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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.
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Rising to the challenge
Fourteen years ago, I started to read about climate change, at a time when few people were aware of the problem. As an environmental photographer I decided to do something. I organised a specific...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The perfect place to be
Rich Metcalfe, Owner of Homeground Café, Windermere, Lake District and Force4Good collaborator Having just celebrated its 7th Birthday, Homeground is a pinnacle of the Windermere community. Situated...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Inspiring greater diverse representation
Winnie Poaty, Entrepreneur, @winniepoaty Meet one of our Impact Force4Good collaborators, Winnie Poaty. She is an open water swimmer, and advocate for mental wellness and diversity. Winnie is based on...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The Lake District is a competitive advantage
Paul Riley, CEO and owner of Coniston Corporate, High quality customised embroidery workwear It’s not without a little apprehension that I approach the meeting point with Paul. Paul is a very good...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: From Wasdale to Japan
Sue Hunt, Non-Executive Director of Impact Previously: Director of Strategic programmes London 2012 Olympic Games; MD Goldman Sachs; Chartered accountant What is your connection to the Lake District...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Decision time
A mountain guide in Hokkaido, Japan, shares a skiing experience where he avoided an avalanche by recognizing heuristic decision traps like familiarity and social proof.
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Doing well by doing good
The Royal Albert Hall has been hosting concerts in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust since 2000, with the biggest names in music and comedy coming together each year to raise money to help young people...
Change
Interview - David Batstone
Where does your drive to contribute to the world come from? For some reason it is easier for religious people to talk about “a calling.” A sense that you were put into the world to pursue a particular...
Teams
Employee experience
Why employee engagement is one of the most undervalued drivers of lasting change. When it comes to digital transformation, a step-change in focus on customer experience is commonly seen to be one of...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Q not A
A four-year-old girl will ask almost 390 questions a day. Eventually these numbers dwindle as she ages, in part because they don’t include the questions she mutters to herself while submerged in...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
The times have begun to change!
The first update on our three year project to research and educate on the global problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. Early in January 2017, after many weeks of preparation and getting Sula...
Adventure
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Mount Kilimanjaro - my personal classroom
‘This mountain reminds me that I am made of steel! ’ said an MBA student, fresh off the summit of Kilimanjaro. Another student wrote to me the following week: ‘I’ve wanted to do humanitarian work for...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Roots or wings
Roots and Wings. Hopefully we are cultivating or challenging one or the other at any particular time. We see it in the news and in our own lives. Obama’s parting comment to African leaders was that...
Change
Leadership
Living in a time of 'great winds' of change
This is an edited excerpt from the book "Future Fit" by Giles Hutchins, published by the Future Fit Leadership Academy. An old Chinese proverb says, "In times of great winds, some build bunkers...
Sustainable Innovation
It's 'just business' but not as we know it
Discover how Impact and Just Business, led by David Batstone, are collaborating to leverage business practices for social and environmental change. Learn about their shared commitment to responsible...
Leadership
Just tell me what to do
We live in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times, but have you actually acknowledged this out loud or in your thoughts? Has one of your direct reports voiced this to you? We like a...
Emerging Talent
Innovation & Creativity
Why learning should be part of SMEs culture
As Millennials form a bigger part of our workforce and SMEs an increasing role in the labour market, it is imperative that businesses consider how to retain ‘early careers’ talent by embracing a...
Change
New year, new you?
We all do it. We aim so high at the beginning of the year. We set those personal and professional goals and feel that this time we’ll really keep the momentum going. Then, come February, we’re back to...
Leadership
The trust mandate for future leaders
Every year the PR giant Edelman publishes a global survey on one issue - trust. It considers the levels of trust we have in our public institutions, technical experts, each other - and our business...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Do nothing - perfectly
That was an instruction at a recent Satipatthana meditation course I attended recently. 8 days of sitting on a meditation cushion, doing nothing but observing one’s sensations with equanimity. To ‘do...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainable development is good for UK business
Businesses unite in a bid to make the UK economy ‘fit for the future’ by backing sustainable development Earlier this week Impact along with 80 other organisations united to call on the Government to...
Change
What are you playing at?
Funny how something as playful as play can have negative connotations. On one hand, when we play we express our joyfulness, imagination and freedom. In other contexts, we can be seen as self-indulgent...
Talent
7 ways to compete with larger businesses for talent
All of our SME clients find it difficult to compete with larger businesses for talent. Whether it’s attracting graduates out of university or retaining mid-level managers, it’s a challenge for smaller...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: what do they mean for you?
Francesca Burton of WWF-UK discusses the importance of businesses aligning with the SDGs to drive innovation, engage employees, and help achieve global sustainability by 2030.
Change
Sustainable Innovation
The times they are a changin'
A three year project to research and educate on the global problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. The last time we took our yacht Sula offshore sailing was in 2008. The previous year we had been...
Adventure
Dealing with the unexpected
For the past few years I have been competing each summer at various mountain bike orienteering events. These can vary from UK based events to packing my bike and flying overseas to some of the larger...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What's your motivation?
I have always loved stories and characters. To me, these offer a fantastic insight into the drivers and motivators that influence who we are and how we interact with the world. In my forthcoming book...
Leadership
Power within the organisation
What are we really struggling for? Growing within the organisation often means to acquire more power. Power within the organisation can often represent an influence tool, a career indicator, a...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Top tips for getting unstuck
I have an oddity. Or I guess, I am an oddity. I love change. I love new things. I love to change things up a bit just for the heck of it. This could be as simple as moving my office around or as major...
Change
Is it the end of work as we know it?
It’s the end of work as we know it. Gone are the days when having a job meant “doing your job.” No longer can anyone anywhere expect the future of work to be the same as it was in the past. Innovation...
Change
The organisation is a purposeful living system
We are in the midst of a metamorphic period of change unlike anything the world has seen since the Late Middle Ages. With “meta” (meaning “form”) and “morph” (meaning “change”), the word suggests the...
Emerging Talent
Talent
The dangers of generational stereotyping
Let’s stop stereotyping whole generations of people and look more closely at the similarities and differences that make us all who we are. Human beings love to categorise things. It is core to the way...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Laughter is the best medicine
Laughter Yoga started in 1995 by Dr Madan Kataria in a park in Mumbai with just five participants. Today there are over 10,000 laughter clubs in 76 different countries – just showing the need to laugh...
Leadership
The power of story
‘A Story is like the water you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet and it cleans you.” - Rumi, StoryWater. As a storytelling expert, I live for...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Company boredom training
Interestingly, there is this multinational company whose training explicitly explores boredom. They start with the scenario: “You are at work. You have had no break. What you are doing seems...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The bed is back in business
The bed is on the agenda. Opinion leaders are encouraging you and your organisation to pay attention to your bed behaviour, your ‘sleep hygiene’. It was certainly a topic of conversation with a group...