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Topic: Flexibility

Life of a Lone Ranger: What makes or breaks the solo self-employed?

Two solo self-employed experts tell us what to watch out for when working this way during a tough time for job security

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Topic: Crisis Management

The right way to implement a company-wide pay cut

With so many businesses forced to consider cutting pay, how do you implement in a way that keeps staff onside

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Topic: Governance

How Covid-19 shifted thinking about sustainability

Organisations had to pivot just to survive. Short-term thinking dominated. Can we now turn our attention back to the climate?

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Topic: Flexibility

How to manage a ‘hybrid’ workforce

Some people are working from home; some are in the office; many are doing both. It’s a potential management nightmare

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Five ways to create an anti-racist workplace

Rarely has the focus on racism in society and the workplace been greater. CMI and MHFA go through their new guidance

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Topic: Productivity

The four drivers of employee engagement at a time of crisis

We’re at a fork in the road. Leaders must resist their command-and-control instincts and instead dig deeper for re-engagement

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Topic: Crisis Management

Policing the crisis – a view from the top

The police have faced dual leadership challenges during the Covid-19 crisis, says the president of the Police Superintendents

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Topic: Governance

The new formula for corporate reputation

By demonstrating that you operate to metrics beyond profit and loss, you can build a new, deeper relationship with customers

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Topic: Flexibility

The surprising benefits of fully remote organisations

With so much uncertainty ahead, is it time to become a FROG (a Fully Remote Organisation)? We ask those working virtually

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Topic: Crisis Management

Long Read: Rethinking boardrooms – the effects of Covid-19

The role of boards are more reactive; their outlook shortened to surviving the pandemic. Here are seven changes to boards…

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Topic: Disability

Let’s say it straight: we have a disability blind spot

If almost one in five of our working age population are disabled, where are the disabled members of ftse-350 boards?

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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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