Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Consultancy

How to help your clients with ESG reporting

Why companies need to map where ESG data sits and fill any gaps – and how you can help your clients make a difference

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Topic: Personal Development

The “massive shock” of being named Chartered Manager of the Year

How one CMgr responded when work life was undermining her health

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Highlights – 10 April

On creating engaging work – from flexible working practices, to ensuring proper pay

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Topic: Hybrid Working

Work from abroad? 10 till 3? The hybrid pioneers shaking up work

Read this before you force your teams back into the office

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Topic: Hybrid Working

Hybrid teams: Six ways managers can unlock their untapped potential

Many managers lack the support and development to draw out all the benefits of hybrid working arrangements

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Topic: Flexibility

Making Hybrid Work for you and your Team

The research highlights the crucial role that management skills play in overcoming the obstacles to making hybrid work.

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Topic: Employee Engagement

Disengaged, apathetic, lacking ambition: What to do with team members who seem to have checked out

Sometimes, all workers need to rediscover their mojo are a few tweaks – and it’s managers’ job to help them

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Topic: Employee Engagement

How to engage workers? Help them discover their intrinsic motivation

Four levers to help workers discover their intrinsic motivation

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Time to switch off? Smartphones in the office – You decide

Should personal smartphone use be limited in the office? The CMI community weighs in

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Topic: Hybrid Working

“It was a big shock”: How to manage (and mediate) a hybrid team

An “accidental manager” shares her journey from novice to expert in hybrid team management

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Topic: Personal Development

Leading in adult education: “Chartered status helped me verify my skills”

The principal of an adult education institute on “doing more with less” and how CMI membership has helped him

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Highlights – 27 March

Why ‘Quit-Tok’ is a viral wake-up call. Plus, the power of flexibility – for people and organisations

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