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Topic: Employability

Don’t let graduate schemes fall behind in the wake of Covid-19

Many Graduates Are Still Uncertain About Their Future Plans, Despite Having Secured a Graduate Placement. What’s Going Wrong?

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Topic: Personal Development

The Surprising Leadership Trait You Need to Have

To Believe You Can Achieve the Impossible is Not Naivety Its Leadership

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Topic: Governance

Lets not restore factory settings

Managers and Leaders have learned huge amounts about themselves under the intense pressure of Covid-19

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Meet the Chartered Managers of the Year 2020

outstanding chartered managers making real impact

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Topic: Productivity

Has everything really changed

the challenge for managers is to find the sweet spot between what works for individuals and what suits the organisation

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

I realise now what people mean when they say they’re not feeling ok

Clive Wrattens job is to lobby for the Business Travel Sector. So how has he led through an extraordinarily tough period.

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Topic: Productivity

Nine proven techniques to optimise your remote learning

An Online Education Can Feel More Intense and Less Personal Than Face to Face. But by Taking Control of Your Environment.

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Topic: Productivity

Why capitalism needs an impact revolution

In a changed world, leaders must examine the impact of their organisation’s activity, adapt it, and start a new ‘race to top’

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

“People have been affected in many different ways” – Simon Blake on post-lockdown wellbeing

We’ve just about learned our crisis coping mechanisms – but what about when lockdown is over?

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Top 10 difficult conversations

New research from cmi shows that brits find it harder to ask their boss for a pay rise than dump a partner.

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Topic: Productivity

What have we learned?

This isn’t the moment to cut back on skills and training. Quite the opposite, says two of Britain’s leading educationalists.

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Topic: Employability

Time for a right to retrain?

The COVID-19 crisis is having severe effects on those entering the job market or who’ve been made redundant.

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