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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Are digital tools the answer to employees’ mental health issues?

Nothing beats face-to-face conversations but, with careful management, digital wellbeing solutions can play a unique part

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Time to make a change

What do we mean by inclusion and who exactly are we trying to include and why?

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Topic: Productivity

CMI Submission: Post-Pandemic Economic Growth

Read CMI’s submission to the “Post-Pandemic Economic Growth: Industrial Strategy” Select Committee Inquiry.

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Topic: Flexibility

The Future of the Workplace in the “New Normal”

Discuss how the pandemic tested our ‘traditional’ approach to work and share predictions for the future of the workplace.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

From a “rowing” to a “rafting” approach: how Covid-19 has shifted our people processes

How can we put our people first, and get the decision-making conditions right to help our organisations through crises?

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Topic: Employment Landscape

The growing need for more talent in Sri Lanka’s hospitality industry

Giving us an overview of the local tourism industry in the region, here’s how we can help it grow even further

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

What does best-practice Gender Pay Gap reporting look like?

For some companies, gender pay gap reporting is a legal requirement, but how do you make this data lead to actionable change?

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Topic: Crisis Management

Long read: How Covid-19 changed crisis management

We now know what a real crisis looks like. Now’s the time for managers to prepare for the next one

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Topic: Employability

Career advice… from TikTok?

In the hands of the digitally literate Gen-Z generation, social media is entering its next phase: career advice on TikTok

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Topic: Personal Development

There are nine types of leader, which one are you?

A top financial journalists has identified nine different leadership styles – plus one trait that all leaders need

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Topic: Productivity

The world’s most remote Chartered Manager?

How Dr Ranulf Scarbrough CMgr and team brought reliable high-speed internet to a remote collection of Pacific islands

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Topic: Crisis Management

How to turn imposter syndrome to your advantage

Brand guru Rita Clifton CBE talks about self-doubt, Olivia Colman, and being true to yourself

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