does wellbeing mean to you?

As World Wellbeing Week approached, we used this time to answer the question 'what does wellbeing mean to you?' Here are some of our thoughts:

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Coaching
Leadership

Podcast: The coaching advantage

Sarah Brammeier is Head of Executive Coaching Practice at Impact and is passionate about coaching. This episode touches on how coaching can support people to explore their edges, to learn what is...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Global leaders share the advice they'd give their younger self (part 3)

We asked ten global leaders the question "if you could start your career again, what advice would you give yourself?" How does their answer match to yours?

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Leading in the AI Age

Generative AI presents huge opportunities, as well as huge risks. And it promises to transform our organisations sooner than we had anticipated. But what about our leaders? What will successful...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: How to navigate the polycrisis

Tackling the challenges of a polycrisis. In a turbulent, digitalising, uncertain world, making sense of the future is more important than ever. But what questions should we be asking and what answers...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: The changing world of HR

François Wang joins our podcast from his base in Shanghai. Currently working as a Senior Human Resources Director at Revlon, this podcast is 25 minutes of insights, best practices and thought...

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Coaching
Wellbeing & Personal Development

The (S)Tress Test: How to give feedback

Turning uncomfortable situations into constructive feedback At the start of my last meeting with my colleague Sammy our usual two minute catch up turned into a discussion you may well be familiar with...

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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values

Paul Rose is one of the world's most experienced divers, field science and polar experts. In this podcast, he joins Dan to talk about exploration, ecology, environment and the learnings that business...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Balancing profit, people and planet

A podcast on sustainability in big business. Can change, growth and sustainability go hand in hand? How can you grow your business and have a positive impact?

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Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams

Podcast: What is experiential learning?

A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, does experiential learning work for everyone and why do global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach?

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Change
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Effectiveness and employee fatigue

The phenomenon of tired workers. Organisations across the globe are grappling with the consequences of employee fatigue. Driving profit, targets and outcomes is leaving people exhausted. Without...

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Leadership

Podcast: Learning and leadership culture

A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What will you do with an extra day?

2024 is a special year. Not just because it marks an election year for more than 50 countries, or the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, but because it’s a leap year. First introduced in 46 BCE...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout

How can leaders prevent burnout? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Resilient leaders adapt quickly. Empathetic leaders can tune in to their employees’ needs. Human-centred leaders can support...

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Sustainable Innovation
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What The Body Shop taught me about positive impact

What my teenage love for The Body Shop taught my about the positive impact business can have

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Shiny penny syndrome

A podcast that explores what shiny penny syndrome is, how it affects you and your organisation, and how you can use it to stay focused on your goals.

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Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What makes a great executive retreat?

Impact brought a group of senior learning professionals together for a one-day immersive event. In this article we reflect on how these leaders used the executive retreat to work through their complex...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Disruption for positive change

An In Good Company podcast with Laura Chase , Managing Director, WeAre8 How to make a career change Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave an established career and join a start up? And...

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Change
Leadership
Management Development

Podcast: Leading organisational change

An In Good Company podcast with Darren Evans , CEO, Calder Stewart Change in unprecedented times Leading organisational change is one of the most searched for terms on our website. But it's rare to...

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Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Leadership needs for 2024: A human-centred approach

Feedback is foundational to our culture here at Impact. Every programme we run is not only a learning experience for our clients, but also for ourselves. With this in mind, we would like to thank...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent

Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement

How much potential are we wasting? Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. With more than three quarters of the workforce disengaged, this is a huge missed opportunity...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Learning from experience

An In Good Company podcast with David Williams , co-founder and CEO, Impact The desire to make change happen Could the 23-year-old you imagine leading an organisation for over 40 years? Taking a start...

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Coaching
Leadership

Podcast: Making every voice heard

An In Good Company podcast with Kaja Podgórna-Strzelec , HR Director, PwC Polska Is it possible to make every voice heard within an organisation? Can you reconcile what is best for your business and...

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Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Building trust through dialogue

Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK The trust landscape Trust has always been a key ingredient to business success, but in a global landscape of increasing volatility, tension, and challenge...

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Change
Leadership

Only human-centred organisations will survive

Trevor Johnson is a Senior Consultant at Impact Americas What is a human-centred organisation? A human-centred organisation is one that puts people at the heart of everything it does. It understands...

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Adventure
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

The advice leaders would give their younger selves (part 2)

What's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself? At the end of each of our leadership podcasts, we ask our guests: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?'...

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Leadership
Talent

Podcast: Has HR lost its soul?

An In Good Company podcast with Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development , Sony Europe Does Human Resources need to be more people centric? Has HR lost its soul? Is it now the...

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Leadership
Talent
Teams

Podcast: How to build and inspire teams

An In Good Company podcast with Beat Calabretti , Global VP Talent at Barry Callebaut Group How to build and inspire teams Teams. We're all part of them. But what does it take to build a successful...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

To disrupt or to be disrupted?

Andy Dickson is a senior consultant and global customer solutions manager at Impact UK Leadership in service to humanity Mark Twain said: ‘ The two most important days of your life are the day you are...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Making business more human

An In Good Company podcast with Katherine Wässer , Head of Purpose & Culture Transformation, Jaguar Land Rover How to make human centred organisations What do we mean by making a business more human...

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Sustainable Innovation

Demystifying sustainability jargon

What does it all mean? Faced with multiple accelerating environmental, social and economic crises, at this point most of us understand the case for change. And most of us want to act. But for business...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?

Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...

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Sustainable Innovation

The Regeneration Game

The Regeneration Game is a lively learning experience that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world – on both an individual and organisational level. The intensifying...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

How to solve complex problems

Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK Where to start? Sometimes, you just know it’s not working. The problem is you don't know why. The clues on the surface can be very clear: disengagement, poor...

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