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C-level leaders on navigating complexity
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Change
Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Mastering AI: strategies for business innovation and success
Explore the transformative power of GenAI in business. Learn how to navigate challenges, foster an innovation culture, and confidently lead in the AI era.
Adventure
Podcast: From cannibals to Cambodia ft Hannes Schmid
In this episode, we hear incredible and sometimes almost unbelievable tales of photographic artist, adventurer and painter, Hannes Schmid. From being imprisoned by cannibals to photographing rock...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Podcast: Challenge, innovation and change
Stories are everything. They help us understand the world and reflect on how we should live in it. They help us engage with the big unwieldy issues we encounter in our lives. At their best, they allow...
Change
It is time to make all organisations more human
In the world of organisational change, there are two things we hear all the time. Firstly, that change is inevitable and secondly, that most change initiatives fail. Read more.
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Surviving the lockdown: Tips from a working mum
Ever since I had my children, I have been a working mum. I am very proud of this fact, despite constant feelings of guilt – either for not being the best mum or alternatively not being who I was at...
Change
Human-centred change: Three reframes
Whilst the pandemic has left too many of us at the emotionally uncomfortable end of things, there is also a sense of hope and a possibility for renewal, which can create new energy and dynamism in...
Digital & Technology
Teams
Teamwork in a virtual world
In this article Helen Hibbot shares some top tips for keeping a team connected virtually. Helen is the CEO of Impact Asia - team scattered across five different countries.
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Self-care: The performance and wellbeing enhancer
How to prevent burnout with proactive self-care strategies, focusing on physical health, emotional balance, psychological resilience, purpose, and professional well-being.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
The good, the bad, and the future of learning and development
As we entered 2021, we caught up with Impact’s founder and CEO, David Williams to get his thoughts on the biggest challenges facing the L&D sector in 2021...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
A new year ahead: What to take with us and what to leave behind
It is too easy to look back on 2020 as a terrible year – full of pain, loss, uncertainty and fear – and to discard it, moving on without a backwards glance. It is too easy because looking deeper is...
Digital & Technology
The revolutionary role of digital technology in learning
The virtual shift that has taken place in 2020 has revolutionised the way we work and live, generating both positive and negative changes to our daily life
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...