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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...

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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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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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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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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...

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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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Sustainable Innovation
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What The Body Shop taught me about positive impact

What my teenage love for The Body Shop taught my about the positive impact business can have

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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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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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Coaching
Leadership

Leadership podcast: Making every voice heard

An In Good Company podcast with Kaja Podgórna-Strzelec , HR Director, PwC Polska Is it possible to make every voice heard within an organisation? Can you reconcile what is best for your business and...

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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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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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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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Leadership
Talent

Leadership podcast: Has HR lost its soul?

An In Good Company podcast with Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development , Sony Europe Does Human Resources need to be more people centric? Has HR lost its soul? Is it now the...

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Leadership
Talent
Teams

Leadership podcast: How to build and inspire teams

An In Good Company podcast with Beat Calabretti , Global VP Talent at Barry Callebaut Group How to build and inspire teams Teams. We're all part of them. But what does it take to build a successful...

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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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Change
Leadership

Leadership podcast: Making business more human

An In Good Company podcast with Katherine Wässer , Head of Purpose & Culture Transformation, Jaguar Land Rover How to make human centred organisations What do we mean by making a business more human...

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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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Leadership

Podcast: leadership lessons from a CEO

An In Good Company podcast with Emanuela Trentin , CEO at Siram Veolia What questions would you ask a CEO? It’s not often you get to ask a CEO for their leadership lessons. And as the Fortune Global...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Leadership podcast: Transforming business sustainably

An In Good Company podcast with Michael Price , global commercial director, consultant and mentor How to balance profit, innovation and sustainability Is it possible for businesses to drive innovation...

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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...

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Leadership
Talent

Leadership podcast: The role of HR in leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Iwan de Leeuw , Executive Vice President People Operations at Toll Group Putting the human into human resources The pandemic highlighted a need for a dynamic, agile and...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Leadership

Brandon Hall Group awards land in New York and Zurich 

We are delighted to announce that two of our clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. Congratulations to Shutterstock and Migros Bank. The HCM Excellence Awards® hosted...

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