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Topic: Difficult Conversations

How to spot and manage invisible illnesses at work

When someone on your team has a health problem, it’s not always apparent. Here’s how to deal with such conditions.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Update your workplace mental health plan

There are baseline expectations about how to manage workplace mental health issues. Many managers are going above and beyond.

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Topic: Personal Development

How to manage stress in your first role

Don’t give yourself a headache or burn out – spot the signs quickly and combat work-related stress with these tips.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Incorporating mental health days into sickness leave

From sick leave to stress leave, how many types of invisible illnesses should your policies cover?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

CMI Submission to Consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

CMI Publishes Its Response to the Government’s Consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.

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Topic: Employability

CMI Response to Consultation on One-sided Flexibility

CMI publishes a policy paper demonstrating the link between management apprenticeships and productivity.

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Topic: Personal Development

Should you fake it till you make it?

We’ve all heard it, whether parodied or handed down as actual advice – but is ‘fake it till you make it’ a slogan to live by?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Sharon White: a new face and leadership style at John Lewis

As the first black woman to chair the iconic department store, Sharon White herself mirrors the landmark status of the brand

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Topic: Personal Development

Dealing with isolation as a manager

For many managers, the infamous proverb “it’s lonely at the top” rings true – but this needn’t be the case.

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Topic: Personal Development

Don’t Be Tied to Your Desk: a Talent Manager’s Advice for Young Professionals

Being engaged with your job is important, but don’t prioritise work over play.

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Topic: Productivity

How to be inclusive

It’s all well and good talking the inclusive talk, but do you walk the inclusive walk?

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Topic: Productivity

What are the boundaries of limitless holiday?

Annual leave is equal across the company, but will lifting the cap on holiday entitlement leave teams understaffed?

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