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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...

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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...

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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...

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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’re...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Leadership

Leading by listening

Listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills. In the current context of digital information overload and ongoing business disruption, many leaders find themselves moving from one meeting...

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Change

Organisational culture change: Engaging the key players

When it comes to launching a culture change initiative, who exactly should be involved? This is a common question, and the answer is everyone! An organisation’s culture is owned by everyone who works...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Maximising management in a hybrid era

In the new world of hybrid work, how has the manager's role changed? Do we even need managers in an era in which we choose when we work, where we work, and even how we work? Our answer is yes. We have...

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Change
Leadership

Leading in the working world of 2022

As leaders, our working world has shifted significantly over the past few years, and how we adapt to these evolving conditions is vital for individual and team performance. There is no quick win for...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Impact's Ukraine appeal

We are raising £15,000 to support Ukrainian refugees in Poland: The Impact Appeal. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Europe. The war in Ukraine is destroying countless lives...

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Change
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, but...

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Change

Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith

We know that organisational culture change is possible. However, we also know that achieving lasting change requires a lot of effort. Organisational culture is an emergent property of how the people...

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Change
Leadership

How to navigate a VUCA world in 2022

What are the most pressing global catastrophic risks that businesses currently face? Right now, we are confronted by a number of urgent, interconnected crises. We can describe the current business...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

In the dead of night…

Friday 18th March is World Sleep Day, and the theme is: Quality sleep, Sound mind, Happy world. Sleep is super important. I know that. You know that. Yet I don’t get enough of it. Does anyone...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

How to talk to children about the war in Ukraine? 

The images currently coming out of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are highly affecting us all but can be particularly upsetting for children. Images and footage of war can disrupt a child’s sense of...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Working and parenting as a woman

The moment I announced my pregnancy, somebody said to me ‘that’s it now, you’ll never stop worrying or feeling guilty for the rest of your life’. As my daughter’s second birthday approaches, I can see...

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Leadership

Ukraine’s heroes without capes

This has been the most terrible week of my life. A week ago, as I was putting my two-year-old son to bed in Connecticut, I got a phone call from my family back home in Kyiv. They’d been woken up at 5...

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Sustainable Innovation
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What the world needs now is love, sweet love! 

The best way of testing something out, to check if it's the right thing to do, is to do the absolute opposite and see how that feels. So, I ask you, how would you feel about being a “Force for bad!?”...

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Leadership

Leaders develop leaders: How to develop leadership capacity in your organisation

Change has always been, and will always be, a constant. But in the last couple of years, this change has accelerated considerably. The raft of current global challenges, including climate breakdown...

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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 organisation in a remote environment...

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Change
Leadership

How to create a company worth working for

In business, our relationships with each other are everything, and this is something that has been brought into stark focus by the pandemic. How organisations treated their employees during the early...

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Emerging Talent
Leadership

The role of feedback in human-centred organisations

My son, at age 20, is taking his first tentative steps into the world of work with a placement year at a large multinational company. A welcome step-change from lockdown student life, he is energised...

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Change
Leadership

Aspirations for the new year and how to achieve them

Andy Dickson has managed 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 series...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Three ways to reframe resilience

'Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.' – Viktor Frankl. This quote from Frankl...

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Leadership
Teams

Conversations that matter

When it comes to being human, dialogue is essential. In the workplace, dialogue builds collective understanding, raises awareness, resolves issues, and helps people and groups to align. In this sense...

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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...

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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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