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Andy Dickson is a senior consultant and global customer solutions manager at Impact UK Leadership in service to humanity Mark Twain said: ‘ The two most important days of your life are the day you are...

What does it all mean? Faced with multiple accelerating environmental, social and economic crises, at this point most of us understand the case for change. And most of us want to act. But for business...

Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...

The Regeneration Game is a lively learning experience that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world – on both an individual and organisational level. The intensifying...

Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK Where to start? Sometimes, you just know it’s not working. The problem is you don't know why. The clues on the surface can be very clear: disengagement, poor...

Molly Shrimpton is a research and content writer at Impact. BANI: The new VUCA? For decades, VUCA has been used as an acronym to refer to conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and...

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday...

What should you be talking about? That challenging conversation you’ve been meaning to have… Jonathan Stevens , Head of Client Solutions, explores below. Are you avoiding a challenging conversation...

Karen Jaques is a Senior Consultant at Impact UK. Below she looks at the challenges of challenging and offers some quick tips. One of the hardest skills to acquire as a manager is that of skilfully...

You can download the whitepaper here The pandemic has taught us two important lessons. The first is that radical change at scale and speed is possible. The second is that the thing that is most...

Let’s imagine that you are excited to add coaching into your repertoire of leadership actions, but your fast-paced team is not used to being coached; on the contrary, they are used to you giving them...

I recently taught a class on negotiation. Something the group really engaged with was the idea of having empathy for the counterpart. There are many benefits to this behaviour: gaining insight into...

Unconscious bias may seem like an old issue, but it is still an everyday challenge for women and many other groups of people in the corporate world. To ignore it is to risk hindering leadership...

' It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment .' – Carl Friedrich Gauss In the pre-pandemic days of face-to-face...

The ability to communicate effectively in the workplace is fundamental for business success, but it can be harder to achieve than we think. Too often, messages are misunderstood, intentions are...

I have come to realise that I appreciate balance in my life. Not just the staying upright sort of balance – although that is also important – but the sort of balance that ensures that the different...

How the art of storytelling can be harnessed to effectively motivate and engage talent Our life is full of stories: stories of what we have done or of what we are about to do. Our nations are built...

A growing body of evidence demonstrates the clear physical and psychological benefits that spending time in the natural world has for human wellbeing. From improved memory, concentration, and...

In the midst of the global challenges that we currently face, it can be difficult to feel optimistic about our ability to act collectively and at the speed and scale necessary. So, what can we do...

Andy Dickson has been managing people, teams and functions for 32 years. He is Head of Global Customer Solutions at Impact and has recently celebrated his 25th year of working here. In this...

At Impact, we believe that leadership agility is: The ability to react quickly with adaptive and decisive leadership action to address real-time challenges in your environment successfully. Developing...

Hybrid. It may be one of the most talked-about phrases of the last eighteen months, but what actually is hybrid working? The answer to that is that there is no easy definition . For some people...

Andy Dickson has been managing people, teams, and functions for 32 years. He is Head of Global Customer Solutions at Impact and has recently celebrated his 25th year working here. In this anniversary...

In business, failure is as much a part of life as success, if not more so. Entrepreneurs are often driven by high achievement and therefore can feel setbacks deeply; but when handled in the right way...

In business, our relationships with each other are everything, and this is something that has been brought into stark focus by the pandemic. How organisations treated their employees during the early...

Change has always been, and will always be, a constant. But in the last couple of years, this change has accelerated considerably. The raft of current global challenges, including climate breakdown...

The moment I announced my pregnancy, somebody said to me ‘that’s it now, you’ll never stop worrying or feeling guilty for the rest of your life’. As my daughter’s second birthday approaches, I can see...

What are the most pressing global catastrophic risks that businesses currently face? Right now, we are confronted by a number of urgent, interconnected crises. We can describe the current business...

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...

Sam Egerton is General Manager of Impact Singapore. In this article he discusses what he’s been noticing lately. Recently, we have been having a lot of conversations with clients around wellness needs...

How can organisations support and encourage individual responsibility for wellbeing? Wellbeing in the workplace – whose responsibility is it? Perhaps more than any other initiative, it finds itself...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...