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Topic: Personal Development

21st Century Leaders – Building Employability Through Higher Education

Supporting student employability is an urgent challenge for universities – and has national significance.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

How I spoke to my boss about my mental health

How would you tell your manager about your mental health struggles? How would it affect your own management style if you did?

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Topic: Personal Development

Unconventional Wisdom: the Trends Successful Business Leaders Don’t Follow – and Why

We take a look at the leadership trends shunned by some of the world’s best leaders

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Topic: Productivity

Need to know: these are the times, days and months that science says you are most productive

You’re most productive at 11am on Mondays in October, according to recent research.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Pay and Rewards A Blueprint for Balance

A Blueprint for Balance: Unlocking the Six Key Areas to Achieving Gender Balance.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Widespread Workplace Discrimination Blocking Progress on Gender Diversity [New Research]

Public attention is on sexual harassment, new research from CMI demonstrates how rife discrimination is across the workplace.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Balanced recruitment

Balanced recruitment is critical for gender-balanced workplaces. CMI’s latest research says supporting middle managers is key

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Making flexible working work for everyone

Flexible working is an important component of creating gender balance. The majority of managers regard it positively

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Skills and career progression

The more senior the level of management, the rarer women become: so supporting women’s skills and career progression is key.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Leadership Equality and Management Culture: Blueprint for Balance

Businesses Focusing on Balance in the Boardroom Are Starting to Achieve Results

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Topic: Productivity

Senior Manager? Here’s Why You’re Responsible for Employee Stress

Workaholic executives are setting a poor example for overworked and under-resourced middle managers says psychologist, profes

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Topic: Productivity

Five Reasons We Need to Show Emotion in the Boardroom

Article: Five Reasons We Need to Show Emotion in the Boardroom Written by Jermaine Haughton Share Share to Twitter Share

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