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C-level leaders on navigating complexity

Discover what it means to lead in today's global business environment through our insightful eBook.

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Diversity and Inclusion
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Podcast: Unlocking neurodiverse potential

Steve Hill joins Dan to explore how organisations can better support and leverage the skills and perspectives of neurodiverse individuals, discussing practical strategies and insights on creating an...

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Digital & Technology
Sustainable Innovation

Engagement and culture in a virtual world

Reflecting on the big questions of 2020 and looking forward to 2021, Impact's UK Head of Consulting, Qudsia Karim, muses on the issues affecting people and culture in newly virtual workplaces... When...

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Change
Leadership

Celebrating forty years of Impact

Forty years ago, when I founded Impact, I had no intention of building and managing a global business. I just wanted to earn a living from doing what I love – helping people to realise their full...

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Change
Leadership

The CEOs sacrificing salaries in a time of crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the economy and job market in a way many of us have never seen before. Some organisations have been forced to close with no re-opening dates in sight. Others have...

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Change

BLM: A catalyst for organisational change

Senior Consultant Jo Appleby shares her recent experience of working with Cynthia Adebiyi-Yekinni on the UNGC’s Black Lives Matter & Business series. This series came about in the aftermath of George...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent

In good company with... Cynthia Adebiyi-Yekinni

Education, careers, opportunities, mental health, injustices, leadership action. This episode features the fascinating journey of Cynthia Adebiyi-Yekinni from the UN Global Compact UK. Cynthia joins...

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Digital & Technology

Five best practices for creating powerful virtual learning experiences

It is now clear that the disruptions of Covid-19 will result in changes to the way that we engage learners. Many remain remote and dispersed, and even those who are back at work have new protocols and...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

The hope of 'yet'

We haven’t reached our targets. We haven’t organised ourselves in the way we need to. We haven’t made all the difficult decisions. We haven’t found a cure for Covid. We haven’t made sense of it all...

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Leadership

Systems, consciousness and leadership

How does our consciousness impact our actions? What effect does our mindset have on their outcomes? Heather Monro considers the potential that vertical development theory has to revolutionise the way...

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Leadership

How do we have more courageous conversations?

Here at Impact we do a lot of talking ­– a lot. But when we spend our working days going from meeting to meeting it’s very easy to fall into the trap of conversing less like human individuals and more...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Wellbeing: A collective responsibility

How can organisations support and encourage individual responsibility for wellbeing? Wellbeing in the workplace – whose responsibility is it? Perhaps more than any other initiative, it finds itself...

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Change

In a VUCA world the biggest risk is inaction

I have found myself in lots of conversations about risk recently - with clients and partners as well as with the Impact team. Partly this is a result of a growing optimism as the global economy...

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Leadership
Management Development

Leading without authority

As governments, businesses and communities around the world struggle in the continued grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that what we are living through is not just a health crisis, but...

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Leadership

How do you fix a strategy that's stuck?

When discussing with clients the development needs of their rising generation of talent, one of the things that we often hear is that ‘we need them to be more strategic’. What do they mean by this? I...

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Teams

Teams or groups of superstars?

"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for competitive profit or recognition, but...

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Change

Life after COVID-19: Organisational survival and the need for change

Impact CEO Dave Williams shares his latest thoughts about what organisations need to do to survive the pandemic.

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Leadership

Going virtual: Thoughts from a learning facilitator

Senior Consultant and Head of Global Talent UK, Charlie Somers Cocks, shares her experience of running a successful global programme in the middle of a pandemic, reflecting on our new leadership needs...

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Change
Leadership

Unlocking leadership agility

Impact define leadership agility as the ability to react quickly with adaptive and decisive leadership action to successfully address real-time challenges in your environment . As you can imagine...

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Digital & Technology

Podcast: Impact's digital transformation

Every organisation has had to embrace the digital world in some way. Here's our story about how we've done just that.

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Change
Leadership

Leading learning, leading change: what’s standing in your way?

In this volatile world, organisations of all types must keep up with the rapid pace of change in order to survive, adapting the way they work to flex around the dynamic conditions of the times. In...

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Change

Podcast: Shift happens

Change is a people strategy. Impact helps organizations navigate rapid changes and unlock potential by involving staff in the transformation process.

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Change

Change leadership in times of Covid-19: The questions we need to ask

We live in confusing times. Until the beginning of 2020, managers lived in a business environment that was becoming increasingly difficult and complex, characterised by the climate crisis, the growth...

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Change
Leadership

Learning agility: A key differentiator for leaders

Even before Covid-19, a leader’s ability to adapt and thrive in rapidly changing environments was a widely recognised requirement. And now, as we approach a post-pandemic future characterised by...

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Digital & Technology

Rethinking learning technology

I believe learning is at a crossroads; our learning methodologies and approaches are being fundamentally challenged by the socio-economic conditions

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Leadership

Podcast: United we stand, divided we fall

Is your team a high performing team? What does your team need in order to achieve its purpose? Impact's Team Performance Inventory (TPI) is an assessment tool which helps a team see its performance...

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Leadership
Teams

5 top tips for navigating the restart

The pandemic hit us hard physically, emotionally and financially. Now we’re heading back to work in a world that is demanding we rebuild our organisations to be more than they were before: more...

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Change
Coaching

Lessons learned: Coaching to create the future

Letting go of Command and Control We know that teams and organizations that regularly coach significantly outperform those that do not. In fact, there’s probably no better way to co-create a resilient...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: Leading remote and dispersed teams

It's no secret that COVID-19 has brought many challenges to our working world. With the increase of remote working, leadership is being tested. What can we do to stay more connected? What can we learn...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Thriving - an unexpected opportunity

In the last few months I’ve seen some of the most inspirational human behaviour (and some of the worst). Many of us have discovered the importance of staying connected and doing what we can to feel...

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Change
Teams

Together again: Back to a better workplace

What lessons has the Covid-19 crisis taught us about how we should use our office spaces? How can we reimagine their potential? Find out here.

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Change
Leadership

Lessons from Impact China - a playbook for post Covid-19 team development

China was one of the first countries to begin heading back to work at the office about four months ago. What we have learned there can help leaders and teams everywhere: 1. Everyone has suffered...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Sustainable business: Questioning the status quo

“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.” Arthur C. Clarke The future we want It’s easy to get complacent and assume that the status quo is...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Seven questions for senior team performance

An organisation’s ability to survive and thrive depends on the performance of its senior leadership team. However, one of the difficulties of improving senior team performance is that individual...

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Leadership

Podcast: Diaries of a task force leader

“I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the f***** car!” - Winston Wolf, Pulp Fiction Extraordinary times...

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Coaching

Podcast: The what, why and how of coaching

What is coaching? Why do we need it? What are the benefits of coaching? Using our experiential learning approach, we partner with leaders to inspire, develop and maximise potential. We offer a unique...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Leading yourself through turbulent times

During these turbulent times, I decided to write about my experiences with a brain tumor in order to share insights into dealing with adversity and building resilience and positivity during...

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Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Thriving: A New Hope

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