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Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group
Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: Leading with AI: transforming organisational culture
Michael Molinaro joins Dan to discuss Gen AI, leadership and culture.
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? These are just some of the questions I have received while leading distributed or remote teams...
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 recently sat down with Simon Locke, Sustainable Design Innovation Manager at The Body Shop to talk all things sustainability. How has the role of business changed over the past two years? There has...
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...
Leadership
Leadership challenge #3: Expand Your Mental Bandwidth, Ten At A Time
Commit to this 30-minute (three blocks of 10 minutes) challenge and we predict you’ll see dramatic results. Periodically, IGC will post additional leadership challenges just like this. Let us know...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…
The global traction gained by sustainability initiatives in the current climate is certainly promising, but why aren’t we seeing the impact desired on the required scale? I recently spent two days in...
Leadership
Leadership challenge #1: 40 pieces of feedback
Try this for one week. We predict you’ll see dramatic results. Periodically, IGC will post additional leadership challenges just like this. Let us know what you think! Leadership challenge #1 Adopt a...
Leadership
When simple answers run out … systemic awareness in business
A practitioner’s perspective Ally Yates has been a long standing client of Impact’s, having worked with a range of companies over her career. Her current role includes supporting a global...
Leadership
Teams
Creating connectedness in far-flung teams
In my earlier career in the west, I had the privilege of being physically located with most of the people I worked with. Clients were in different locations, sure, but the people I needed to help me...
Leadership
Leaders on leadership: Heather Coker at Morgan Advanced Materials
We sat down with Heather Coker, Global Learning Lead at Morgan Advanced Materials PLC, to talk all things leadership. What are some of your own acts of leadership that have had a significant impact on...
Leadership
Leaders on Leadership: Mark Leong from Munich Re
Impact: What are the most important acts of leadership for you? Mark: I pride myself on standing up for what I believe is right and being authentic whilst doing so. I am always very clear about having...
Leadership
Are you as good at decision making as you think you are?
‘Unconscious bias’ is a common buzz word in modern pop-psychology, but what is it exactly? Why does it matter? And how can we mitigate for its effect on everyday decision-making? Scientifically...
Leadership
The quest for leadership agility
Earlier this year, I sat down with a group of fellow practitioners and consultants with the aim of defining leadership agility and creating tools and resources to use with the scores of clients asking...
Emerging Talent
Leadership
What are your hopes for the next generation of leaders?
Young people are the lifeblood of organisations. I was 23 when I started Impact , and I remember the excitement well. I took a lot of risks, but I wish I’d taken more , and I’m always excited to see...