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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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leadership
“Strip me bare” by Louisa Rodriguez
Louisa Rodriguez is a leadership coach, UN Women Delegate 2023, nature lover and poet. She joined our podcast season to talk about women in leadership. She confessed she was ‘a bit of a geek, when it...
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...
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
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...
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
Leadership
Liberating Leadership event: four key takeaways
Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch , takes us behind the scenes at our latest learning event. In July 2023 we hosted a learning event to explore the challenges leaders face in activating...
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...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Sony Europe's tips for building business acumen
Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Sony Europe shares an approach to deepening business acumen. This isn't done in a classroom, or through an in-house business project –...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Impact’s Force4Good - an adventure journey
Adventure, purpose and a shared journey, Andy Dickson updates us on Impact's Force4Good A 160km adventure journey In 2022 Impact staff, friends and family took part in the first ever Impact Force4Good...
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...
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
Leadership 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 recent gathering of Impact’s...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Leadership podcast: Agile leadership
An In Good Company podcast with Molly Brown Pickett , Head of People Development at Asana. What is agile leadership? Agile leadership is a term we're hearing more and more these days. Generally...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Leadership podcast: Leading sustainable business
An In Good Company podcast with John Maddy , Long Valley Holidays. Is it truly possible to lead a sustainable business? From environment to supply chain, purpose to profit, risk to regulations...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Can ChatGPT improve your leadership?
Thoughts from Ailie Shackleton , Impact's head of content marketing. Is it just me… or is ChatGPT the topic of chat everywhere you go? Whilst walking our dogs this week, my estate agent friend...
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
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...
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
How to reframe your thoughts
By Impact CEO and founder, David Williams . I woke up this morning at 4.00am thinking about work. It’s a regular thing for me and always has been. One thought that grabbed my attention, causing me to...
Adventure
Leadership
Teams
Bringing organisational culture to life
When did you last reconnect with your colleagues? I don’t mean on Zoom or rushing between a work meeting. I mean in person, with space to talk, plan, laugh and learn. If you ask people what makes...
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
Leadership
A human approach in a hybrid age
In a previous role, I was the HR director for a non-profit organisation called Safe Harbor, which provided outreach services to survivors of domestic violence. My role primarily involved supporting...
Change
Leadership
Your biggest challenges for 2023
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 us. With this in mind, we would like to thank all of you...
Digital & Technology
Emerging Talent
Starting a career in a hybrid world
The job that arguably taught me the most in life was my first Saturday job. I was 15, and the job was in a vegetarian café. And aside from learning how to make pastry from scratch, it also taught me...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world
Fostering a learning culture is key to achieving the agility needed to succeed in the current business landscape. An organisation’s ability to adapt is dependent on its people’s ability to learn, spot...
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...
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...
Leadership
New senior leadership: A time for listening
The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organisations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...