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Highlights – 18 September

Set a shining example: how to support, recruit and develop teams (all while beating the post-summer slump)

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How to be an inclusive leader (without virtue signalling)

Research: having a properly trained manager is the most influential factor in people feeling supported at work

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Topic: Productivity

The post-summer blues are here. How can you help your team through them?

How to rally your team’s morale as the days get shorter

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Topic: Personal Development

“They had a private bar on the top floor!”: The good, bad and ugly of management role modelling

The management behaviours that inspire others (and those that don’t)

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Topic: Productivity

How to communicate urgency without stressing out your team

How do you convey a sense of urgency while keeping everyone on side?

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Topic: Personal Development

When did you realise you couldn’t “wing it” as a manager?

One Chartered Manager shares a crucial turning point in her career

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Walking the walk?

This report identifies a critical yet overlooked factor for driving change: the role of managers.

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Topic: Personal Development

“Managers owe it to others to reflect on the impact they are having”

Chartered Manager of the Week Professor Sara Spear CMgr MCMI on self-reflection (and becoming a better manager)

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Topic: Productivity

Highlights – 5 September

Today’s management challenges: happiness, generation gaps and “cocky” employees

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Topic: Personal Development

CMI Awards of Excellence 2024 shortlist announced

We reveal the candidates who stood out to the judges

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Read all about it! 2024’s best management writing (and podcasts), revealed!

The Management Publication of the Year 2024 longlist is announced

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Topic: Productivity

“They feel infallible”: can a team member be too confident?

Getting the most out of overconfident or “cocky” team members…

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