Knowledge and Insights

Welcome to CMI’s knowledge and insights hub. Here you’ll find practical guidance and resources to help you with the challenges managers face on a daily basis.

The hub is also home to our cutting-edge research and policy work, keeping you at the forefront of the discussions happening in the management profession.

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Topic: Communication

Communicating Strategically Through Change

Learn practical communication strategies and gain valuable insights to empower you to navigate transformation effectively.

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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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Five highlights from the 2023 CMI President’s Dinner

The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Secure leadership for an insecure economy

More than six million people in the UK workforce are in insecure jobs, and this creates a whole set of management challenges

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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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Fiona Dawson: “My imperative is around breaking down barriers for people”

CMI’s new president Fiona Dawson CBE CMgr CCMI on good and bad management and the leaders who inspired her

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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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Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit: 8 leadership secrets from an acclaimed company founder

Richard Harpin CMgr CCMI, founder and chairman of HomeServe, shares his eight secrets for business success

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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

Chartership: Transforming Consulting Careers and Firms

Explore the significance and benefits of ChMC.

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Management Apprenticeships in Action

CMI sets out a vision for a positive reform agenda to raise productivity and deliver economic growth.

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Topic: Governance

Values based leadership and motivation

Explore how values based leadership can be a powerful catalyst for promoting team motivation.

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