Impact Factory Podcasts

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 idiosyncrasies to work as one to achieve a common goal. What works in the pitch also works in the boardroom.

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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 Curve.

Jo Ellen and Sarah also offer the best advice for organisations to become more competitive and ready to accelerate change: introduce regular small changes and allow people to express their ideas to create an open and engaging culture.

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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 any software or app) and how people learn. It's all about motivation and upping the ante to absorb new information - and allowing emotions to be expressed. It's about providing lots of opportunities to practice and to build on what we already do well - all of which create associations that stick. This is precisely Impact Factory's training method since 1991, now fully backed by neuroscience.

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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, collaborative and creative to respond to their most urgent challenges. Something that can be achieved by awaking the dormant but innate communication and engaging skills that we all have.

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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.

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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 development, you can help your organisation to stay ahead of the game, addressing rapid growth and change and improving productivity and retention.

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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 effective and implement a successful culture shift through Continuing Personal Development (CPD).

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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 voilà! Creative Strategic Thinking.

In this podcast, Jo Ellen Grzyb and Janet Addison discuss the importance of encouraging employees to put diverse ideas together which makes businesses thrive and creates a culture of innovation and high engaged teams.

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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 under pressure.

Their advice: Raise your consciousness of your habits so you'll have better chances to change things to achieve a healthier and more enjoyable personal growth while accomplishing your goals.

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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 being the head of an organisation teaching people how to become more confident.

Laura takes part part in a professional workshop at Impact Factory to find out whether, in the words of another attendee, it's possible to display confidence "without turning into a jerk."

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