Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams
Podcast: What is experiential learning?
A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, does experiential learning work for everyone and why do global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach?
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
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...
Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Working and parenting as a woman
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...
Change
Leadership
How to navigate a VUCA world in 2022
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...
Change
Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Making space for wellness
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wellbeing: A collective responsibility
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...
Change
Organisational culture change: Engaging the key players
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...
Leadership
Leading by listening
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Tackling fear in the workplace
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...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world
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...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Can ChatGPT improve your leadership?
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...
Change
Leadership
A human approach in a hybrid age
In a previous role, I was the HR director for a non-profit organisation called Safe Harbor, which provided outreach services to survivors of domestic violence. My role primarily involved supporting...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Global leadership insights eBook
This free eBook by Impact reveals the main issues and learnings from a survey of over 500 global leaders. Find out how to build human-centred cultures and practices that prioritise people and make a...
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Creating cultures of belonging
Starting this conversation is Jo Appleby , head of sustainable innovation at Impact UK... In our survey of over 500 global CEOs and senior leaders, only 19% said they are prioritising diversity...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Ten leaders on the advice they'd give their younger selves
At the end of every leadership podcast we've recorded this year, we asked each of our guests: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?' Read on to find out what...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Accelerated team development
Tony Ren has been Head of Impact China since 2009, working with clients across APAC to understand their business needs and implementing people development programmes. In this article Tony discusses...
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...
Digital & Technology
Teams
Teamwork in a virtual world
We asked Head of Impact Asia Helen Hibbott to share some of her top tips for keeping a team connected virtually. Helen manages the Impact Asia team across five different countries. Connect often as a...
Adventure
Leadership
Teams
Bringing organisational culture to life
When did you last reconnect with your colleagues? I don’t mean on Zoom or rushing between a work meeting. I mean in person, with space to talk, plan, laugh and learn. If you ask people what makes...
Innovation & Creativity
Sustainable Innovation
Impact retains EcoVadis gold rating for sustainability practices
Impact’s sustainability performance for 2023 ranks among the top 5% of companies independently assessed by EcoVadis. Impact has retained gold in EcoVadis’ sustainability ratings for the fifth year...
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Leading wellbeing - the challenges facing our clients
In discussion with Wendy Lee Berger , global lead operations at Impact Change has been a constant in the work we’ve been doing with clients for the past four decades. At a gathering of Impact’s...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Is your organisation having a positive impact?
As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...
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...
Change
Failure, vulnerability, and the true nature of change
In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change can often connote something rapid, spectacular, or even epiphanic. But in reality, change is not an event but a process. And this is...
Teams
Is your team ready for success?
Six Key Questions You Should Ask Yourselves Based upon interest in our recent piece on Team Success , where we explored 6 questions related to team success and performance, we’re now going to take a...
Leadership
Teams
Team management in a hybrid working model
Hybrid working has become a permanent fixture in a wide variety of global organisations. This shift brings benefits but also real challenges for managers. How do you effectively lead dispersed teams...
Leadership
Senior leadership teams: how to lead leadership
I mpact don’t view leadership as a type of person or a particular set of qualities; instead we understand leadership to be a special and vital form of action. In our opinion, it is only when someone...
Change
It is time to make all organisations more human
‘Remember your humanity. Forget the rest…’ – Bertrand Russell In the world of organisational change, there are two things we hear all the time. Firstly, that change is inevitable, that organisations...
Leadership
New senior leadership: A time for listening
The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organisations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...
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...
Leadership
Talent
Monster stress: to battle or befriend?
What holds women back as leaders? How can women leaders be heard? We discuss the part culture plays and women's responses to aiding themselves and others.
Emerging Talent
Leadership
The role of feedback in human-centred organisations
Helen Hibbott is Impact Asia CEO Why is it that the prospect of giving feedback strikes fear into our hearts? Often the hardest part of giving feedback is getting started. In this article, I share my...
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
Talent
Onboarding remote employees: Employee and employer perspectives
The shift to remote and hybrid working caused by the pandemic has been a huge disruption to the traditional onboarding process. Welcoming a new team member to an organisation in a remote environment...
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...