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Highlights – 10 December

Supporting apprentices, learning to listen and tackling change head-on

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Topic: Personal Development

Three errors managers make when striving for improvement

In a new book, Max McKeown explores how people can become superadaptive and transform constraints into opportunities

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Topic: Personal Development

How I used passion and purpose to reshape a university department

A mix of clarity, curiosity and confidence helped a fragmented department find its focus – and a fresh sense of purpose

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Topic: Personal Development

“It’s not just about learning – it’s about doing”

Manisha Mistry, former Chartered Manager of the Year and co-founder of Cerestrial, shares her management insights

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Chartered Managers give their net zero tips

After CMI’s major new report on sustainability, two Chartered Managers share what the challenge demands from managers

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Topic: Project Management

“Do something a little bit out of the norm”

Sunil Patel CMgr FCMI, Chartered Manager of the Week, shares how he’s using AI to speed up the process of dispensing medicati

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson: six leadership lessons

The founder of the UK’s largest energy supplier explains the value of relentless positivity and dry stone walling

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Topic: Personal Development

“It’s about creating a culture of problem-solvers”

Mars Wrigley Confectionery’s Szymon Wierny CMgr MCMI explains why continuous improvement is really all about people

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Topic: Workplace Culture

The risk of indifference: leadership’s quietest failure

Indifference is contagious, spreading through both systems and individuals. So it must be noticed and interrupted early

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Topic: Workplace Culture

“You need to truly empathise, rather than being performative”

Tamara Box CMgr CCMI, our Chartered Companion of the Month, explains the importance of listening and embracing difference

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Highlights – 26 November

How are you planning to spend the ‘winter arc’? Plus, the value of CMI accreditation for accidental managers

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

How to lead through redundancies – and rebuild trust and culture

Advice for managers and leaders on guiding teams through the hardest transitions – and turning them into moments of growth

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