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Topic: Productivity

Compliance 101: It’s about communication, not box ticking

Compliance is much more than finding a way to beat the system.

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Topic: Personal Development

Want Your Staff to Trust You? Communication’s Key

Trust is the glue that moulds together professional relationships and maintains harmony between managers and employees

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Topic: Productivity

Do Your Staff Really Need Bonuses?

A top fund manager has stopped paying bonuses to his staff, with others following suit, citing that ‘bonuses are largely inef

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Topic: Productivity

Performance Management After the Annual Appraisal

Three examples of next-gen performance management and whether there are better ways to get the most out of your people.

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Topic: Personal Development

12 Steps to Being a Better Public Speaker

Public speaking is a task likely to figure prominently in a manager’s career.

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Topic: Productivity

Simple Business Lessons to Be Learnt From 4 British Companies

Sometimes simple is best, and these top tips will help drive your business on to greater success

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Topic: Productivity

Managing The 7 Deadly Sins In The Workplace

Managing a harmonious, fun, hardworking, inventive and productive team is the utopian dream for many a manager.

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Topic: Productivity

Your KPIs: Do You Know Them; Do You Track Them; Do You Care?

KPI’s are an important measure of business and organisational success, get them wrong and disaster could be round the corner

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Topic: Productivity

Conflict Management: Turn Problems Into Creative Sparks

Patrick Dunne, former Chair of CMI’s Board of Companions, shares his expertise on managing conflicts at work.

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Topic: Productivity

How To Manage The Under-performer

Managing the unmotivated, uncooperative, negative, irritable, frequently absent employee is a challenge – here’s how to do it

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Topic: Productivity

5 Ways to Prevent Millennials Messing Up Your Management Culture

Millennials Are Expected to Make Up Half the Global Workforce by 2020, Making Sure Your Workplace Meets Their Needs is Vital

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

4 Signs That Racism May Be an Issue in Your Workplace

Racial discrimination is a growing issue, with almost a third of employees witnessing or experiencing racism at work

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