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Topic: Consultancy

Why getting ahead of the game pays dividends as a management consultant

Zarina Naqvi CMC ChMC FIC has spent her career transforming businesses, and always manages to stay ahead of the curve

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CMI President’s Dinner: toasting trailblazers and transformation

This year’s CMI President’s Dinner was another celebration of “the very best of modern, inclusive and effective leadership”

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Topic: Menopause

How to create (and sustain) a menopause-friendly workplace

How can managers offer better support to menopausal employees? It starts with a culture change…

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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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Beyond the catwalk: How strong management skills drive success for fashion students

NTU’s CMI-accredited Fashion Management degree equips students with leadership, strategy, and sustainability skills to thrive

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Topic: Personal Development

“You can achieve anything if you try hard enough”

Sandy Farar CMgr FCMI took great risks to build her career – but her hard work and resilience paid off

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Highlights – 14 May

Middle management, cost-cutting and Tupperware: another week of meeting management challenges

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How can managers help remove barriers facing disabled employees?

We ask how managers can better support disabled employees at work (and what support managers themselves need)

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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: Employment Landscape

How startups can scale and “change the world”

Ian Gray and John Bessant share why growth requires privateers, a multiplayer mindset and a Tupperware approach to networking

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Building NHS talent from the ground up

Level 3 BA apprenticeships are developing the next generation of NHS workers at Dudley NHS Foundation Trust.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

When the going gets tough: how we manage in challenging times

Managers face an unprecedented range of challenges today. We asked four Chartered Managers how they handle tough times…

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