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Topic: Personal Development

Carbon literacy for managers: explained

Is a lack of climate literacy preventing managers from taking positive climate action? This is what you need to know

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Topic: Crisis Management

The Last of Us: ethical leadership lessons from a killer fungus apocalypse

Would you “kill” one person to save a group of others? The show explored (some) ethically grey decisions that managers face

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Topic: Personal Development

Green skills: what are they and why managers need to acquire them now

In many ways, green skills are management skills. But managers and leaders need to make a firm commitment to acquiring them

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Embracing Equity in Management & Leadership

Explore gender equality and equity from a management and leadership in the workplace perspective.

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Unlocking Rural Business Potential

Gain insights on the challenges and opportunities in rural business.

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CMI Highlights – 22 March 2023

Our thoughts on Help to Hire; Ann Francke reflects on IWD. And: the winner of CMI’s Management Book of the Year is…

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Topic: Personal Development

CMgr isn’t just for line managers

Aged just 27, Frazer Lowrie questioned if he had the right creds to become a Chartered Manager. Turns out he had plenty

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Topic: Support and Wellbeing

How to stomp the Sunday Scaries out of your team

The Monday blues can be a sign of serious cultural issues – and can have a devastating impact on retention and productivity

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Topic: Managing Conflict

“Memo to managers: embrace productive disagreement”

The author of this year’s CMI Management Book of the Year Simon Fanshawe on The Power of Difference

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Topic: Gender

Closing the gender pay gap: “Flexibility is most important”

More work must be done. CEO of Encompass Equality Joy Burnford shares three practical steps business can take immediately

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Topic: Personal Development

So what makes a great leader, really? – Five things your team expects from you

Based on extensive research into what makes an effective leader, Jo Owen CMgr CCMI shares five qualities your team expect

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Topic: Flexibility

Night owls vs morning larks: Is the 9–5 outdated?

What if there was a better way to structure the working day – based on employees’ own body clocks…

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