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Topic: Productivity

8 traits Google has identified as belonging to toxic bosses

Are you an effective team leader? Google study identifies core qualities that distinguish the good managers from the bad

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Closing the pay gap video

Claire Rowe gives a video about closing the pay gap

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Topic: Personal Development

4 Surprising Confidence Hacks for New Managers

Psychological flaws are sabotaging your confidence at work – here’s how to overcome them

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Sponsorship Advancing Women’s Careers

Sponsorship Advancing Women’s Careers

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Topic: Personal Development

Five Tips for the Perfect Performance Review

From career growth to pay increases, how can you make your performance review work to your advantage? Insights asks Career De

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Flexible working video

Dr Heejung Chung, University of Kent. For more information on tackling workplace discrimination

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Topic: Productivity

This is how real management consultancies manage their teams

They’re corporate problem-solvers who help the world’s biggest companies cut costs, drive revenue and boost profits.

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Topic: Productivity

GDPR: Ten Easy Steps All Organisations Should Follow

Everything you need to know to prepare your business for changes to data protection law in the EU on May 25.

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Topic: Productivity

How To Grow Your Millennial Leaders

What incentives do millennial managers respond to most? What do they hate?

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Topic: Productivity

This is Why Incompetent Managers Are the Most Over-confident

The Dunning Kruger Effect Can Lead Even the Most Ineffectual Manager or Employee to Feel They’re Top of the Class.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Gender Inequality Q & A highlights

For International Women’s Day 2018, we hosted a Facebook Live event to discuss gender inequality in the workplace.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Tackling everyday discrimination: Call It Out, Challenge It, Change It

Discrimination and gender inequality were two key topics in CMI’s Facebook Live Q&A hosted on International Women’s Day

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