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Collective experience: An opportunity for hybrid organisations
Hybrid work is here to stay. But hybrid does present challenges. Large group, leadership workshops for events can catalyse performance and help drive business results.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
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The greatest organisational challenges of 2024
Our global series of events brought 183 leaders together in New York, London, Singapore and Zurich. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace in...
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...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
3 ways to improve your emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence has a well-established seat at the development table these days, being widely accepted as one of the key differentiators and the foundation of building leadership capacity...
Teams
Is your team prepared for success?
Impact Americas' Senior Consultant, David Cooper , gives us 6 essential questions. This is a question you could well be asking yourself - whether you are joining a new team, leading a team, or an...
Teams
Teams need to bridge the action gap
At this time of year we work with a lot of companies who use these first few months to galvanise the performance of their key teams - learning lessons from the past year and planning ahead. One of the...
Teams
Me or we?
Do you prefer to work individually or as part of a team? It's a question I find quite hard to answer. Popular opinion has it that working in high performing teams with a common purpose enables us to...
Digital & Technology
Are we about to be outsmarted by artificial intelligence?
Since my recent post on the challenge of human jobs being rapidly replaced by robots ( Humans Need Not Apply ), there have been further developments. Eminent minds as diverse as Stephen Hawking and...
Change
Happy old year
I love the anticipation involved in a New Year. Making plans for the future, setting out to achieve new things and making commitments to myself and to Impact that I genuinely intend to keep. The...
Emerging Talent
Talent
Inspiring the next generation
Five years ago I had a life changing experience. I suddenly realised I had a responsibility that I hadn’t been aware of. It’s a responsibility that I now find hugely rewarding - helping to inspire...
Leadership
Remembering the Tsunami
Ten years ago Impact's Hannah Irwin experienced the Indian Ocean Tsunami first hand. This is her story. The Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 was the most devastating natural disaster in modern times...
Leadership
Are you afraid of making mistakes?
Don't be. If you really want to learn from your experience and become better at what you do, then embrace failure, learn from it and move on fast. There's too much procrastination around. Too many...
Leadership
Touching people's hearts
Isn't it strange how you often find something when you are not actually looking for it? Last Friday, I attended Connect at the Savoy in London and had a really productive day, meeting up with HR...
Leadership
An unexpected telephone call
In Washington, exactly one hundred years ago, a committee of Congress was convened to consider the then relatively new practice of ‘scientific management’. After hearing from dozens of witnesses...
Innovation & Creativity
Top tips for using humour
Impact Senior Facilitator, Simon Wheatley shares his top tips I think laughter is probably one of the few things that stops me from going completely round the bend. I use humour to please myself as...
Digital & Technology
Humans need not apply
Last week the CIPD ran a headline suggesting that ‘half of current occupations won’t exist by 2025’. This announcement follows a lot of recent talk proposing the idea that we are rapidly approaching a...
Leadership
Building desire
Why do organisations invest in people development, and what do they expect from their investment? Surely, the main reason is to achieve individual and organisational change in behaviour. Whether the...