Knowledge and Insights

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Topic: Employability

Is the CV dead?

With the growing popularity of personality and skills tests during the recruitment process, do you even need a CV anymore?

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Topic: Personal Development

How to be a pro-sustainability leader

Punit Jaipal Shah CMgr is an engineer, musician – and big believer in managers’ roles in combating climate change

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Topic: Personal Development

Why do leaders find it so difficult to talk about inclusion?

If you think talking about inclusion will expose you as a dinosaur, you may be right. Time to find some bravery and curiosity

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Topic: Personal Development

How to lead when managing competing priorities

The situation is chaotic. Everyone’s stressed. Where does your duty lie: to the task, the team or the individual?

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

The top five toxic traits of the modern workplace

A toxic work environment can affect your employees’ health and your staff turnover. Here’s five signs to look out for

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Bridging the Gender Pay Gap – Research Recommendations

Read King’s College London’s report which provides recommendations to improve gender pay gap reporting legislation.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Intersectionality in the Workplace

Introduction to Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality when considering race, gender, age, and disability (1989) in the UK.

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Topic: Productivity

CMI’s Submission to the 2021 Comprehensive Spending Review

Management and leadership skills can unlock Britain’s future. CMI publishes its priorities ahead of the 2021 CSR

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Topic: Flexibility

Future Leadership: In the fourth Industrial Revolution

we look at factors shaping the future workforce and discuss the culture that leadership must create in order to compete.

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Topic: Flexibility

Leading Through Change: Cyber Security

Find out how technology in the workplace has changed, and what the best practices for cyber security are.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Hybrid Working: Culture and wellbeing in the “new normal”

Embracing a hybrid working model; this event explored the impact this has on organisational culture and employee wellbeing.

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Topic: Personal Development

Are graduates ready for work? New CMI research

A new CMI report identifies the key ‘ready-for-hire’ skills that graduates need to boost their employability

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