CEO's Blog

Read the latest thoughts, analysis, and observations from CMI's Chief Executive, Ann Francke OBE.

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Topic: Employment Landscape

To hire internally or externally? That is the question

Should you develop one of your team, or bring in new talent from outside? This CMgr helps you decide

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Topic: Productivity

Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity?

Not quite, thinks Dr Hugh Billot MCMI. Discover his five tools to enhance your company’s productivity

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Topic: Personal Development

Why just being vulnerable won’t cut it

Leaders and managers are told to show their human side. It’s certainly a powerful tool – as long as you remember to lead too

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Topic: Change Management

Three attributes all leaders need to survive in the age of ChatGPT

ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app in the world with unprecedented power. Avoid it, and you risk being a “casualty” of AI

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Topic: Communication

Informal networks: Strategies for middle managers to boost their influence

Leadership just got harder. It’s not just about brains and emotional intelligence, PQ is key to building a trusted network

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Workplace adjustments: “Managers are loyal, ill-equipped, and overworked”

The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey results revealed. “When I relayed these findings, one manager cried with relief”

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Topic: Gender

The pandemic and the great leap backwards for gender equality

Hybrid work may turn out to be a giant leap backwards for gender equality unless we manage it well and #EmbraceEquity

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Topic: Gender

“Leader-full” leadership: Lessons from women in power

Author Arwa Mahdawi outlines a lesson she has learned from strong female leaders: empathy is essential

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Topic: Change Management

The Metaverse: It’s Time for Action

The Metaverse is a disruptive force on the horizon coming ever closer – how will you harness it for your business?

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Topic: Governance

Rishi Sunak: this chapter must not be exciting – that’s why we need a manager

Apparently “boring is back”. That’s why we need more management and less leadership from our new PM, says one CMI Companion

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