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A new year message from Ann Francke OBE: Let’s be more Taylor Swift in 2024

As we enter a new year, here’s why Taylor Swift provides lessons for managers and leaders everywhere to follow

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CMI Highlights – 6 December

CMI’s 2023 award-winners revealed. Plus, better management practices for insecure workers and public sector managers

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Dame Anne Richards DBE: Why your career is like a river

CMI’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement award-winner explains her approach to leadership – and why trust is the greatest gift

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Topic: Workplace Culture

James Timpson OBE: “Business success depends on the happiness of our colleagues”

An upside-down leadership style bagged the CEO of Timpson the CMI Gold Medal

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Topic: Socio-economic

CMI Volunteer of the Year 2023: “It’s a chance for you to grow as a person”

Kirsty Watson CMgr FCMI has been volunteering since she was 14. She says helping other people is more important than ever

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Topic: Personal Development

Management Diagnostics: getting to the heart of organisational health

Valneva UK needed to inject their staff with an extra dose of purpose – the Management Diagnostics tool was the miracle cure

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CMI Highlights – 15 November

It’s conference season! Plus, CMI releases its latest research around insecure work and celebrates 10,000 new apprentices

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Topic: Personal Development

Collective coaching: Transforming leadership – together

Collective coaching encourages attendees to learn from each others’ experiences – and tackles tricky workplace problems

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Topic: Gender

“I had to work three times harder”: The professional struggles of women in STEM

One in four STEM professionals are women – here’s why industry leadership needs more flexibility and visibility

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CMI Highlights – 1 November

The huge impact of CMI’s Better Managed Britain campaign and how managers can support themselves and their staff

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Topic: Support and Wellbeing

How to support your staff with caring responsibilities

Three in five people in the UK will care for someone at some point in their lives. Here’s what managers need to consider

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Topic: Support and Wellbeing

Why is everyone so busy, and what can managers do about it?

Post-pandemic ‘busy-ness’ can be a serious problem. Here’s how to stop your team being overloaded, overwhelmed and over it

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