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Topic: Workplace Culture

Covid-19 may achieve the impossible: it might make us fall back in love with the office

Managing remote workforces comes with challenges and upsides – but is a surprising outcome that we appreciate the office?

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Topic: Employment Landscape

“Don’t just have Plan A; have Plans B and C too”

The lessons I’ve learned about adaptability and resilience from interviewing more than 20 Chartered Managers

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Topic: Governance

Lessons in kindness from a top-50 kind leader

Tamara Box CMgr CCMI is one of the UK’s 50 Kindness & Leadership Leading Lights. She explains why kindness is so valuable

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

How to help your team thrive in 2021

CMI has launched a new wellbeing toolkit to enable you to boost the mental health of yourself and your team

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Topic: Personal Development

Here’s to a year of communication and competence (please!)

Truly human leadership will get us and our people through a tough 2021.

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Topic: Governance

Mission critical: the management hot topics

John Board dean of Henley Business School and top NHS leader Delroy Beverley share what’s on their radar for 2021

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Topic: Governance

“Managing threat and risk completely changed” – an in-depth look at reactive police force leadership

Police Chief Superintendent Paul Griffiths CMgr CCMI, talks about his leadership style during the Covid-19 crisis

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Topic: Personal Development

CMI’s CMgr of the Year relives six months of transformation

Manisha Mistry CMgr explains how Covid-19 accelerated positive, digital transformation at Rolls-Royce

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Topic: Flexibility

Presenteeism hasn’t been left behind in the office

Working from home has left some employees logging longer hours, but this doesn’t mean they are being more productive

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

How to spot the signs of disconnection and loneliness

Many of our colleagues may not be able to spend the holiday season with loved ones. How can we help them feel more connected?

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Topic: Crisis Management

System shock: How the civil service responded to Covid-19

The government’s chief people officer speaks to CMI about pivoting in the civil service

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Topic: Personal Development

How to get a reflective mindset

Reflective practices allow us to dedicate time to deep thinking – but how do we actually achieve this in practice?

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