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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: 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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Topic: Personal Development

Five ways to better connect with your customers or stakeholders

How behavioural economics can help you influence your customers’ or stakeholders’ decisions

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Red lines: what are your “non-negotiables” as a manager?

All managers have certain non-negotiable standards that they expect of their team. We asked five managers to share theirs.

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Highlights – 21 August

Electing to hone our skills – in health, happiness and harmonious leadership

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Topic: Productivity

Active improvements: why exercising at work matters

Two Chartered Managers share their tips for getting teams moving – even when they’re working at home…

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Topic: Productivity

Can (and should) we automate managers?

Human judgement, communication and collaboration are not at risk of being replaced

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7 August – Highlights

Getting a handle on workplace change: preventing AI “gunking up the system”, managing hybrid holidays – and the rest

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Topic: Productivity

What to do when a political argument breaks out at work

While conflict at work is inevitable, lasting damage isn’t, so long as managers make the appropriate interventions

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