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Mastering AI: strategies for business innovation and success
Explore the transformative power of GenAI in business. Learn how to navigate challenges, foster an innovation culture, and confidently lead in the AI era.
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
C-level leaders on navigating complexity
Discover what it means to lead in today's global business environment through our insightful eBook.
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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainable business: Questioning the status quo
“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.” Arthur C. Clarke The future we want It’s easy to get complacent and assume that the status quo is...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Seven questions for senior team performance
An organisation’s ability to survive and thrive depends on the performance of its senior leadership team. However, one of the difficulties of improving senior team performance is that individual...
Leadership
Podcast: Diaries of a task force leader
“I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the f***** car!” - Winston Wolf, Pulp Fiction Extraordinary times...
Coaching
Podcast: The what, why and how of coaching
What is coaching? Why do we need it? What are the benefits of coaching? Using our experiential learning approach, we partner with leaders to inspire, develop and maximise potential. We offer a unique...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leading yourself through turbulent times
During these turbulent times, I decided to write about my experiences with a brain tumor in order to share insights into dealing with adversity and building resilience and positivity during...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: How mindfulness could help you
When was the last time you properly stopped? Took the time you needed just for you? To really notice what's going on with you? In this episode, Impact's Charlotte Messervy shares her story and a...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: Staying energised when you need it most
Our energy levels fluctuate more than the stock market in a pandemic! So how do we stay energised when we need it most? Whether you're a remote working veteran or rookie, Manny Larenas joins Dan to...
Sustainable Innovation
7 phases of re-imagining your business
7 phases of re-imagining your business. Click the link to check them out...
Change
No learning, no change
Is it me or are the endless lists of ‘top tips for working remotely’ or ‘seven things to do to stay productive whilst working at home’ etc.
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Are you a mitigator or an embracer?
Knowing vs. learning in an age of uncertainty We learn a lot about ourselves when we are put under pressure, when we are taken outside our comfort zone, or when our familiar routines are disturbed...
Coaching
From coaching time, to review time
Right now, most of what usually keeps us busy has stopped. How are we coaching at a time like this? In fact, now is the perfect time to undertake a full review of what is and what is not happening...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wellbeing Wisdom - nine self care principles
Nine wellbeing principles from our 'Going the Distance' masterclass with Sony.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Leading the new normal: What are you noticing?
Do you remember back when we used to imagine the future as an unthinkable VUCA world, and spend our time preparing our leaders to be part of it? Well, who would have thought that part of that world...
Leadership
Try this at home
It is an occupational hazard as a leadership consultant. You're chatting to a friend over coffee, and suddenly you find yourself quoting a leadership theory or tool. My sister jokes that whenever she...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Life after COVID-19: An invitation to reimagine the future
ChatGPT said: ChatGPT The COVID-19 pandemic challenged us in unprecedented ways, but it also revealed our resilience, creativity, and capacity for change. From cleaner environments to renewed...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Five ways of being well remotely
At Impact, I have researched the effects of wellbeing on performance and leadership in organisations over the past several years. From my research and others, here are five evidence-based ways that...
Leadership
It’s no longer B2B or B2C, it’s Human to Human
If like me, you wake up every morning and for about ten seconds you have blissfully forgotten what is happening in the world, and then remember with a sinking heart, then you are human . It has been...
Digital & Technology
Radically remote: your guide to virtual training engagement
Chances are that in the last few days, more people have used video conferencing than at any other time in history. It’s equally likely that we’ll break that record tomorrow. As the challenge of Covid...
Change
Mindfulness in times of crisis
Exactly four years ago, writing on the Ebola crisis, BBC reporter Smitha Mundasad wrote: ‘b ut the hope is that the world will be better prepared and have learnt to pay greater attention, should Ebola...
Digital & Technology
Agile virtual learning
How beautiful it is to learn. And learn well. Kolb (1984) showed us a way to do this. He recognised that we mainly learn by experience. But for the learning to be embedded, we need to reflect on that...
Teams
How do we connect in a meaningful way?
Impact Italia’s senior consultant Penelope Mavor offers some quick tips for connecting deeply with anyone. Team? We only see each other once a year! Like the executive team we worked with last week...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams
Avoiding isolation in remote workers
How do you stay connected? Don’t you feel isolated? Don’t you worry that your team is not really working? Read the full article here...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Leading dispersed teams: 6 learning points that we can apply in the future
Last week we ran a series of Virtual Think Tank discussions around the topics of Leading Dispersed Teams and Remote Working. We experienced meaningful dialogue about the current realities that we have...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action
‘I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this.’ – Winston Wolf, Pulp Fiction. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary teams, and potentially...
Leadership
Are you someone’s They?
What are they saying now? Have you seen what they’ve said? Well apparently what they’re saying now is… They’ve changed their minds now and… They mean… They want… They what? Who are ‘They’? ‘They’ are...
Leadership
Diaries of a task force leader
How is your organisation responding to the virus situation? Impact's Andy Dickson shares his experiences... It’s suddenly quite a different world! If, like me, you work in an international business...
Digital & Technology
Managing disruption on a Monday morning in Italy
Ask yourself ‘what if’? Client: Training Designer at Eni Corporate University, Italy Monday morning and back to the office after a weekend of massive increase in Covid-19 cases. Anxiety is everywhere...
Management Development
Leading employee experience
Helping managers and leaders to deliver superior employee experience As the race for talent intensifies across the globe, all organisations are trying to position themselves as an employer of choice...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Putting your oxygen mask on first
‘Put your oxygen mask on before helping others’. With so many travel bans – self-imposed or otherwise – it may be a while before we hear these words again. Travel or no travel, in these volatile...
Leadership
Leading through disruption
Supply chains disrupted, share prices plummeting, employees panicking – you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was a leadership challenge simulation, but it’s increasingly a reality. COVID-19 has...
Sustainable Innovation
Doing well by doing good: An interview with Sir Tim Smit
Impact’s Head of Partnerships, Jo Appleby, recently sat down for a chat with Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project to talk sustainability.
Sustainable Innovation
A force for good: Interview with Simon Locke, the Body Shop
We sat down with Simon Locke from The Body Shop to talk all things sustainability. Read the blog post here....
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Collaborative Conversations
‘All those solutions needed are not known to anyone and therefore we must unite behind the science and find them together along the way. But you do not listen to that. Because those answers are for...
Sustainable Innovation
Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation Challenges
Take a moment to consider the really big issues your organization is trying to address. Whether through values alignment or regulation, organizations are increasingly being required to take action in...
Sustainable Innovation
Exploring the complexity of our sustainability stories
Exploring the complexity of our sustainability stories Whilst writing this article I'm flying at 20,000 ft with drink in hand. Air travel is a modern miracle of engineering, but it's a complex one. On...