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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

CMI’s Submission to Comprehensive Spending Review 2020

Our submission argues for a clearer and more coherent approach to adult skills and retraining

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Supporting Colleagues’ Wellbeing

Supporting careers of diverse ethnic groups and help organisations tackle inequalities.

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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: Crisis Management

A wake-up call for the west – 13 ways we can reverse our decline

A powerful new book debates how the Coronavirus pandemic has exposed weaknesses in western leadership and proposes solutions

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

“I can’t do this anymore” – What happens when we burn out?

Classified as an ‘occupational phenomenon’ by the World Health Organization, what actually happens when we burn out?

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