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Topic: Workplace Culture

Should dogs be allowed in the office? – You Decide

Are pet-friendly offices an innovative post-Covid talent strategy or a nightmare waiting to happen? CMI’s community weighs in

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Starter for ten: the manager’s guide to whistleblowing

To create an inclusive culture where people can speak up, normalise having difficult conversations and focus on listening

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Pay transparency: Should we be talking about salaries?

Finding out your coworker takes home more than you can be extremely demoralising. Can more transparency encourage change?

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CMI Highlights – 5 April 2023

New newsletter to propel your PD! And: CMI Women lineup confirmed; Ann Francke on handling critical feedback

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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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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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