Interviews

At CMI, we’re hugely privileged to have contributed to many people’s management and leadership journeys. Take a look back at some of the people we’ve interviewed for some top tips and exclusive insight.

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Topic: Governance

It’s a logistical nightmare

If you think your organisation is having a tough time getting back to business as usual, try running a primary school.

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Topic: Productivity

Has everything really changed

the challenge for managers is to find the sweet spot between what works for individuals and what suits the organisation

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

I realise now what people mean when they say they’re not feeling ok

Clive Wrattens job is to lobby for the Business Travel Sector. So how has he led through an extraordinarily tough period.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

“People have been affected in many different ways” – Simon Blake on post-lockdown wellbeing

We’ve just about learned our crisis coping mechanisms – but what about when lockdown is over?

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Topic: Productivity

What have we learned?

This isn’t the moment to cut back on skills and training. Quite the opposite, says two of Britain’s leading educationalists.

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Topic: Governance

Why inclusive leadership matters more than ever

Are we on the brink of a more inclusive world in management? Or will covid-19 just intensify social and racial inequalities?

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Topic: Employability

Getting a foot in the door when the doors are all closed

Graduates and young professionals all over the UK are entering a depleted job market – how can we help?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

“Take a stand. Be anti-racist. Be vocal”

Elysia McCaffrey is in charge of the UK government’s diversity efforts. Here’s how she’ll be driving diversity after Covid-19

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Topic: Personal Development

Empathy: the management attribute that we all need to develop now

The Covid-19 crisis has made all managers more aware of the personal circumstances in which their teams are trying to work.

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Topic: Employability

Job quality, not just quantity: the employment landscape after Covid-19

Covid-19 spark a permanent change in quality of people’s roles, working conditions and management practices

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Topic: Governance

To get unheard-of results, you need unseen-before methods

Jacqui Murray, on leadership in a crisis, man-management at a steel works, and how to make giant leaps forward

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

“For the first time, there is collective agreement”

The Covid-19 crisis may be a watershed for how we view and manage employees’ mental health

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