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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.
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Speaking from solid ground
How to Give a Speech How do we create excellent communication? How do we stand up and speak with confidence and credibility? It is a question many of us ask in haste, as the moment for making a speech...
Change
Can you learn from the safety zone?
Step out of your comfort zone at Learnfest 2016, where experiential learning and creativity ignite growth. Embrace challenges, build resilience, and achieve more!
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The first hour - something better than coffee
I recently read an intriguing article titled, " How 7 Female Leaders Spend their First Hour at Work ". Initially I was skeptical that reading this would do to me the things it advertised. Things like...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Happiness at work
Ask most managers what their top priorities are for their direct reports and I would be hugely surprised if the word ‘happiness’ appeared anywhere on a list littered with words like ‘productivity’,...
Innovation & Creativity
If you haven't found your passion yet
Jamie Catto - Creator, Producer/Director of the multi-award winning global 1 Giant Leap films and albums and founder member of Faithless is now leading uniquely transformative workshops and one-on-one...
Innovation & Creativity
The alchemic learning test
Planning a learning intervention? Great! But is it “alchemic”? No idea what we mean? Read Senior Consultant Liz Wilson’s piece on alchemic learning here . You can run your learning intervention...
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainable Development Goals
Impact’s Community Partnerships Manager Jo Appleby discusses the UN SDGs and what they mean for people and businesses everywhere. Late last year I attended an event on ‘How to embed the Sustainable...
Innovation & Creativity
Alchemic learning
Very recently a few of us at Impact decided to remind ourselves of what actually ‘makes us learn’. We made this a very personal enquiry and each thought hard about why some learning really sticks and...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Leadership in the digital age
New technology is changing everything in increasingly unpredictable ways. Every senior leader in every organisation everywhere must be able to answer a simple question: ‘How do we evolve?’
Change
Happy New Year greetings from Shanghai
Impact’s Head of Asia, Phil Holdsworth , looks at the year ahead and what it means for organisations in Asia. The 2016 Chinese New Year celebrations begin on the 8 th February and 2016 is the Year of...
Innovation & Creativity
Top tips for smarter thinking
Drs Jamie Barker and Martin Turner from The Smarter Thinking Project share their best advice on smarter thinking for improved performance. Recognise One of the most important things about Smarter...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What motivates you?
Ruth Ollis is a Senior Programme Manager at Impact UK. We all come to work in the morning, but have you ever considered what motivates you to enjoy being here 9-5? Money? Of course…but subconsciously...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Bouncing back
Mumback (mum/bak) noun a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth returning to the place of work. “Mumback” - this is what Lily Allen dubbed her return to the stage after 4...
Change
The winds of change are blowing!
New Year offers us all an opportunity to reflect on what has happened, to draw a fresh breath and to prepare ourselves for what is next. The very nature of work is changing fast. Disruptive innovation...
Digital & Technology
5 tips to make virtual learning work for you
Impact Italia's Federica Bocciardi offers some top tips for making virtual learning work for you. Are you just about to design or to buy a virtual learning programme? Here are some tips for you based...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Happy at work?
As economies slowly recover from recession and we look to our future feeling a little more secure, the question “are you happy at work?” keeps cropping up in conversations I’m having with colleagues...
Teams
Facilitating multicultural teams
We asked Impact's Penelope Mavor for some top tips on facilitating multicultural teams. Penelope is a New Zealander, British citizen and lives in Rome, and has been facilitating multicultural groups...
Emerging Talent
Millennials managed
Generational gaps have always existed in the workplace and managing them is a perpetual topic of debate, concern, and learning. Through his work for Impact, David Cooper has been bringing together...
Adventure
How can work be a great adventure?
Impact associate, Howard Crook, shares his thoughts on adventure, with inspiration from the Kendal Mountain Film Festival . Every year Kendal, a small town near Impact's HQ in the Lake District, hosts...
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainability - feeling the stretch?
Inspired by the UN's new set of global development goals, Impact associate Penelope Mavor asks what stretching goals you are setting - on an individual and organisational level. After a lot of work...
Change
The 4 challenges Impact's Daniele Pigni faced when he made the move from Italy to Asia...
Moving to a different continent has been one of the most challenging yet fulfilling experiences of my life. It has increased my cultural sensitivity, developed me as a person and changed the way I see...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
How do you make learning stick?
Greg Bartlett , Senior Consultant for Impact Australia, shares his top tips on making learning stick. Keep it simple The harder a set of instructions or procedure are in your head, the harder it is to...
Digital & Technology
Making the most of digital?
From researching purchases to paying for the chosen goods, from collaborating with colleagues to influencing customers, digital is the glue that underpins so many everyday interactions, at both work...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Building organisations worth working for
So, here’s a question. Is your organisation worth working for? We have been asking that question in a whole host of conversations over recent months. We have been asking it because we are interested...
Change
How will you navigate another VUCA year?
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) are common words used by organisations to describe market challenges. As we think about the modern global business environment, the digital...
Leadership
Lawnmower leadership
I had some thoughts whilst mowing the lawn this Saturday evening. I decided to share them in the hope that they might help us all spot leadership talent. I had four lawns to cut in the garden. LAWN...
Sustainable Innovation
Living wages: desirable, feasible, inevitable
Jo Appleby , Impact’s Head of Partnerships, recently attended Living Wages: Desirable, Feasible, Inevitable an event hosted by KPMG, Global Compact UK Network and the Ethical Trading Initiative. She...
Leadership
Leadership competencies are dead
You don’t have to look far to find the latest 'definitive' list of leadership competencies. Yet the more of these lists we see, and the longer they grow, the further away we get from any real sense of...
Talent
Top tips for public speaking
There you are – staring out at the mass of spectators before you. An eager audience waiting with bated breath and ready to hang on every word. This may be your first time; it may be your 50 th . Still...
Talent
5 lessons from...Talent is overrated
This week we're reading... Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Teams
Is your team ready for success?
Six Key Questions You Should Ask Yourselves Based upon interest in our recent piece on Team Success , where we explored 6 questions related to team success and performance, we’re now going to take a...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Getting your to-do list done
Impact’s Becky Foxen and the wider Business Support Coordinators team share their top tips on how to get things ticked off your to do list.
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Managing work
Forget time management, the key skill is managing your work. Impact’s Grahame Broadbelt shares some thoughts and some tools he uses every day. At this time of year we are assaulted by material that...
Change
I am me
When I was 16 years old, I was lucky enough to attend a four-week, residential, personal development programme. It completely changed my life and set me on a course of experiences and achievements...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
5 top tips for successful project management
Sarah Wragg , one of Impact's Client Managers, shares her top tips on how to be successful in the field of Project Management.
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The beauty of doing one thing at a time
I have always admired people who are able to work on more than one project at a time, the real multi-taskers. In fact I can remember times when, as a manager, I could be quite critical of people who...