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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How to fight inequality – and why that fight needs you

The paradox of inequality is that the more we recognise its existence the less we seem to do to reduce it. How can we change?

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Topic: Governance

How not to be a micro-manager

When managers create a ‘freedom framework’ for decision-making and empowerment, they enable their teams to be more autonomous

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Topic: Governance

Rethinking boardrooms: how to build a next gen-board

When businesses review the way they organise and mobilise their boardrooms, they may look to this example of a next-gen board

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Topic: Crisis Management

“You can’t run a creative business when you can’t invite audiences in”

We ask the CEO of Shakespeare’s Globe and CCO of Creative England about Covid-19 challenges how creatives can recover

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Topic: Governance

How to tell if you’re giving off good energy

Leaders who have energy and passion transfer these to their followers. So, do you have the right energy for your role?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

The persistence of presenteeism and other nuanced nonsense

Work is still underpinned by unspoken codes. We can’t truly tackle inequalities in our workforce without challenging them

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Topic: Disability

Can flexible work close the disability employment gap?

At the start of 2020, flexible working was something you had to ask permission for. But overnight, it became a necessity

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

How to apply for flexible working

The key thing: show how it benefits your employer as well as you…

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Managing redundancies during Covid-19 five guidelines

As the economic impact of the covid-19 crisis deepens, redundancies are more frequent

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Time for some honest conversations

British Chambers of Commerce Adam Marshall assesses the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis

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Topic: Crisis Management

Long Read: So, we failed – but let’s learn from it

Just-in-time left many organisations just-about-finished in the wake of Covid-19

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Topic: Governance

Why you need to change your conversational habits

Who are you talking to? Why them specifically? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to listen to some other voices too?

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