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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Did difficult conversations just get easier?

For consultants, it can be difficult to tell a client the true extent of their problems.

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Topic: Crisis Management

The view from Asia: how Covid-19 is reshaping management

From personal resilience to digital transformation, four CMI leaders share insights about Covid-inspired change

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Topic: Crisis Management

Managing a Marathon Crisis: What can we learn?

CMI’s Management Transformed study provides vital insights for managers beyond the Covid-19 crisis

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Topic: Governance

How to be the kind of leader people trust

Exercising ‘informal power’ is the way to get things done, but trust is hard to acquire and easy to lose

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Here’s your five-point personal wellbeing watchlist

Five tried-and-tested techniques to look after your own and your team’s wellbeing day-to-day – by a top psychology consultant

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Should senior managers check in with people who aren’t their direct reports?

We’re encouraged to dial up our empathy and check in with employees but how do you do this without treading on managers toes?

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Topic: Crisis Management

How to find your Goldilocks zone (where the pressure is ‘juuust right’)

Right now life is stressful. Some pressure is motivating but too much damages our performance. Here’s how to find the balance

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Here’s how to get to know your team better

Your team may be feeling low as lockdowns and social restrictions take force. It’s time for some serious team analysis

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Topic: Employment Landscape

The changing face of employee happiness

As the UK faces circuit-breakers and lockdowns, it’s more important than ever to study the trends in employee happiness and s

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Topic: Flexibility

Overcoming the big five challenges of managing remote teams

Remote work is only an obstacle when seeing it the wrong way. Here’s a few ways you can make it work for you, not against you

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Topic: Crisis Management

How to think on your feet: lead better with the secrets of improvised comedy

Check out this five-minute masterclass from one of the UK’s top comedy improvisers on how you can get in the moment

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Three techniques for a positive mindset (even when you’re rattled)

Much of success comes down to developing the right mindset. A recent CMI webinar outlined three techniques to develop one

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