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Brandon Hall Group HCM award success
Five Impact clients, including four that operate out of the US, have won three gold, one silver and one bronze coveted Brandon Hall Group™ awards for excellence.
Change
Leadership
Podcast: What can leaders learn from the Olympics?
Sue Hunt served as the Director of Strategic Programs for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee. This podcast isn't just for Olympic enthusiasts; it offers a captivating...
Change
Leadership
Management Development
Leadership 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...
Management Development
Teams
Grasp the nettle
When it comes to underperformance or suboptimal behaviors, ignoring them is a mistake. It’s in no one’s interest to turn a blind eye.
Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Building trust through open dialogue
Explore the crucial role of trust in business success, highlighted in the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer.
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Purpose: The new employee value proposition
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
Leadership 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)
We asked 10 leaders about the guidance they would offer to their younger selves, and here are their responses...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
Andy Dickson from Impact UK explores leadership in service to humanity at Anthropy 2023. Discover how we inspire global change and positive impact.
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...
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
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
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...
Leadership
Teams
Five tips for communicating under pressure
The ability to communicate effectively in the workplace is fundamental for business success, but it can be harder to achieve than we think. Too often, messages are misunderstood, intentions are...
Digital & Technology
Four principles for designing digital learning technologies
The digital landscape is changing at such a rapid speed that it becomes difficult to adapt. Impact takes an experiential learning approach — one that it has been practising for 38 years. Click here to...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
How to find balance in times of change
This article stresses life balance amid change, highlighting personal relationships and human-centered organizations for well-being. Explore for insights.
Leadership
Storytelling: A crucial leadership skill
How the art of storytelling can be harnessed to effectively motivate and engage talent Our life is full of stories: stories of what we have done or of what we are about to do. Our nations are built...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Seven ways to incorporate walking into working
A growing body of evidence demonstrates the clear physical and psychological benefits that spending time in the natural world has for human wellbeing. From improved memory, concentration, and...
Change
Digital & Technology
Digital technology and the democratisation of learning
The article argues that leveraging digital tech and democratizing education can transform organizational learning, enabling significant change. Explore further.
Leadership
The power of conversation
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 of working here. In this...
Leadership
How agile are you?
At Impact, we believe that leadership agility is: The ability to react quickly with adaptive and decisive leadership action to address real-time challenges in your environment successfully. Developing...
Digital & Technology
Talent
The human side of hybrid working
Embrace the future of work! Discover how intentionality and a human-centered approach can transform hybrid working into a pathway for collaboration, agility, and high performance.
Leadership
People management for humans
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...
Emerging Talent
Leadership
The role of feedback in human-centred organisations
My son, at age 20, is taking his first tentative steps into the world of work with a placement year at a large multinational company. A welcome step-change from lockdown student life, he is energised...
Change
Leadership
How to create a company worth working for
In business, our relationships with each other are everything, and this is something that has been brought into stark focus by the pandemic. How organisations treated their employees during the early...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Working and parenting as a woman
The moment I announced my pregnancy, somebody said to me ‘that’s it now, you’ll never stop worrying or feeling guilty for the rest of your life’. As my daughter’s second birthday approaches, I can see...
Change
Leadership
How to navigate a VUCA world in 2022
What are the most pressing global catastrophic risks that businesses currently face? Right now, we are confronted by a number of urgent, interconnected crises. We can describe the current business...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leadership Podcast: from personal to workplace wellbeing
An In Good Company podcast with Tuuli Tervaskanto , Country Manager Finland & Baltics at VMware Wellbeing – what does this mean for individuals and organisations? I think we can all agree that...
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 organizations support and encourage individual responsibility for wellbeing? Wellbeing in the workplace – whose responsibility is it? Perhaps more than any other initiative, it finds itself...
Leadership
Leading by listening
Listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills. In the current context of digital information overload and ongoing business disruption, many leaders find themselves moving from one meeting...