Episode 85: Increasing our personal impact
If you work in a corporate Insight team, how easy do you find it to be invited into the room when big decisions are being made? And how often do you make such an impression that you’re invited back? In every organisation, there are managers who have more influence on outcomes regardless of their job title. There are those who find it easy to build credibility and trust. And there are some who are adept at driving change through other people. All these attributes often reflect the same underlying quality: they are the natural consequences of having developed personal impact.
Personal impact isn’t just a quality for Insight leaders to focus on; it’s something we should all consider if we want to thrive and survive in a fast-moving, rapidly changing corporate environment.
And it’s a critical thing for us to consider when the world of Insight as we have got used to thinking about it is unlikely to last long in its present form. Wherever you are on the AI-adoption curve, many of the skills and attributes that have given us opportunities and promotions in the past will mean less in the future.
It will be all about the extent to which we can help our organisations make sense of data, apply learnings to business problems, build scenarios about future markets, and influence decision-makers to adopt the evidence-based opinions we have formed that will determine our success. And we can’t do any of these unless we have developed a personal brand that helps us get invited into the room, and once in it, demonstrate sufficient personal presence that we are invited back
So how can we increase our personal impact?
Please listen to find out more!
Topics Discussed
- The solutions suggested so far for those who want to shape the future of Insight (3.04)
- The need to increase our personal impact (6.26)
- Being invited to the table and then earning our right to stay (8.50)
- But we’re not natural self-publicists! (11.26)
- Revealing our personal brand values (13.13)
- James’s knowledge set at Barclays (15.50)
- Hacks we can develop (19.48)
This is episode 85 of the Transforming Insight podcast.
If you have the ambition to transform your Insight team and the role it plays in your organisation, please tune in to future episodes. Not only will we explore the secrets of successful corporate Insight teams and their leaders, as outlined in James Wycherley’s books, Transforming Insight and The Insight Leader’s Playbook, we will also talk to senior corporate Insight leaders, delve into books that have inspired us, and discuss new best practice research carried out with the IMA’s corporate members.
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About James Wycherley, the author of Transforming Insight
James Wycherley was Director of Customer Insight and Analytics at Barclays Bank from 2005 to 2015 when he became Chief Executive of the Insight Management Academy (IMA).
He published his first book, Transforming Insight, in 2020, and his second, The Insight Leader’s Playbook, in 2025, and he hosts the Insight forums and the Transforming Insight podcast.
An entertaining keynote speaker, he has presented over 50 times at Quirk’s events, a global record, and has provided thought leadership in the UK, USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, India and the Middle East.
The Insight Management Academy is the world’s leading authority on transforming corporate Insight teams, and its vision is to inspire and support every Insight leader to transform the impact of Insight in their organisation.
Resources:
If you would like more information on any of the ideas discussed in this episode of the Transforming Insight podcast, please visit www.insight-management.org
Disclaimer
The Transforming Insight podcast is published by the Insight Management Academy and produced by Zorbiant.
