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Established in 1991, Impact Factory is dedicated to help all type of organisations, including FTSE 100 companies, to be more effective, collaborative and creative by empowering their teams and professionals. Our unique human-centred methodology, Professional Personal Development, is designed to support growth in individuals and across organisations, expanding capabilities and fine tuning strengths and interpersonal skills.
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What makes a good line manager? Which issues a new manager may encounter in his new managerial role? Having people skills to inspire a motive a team and get things done are some of the important capabilities that any line manager would need to excel. In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb and Sarah Dawrant, one of our senior Training Consultants at Impact…
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The same principles that build a great sport club can be applied to a work team. Paul Hughes, ex Chelsea and Southampton football midfielder, now a successful manager for Hayes & Yeading United F.C. and an Impact Factory trainer, shares with Jo Ellen Grzyb his thoughts and experience about what makes individuals, with different personalities and id…
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Any kind of change, specially within organisations, could be challenging. Jo Ellen Grzyb and Sarah Dawrant discuss the importance of leading people through change by transparent communication, personal commitment with the teams and acknowledgment of people’s emotional stages when facing change, as explained by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and her Change C…
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Humans are the most important asset for organisations. Despite technological advances changing -even improving – our lives and our jobs, it’s all for nothing without humans at the core. Jo Ellen Grzyb and Sarah Creevey discuss the latest neuroscience studies that focus on the plasticity of the brain (an organ that is far more nimble and agile than …
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Despite all the cutting-edge technology and technical advances that have substantially changed our lives and jobs; after all the articles and reports on AI and digital transformation, it’s clear that the future, more than ever, is human. Jo Ellen Grzyb and Tina Lamb discuss the vital importance of people for organisations to become agile, flexible,…
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35 UK Universities prompted by Cambridge University have run a study and have concluded that women tend to speak at least 3 times less than their male colleagues. One of our Directors, Jo Ellen Grzyb, has participated on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and has offered very practical tools to inspire all and boost confidence. Impact Factory…
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There are new skills and behaviours absolutely key to help people stay nimble as the world changes around them, which it is doing on a continual, accelerated basis. In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb, Director and Founder of Impact Factory and Katherine Grice, senior trainer consultant of Impact Factory discuss how, by investing in people and their de…
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For L&D and HR professionals, it could be easy to identify technical learning gaps. But, how do you assess the subtler learning requirements that underpin how people communicate, interact and work together? In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb and Tina Lamb discussed the importance of putting the individual at the centre of learning to make change effec…
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We are living in a fast-paced world. Businesses and professionals never have had a stronger need to be adaptable and agile to respond to their challenges. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report has determined that the top three skills needed by 2020 will be: Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking and Creativity. Roll them into one and…
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Do you make New Year Resolutions? Are you tired of writing down a list to realise half way through the year that you are far from reaching them? In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb and Nick Clark Windo have fun discussing the origins of the New Year Resolutions and how we have become self-absorbed with personal improvements that just put ourselves unde…
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Journalist Laura Barton completes her examination of the place of confidence in modern life with a personal quest to explore the role of confidence in our everyday lives and relationships. Laura speaks with Jo Ellen Grzyb, one of the founders of Impact Factory, about how she has managed to move from being 'a human doormat' in her early life to bein…
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The best Performance Management is all about giving honest, productive and relevant feedback to make your people and your business grow, develop and excel. In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb and Katy Miller explain why good Performance Management is vital to reinforce engagement and build a strong culture having a huge impact in your team and in your …
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Social drinks, company parties, mince pies, carol singing, present wrapping, morning frost and family gatherings. Christmas or the Festive Season, as you wish, is around the corner. How to survive Christmas or the Festive Season (as you wish) Learn with Jo Ellen Grzyb and Katherine Grice how to have a stress free festivity by embracing the unexpect…
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What makes good customer service? Could authenticity and consistent real care delivered by organisations of all sectors be the key to increase customer retention and profitability? In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb, Dom Kracmar and Isabel Pollen explain how clear communication, genuine interest, positive language, humour and human factor are the elem…
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Humans are pattern making ‘machines’ if you will. We do a lot of things by rote for very good reasons. Our bodies are made up of interlinking ‘systems’ and those systems operate through patterns that we never ever think about….until we are ill. When we are ill it’s because one of those systems is out of whack. Our lives are governed by patterns so …
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What makes a good leader especially in the uncertain times we’re living in? As a leader, your success depends upon your ability to get things done: up, down and across all lines in good times and in times of crisis. To do so, you must be persuasive and convincing to win hearts and minds. Are the best leaders born with these essential skills or can …
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Negotiation is a game and those who enjoy playing are the best negotiators by far. Calling a game might make it sound frivolous; negotiation can be serious stuff. That's one of the things at the top that make negotiating such a trial- it can feel like a life or death, do or die, last man standing kind of thing, which puts huge pressure on the negot…
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Resilient professionals and adaptable teams are vital in this constantly evolving and changing world. Organisations with mental and emotionally strong people have higher retention and engagement rate and more empowered cultures. Wouldn't be great if everyone could bounce back from adversity, just like that? Reality is very different and not everyon…
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We're hardwired to listen, remember and repeat stories: a hero, an antihero, the struggle and the final victory. It's the most basic way of communicating and remembering ideas, and businesses aren't indifferent to it. Aware of that, the most successful companies, the ones positioning and differentiating themselves in the market, like Apple, connect…
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“Could I be that assertive?” asked David Mitchell to himself before joining an Impact Factory session for his BBC programme on Manners. Having entered Impact Factory rather cynical and sceptical, he left with some new insights and tools. In case you missed the programme, you can listen to it here. Assertiveness training at its best can be a life-sa…
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