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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.
Sustainable Innovation
Why doughnuts are good for us
As we face increasing levels of uncertainty and change, one of the key skills we all need is to challenge our own mental models about how the world works. I’m not suggesting we resort to eating...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leading across the threshold
Increasingly, today’s world requires our businesses to become ever more emergent, innovative and adaptive. In turn, our leadership becomes more about empowering, empathising and encouraging...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Start again
Not being the most technically competent person, I have this profound respect for the reset button. So you can imagine the delight when, on a meditation retreat, I finally figured out, we have an...
Adventure
The adventure path
John Matthews explores how a sense of adventure is fundamental to our happiness It’s a common question to be asked: So when are you happiest?... For me I am often at my happiest when heading out into...
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Attention is our most valuable asset
In today’s complex and demanding workplace, an organisation’s most valuable asset is no longer people’s time, it’s their attention. Attention is defined as what we each choose to focus on and what we...
Change
Tools versus practices - lessons from DIY
I recently organised my DIY tools at home. For far too long they had been stuffed in a cupboard under the stairs which not only made it really difficult to find anything but hurt my back every time I...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Can we talk about love here?
Should we talk about love at work? Is it part of developing workplace spirituality and sustainability?
Change
What are the masks you wear?
With Carnivale season upon us, one can be forgiven in thinking about masks and the masks we wear. Carl Jung (1928) wrote about the personas or masks we adopt and present to the world as a way to make...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Everyone ready
I was asked recently to write a new year’s article. Something about, good wishes and our hope for 2018. This is what I wrote instead … Ten, Nine, I started writing an article about countdowns. About...
Adventure
Change
Make Stress Positive for You
I went swimming in Llyn Padarn with my pregnant friend Sarah. Being eight months pregnant it can cause curvature and puts pressure on your spine known as lordosis. Therefore, spending some time...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
A Year of Resolutions
Like the slogan “a puppy is not just for Christmas”, I feel resolutions aren’t just for the New Year . From those resolutions we purposefully set, to those that spontaneously emerge, each helps...
Adventure
Change
More change than one would like
We left the south of New Zealand behind and headed for Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch New Zealand. A quiet, well kept, coastal resort with a microclimate that favours palm trees and...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
One major belief that holds you back
Human beings have a natural need to avoid and/or resolve discomfort of any kind. Humans also have a need to see themselves develop and experience pleasure also. This is evident in the amazing...
Change
The Future of Business
Embracing the logic of life We are living in turbulent and troubled times. These times of breakdown and breakthrough invoke fear and the desire to hunker-down, stick to the tried-and-tested, tweak the...
Leadership
I don't have time for a 1:1
...You haven’t got time not to Not to do ourselves out of business, but I do believe that companies could make a step change in their individual, team and ultimately their organisational performance -...
Change
Emerging Talent
If I were a new graduate
September. In my view, that time of the year, second only to January, in which we feel that sense of 'fresh' and 'starting a new'. Students (and maybe us adults too) are gleaming ear to ear with new...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wholehearted leadership
Erin Tetarenko of Impact Australia shares her personal journey on Wholehearted Leadership. It’s been nine years since I first learned a lesson that would impact my life forever, one that would...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
In conversation with...
Mark Quest and I sat in The Lion. The Lion is the name of our smallest meeting room here at Impact HQ. We also have meeting rooms called The Sun and The Rule and a Management Information System we...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Being the change: My volunteering memory
I woke up in Luton that winter morning in 2011 knowing that the decision had been made. It was on a gap year between my first and second degrees and, like many people in their twenties, I didn’t know...
Innovation & Creativity
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What's your hammock?
Mark Quest, Impact UK Consultant, reflects back to a hot sunny day when his ability to work in the office was challenged and his response was to take to his hammock! It’s the middle of summer. My...
Change
Apprenticeships - opportunities for all
Impact have a strong history of working with apprentices and with the introduction of the apprenticeship levy we have been helping clients to work out how to make the most of this exciting opportunity...
Change
Filling the world with organisations worth working for
Explore how creating organisations worth working for begins with becoming someone worth working with. Discover the human-centric approach that can elevate productivity, engagement, and overall...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Who runs the mind?
Mind Managing for Goal Achievement Mind management and mental preparation begin with an understanding of how the brain might function in terms of our focus of attention. I picked up on a piece of...
Adventure
Wellbeing & Personal Development
An expert's guide to failure
Last year I went out to run the Bob Graham Round - solo. I failed. This is not a story about how I failed but really I succeeded; about finding a greater meaning; about failure being a state of mind...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Leading an industry
I’m Dave Kowal, the Chief People and Sustainability Officer for Vita. The Vita Group is an advanced manufacturer of foams that are used for furniture, bedding, transport, and other applications. If...
Change
People own what they create
Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch, digs deep into the concept of living changerously. This is my Nordic butter spreader – there are many Nordic butter spreaders like this but this is my...
Adventure
ReWild yourself
"Is this cooked? It doesn't look cooked to me," says Jonathan as he probes the spit roast chickens with his Sami knife, squinting as the wood smoke stings his eyes. "Yep," says Greavsie, carnivore-in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Pioneering sustainable tourism
John Maddy, co-founder of Long Valley Yurts, leads in ethical glamping with a focus on sustainability. Discover how his innovative approach sets industry standards.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Ethical business practice
Meet Tom Martlew, 23-year-old co-founder of Nito Design. Passionate about the environment and ethical practices, Tom blends design with a strong commitment to sustainability.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Mind Over Mountains
Alex Staniforth : Inspirational speaker and f ounder of Mind Over Mountains By the age of twenty, Alex Staniforth had already made two Everest attempts. For many who attempt Everest, you either summit...
Sustainable Innovation
One solution for a sustainable world
Can there really be one solution for a sustainable world? This might sound like a bold statement but I believe it to be true. As a global society we’re currently on a path that is not sustainable – we...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Time for yourself = more time for others
My dad was a very good painter and decorator, eventually running his own (very small) business complete with the obligatory Trotter’s Trading Company yellow van. I used to work with him in the summer...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: A warming planet
Ashley Cooper, Photographer and Force4Good collaborator For the last 20 years, I’ve been a professional environmental photographer and have spent 14 years travelling to every continent to document the...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Rooted in nature
David Williams, Founder and CEO of Impact and Force4Good Collaborator I first came to the Lake District in 1974 at age 18 to attend Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside. I was training as a teacher in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Passion for geography
Jonathan Stevens, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Fellow, Leadership development consultant and collaborator. I’m at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Jonathan Stevens, chair of the RGS...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: At the heart of the local community
Simon Rayner, owner of the Hare and Hounds at Bowland Bridge, and Force4Good collaborator The Hare and Hounds is a gorgeous 17th-century inn, located in the picturesque village of Bowland Bridge, not...