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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
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

Designing digital learning - your questions answered

In Good Company interviewed Liz Wilson , one of Impact’s digital learning designers, to get the inside track on how digital design works. Why do you think the demand for digital learning is growing...

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Digital & Technology

Right time, right place: the power of digital learning

How to use learning technology to transform organisational learning Learning technology is everywhere because digital tools are now everywhere, invading our working lives and obliging us to make...

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Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity

A day in the life of a learning app developer

Doug Greenhough has the exciting job of developing ‘air’, an app that delivers experiential learning and meta-skills development virtually. We caught up with him to find out how he’s fusing four...

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Digital & Technology

How to breathe life into digital learning

For too many companies the problem with digital learning is that they have invested heavily in new systems only to find that users are not engaged. It is the equivalent of putting on an expensive...

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Emerging Talent

Is your organisation worth working for?

At Impact, we create, in partnership, organisations worth working for. Our clients have a need to develop and maintain emerging talent especially in uncertain times. At Impact we are experts in...

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Change
Digital & Technology

5 questions for digital transformation triumph

There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for a successful digital transformation. Every company is unique, with its own way of doing things, its own history and its own capabilities. It’s knowing what...

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Change

The unwritten rules of organisational change

I was speaking at a digital transformation conference last year in Portugal. During my bus journey to the conference venue on one of the mornings, I met someone who was diligently typing away on his...

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Change

How to lead organisational change

“People don’t resist change, they resist being changed" Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Leadership and Sustainability, MIT At Impact, we often find ourselves in rooms full of senior leaders talking...

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Leadership

Leaders should tell more stories

Why is storytelling important? “A story is like the water you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet. And it cleans you.” – Rumi Stories reach the...

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Leadership
Management Development

Training on how NOT to exceed expectations

My grades varied at school, but I always received an ‘A’ for effort. When I started work, “incentive” schemes ran from the premise that merely ‘achieving’ targets would leave you with a poor score...

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Adventure

A change to warmer waters

We continue to follow the adventures of Ross and Chris Greenwood who are sailing the Pacific Ocean for three years, carrying out environmental, educational and conservation work. We spent the summer...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Taming workplace fear

Man’s earliest ancestors lived in treacherous times. Tribes and clans were formed as a means of protection against a menacing environment. Over the ages, our vigilance for social safety continues. The...

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Change

Change in the face of complex business challenges

What do you do when faced with a problem so vast so complex and so confusing that you can’t really work out what’s going on and have little idea what to do or where to start? The short easy answer is...

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Teams

Good Moaning

There are a couple of people in our company who you can always rely on to highlight the elephant in the room, highlight the other side of apparently good news and generally call out the areas of our...

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Leadership

Leadership: Can we still avoid the scary option of authenticity? Part II

Read part I. No more heroes... Looking at leadership, there are various perspectives from which we can consider this fascinating topic. We could imagine somebody who can save us and go in search of...

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Leadership

Leadership: Can we still avoid the scary option of authenticity?

Which way to turn? We happen to live in a world that is showing us increasingly striking situations, which seem to overcome the limit of what we believed was acceptable: economic crisis, terrorist...

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Leadership
Talent

Monster stress: to battle or befriend?

What holds women back as leaders? How can women leaders be heard? We discuss the part culture plays and women's responses to aiding themselves and others.

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Sustainable Innovation

System smitten?

Jo Appleby, In Conversation with…Karen Jaques and Garrett Weiner, Senior Consultants at Impact, on ‘Systems thinking’. There seems to be no end to the use of the word ‘system’ in our global societies...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Our attention gets no respect!

Attention series part 2. Read part 1 here. As leaders, we demonstrate little regard for our own attention. I’m as guilty as anyone. We allow our focus to be pillaged, stolen by unproductive meetings...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

If I let go of who I am I become who I might be

"If I let go of who I am I become who I might be" - Lao Tzu. What does this quote mean to you? What does it mean that could help your development? I think it means, in its very simplistic form, that...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Seeking or settling?

The Shadow of Self Improvement Fritz Perls, one of the founders of gestalt psychology once said something like “ Those that live their lives totally focussed on the future never catch up with the...

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Leadership

Bold leadership - a guilty secret

Impact’s mission is to help people develop their leadership capacity by understanding leadership not as a role, title or set of qualities, but as a special type of action , taken in service of...

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Digital & Technology

Is the Internet making us stupid?

Digital learning platforms vs digital learning processes Digital technology hasn’t changed how human beings learn. It has fundamentally changed the range of tools we can use to assist our learning...

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Sustainable Innovation

A heartfelt response to a fractured world

On January 20th, 2017, the World Economic Forum gathered together in a call for Responsive and Responsible Leadership. One year later and what’s changed? Klaus Schwab introduced four primary...

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Change

Are you prepared for the workplace of the future?

The future of the workplace will, to a certain extent, be shaped by the trends of today but there’s also an element of uncertainty for organisations and their people that can only be managed by strong...

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Digital & Technology

The Earth is Flat — a quick guide to digital learning philosophy

Complex problems demand more of our implicit or tacit knowledge, given that explicit knowledge is now ubiquitous and instantly available. It is not what we know as much as how we apply what we know...

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Digital & Technology

Is the distinction between learning and work being eroded by tech?

Historically organisations were regarded as mechanistic; they functioned as machines, controlled through hierarchies with success measured narrowly - usually only in numbers (output, financial returns...

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Change

The number one way to win buy-in through hearts and minds

This interview originally appeared in GreenBiz blog. As a changemaker, you constantly face challenges to gain buy-in, engage others on the journey and measure impact. In the new Purpose and People...

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Sustainable Innovation

Why doughnuts are good for us

As we face increasing levels of uncertainty and change, one of the key skills we all need is to challenge our own mental models about how the world works. I’m not suggesting we resort to eating...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity

Leading across the threshold

Increasingly, today’s world requires our businesses to become ever more emergent, innovative and adaptive. In turn, our leadership becomes more about empowering, empathising and encouraging...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Start again

Not being the most technically competent person, I have this profound respect for the reset button. So you can imagine the delight when, on a meditation retreat, I finally figured out, we have an...

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Adventure

The adventure path

John Matthews explores how a sense of adventure is fundamental to our happiness It’s a common question to be asked: So when are you happiest?... For me I am often at my happiest when heading out into...

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Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Attention is our most valuable asset

In today’s complex and demanding workplace, an organisation’s most valuable asset is no longer people’s time, it’s their attention. Attention is defined as what we each choose to focus on and what we...

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Change

Tools versus practices - lessons from DIY

I recently organised my DIY tools at home. For far too long they had been stuffed in a cupboard under the stairs which not only made it really difficult to find anything but hurt my back every time I...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Can we talk about love here?

Should we talk about love at work? Is it part of developing workplace spirituality and sustainability?

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Change

What are the masks you wear?

With Carnivale season upon us, one can be forgiven in thinking about masks and the masks we wear. Carl Jung (1928) wrote about the personas or masks we adopt and present to the world as a way to make...

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