Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement
How much potential are we wasting? Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. With more than three quarters of the workforce disengaged, this is a huge missed opportunity...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
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...
Change
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
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...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What will you do with an extra day?
2024 is a special year. Not just because it marks an election year for more than 50 countries, or the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, but because it’s a leap year. First introduced in 46 BCE...
Change
Leadership
Management Development
Leadership podcast: Leading organisational change
An In Good Company podcast with Darren Evans , CEO, Calder Stewart Change in unprecedented times Leading organisational change is one of the most searched for terms on our website. But it's rare to...
Change
Leadership
Only human-centred organisations will survive
Trevor Johnson is a Senior Consultant at Impact Americas What is a human-centred organisation? A human-centred organisation is one that puts people at the heart of everything it does. It understands...
Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Building trust through dialogue
Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK The trust landscape Trust has always been a key ingredient to business success, but in a global landscape of increasing volatility, tension, and challenge...
Management Development
Teams
Grasp the nettle
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...
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leadership needs for 2024: A human-centred approach
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 ourselves. With this in mind, we would like to thank...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement
How much potential are we wasting? Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. With more than three quarters of the workforce disengaged, this is a huge missed opportunity...
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...
Adventure
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The advice leaders would give their younger selves (part 2)
What's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself? At the end of each of our leadership podcasts, we ask our guests: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?'...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
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...
Sustainable Innovation
Demystifying sustainability jargon
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...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?
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...
Sustainable Innovation
The Regeneration Game
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...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
How to solve complex problems
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...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
BANI: What is it and how can it help us?
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...
Change
Teams
The two principles and three practices of building human-centred organisations
“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...
Teams
How to have challenging conversations
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...
Management Development
Confronting the need for confrontation
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...
Change
Human-centred organisations: what they are, why we need them and how to be one
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...
Coaching
Changing the team dynamic: Becoming a leader who coaches
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...
Change
Are you an influencer or an awareness raiser?
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...
Change
Cutthroat Kitchen and unconscious bias
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...
Leadership
When was the last time you learned something new?
' 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...
Leadership
Teams
Five tips for communicating under pressure
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Finding balance in times of change
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...
Leadership
Storytelling: A crucial leadership skill
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Seven ways to incorporate walking into working
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...
Change
Digital & Technology
Digital technology and the democratisation of learning
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...
Leadership
The power of conversation
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...
Leadership
How agile are you?
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...
Digital & Technology
Talent
The human side of hybrid working
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...
Leadership
People management for humans
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...
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What failure can teach us about success
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...
Change
Leadership
How to create a company worth working for
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...
Leadership
Leaders develop leaders: How to develop leadership capacity in your organisation
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...