Features and Longer Reads

Looking for a deeper dive into a particular subject? Check out our longer articles for a more extensive read.

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When you’ve got a bit more time on your hands, check out CMI’s features and longer reads.

Still full of practical advice and cutting edge insight, these pieces are a little more detailed and will allow you to immerse yourself in one particular topic or theme.

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Explore the knowledge and insights hub using the dropdown menus below to filter resources by content type, and/or the topic or theme.

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Pay transparency: Should we be talking about salaries?

Finding out your coworker takes home more than you can be extremely demoralising. Can more transparency encourage change?

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Topic: Change Management

Sustainability: You’re never too junior to make a difference

You don’t have to own a company to make an impact. Get inspired by these intrapreneurial stories

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Topic: Crisis Management

The Last of Us: ethical leadership lessons from a killer fungus apocalypse

Would you “kill” one person to save a group of others? The show explored (some) ethically grey decisions that managers face

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Topic: Personal Development

Green skills: what are they and why managers need to acquire them now

In many ways, green skills are management skills. But managers and leaders need to make a firm commitment to acquiring them

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Topic: Support and Wellbeing

How to stomp the Sunday Scaries out of your team

The Monday blues can be a sign of serious cultural issues – and can have a devastating impact on retention and productivity

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Topic: Flexibility

Night owls vs morning larks: Is the 9–5 outdated?

What if there was a better way to structure the working day – based on employees’ own body clocks…

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Topic: Employment Landscape

“The great unretirement”: enticing older workers

Despite being one of the most skilled groups, older workers are being neglected. Managers must challenge these ageist biases

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Workplace adjustments: “Managers are loyal, ill-equipped, and overworked”

The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey results revealed. “When I relayed these findings, one manager cried with relief”

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Topic: Employability

Lifelong learning: A CMgr pioneer talks to CMgr newcomer

20 years on from the first CMgr designation, two CMgrs from different generations discuss their leadership journeys

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Is “calling in sick” a thing of the past?

Given the shift towards hybrid working, is calling in sick out-of-date in the modern workplace or is it still necessary?

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Topic: Communication

Four simple steps to develop better active listening

Take a deep dive into this vital management skill and discover some simple techniques to improve your listening skills

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Solving the skills shortage: why apprenticeships matter

As businesses in all sectors struggle to get the skills and talent they need, apprenticeships are one useful answer

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