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Leadership
The leadership playbook: executive summary
Get hands on with our interactive leadership playbook, shaped by 45+ years' experience working with some of the world's biggest organizations.
Change
Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Mastering AI: strategies for business innovation and success
Explore the transformative power of GenAI in business. Learn how to navigate challenges, foster an innovation culture, and confidently lead in the AI era.
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values
Paul Rose is one of the world's most experienced divers, field scientists, and polar experts. In this podcast, he joins Dan to talk about exploration, ecology, the environment, and the lessons that...
Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams
Podcast: What is experiential learning?
A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, whether experiential learning works for everyone, and why global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach.
Leadership
Podcast: Learning and leadership culture
A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?
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 stands out as a remarkable year. It’s an election year for over 50 countries, the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, and a leap year. Introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE, February 29th...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout
How can leaders prevent burnout? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Resilient leaders adapt quickly. Empathetic leaders can tune in to their employees’ needs. Human-centred leaders can support...
Change
Leadership
Podcast: Shiny penny syndrome
A podcast that explores what shiny penny syndrome is, how it affects you and your organisation, and how you can use it to stay focused on your goals.
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What makes a great executive retreat?
We have welcomed a group of senior learning professionals to bring their complex challenges to a one-day immersive retreat in the heart of the Lake District. In this article our consultant reflects on...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: disruption for positive change
An In Good Company podcast with Laura Chase , Chief Commercial Officer, WeAre8 How to make a career change Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave an established career and join a start...
Change
Leadership
Only human-centred organisations will survive
In Trevor Johnson’s article, he emphasizes the significance of human-centered organizations and delves into their growing relevance in addressing the challenges of our era.
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...
Management Development
Teams
Grasp the nettle
When it comes to underperformance or suboptimal behaviors, ignoring them is a mistake. It’s in no one’s interest to turn a blind eye.
Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Building trust through open dialogue
Explore the crucial role of trust in business success, highlighted in the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer.
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent
Purpose: The new employee value proposition
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)
We asked 10 leaders about the guidance they would offer to their younger selves, and here are their responses...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
Andy Dickson from Impact UK explores leadership in service to humanity at Anthropy 2023. Discover how we inspire global change and positive impact.
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?
ChatGPT provides insights, but Cassie Cuppek emphasizes leadership development requires action, reflection, and empathy. Explore our eBook for more.
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
In navigating contemporary 'wicked problems,' every organization faces complexity. The question arises: where to begin?
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
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...
Digital & Technology
Four principles for designing digital learning technologies
The digital landscape is changing at such a rapid speed that it becomes difficult to adapt. Impact takes an experiential learning approach — one that it has been practising for 38 years. Click here to...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
How to find balance in times of change
This article stresses life balance amid change, highlighting personal relationships and human-centered organizations for well-being. Explore for insights.
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
The article argues that leveraging digital tech and democratizing education can transform organizational learning, enabling significant change. Explore further.
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...