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Topic: Personal Development

Advice for New Managers: Take Time to Listen (and Talk)

Taking up a management position for the first time is a new ball game. Above all, you’ll need to get the communication right

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Topic: Productivity

Improve remote working practices to minimise staff sickness

Technology can help remote workers feel included in the team, and more likely to contribute effectively.

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Topic: Productivity

New Study Reveals Stress Facing Working Fathers

Men are much less forthcoming in voicing their concerns

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Topic: Employability

In Recruitment, if You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

You can’t hire the right candidate if you don’t ask the right questions – above all, ‘do they share our values?’

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Topic: Productivity

5 Brain Training Tips for the Office

Nutritional therapist naomi mead gives her tips for boosting your brainpower through 5 simple steps

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Topic: Productivity

7 Ways to Improve Your Resilience – Immediately

Fatigue and worry are commonplace in the workplace. Extreme forms of stress require you and your team to change behaviours.

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Topic: Personal Development

#getchartered: How Chartered Manager is Transforming Careers

Some 1,000 managers have made the leap to become a chartered manager in the past year, here’s why you should do the same

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Topic: Productivity

Be the business launched to drive up British productivity

If a lot of companies do just a little better, then it could add £130bn to the UK economy, the movement says.

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Topic: Productivity

Who Will Be the Next Winner in the Digital Evolution?

Phase 3 of the digital evolution is upon us.We’ll see faster adoption of technologies and a higher impact as they are adopted

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Topic: Productivity

Why Your Business Transformations Fail

It’s time to ask why so many businesses fail to make their development plans a success. Could it be down to the human factor?

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Topic: Productivity

Why Happiness at Work is Good for the Bottom Line

Your intuition tells you it is true, and now here’s the research to tell you why it is true (and how to make the most of it)

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Topic: Personal Development

Top Tips for Effective Networking

From connecting emotionally to understanding your end goal, here are seven ways to make the most of your networking

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