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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.
Change
Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 to talk sustainability.
Sustainable Innovation
A force for good: Interview with Simon Locke, the Body Shop
We sat down with Simon Locke from The Body Shop to talk all things sustainability. Read the blog post here....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leadership
Intuition – that powerful form of knowing
Explore the value of intuition and what it means for leadership.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...