Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Personal Development

Driving Success: Coaching, mentoring and sponsorship strategies for developing yourself and your team

Explore how coaching can help to accelerate your career and develop high-performing teams.

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Topic: Personal Development

CMI Awards: who made the International HE Partner of the Year shortlist?

Recognising CMI’s international higher education partner providers who play a key role in developing the next generation of b

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Topic: Personal Development

“I found the calling I never knew I had”

How CMI has helped Marie Coombes CMgr FCMI develop in her career

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Topic: Personal Development

The confidence boost of Chartered Manager status

Becoming Chartered helped Zarine Azizyan CMgr MCMI’s decision-making and understanding of management theory

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Topic: Personal Development

“I want to show women you can go far in architecture”

Chartered Manager of the Week Vaso Vaina CMgr FCMI aims to be a role model for women

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How can management consultants build lasting relationships with clients?

Empathy, respect and even oxytocin all have a role to play, advises Melanie Franklin MCMI ChMC

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The Management Mission

CMI has partnered with the Social Market Foundation to examine the state of leadership & management.

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Topic: Support and Wellbeing

Building a positive environment for ourselves and others

An insightful exploration of approaches, issues, and challenges, all aimed at fostering a positive work context.

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Highlights – 18 September

Set a shining example: how to support, recruit and develop teams (all while beating the post-summer slump)

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How to be an inclusive leader (without virtue signalling)

Research: having a properly trained manager is the most influential factor in people feeling supported at work

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Topic: Productivity

The post-summer blues are here. How can you help your team through them?

How to rally your team’s morale as the days get shorter

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Topic: Personal Development

“They had a private bar on the top floor!”: The good, bad and ugly of management role modelling

The management behaviours that inspire others (and those that don’t)

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