Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Personal Development

New data: where managers are most (and least) confident

We analysed initial data from the CMI Management Diagnostic tool – and discovered where managers see their own skills gaps

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Topic: Employability

Employability Audit: Get ready to get ahead

Learn the key elements required to be more successful in your current role or to get ahead in your next role.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Men’s Mental Health: Cultivating Empathetic Leadership

Discover the value of empathetic leadership in order to raise awareness of the challenges facing men’s mental health.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

ESG: Leading the charge without impacting business performance

Discover six simple tools for leaders to deliver change without affecting profits

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

And the hot-button issue for management consultants is…

Speaking to consultants about the key challenges facing clients, one set of issues keeps coming up

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Topic: Governance

Rishi Sunak: this chapter must not be exciting – that’s why we need a manager

Apparently “boring is back”. That’s why we need more management and less leadership from our new PM, says one CMI Companion

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Topic: Productivity

Servant leadership: “The most powerful concept of leadership”

Learn more about the theory behind the servant leadership model, a management style defined by “reverse autocracy”

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

What you lose if you fall back on age stereotypes

A new CMI documentary has practical insights to counter age discrimination and revolutionise your managerial practice

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Topic: Personal Development

Is perfectionism holding you back?

Kenneth Frendo CMgr was successful, a perfectionist. But he had to learn it was okay to trust his team and make mistakes

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Men’s mental health: looking out for your male colleagues

Three times as many men as women die by suicide. This is how to notice a male colleague is struggling and get them to open up

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Topic: Employability

Secure your Dream Job in Times of Uncertainty

Discover the valuable steps you should take to earn that dream role in an unstable job market.

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Topic: Employment Landscape

The Future of the Apprenticeship Levy

CMI and UVAC set out their joint vision for a positive reform agenda to raise productivity and deliver economic growth

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