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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Change

Life after COVID-19: Organisational survival and the need for change

Five months after publishing his hugely successful article Life after COVID-19: An invitation to reimagine the future , Impact CEO and founder, David Williams, shares his latest thoughts about what...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Leadership

Navigating leadership in the pharmaceutical industry

The biotech pharma industry is a relentlessly changing one, requiring leaders to navigate through a fast-moving digital evolution while overcoming increasingly complex geopolitical and economic...

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Change

Podcast: Shift happens

A change strategy is a people strategy. All organisations are facing unprecedented changes in their competitive environment. Whether the disruptors are political, environmental, down to consumer...

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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...

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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...

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Digital & Technology

Rethinking learning technology

We need to urgently rethink how we use technology to learn Last week we heard that Microsoft are exploring the idea of building their own learning application to work within Teams. Last week, here at...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Change
Teams

Together again: Back to a better workplace

Back to a better workplace If you’re anything like me you will have been having lots of discussions about going back: back to work, back to the office, back to school, back to some form of face-to...

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Leadership

Liberating human potential

If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that human beings are capable of achieving incredible things, especially when put under pressure. We have doctors, nurses, hospital porters, cleaners...

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Change
Leadership

Lessons from Impact China - a playbook for post Covid-19 team development

China was one of the first countries to begin heading back to work at the office about four months ago. What we have learned there can help leaders and teams everywhere: 1. Everyone has suffered...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Change
Leadership

Leading people

We recently surveyed over 100 senior business leaders from across our global network. In sharing the analysis and conclusions from this work we hope we can contribute to the wider conversation about...

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Change
Leadership

Leading hope

We recently surveyed over 100 senior business leaders from across our global network. In sharing the analysis and conclusions from this work we hope we can contribute to the wider conversation about...

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Leadership
Teams

Leading communication

We recently surveyed over 100 senior business leaders from across our global network. In sharing the analysis and conclusions from this work we hope we can contribute to the wider conversation about...

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Digital & Technology
Teams

Leading homeworking

We recently surveyed over 100 senior business leaders from across our global network. In sharing the analysis and conclusions from this work we hope we can contribute to the wider conversation about...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity

Leading creativity and talent

We recently surveyed over 100 senior business leaders from across our global network. In sharing the analysis and conclusions from this work we hope we can contribute to the wider conversation about...

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Change
Leadership

CEO Business Leadership Survey 2020

The results are in! As we navigate this unique period of uncertainty, at Impact we wanted to gain a deeper understanding of how senior decision makers in companies across the world are responding. We...

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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...

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Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Thriving: A New Hope

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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...

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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...

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