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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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Tackling fear in the workplace
Fear is a primal emotion that has been part of human nature since the dawn of evolution. It is a basic yet crucial emotion that is important for survival, triggering a response designed to keep us...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Can ChatGPT improve your leadership?
Ailie Shackleton, Impact's Head of Content Marketing, explores ChatGPT's rising influence on Learning and Development. She raises concerns about its potential to replace personalized coaching and...
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, Head of Impact China demonstrates how Team Development accelerates the creation of high-performing teams, even in the face of urgent organizational challenges. Discover more here.
Teams
Unified purpose: The bedrock of team performance
Many teams struggle with performance and behaviour issues because they don’t have a clear and shared purpose. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team meeting to help you avoid this...
Digital & Technology
Teams
Teamwork in a virtual world
Helen Hibbot, CEO of Impact Asia with a team spanning five countries, offers top tips for virtual team connection in this articl
Leadership
Teams
Leadership podcast: What it takes to lead a high-performing team
An In Good Company podcast with David Cooper , Senior Consultant, Impact What does it take to develop a high-performing team? At the heart of all organisational performance is the ability for...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leadership podcast: Women in leadership
An In Good Company podcast with Louisa Rodriguez , UN Woman Delegate and Leadership Coach at Yorkshire Building Society. Helping women achieve their full potential In 2015 UN Member States set a...
Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Leadership podcast: Entrepreneurial leadership
An In Good Company podcast with Leigh Gammons , CEO at Tangent Turning problems into opportunities If we define entrepreneurial leadership as bringing people together to achieve a common goal, whilst...
Change
No learning, no change
Real change requires real learning. Is it me or are the endless lists of ‘top tips for working remotely’ or ‘seven things to do to stay productive whilst working at home’ etc. etc. all starting to...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Seven questions for senior team performance
An organisation’s ability to survive and thrive depends on the performance of its senior leadership team. However, one of the difficulties of improving senior team performance is that individual...
Leadership
Talent
Leadership podcast: HR and inclusion
An In Good Company podcast with Mukta Arya , Chief Human Resources Officer (APAC) at Société Générale. What are the biggest challenges facing HR? There can't be many departments with a bigger remit...
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...
Change
Leadership
Leadership podcast: Leading with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
An In Good Company podcast with Liz Ward , Director of Programmes at Stonewall. DEIB starts with awareness Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has become an increasingly important topic...
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...
Adventure
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leadership podcast: Vulnerability in leadership
An In Good Company podcast with Alex Staniforth , adversity adventurer and founder of Mind Over Mountains charity. Should leaders be vulnerable? Resilience, wellbeing, agility... these are all terms...
Leadership
I don't have time for a 1:1
...You haven’t got time not to Not to do ourselves out of business, but I do believe that companies could make a step change in their individual, team and ultimately their organisational performance -...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Leadership podcast: Agile leadership
Discover agile leadership with Molly Brown Pickett, Head of People Development at Asana. Learn effective strategies for leading in our dynamic business world.
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Leadership podcast: Leading sustainable business
Is it truly possible to lead a sustainable business? From environment to supply chain, purpose to profit, risk to regulations ... there are many challenges facing business owners.
Leadership
Talent
Leadership podcast: Achieving full potential
An In Good Company podcast with Sylwia Chada . In this season of podcasts, we’re exploring all things leadership. To help us explore how leaders can help people achieve their full potential, engaging...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams
Leadership podcast: Leading hybrid teams
An In Good Company podcast with David Berz , Head of Learning Technology, Data & Strategy, Global Operations . How can you lead teams in a hybrid world? In this episode of our leadership podcasts, we...
Leadership
Leadership podcast: In Good Company
An In Good Company podcast with Professor Richard Little . Welcome to our new season of leadership podcasts. We've tapped into our global network to bring you interviews with some of the most...
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...
Adventure
Leadership
Teams
Organisational culture and bringing it to life
Victoria Sheyko, Impact Americas' marketing manager, shares her experience of reconnecting with her global colleagues at Impact, a human-centred organisation that designs and delivers experiential...
Change
Failure, vulnerability, and the true nature of change
In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change can often connote something rapid, spectacular, or even epiphanic. But in reality, change is not an event but a process. And this is...
Leadership
When was the last time you learned something new?
' It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment .' – Carl Friedrich Gauss In the pre-pandemic days of face-to-face...
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What failure can teach us about success
In business, failure is as much a part of life as success, if not more so. Entrepreneurs are often driven by high achievement and, therefore, can feel setbacks deeply, but when handled in the right...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Question everything: the nature of curiosity in communication
Over the course of my coaching career, I’ve come to understand how much the words we use reflect our values and impact our relationships. Understanding each other is crucial when working effectively...
Leadership
Talent
Onboarding remote employees: Employee and employer perspectives
The shift to remote and hybrid working caused by the pandemic has been a huge disruption to the traditional onboarding process. Welcoming a new team member to an organization in a remote environment...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams
Avoiding isolation in remote workers
How do you stay connected? Don’t you feel isolated? Don’t you worry that your team is not really working? These are just some of the questions I have received while leading distributed or remote teams...
Leadership
The inner game of leadership
Popular dialogue around 'noticing' as a leadership skill largely focuses on encouraging people to pay more attention to what is going on around them, intending to increase awareness of others and the...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world
Explore how fostering a learning culture in organizations through decentralization, quality conversations, and addressing needs for meaning and structure can enhance remote and hybrid setups. Discover...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Business as a force for good
Reading this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer report , I started to reflect on what we have lived through over the past two years. A global pandemic and war in Europe are pretty severe in themselves...
Change
Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith
We know that organizational culture change is possible. However, we also know that achieving lasting change requires a lot of effort. Organizational culture is an emergent property of how the people...
Leadership
New senior leadership: A time for listening
The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organizations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...