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Topic: Personal Development

Drugs. Crime. Rehab. Management.

“There’s nothing I can do about the damage I caused in the past,” says entrepreneur Tobyn Brooks. “But I can share my story”

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Topic: Personal Development

How much should you share in your professional bio?

Leaders are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. So, how honest should you be when you share your backstory?

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Topic: Productivity

Skills, tools, mindset: cracking post-Covid collaboration

An expert group of CMI Companions discusses how managers and leaders can best facilitate collaboration in a new world of work

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Topic: Productivity

Time to jazz it up – literally: Six leadership lessons from jazz music

Collaboration and innovation are the beating heart of jazz music. Time to take some lessons from the likes of Louis Armstrong

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Topic: Governance

Management in a crisis: derisking supply chains

With supply chains across the world enduring shortages and delays, is your supply chain prepared for the unexpected?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How many women do you work with?

Despite moves towards diversity across all sectors, some are still very male-dominated. How can we bring more balance?

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Topic: Crisis Management

Management in a time of crisis: economic shockwaves from the Ukraine war

The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is having an impact across the global economy. What steps should responsible managers take?

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Topic: Workplace Culture

8 ways to support your employees through the cost of living crisis

With inflation and bills skyrocketing, you may not be able to offer all employees a pay rise. What else can managers do?

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Topic: Personal Development

Blockchain and why it’s impossible for managers to ignore

Cutting costs, boosting reliability, transforming data storage… blockchain has the potential to transform your organisation

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Let’s talk about Age in the workplace

Share your lived experiences and views on age inclusion in the workplace through our poll, open now.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Should you let remote employees work remotely abroad? You decide

Flexible working has become the norm for many office workers. But it begs the question: just how flexible can you be?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

“Constantly coming out”: the challenge for LGBT+ leaders

Tech leader Matt Haworth understands that LBGTQ+ leaders don’t always know who their peers are, so he started his own network

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