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Authenticity at work boosts team performance
Want to optimise your team’s performance? New research shows it’s not just leaders that need to be authentic
Top of the class: How better management boosts education
Head teacher Andrew Martin CMgr FCMI explores the difference that quality leadership can make to the education sector
Resolving the great WFH vs office debate
As the hybrid work revolution turns four, is this the last battle of the return-to-work war?
CMI Highlights – 17 January
In our first update of 2024, we share how to invigorate your return to work – and the year ahead
The power of delegation (and why it’s so hard to hand over)
Learn how to delegate tasks to your team effectively in this delegation deep dive
A new year message from Ann Francke OBE: Let’s be more Taylor Swift in 2024
As we enter a new year, here’s why Taylor Swift provides lessons for managers and leaders everywhere to follow
CMI Highlights – 6 December
CMI’s 2023 award-winners revealed. Plus, better management practices for insecure workers and public sector managers
Dame Anne Richards DBE: Why your career is like a river
CMI’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement award-winner explains her approach to leadership – and why trust is the greatest gift
James Timpson OBE: “Business success depends on the happiness of our colleagues”
An upside-down leadership style bagged the CEO of Timpson the CMI Gold Medal
CMI Volunteer of the Year 2023: “It’s a chance for you to grow as a person”
Kirsty Watson CMgr FCMI has been volunteering since she was 14. She says helping other people is more important than ever
Management Diagnostics: getting to the heart of organisational health
Valneva UK needed to inject their staff with an extra dose of purpose – the Management Diagnostics tool was the miracle cure
CMI Highlights – 15 November
It’s conference season! Plus, CMI releases its latest research around insecure work and celebrates 10,000 new apprentices