Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Consultancy

“Burningness” and growing outside-in beliefs: five ways to give customers what they really want

Speak directly to customers and don’t ignore inconvenient truths – how organisations can be more customer-centric

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are important – here are five ways they could be better

From flexibility to future-readiness, here’s what an expert panel at a recent CMI event had to say about apprenticeships

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Topic: Crisis Management

How to fight fires with critical command decision making

Assistant chief fire officer Richard Stanton CMgr shares how decision making under intense pressure can in fact be taught

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Booster jab! How better management is invigorating healthcare

An Executive Master’s course is giving doctors the management and leadership skills to drive their organisations forward

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Topic: Apprenticeships

“My management apprenticeship helped me get a job as a CEO”

Looking to skill up? Discover how a management apprenticeship can give your career a boost

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Topic: Trust

Building trust: Elevating wellbeing and inclusion

It’s time to delve into the core of transformative leadership — trustworthiness.

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Topic: Employee Engagement

Employer or employee – who’s responsible for value creation?

Both employers and employees play their part in increasing the value of the organisation, explains Taranjeet Singh CMgr CCMI

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Apprentices, this is how to ace your End Point Assessment exam

Dr Neel Sharma recently completed his End Point Assessment with Distinction. Here, he shares his winning tips

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Topic: Productivity

Your pathway to authentic leadership

Being authentic can boost your team’s performance — find out how in this infographic

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CMI Highlights – 31 January

Banging the drum for great management everywhere, from the school corridor to the hybrid team.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How senior leaders can transform culture – and refresh and re-energise their workforce

In the first in a series of articles on transforming organisational culture, we focus on how senior leaders can drive change

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Topic: Productivity

Authenticity at work boosts team performance

Want to optimise your team’s performance? New research shows it’s not just leaders that need to be authentic

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