Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

the best time ever to go to the gym?

Here’s the Truth About the Connection Between Physical Exercise and Mental Health and Performance at Work…

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

How to apply for flexible working

The key thing: show how it benefits your employer as well as you…

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Managing redundancies during Covid-19 five guidelines

As the economic impact of the covid-19 crisis deepens, redundancies are more frequent

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Time for some honest conversations

British Chambers of Commerce Adam Marshall assesses the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis

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Topic: Crisis Management

Long Read: So, we failed – but let’s learn from it

Just-in-time left many organisations just-about-finished in the wake of Covid-19

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Topic: Governance

Why you need to change your conversational habits

Who are you talking to? Why them specifically? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to listen to some other voices too?

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Topic: Crisis Management

Working in the new normal: The future is here and there is no going back

Life as we know it has been altered – some changes will be permanent. There is simply no going back to ‘before’

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

The core principles of good negotiation

How do you negotiate well? David McLaughlin, ChMC assessment manager at CMI, shares some fundamentals of negotiation

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Topic: Employability

Taking Up Space: A Black Girl’s Manifesto and University Guide

Two recent Cambridge graduates wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for young women entering university

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Discussion Papers

Read our collection of discussion papers which have accompanied and informed these roundtables and include research.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Finance and the diversity dividend

Huge social inequalities highlighted by covid-19 are revealing need for boards to tackle inequalities within their businesses

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Topic: Crisis Management

Overseas Crisis Management: How did Covid-19 affect CMI Hong Kong?

We talk to the CMI Chair of the Hong Kong board to find out how the crisis has unfolded to see what we can learn

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