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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.
Leadership
The leadership playbook: executive summary
Get hands on with our interactive leadership playbook, shaped by 45+ years' experience working with some of the world's biggest organisations.
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
In the face of global disruption, volatility and crisis, it's time to reimagine leadership itself.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Change
Leadership
Lessons from Impact China - a playbook for post Covid-19 team development
China began heading back to work about two months ago. What we learned there can help leaders everywhere. Find out more here...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: How mindfulness could help you
When was the last time you properly stopped? Took the time you needed just for you? To really notice what's going on with you? In this episode, Impact's Charlotte Messervy shares her story and a...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: Staying energised when you need it most
Our energy levels fluctuate more than the stock market in a pandemic! So how do we stay energised when we need it most? Whether you're a remote working veteran or rookie, Manny Larenas joins Dan to...
Sustainable Innovation
7 phases of re-imagining your business
7 phases of re-imagining your business. Click the link to check them out...
Change
No learning, no change
Is it me or are the endless lists of ‘top tips for working remotely’ or ‘seven things to do to stay productive whilst working at home’ etc.
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Are you a mitigator or an embracer?
Knowing vs. learning in an age of uncertainty We learn a lot about ourselves when we are put under pressure, when we are taken outside our comfort zone, or when our familiar routines are disturbed...
Coaching
From coaching time, to review time
Right now, most of what usually keeps us busy has stopped. How are we coaching at a time like this? In fact, now is the perfect time to undertake a full review of what is and what is not happening...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wellbeing Wisdom - nine self care principles
Nine wellbeing principles from our 'Going the Distance' masterclass with Sony.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Leading the new normal: What are you noticing?
Do you remember back when we used to imagine the future as an unthinkable VUCA world, and spend our time preparing our leaders to be part of it? Well, who would have thought that part of that world...
Leadership
Try this at home
It is an occupational hazard as a leadership consultant. You're chatting to a friend over coffee, and suddenly you find yourself quoting a leadership theory or tool. My sister jokes that whenever she...