Teams
Unified purpose: The bedrock of team performance
What causes behavioural and performance gaps in teams? In our experience, the lack of a coherent, collective purpose is the biggest culprit. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Leadership podcast: learning from experience
An In Good Company podcast with David Williams , co-founder and CEO, Impact The desire to make change happen Could the 23-year-old you imagine leading an organisation for over 40 years? Taking a start...
Change
Happy New Year greetings from Shanghai
Impact’s Head of Asia, Phil Holdsworth , looks at the year ahead and what it means for organisations in Asia. The 2016 Chinese New Year celebrations begin on the 8 th February and 2016 is the Year of...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
A new force for sustainable business: Our common humanity
‘Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.’ David Whyte [i] , from his poem ‘Start Close in’ [ii] I recently...
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainability means nothing!
For me, the word ‘sustainability’ is a nonsense word. It’s completely meaningless. Victoria Halina notes that when the word ‘sustainable’ was first used in an environmental context in 1972, it didn’t...
Change
Talent
Finding the human connection between learning and performance
This piece forms part of our human-centred series, which explores the need to change how we think about our organisations, putting the human back into the heart of everything we do. ‘In order to live...
Change
Human-centred change: Three reframes
Three reframes for human-centred change We live in a time characterised by uncertainty and volatility, with disruption becoming less of an event and more of a pervasive condition . But each shock that...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Self-care: The performance and wellbeing enhancer
The three things that cause us the most stress are uncertainty, uncontrollability and unknowns. Do they sound familiar? In 2020 especially, I felt all three most of the time. Humans are highly...