Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?
Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What will you do with an extra day?
2024 is a special year. Not just because it marks an election year for more than 50 countries, or the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, but because it’s a leap year. First introduced in 46 BCE...
Adventure
Leadership
Management Development
Why choose experiential learning?
Why choose experiential learning? What are the benefits for individuals and organisations? We asked the people who work at Impact to answer this in one sentence. See what they said.
Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams
Podcast: What is experiential learning?
A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, does experiential learning work for everyone and why do global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach?
Change
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Effectiveness and employee fatigue
The phenomenon of tired workers. Organisations across the globe are grappling with the consequences of employee fatigue. Driving profit, targets and outcomes is leaving people exhausted. Without...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What will you do with an extra day?
2024 is a special year. Not just because it marks an election year for more than 50 countries, or the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, but because it’s a leap year. First introduced in 46 BCE...
Change
Leadership
Management Development
Podcast: Leading organisational change
An In Good Company podcast with Darren Evans , CEO, Calder Stewart Change in unprecedented times Leading organisational change is one of the most searched for terms on our website. But it's rare to...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement
How much potential are we wasting? Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. With more than three quarters of the workforce disengaged, this is a huge missed opportunity...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: Learning from experience
An In Good Company podcast with David Williams , co-founder and CEO, Impact The desire to make change happen Could the 23-year-old you imagine leading an organisation for over 40 years? Taking a start...
Adventure
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The advice leaders would give their younger selves (part 2)
What's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself? At the end of each of our leadership podcasts, we ask our guests: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?'...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
Andy Dickson is a senior consultant and global customer solutions manager at Impact UK Leadership in service to humanity Mark Twain said: ‘ The two most important days of your life are the day you are...
Sustainable Innovation
Demystifying sustainability jargon
What does it all mean? Faced with multiple accelerating environmental, social and economic crises, at this point most of us understand the case for change. And most of us want to act. But for business...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?
Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
How to solve complex problems
Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK Where to start? Sometimes, you just know it’s not working. The problem is you don't know why. The clues on the surface can be very clear: disengagement, poor...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
BANI: What is it and how can it help us?
Molly Shrimpton is a research and content writer at Impact. BANI: The new VUCA? For decades, VUCA has been used as an acronym to refer to conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Making space for wellness
Sam Egerton is General Manager of Impact Singapore. In this article he discusses what he’s been noticing lately. Recently, we have been having a lot of conversations with clients around wellness needs...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wellbeing: A collective responsibility
How can organisations support and encourage individual responsibility for wellbeing? Wellbeing in the workplace – whose responsibility is it? Perhaps more than any other initiative, it finds itself...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Global leadership insights eBook
This free eBook by Impact reveals the main issues and learnings from a survey of over 500 global leaders. Find out how to build human-centred cultures and practices that prioritise people and make a...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Creating cultures of belonging
Starting this conversation is Jo Appleby , head of sustainable innovation at Impact UK... In our survey of over 500 global CEOs and senior leaders, only 19% said they are prioritising diversity...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Ten leaders on the advice they'd give their younger selves
At the end of every leadership podcast we've recorded this year, we asked each of our guests: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?' Read on to find out what...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Accelerated team development
Tony Ren has been Head of Impact China since 2009, working with clients across APAC to understand their business needs and implementing people development programmes. In this article Tony discusses...
Teams
Unified purpose: The bedrock of team performance
What causes behavioural and performance gaps in teams? In our experience, the lack of a coherent, collective purpose is the biggest culprit. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team...
Innovation & Creativity
Sustainable Innovation
Impact retains EcoVadis gold rating for sustainability practices
Impact’s sustainability performance for 2023 ranks among the top 5% of companies independently assessed by EcoVadis. Impact has retained gold in EcoVadis’ sustainability ratings for the fifth year...
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leading wellbeing - the challenges facing our clients
In discussion with Wendy Lee Berger , global lead operations at Impact Change has been a constant in the work we’ve been doing with clients for the past four decades. At a gathering of Impact’s...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Is your organisation having a positive impact?
As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...
Change
It is time to make all organisations more human
‘Remember your humanity. Forget the rest…’ – Bertrand Russell In the world of organisational change, there are two things we hear all the time. Firstly, that change is inevitable, that organisations...
Change
Leadership
Only human-centred organisations will survive
Trevor Johnson is a Senior Consultant at Impact Americas What is a human-centred organisation? A human-centred organisation is one that puts people at the heart of everything it does. It understands...
Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Building trust through dialogue
Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK The trust landscape Trust has always been a key ingredient to business success, but in a global landscape of increasing volatility, tension, and challenge...
Management Development
Teams
Grasp the nettle
Andy Dickson has been managing people, teams, and functions for 32 years. He is Head of Global Customer Solutions at Impact and has recently celebrated his 25th year working here. In this anniversary...
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leadership needs for 2024: A human-centred approach
Feedback is foundational to our culture here at Impact. Every programme we run is not only a learning experience for our clients, but also for ourselves. With this in mind, we would like to thank...
Sustainable Innovation
The Regeneration Game
The Regeneration Game is a lively learning experience that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world – on both an individual and organisational level. The intensifying...
Change
Teams
The two principles and three practices of building human-centred organisations
“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday...
Teams
How to have challenging conversations
What should you be talking about? That challenging conversation you’ve been meaning to have… Jonathan Stevens , Head of Client Solutions, explores below. Are you avoiding a challenging conversation...
Management Development
Confronting the need for confrontation
Karen Jaques is a Senior Consultant at Impact UK. Below she looks at the challenges of challenging and offers some quick tips. One of the hardest skills to acquire as a manager is that of skilfully...
Change
Human-centred organisations: what they are, why we need them and how to be one
You can download the whitepaper here The pandemic has taught us two important lessons. The first is that radical change at scale and speed is possible. The second is that the thing that is most...
Coaching
Changing the team dynamic: Becoming a leader who coaches
Let’s imagine that you are excited to add coaching into your repertoire of leadership actions, but your fast-paced team is not used to being coached; on the contrary, they are used to you giving them...
Change
Are you an influencer or an awareness raiser?
I recently taught a class on negotiation. Something the group really engaged with was the idea of having empathy for the counterpart. There are many benefits to this behaviour: gaining insight into...
Change
Cutthroat Kitchen and unconscious bias
Unconscious bias may seem like an old issue, but it is still an everyday challenge for women and many other groups of people in the corporate world. To ignore it is to risk hindering leadership...