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Effectiveness and employee fatigue

The phenomenon of tired workers. Organisations across the globe are grappling with the consequences of employee fatigue. Driving profit, targets and outcomes is leaving people exhausted. Without...

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Leadership

Podcast: Learning and leadership culture

A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?

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Teams

How do we connect in a meaningful way?

Impact Italia’s senior consultant Penelope Mavor offers some quick tips for connecting deeply with anyone. Team? We only see each other once a year! Like the executive team we worked with last week...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams

Avoiding isolation in remote workers

How do you stay connected? Don’t you feel isolated? Don’t you worry that your team is not really working? These are just some of the questions I have received while leading distributed or remote teams...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Leading dispersed teams: 6 learning points that we can apply in the future

Last week we ran a series of Virtual Think Tank discussions around the topics of Leading Dispersed Teams and Remote Working. We experienced meaningful dialogue about the current realities that we have...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action

‘I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this.’ – Winston Wolf, Pulp Fiction. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary teams, and potentially...

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Leadership

Are you someone’s They?

What are they saying now? Have you seen what they’ve said? Well apparently what they’re saying now is… They’ve changed their minds now and… They mean… They want… They what? Who are ‘They’? ‘They’ are...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams

How to lead remote teams

There is a lot of talk right now about the rapid acceleration of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic and even as lockdowns start to ease, remote working is likely to be a trend that will...

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Leadership

Diaries of a task force leader

How is your organisation responding to the virus situation? Impact's Andy Dickson shares his experiences... It’s suddenly quite a different world! If, like me, you work in an international business...

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Digital & Technology

Managing disruption on a Monday morning in Italy

Ask yourself ‘what if’? Client: Training Designer at Eni Corporate University, Italy Monday morning and back to the office after a weekend of massive increase in Covid-19 cases. Anxiety is everywhere...

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Management Development

Leading employee experience

Helping managers and leaders to deliver superior employee experience As the race for talent intensifies across the globe, all organisations are trying to position themselves as an employer of choice...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Putting your oxygen mask on first

‘Put your oxygen mask on before helping others’. With so many travel bans – self-imposed or otherwise – it may be a while before we hear these words again. Travel or no travel, in these volatile...

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Leadership

Leading through disruption

Supply chains disrupted, share prices plummeting, employees panicking ­­– you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was a leadership challenge simulation, but it’s increasingly a reality. COVID-19 has...

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Sustainable Innovation

Doing well by doing good: An interview with Sir Tim Smit

Impact’s Head of Partnerships, Jo Appleby, recently sat down for a chat with Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project . Tim is a creative, a visionary, and a marvellous storyteller, inspiring...

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Sustainable Innovation

A force for good: Interview with Simon Locke, the Body Shop

We recently sat down with Simon Locke, Sustainable Design Innovation Manager at The Body Shop to talk all things sustainability. How has the role of business changed over the past two years? There has...

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Change
Sustainable Innovation

Collaborative Conversations

‘All those solutions needed are not known to anyone and therefore we must unite behind the science and find them together along the way. But you do not listen to that. Because those answers are for...

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Sustainable Innovation

Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation Challenges

Take a moment to consider the really big issues your organization is trying to address. Whether through values alignment or regulation, organizations are increasingly being required to take action in...

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Sustainable Innovation

Exploring the complexity of our sustainability stories

Exploring the complexity of our sustainability stories Whilst writing this article I'm flying at 20,000 ft with drink in hand. Air travel is a modern miracle of engineering, but it's a complex one. On...

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Leadership

Leadership challenge #3: Expand Your Mental Bandwidth, Ten At A Time

Commit to this 30-minute (three blocks of 10 minutes) challenge and we predict you’ll see dramatic results. Periodically, IGC will post additional leadership challenges just like this. Let us know...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

The global traction gained by sustainability initiatives in the current climate is certainly promising, but why aren’t we seeing the impact desired on the required scale? I recently spent two days in...

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Leadership

Leadership challenge #1: 40 pieces of feedback

Try this for one week. We predict you’ll see dramatic results. Periodically, IGC will post additional leadership challenges just like this. Let us know what you think! Leadership challenge #1 Adopt a...

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Leadership

When simple answers run out … systemic awareness in business

A practitioner’s perspective Ally Yates has been a long standing client of Impact’s, having worked with a range of companies over her career. Her current role includes supporting a global...

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Leadership
Teams

Creating connectedness in far-flung teams

In my earlier career in the west, I had the privilege of being physically located with most of the people I worked with. Clients were in different locations, sure, but the people I needed to help me...

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Leadership

Leaders on leadership: Heather Coker at Morgan Advanced Materials

We sat down with Heather Coker, Global Learning Lead at Morgan Advanced Materials PLC, to talk all things leadership. What are some of your own acts of leadership that have had a significant impact on...

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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

Building a great place to work

David Williams founded Impact in 1980 with nothing but a dream for developing people. Today, Impact operates 17 offices across the world and employs over 250 talented people. This year was the 12th in...

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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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