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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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Leadership

Brandon Hall Group awards land in New York and Zurich 

We are delighted to announce that two of our clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. Congratulations to Shutterstock and Migros Bank. The HCM Excellence Awards® hosted...

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Leadership

“Strip me bare” by Louisa Rodriguez

Louisa Rodriguez is a leadership coach, UN Women Delegate 2023, nature lover and poet. She joined our podcast season to talk about women in leadership. She confessed she was ‘a bit of a geek, when it...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Leadership podcast: Women in leadership 

An In Good Company podcast with Louisa Rodriguez , UN Woman Delegate and Leadership Coach at Yorkshire Building Society. Helping women achieve their full potential In 2015 UN Member States set a...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Creating cultures of belonging

Starting this conversation is Jo Appleby , head of sustainable innovation at Impact UK... In our survey of over 500 global CEOs and senior leaders, only 19% said they are prioritising diversity...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Global leadership insights eBook

This free eBook by Impact reveals the main issues and learnings from a survey of over 500 global leaders. Find out how to build human-centred cultures and practices that prioritise people and make a...

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Change
Leadership

Leadership podcast: Leading with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

An In Good Company podcast with Liz Ward , Director of Programmes at Stonewall. DEIB starts with awareness Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has become an increasingly important topic...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Liberating Leadership event: four key takeaways

Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch , takes us behind the scenes at our latest learning event. In July 2023 we hosted a learning event to explore the challenges leaders face in activating...

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Leadership
Talent

Leadership podcast: HR and inclusion

An In Good Company podcast with Mukta Arya , Chief Human Resources Officer (APAC) at Société Générale. What are the biggest challenges facing HR? There can't be many departments with a bigger remit...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent

Sony Europe's tips for building business acumen

Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Sony Europe shares an approach to deepening business acumen. This isn't done in a classroom, or through an in-house business project –...

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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Impact’s Force4Good - an adventure journey

Adventure, purpose and a shared journey, Andy Dickson updates us on Impact's Force4Good A 160km adventure journey In 2022 Impact staff, friends and family took part in the first ever Impact Force4Good...

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Adventure
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Leadership podcast: Vulnerability in leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Alex Staniforth , adversity adventurer and founder of Mind Over Mountains charity. Should leaders be vulnerable? Resilience, wellbeing, agility... these are all terms...

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Innovation & Creativity
Sustainable Innovation

Impact retains EcoVadis gold rating for sustainability practices

Impact’s sustainability performance for 2023 ranks among the top 5% of companies independently assessed by EcoVadis. Impact has retained gold in EcoVadis’ sustainability ratings for the fifth year...

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Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Leading wellbeing - the challenges facing our clients

In discussion with Wendy Lee Berger , global lead operations at Impact Change has been a constant in the work we’ve been doing with clients for the past four decades. At a gathering of Impact’s...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Leadership podcast: Agile leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Molly Brown Pickett , Head of People Development at Asana. What is agile leadership? Agile leadership is a term we're hearing more and more these days. Generally...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Leadership podcast: Leading sustainable business

An In Good Company podcast with John Maddy , Long Valley Holidays. Is it truly possible to lead a sustainable business? From environment to supply chain, purpose to profit, risk to regulations...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Can ChatGPT improve your leadership?

Thoughts from Ailie Shackleton , Impact's head of content marketing. Is it just me… or is ChatGPT the topic of chat everywhere you go? Whilst walking our dogs this week, my estate agent friend...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams

Leadership podcast: Leading hybrid teams

An In Good Company podcast with David Berz , Head of Learning Technology, Data & Strategy, Global Operations . How can you lead teams in a hybrid world? In this episode of our leadership podcasts, we...

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Leadership
Talent

Leadership podcast: Achieving full potential

An In Good Company podcast with Sylwia Chada . In this season of podcasts, we’re exploring all things leadership. To help us explore how leaders can help people achieve their full potential, engaging...

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Leadership

Leadership podcast: In Good Company 

An In Good Company podcast with Professor Richard Little . Welcome to our new season of leadership podcasts. We've tapped into our global network to bring you interviews with some of the most...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

How to reframe your thoughts

By Impact CEO and founder, David Williams . I woke up this morning at 4.00am thinking about work. It’s a regular thing for me and always has been. One thought that grabbed my attention, causing me to...

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Adventure
Leadership
Teams

Bringing organisational culture to life

When did you last reconnect with your colleagues? I don’t mean on Zoom or rushing between a work meeting. I mean in person, with space to talk, plan, laugh and learn. If you ask people what makes...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Is your organisation having a positive impact?

As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...

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Change
Leadership

A human approach in a hybrid age

Trevor Johnson is a senior consultant at Impact Americas A human-centred approach recognises that we are all just human beings, with our own unique challenges and needs. But hybrid working can add...

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Change
Leadership

Your biggest challenges for 2023

Feedback is foundational to our culture here at Impact. Every programme we run is not only a learning experience for our clients, but also for us. With this in mind, we would like to thank all of you...

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Digital & Technology
Emerging Talent

Starting a career in a hybrid world

The job that arguably taught me the most in life was my first Saturday job. I was 15, and the job was in a vegetarian café. And aside from learning how to make pastry from scratch, it also taught me...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world

Fostering a learning culture is key to achieving the agility needed to succeed in the current business landscape. An organisation’s ability to adapt is dependent on its people’s ability to learn, spot...

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Change

Failure, vulnerability, and the true nature of change

Helen Hibbott  is CEO of Impact Asia.  Sarah Brammeier  is a Senior Consultant at Impact UK.  In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change is often thought of as something rapid...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Tackling fear in the workplace

Fear is a primal emotion that has been part of human nature since the dawn of evolution. It is a basic yet crucial emotion that is important for survival, triggering a response designed to keep us...

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Leadership

New senior leadership: A time for listening

The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organisations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...

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Leadership

Leading by listening

Listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills. In the current context of digital information overload and ongoing business disruption, many leaders find themselves moving from one meeting...

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Change

Organisational culture change: Engaging the key players

When it comes to launching a culture change initiative, who exactly should be involved? This is a common question, and the answer is everyone! An organisation’s culture is owned by everyone who works...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Maximising management in a hybrid era

In the new world of hybrid work, how has the manager's role changed? Do we even need managers in an era in which we choose when we work, where we work, and even how we work? Our answer is yes. We have...

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Change
Leadership

Leading in the working world of 2022

As leaders, our working world has shifted significantly over the past few years, and how we adapt to these evolving conditions is vital for individual and team performance. There is no quick win for...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Impact's Ukraine appeal

We are raising £15,000 to support Ukrainian refugees in Poland: The Impact Appeal. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Europe. The war in Ukraine is destroying countless lives...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Business as a force for good

Reading this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer report , I started to reflect on what we have lived through over the past two years. A global pandemic and war in Europe are pretty severe in themselves...

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Change

Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith

We know that organisational culture change is possible. However, we also know that achieving lasting change requires a lot of effort. Organisational culture is an emergent property of how the people...

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