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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Five Techniques for Overcoming Resistance to Change

Maintaining momentum during a change programme is one of the major challenges faced by managers

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Topic: Personal Development

How the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship is Creating Future Leaders at TFL

Apprenticeships Help Create More Effective Managers Say Two TFL Apprentices

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Topic: Productivity

Three New Ways to Solve a Problem

These Problem-solving Techniques Encourage Cognitive Diversity

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Topic: Employability

In the News: What You Need to Know About Employee ‘Gagging Clauses’

Non-disclosure agreements and settlement agreements are different – and settlement agreements can be used in business

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Topic: Productivity

Forget Kindness – We Need to Talk About Generous Leadership

An Investment of Time and Energy is Different From Kind Actions and It Helps Employees Reach Their Potential

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Topic: Personal Development

Returning to Work? Here’s How to Master the Interview

One CMI management book of the year entry explains how to explain a career break

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Ethnicity Pay Reporting is Not Enough to Address Bame Inequality

Cmi Companion Chika Aghadiuno Calls for Knowledge, Advocacy and Role Models to Boost Diversity

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Topic: Productivity

What Makes Managers Happy at Work?

Former minister of trade lord mark price shares new data on happiness at work.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Time to Talk Day 2019: the Conversations We All Need to Be Having About Workplace Mental Health

This year’s time to talk day is asking us to think about how to have effective conversations about mental health

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Topic: Productivity

UK Workers Are Most Likely to Take a Sick Day

There Are Specific Ways Managers Can Prevent Absenteeism Say Experts

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Topic: Productivity

The Five Steps You Must Follow to Create an Ethical Culture

Managers should follow these steps to promote good ethics at work

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Topic: Employability

How to Stop Yourself Being Replaced by a Robot

The best managers are already adapting their behaviours, says one of europe’s leading professors of management.

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