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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Starter for ten: the manager’s guide to whistleblowing

To create an inclusive culture where people can speak up, normalise having difficult conversations and focus on listening

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Pay transparency: Should we be talking about salaries?

Finding out your coworker takes home more than you can be extremely demoralising. Can more transparency encourage change?

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Topic: Personal Development

Three lives that were transformed by the CMI bursary

Three recipients of the CMI bursary share their inspirational stories

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Topic: Personal Development

The Secrets of writing Engaging LinkedIn Articles

Learn how to utilise your LinkedIn content to make you standout as a business and as a candidate.

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CMI Highlights – 5 April 2023

New newsletter to propel your PD! And: CMI Women lineup confirmed; Ann Francke on handling critical feedback

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Topic: Change Management

Sustainability: You’re never too junior to make a difference

You don’t have to own a company to make an impact. Get inspired by these intrapreneurial stories

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Topic: Personal Development

Carbon literacy for managers: explained

Is a lack of climate literacy preventing managers from taking positive climate action? This is what you need to know

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Topic: Crisis Management

The Last of Us: ethical leadership lessons from a killer fungus apocalypse

Would you “kill” one person to save a group of others? The show explored (some) ethically grey decisions that managers face

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Topic: Personal Development

Green skills: what are they and why managers need to acquire them now

In many ways, green skills are management skills. But managers and leaders need to make a firm commitment to acquiring them

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Embracing Equity in Management & Leadership

Explore gender equality and equity from a management and leadership in the workplace perspective.

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Unlocking Rural Business Potential

Gain insights on the challenges and opportunities in rural business.

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CMI Highlights – 22 March 2023

Our thoughts on Help to Hire; Ann Francke reflects on IWD. And: the winner of CMI’s Management Book of the Year is…

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