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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 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...

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...

My son, at age 20, is taking his first tentative steps into the world of work with a placement year at a large multinational company. A welcome step-change from lockdown student life, he is energised...

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...

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...

An In Good Company podcast with Tuuli Tervaskanto , Country Manager Finland & Baltics at VMware Wellbeing – what does this mean for individuals and organisations? I think we can all agree that...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Discover the key challenges and insights from over 500 global leaders in this free eBook by Impact. Learn how to create human-centred cultures and practices that put people first and have a positive...

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...

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...

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...

Many teams struggle with performance and behaviour issues because they don’t have a clear and shared purpose. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team meeting to help you avoid this...

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. Sounds so easy...

An In Good Company podcast with David Cooper , Senior Consultant, Impact What does it take to develop a high-performing team? At the heart of all organisational performance is the ability for...

An In Good Company podcast with Louisa Rodriguez , UN Woman Delegate and Leadership Coach at Yorkshire Building Society. Helping women achieve their full potential In 2015 UN Member States set a...

An In Good Company podcast with Leigh Gammons , CEO at Tangent Turning problems into opportunities If we define entrepreneurial leadership as bringing people together to achieve a common goal, whilst...

Real change requires real learning. Is it me or are the endless lists of ‘top tips for working remotely’ or ‘seven things to do to stay productive whilst working at home’ etc. etc. all starting to...

An organisation’s ability to survive and thrive depends on the performance of its senior leadership team. However, one of the difficulties of improving senior team performance is that individual...

An In Good Company podcast with Mukta Arya , Chief Human Resources Officer (APAC) at Société Générale. What are the biggest challenges facing HR? There can't be many departments with a bigger remit...

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...

An In Good Company podcast with Liz Ward , Director of Programmes at Stonewall. DEIB starts with awareness Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has become an increasingly important topic...

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 recent gathering of Impact’s...

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...

An In Good Company podcast with Alex Staniforth , adversity adventurer and founder of Mind Over Mountains charity. Should leaders be vulnerable? Resilience, wellbeing, agility... these are all terms...

...You haven’t got time not to Not to do ourselves out of business, but I do believe that companies could make a step change in their individual, team and ultimately their organisational performance -...