Impact Players
Impact Players The Framework and Mindsets
This framework outlines the key differences in behaviors and beliefs between Impact Players, Contributors, and Under-Contributors in today’s workplace. Through extensive research, we’ve identified how these mindsets approach five universal challenges that all professionals face.
Our world faces increasingly complex problems that don’t fit neatly into job descriptions. While Impact Players rise to these challenges with service-oriented mindsets and proactive leadership, others may default to rigid role definitions or pursue only what interests them personally. Understanding these patterns helps us recognize and develop the attitudes and practices that create extraordinary value in ever-changing conditions.
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Impact Players The Research Overview and Process
This guide is designed as a companion for reflection and discussion as you read Impact Players.
Our world needs people who can step up, adapt, and create extraordinary value in ever-changing conditions. Through extensive research with hundreds of managers and exceptional contributors, we’ve discovered what separates those who merely survive from those who truly thrive in today’s workplace. Let’s embark on this journey of understanding together.
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Impact Players Playbook
From Liz Wiseman’s bestseller, Impact Players, these playbooks dive into the practices that can help any employee contribute at their fullest and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team.
This playbook will give you data-based insights and practical tools to help you take the lead, play bigger, and multiply your impact. In each, you will find a set of Smart Plays to implement the practice wisely, create real value for others, and increase their impact.
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Building Upward Credibility – Impact Players
We asked 170 leaders (from first-line managers to senior executives) what their team members did that most frustrated them and eroded value.
These 15 credibility killers are nearly guaranteed to frustrate your leaders and those around you. Luckily we also include credibility builders! Follow these tactics to succeed at work and make yourself invaluable in the eyes of your organization.
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Impact Players PDF Download
The workplace is full of people who want to contribute in meaningful ways, yet not everyone knows how to make an impact. We can put in long hours and work hard, but if our effort is off target, we’ll end up with great work that’s irrelevant.
The Impact Players we studied didn’t necessarily work any harder or any longer than their peers. However, there were five practices that made them stand out. Download the first chapter for free to get started.
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Impact Players Keynote
What could your organization accomplish with access to all the capability that sits inside it?
In our highly interactive keynotes, participants will explore how they can fully utilize everyone’s intelligence and maximize their impact.
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Impact Players Quiz
The workplace is full of people who want to contribute in meaningful ways, yet not everyone knows how to make an impact. We can put in long hours and work hard, but if our effort is off target, we’ll end up with great work that’s irrelevant.
What might be impeding your impact? While there are a lot of hard-working people, not everyone is adding value in the way they want to. Are you having the influence and impact you hope for? Take this quiz to find out what might be impeding your impact.
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Discussion Guide
In this guide, you will: consider the ways in which you personally are striving to be an Impact Player but falling short, discuss the decoys that seem productive but actually reduce impact, and talk about the framework as a set of habits that will require constant attention for people.
Remember that these discussions will have their greatest impact when you are as committed to your own self-reflection and awareness as you are to the improvement of your team.
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Research Process
The framework and insights in Impact Players are the result of a two-year research project conducted by The Wiseman Group. The following outlines the research objectives, contributors, and process.
For our research purposes, we designated three groups of contributors:
1) High: Individuals doing work of exceptional value
2) Typical: Individuals who are smart and capable doing really good work.
3) Low: Individuals who are smart and capable but who weren’t delivering to expectations or potential.
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Practices and Decoys
This download contains two charts: A chart that summarizes the key differences in the behavior and beliefs characteristic of the Impact Player Mindset compared with the Contributor or Under-Contributor Mindsets.
And a list of the value decoys (professional habits or beliefs that seem useful and appear appreciated but that erode more value than they create) that can prevent people from contributing at their fullest and minimize the impact of their work.
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How To Make an Impact While Working Remotely
As companies reopen physical offices, the experiences of knowledge workers are more varied than ever: many employees can now choose to work in the office, from home, or in a hybrid combination of the two.
Some workers are embracing the increased flexibility and convenience of remote work; others worry about the remaining unknowns of this shifting workplace reality.
It is vital that employees find ways to work with impact, regardless of where they’re working from.