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Topic: Change Management

“Organisations need to prepare for a new type of cyber crime”

AI, geopolitics, supply chains: the evolving risks to be aware of in order to combat the latest cyber security threats

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Seven power skills business consultants need to work successfully alongside AI

Learn how to dial up your superpowers, craft the perfect client engagement strategy and chart a path to success

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Topic: Neurodiversity

How can you support a neurodivergent employee who finds communication difficult?

A lot of highly capable, neurodivergent people communicate and approach work differently. This is how you can support them

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Topic: Governance

New trends in boardroom behaviours, by the boardroom expert

“From Satnav to Maps”: Patrick Dunne CMgr CCMI reflects on the changes that the Covid pandemic has ushered into boardrooms

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Topic: Communication

How to communicate when words fail

Have you tried to communicate something to your team that hasn’t gone as you planned? Here’s how to bounce back

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Topic: Communication

Should you always have work notifications switched on?

What do notifications do to your brain? Should we keep them switched on 24/7? This is how to strike a balance

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Topic: Productivity

Lessons in productivity from the Workshop of the World

CMI took an in-depth look at the West Midlands to discover ways that UK regions can drive up productivity

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CMI Highlights – 12 July 2023

Driving productivity and growth across the UK, plus ChMC of the Year finalists revealed

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Topic: Productivity

A Picture of Health?

CMI has partnered with the Social Market Foundation to examine the state of leadership & management in the healthcare sector.

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The Leading Issue – Dr Sally Penni

Join CMI CEO Ann Francke OBE and Dr Sally Penni MBE, CMgr CCMI an award-winning and passionate lawyer and TED talk speaker.

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Topic: Change Management

Innovation by Design

Learn how using a human centred design approach delivers successful change.

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Topic: Sexual Orientation

The changes the LGBTQIA+ community wants to see at work

We examined the findings from an important new survey on what the LGBTQIA+ community wants for a more inclusive workplace

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