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Leadership

Podcast: Learning and leadership culture

A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?

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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values

Paul Rose is one of the world's most experienced divers, field scientists, and polar experts. In this podcast, he joins Dan to talk about exploration, ecology, the environment, and the lessons that...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Is VUCA still relevant?

We first wrote about VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) and it's relevance to business over 15 years ago - but is VUCA still relevant today? In this podcast we explore what we mean by...

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Coaching
Leadership

Podcast: the coaching advantage

Sarah Brammeier is Head of Executive Coaching Practice at Impact and is passionate about coaching. This episode touches on how coaching can support people to explore their edges, to learn what is...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
News

The greatest organisational challenges of 2024

Our global series of events brought more than 160 leaders together in New York, London and Singapore. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Global leaders share the advice they'd give their younger self (part 3)

We asked ten global leaders the question "if you could start your career again, what advice would you give yourself?" How does their answer match to yours?

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Leading in the AI Age

Generative AI presents huge opportunities, as well as huge risks. And it promises to transform our organisations sooner than we had anticipated. But what about our leaders? What will successful...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: How to navigate the polycrisis

Tackling the challenges of a polycrisis. In a turbulent, digitalising, uncertain world, making sense of the future is more important than ever. But what questions should we be asking and what answers...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Balancing profit, people and planet

A podcast on sustainability in big business. Can change, growth and sustainability go hand in hand? How can you grow your business and have a positive impact?

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: the changing world of HR

François Wang joins our podcast from his base in Shanghai. Currently working as a Senior Human Resources Director at Revlon, this podcast is 25 minutes of insights, best practices and thought...

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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values

Paul Rose is one of the world's most experienced divers, field scientists, and polar experts. In this podcast, he joins Dan to talk about exploration, ecology, the environment, and the lessons that...

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Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams

Podcast: What is experiential learning?

A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, whether experiential learning works for everyone, and why global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach.

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Leadership

Podcast: Learning and leadership culture

A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?

Read the article

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...

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Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What makes a great executive retreat?

Dominic Fitch is head of creative change at Impact Impact recently welcomed a group of senior learning professionals to bring their complex challenges to a one-day immersive retreat in the heart of...

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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...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: Is BANI the new VUCA? with Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio developed the BANI framework in 2018, and six years later, Impact is the first UK/US-based organization to invite him to speak about it. In this podcast, we explore what BANI is and how...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Sustainability: from boardroom to classroom

What would happen when we took the Regeneration Game from the boardroom to the classroom? Would this engaging approach that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world drive the...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

What does wellbeing mean to you?

As World Wellbeing Week approached, we used this time to answer the question 'what does wellbeing mean to you?' Here are some of our thoughts:

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Coaching
Wellbeing & Personal Development

The (S)Tress Test: How to give feedback

Turning uncomfortable situations into constructive feedback At the start of my last meeting with my colleague Sammy our usual two minute catch up turned into a discussion you may well be familiar with...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What will you do with an extra day?

2024 stands out as a remarkable year. It’s an election year for over 50 countries, the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, and a leap year. Introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE, February 29th...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout

How can leaders prevent burnout? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Resilient leaders adapt quickly. Empathetic leaders can tune in to their employees’ needs. Human-centred leaders can support...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Shiny penny syndrome

A podcast that explores what shiny penny syndrome is, how it affects you and your organisation, and how you can use it to stay focused on your goals.

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: disruption for positive change

An In Good Company podcast with Laura Chase , Chief Commercial Officer, WeAre8 How to make a career change Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave an established career and join a start...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?'...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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