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Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group

Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: What can leaders learn from the Olympics?

Sue Hunt was the Director of Strategic Programmes for the London 2012 Olympic Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This podcast isn’t just for people who are interested in the...

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Leadership
News
Talent

Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group

Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What can leaders learn from athletes?

There is perhaps no profession more obvious than sports – where an individual’s beliefs, focus and interactions can so clearly influence successful, and sometimes not so successful, outcomes. But what...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: What can leaders learn from the Olympics?

Sue Hunt was the Director of Strategic Programmes for the London 2012 Olympic Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This podcast isn’t just for people who are interested in the...

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Diversity and Inclusion
Leadership

Podcast: Diversity, change and empowerment

Isabella Echeverri is a former Olympic and World Cup football player. She's a huge advocate for diversity in sports, and joins us to discuss leadership styles and how to bring systemic change.

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

2024 workplace challenges from our clients

Scott Rose explores the biggest workplace challenges we're hearing about from our clients.

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: Leading with AI: transforming organisational culture

Michael Molinaro joins Dan to discuss Gen AI, leadership and culture.

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Systems leadership

Dr Kate Simpson joins our podcast to talk about systems leadership, what it is and how it can be applied to our most complex problems, enabling leaders and organisations to make positive change and...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Mental health and performance

Dr Jenn Gandhi joins us to discuss how you can recognise burnout, what it means to have a psychologically safe workplace, and the most important things for a leader to keep in mind to avoid being...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: Is BANI the new VUCA? with Jamais Cascio

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

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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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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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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
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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Digital & Technology
Leadership
News

The greatest organisational challenges of 2024

Our global series of events brought 183 leaders together in New York, London, Singapore and Zurich. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace in...

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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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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
Teams

Collective experience: An opportunity for hybrid organisations

Hybrid work is here to stay. But hybrid does present challenges. Large group, leadership workshops for events can catalyse performance and help drive business results.

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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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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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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values

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

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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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Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams

Podcast: What is experiential learning?

A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, does experiential learning work for everyone and why do global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach?

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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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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What makes a great executive retreat?

Impact brought a group of senior learning professionals together for a one-day immersive event. In this article we reflect on how these leaders used the executive retreat to work through their complex...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Disruption for positive change

An In Good Company podcast with Laura Chase , Managing Director, 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 up? And...

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Leadership
Management Development

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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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent

Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement

Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. Can having a strong organisational purpose flip this?

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

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

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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