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Topic: Employment Landscape

How to leverage AI while preserving human skills

What leaders and managers need to know to balance AI, automation and the human touch

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

EDI approaches that go ‘Beyond Buzzwords’

Embedding a systemic approach to Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) across the UK’s professions

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Topic: Gender

CMI celebrates International Women’s Day 2024: a message from CMI’s Patron, HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh GCVO

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Inspire Inclusion” – here are six actions that we can all take today

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Topic: Personal Development

“A dedication to lifelong learning and good management”

Meet one of the pioneers of professional management and leadership

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Topic: Productivity

Spring Budget 2024; CMI Submission

CMI’s representation to the UK Government’s 2024 Spring Budget.

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Topic: Employment Landscape

UK 2030 needs and deserves the best managers possible

CMI research: The UK needs to invest more in management development to boost its productivity and enhance its public services

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Highlights – 28 February

How to deal with the risks ahead – and why it’s never too late to change course

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UK Management 2030

The UK is not where it should be when it comes to the quality of management. “Management and UK 2030” shows why that matters.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

The real change makers: how middle managers can transform culture

“Circles of influence”: Why middle managers play a crucial role in driving change

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Topic: Project Management

Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown

Prebagaran Jayaraman shares why reframing your mindset around project risk can lead to increased project opportunities

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Topic: Crisis Management

Hacking in a hybrid world: how to minimise your cyber risks

“Managing risk is not an absolute – it’s a moving target”: here’s how to protect your organisation against cyber risk

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Topic: Crisis Management

Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

You’ll never entirely remove risk, so are you prepared for the unthinkable? Here’s what scuba diving can teach you

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