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Topic: Personal Development

Empowering leadership through somatic trauma-informed coaching: my CMI journey

Caron Sanders-Crook FCMI shares how studying for a CMI Level 7 Diploma deepened her approach to compassionate leadership

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Topic: Personal Development

“You have to keep moving forward, learning and progressing”

An opportunity at her new employer encouraged Kate Campbell-Balcombe to improve her leadership knowledge. CMI was the answer

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Topic: Personal Development

From freelance writer to digital marketing CEO: CMI helped me “learn on the fly”

Charlie Marchant ACMI fCMgr transformed the digital marketing agency where she freelanced: here’s how…

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Topic: Personal Development

Six tips for managing in uncertain times, from Baroness Minouche Shafik

The new chair of the Victoria & Albert Museum shared her thoughts on navigating crises with CMI chief executive Ann Francke

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Topic: Change Management

The Chartered Fellow helping Cumbria’s tourism and hospitality sectors manage an uncertain future

Sue Clarke CMgr FCMI, marketing manager at Cumbria Tourism, explains how her CMI training is helping her navigate change

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Topic: Employment Landscape

The podcast highlighting the challenges facing SMEs

The Enterprise Research Centre’s podcast, Exploring Enterprise, offers a look at the latest insights around small businesses

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Topic: Personal Development

“Everybody has a degree of leadership in them”: the Chartered Fellow tasked with keeping our MPs safe

Head of the Members of Parliament Security Service, Jo Oakley CMgr FCMI leads a team whose job is to ensure the safety of MPs

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Is middle management just a “thankless slog”?

Data says young people see middle management as an overburdened and underpaid position – so what needs to change?

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Three reasons our relationship with work has become strained

Global trends point to an overworked, disengaged and apprehensive workforce, Tim Duggan

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Topic: Personal Development

“Having that formal recognition can change people’s perceptions”

Deon Pillay CMgr MCMI says that perspectives on leadership are evolving

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