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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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Leadership

Leaders on Leadership: Mark Leong from Munich Re

Impact: What are the most important acts of leadership for you? Mark: I pride myself on standing up for what I believe is right and being authentic whilst doing so. I am always very clear about having...

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Leadership

Are you as good at decision making as you think you are?

‘Unconscious bias’ is a common buzz word in modern pop-psychology, but what is it exactly? Why does it matter? And how can we mitigate for its effect on everyday decision-making? Scientifically...

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Leadership

The quest for leadership agility

Earlier this year, I sat down with a group of fellow practitioners and consultants with the aim of defining leadership agility and creating tools and resources to use with the scores of clients asking...

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Emerging Talent
Leadership

What are your hopes for the next generation of leaders?

Young people are the lifeblood of organisations. I was 23 when I started Impact , and I remember the excitement well. I took a lot of risks, but I wish I’d taken more , and I’m always excited to see...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

How do we become more courageous?

How do we become more courageous? “We need to be more courageous.” These words could have been expressed by any group or individual, at any place and at any time. In this instance, it was last week at...

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Leadership

A shade braver – the many colours of courage

A shade braver – the many colours of courage If leadership is about changing things, then it’s often going to need courage to take an act of leadership. However, the courage needed doesn’t always look...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Building belonging

Navigating through complex times requires distributed leadership that has the humility to take into account a wide variety of perspectives before deciding what action to take. In light of this, I’d...

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Leadership

It all starts with noticing: mindfulness and soft skills

The skills that we will require in the future are , increasingly, those that cannot be mechanized or automated – often referred to as soft skills. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum , the...

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Leadership

Intuition – that powerful form of knowing

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” So said Einstein then and – despite...

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Leadership

The inner game of leadership

Popular dialogue around 'noticing' as a leadership skill largely focuses on encouraging people to pay more attention to what is going on around them, intending to increase awareness of others and the...

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Leadership

What are you pretending not to notice?

Noticing. All leadership acts, from the smallest to the boldest, begin with it. We are sensitive, intelligent whole human beings – with a great capacity to be tuned into our internal and external...

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Innovation & Creativity

Wonderful Webinars – Ten tips for successful learning experiences

Webinars are a great way to engage groups to learn at scale, regardless of their geography. However, it takes a special skillset to ensure that they’re interactive and engaging, which is essential for...

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Digital & Technology

Beyond lean and agile: the human touch

Zinco is the in-house digital design and development agency for Impact, based in Windermere. They have been working with Impact for over 20 years. The team describe themselves as a design and...

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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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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

Leadership isn't about finding a hero who "knows the path." It's about the wisdom that emerges when individuals authentically connect within groups, communities, and systems. Read more here.

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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

Discover how letting go of rigid identities, as inspired by Lao Tzu's quote, can unlock personal growth and potential. Explore the impact of stereotype-threat on performance and how a shift in...

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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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