Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Educate and Empower: Addressing the Gender Pay Gap

Explore the causes and implications of the Gender Pay Gap and what businesses are doing to address the issue.

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Topic: Governance

Boost your Business through help to grow

Learn more about the Help to Grow scheme.

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Topic: Personal Development

Leadership lessons from cricket’s racism scandal, or: how not to handle workplace racism

The case of Azeem Rafiq shows how much further we have to go to tackle workplace racism. These are five lessons for leaders

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Topic: Governance

How to rate your boss (and yourself)

When leaders break the rules (yes, also Covid rules), they lose trust. And trust, like a broken vase, is very hard to mend

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Topic: Personal Development

Pivoting at pace: The secrets of building personal agility at work

Now is a great time to become a bit more agile. Here’s how to become someone who can remain in control while moving at pace

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Five ways to ensure your hiring is EDI compliant

Expert tips on how to make sure your organisation appeals to the widest pool of talent

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Topic: Personal Development

How education is opening up the path to management

The International Day of Education is all about making training more sustainable. We know that employability skills are key

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Breaking Barriers for Women in Tech

Explore the challenges and obstacles women currently face, and delve into the wealth of opportunities for women in tech.

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Topic: Personal Development

“What we have witnessed is Servant Leadership at its best”

CMI’s chair in Malaysia gives a moving account of the recent natural disaster there and the leadership lessons learned

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How to make intrapreneurship work for you

Learn how to cultivate your own creative culture and allow intrapreneurialism to boost your business success

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Topic: Governance

Are you ready for a four-day work week?

More and more companies are adopting or piloting a four-day working week for the same pay. Can it work? And if so, how?

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Low mood and the January blues

While we know Blue Monday is a myth, it’s true that many of us struggle with our mental wellbeing through the winter months

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