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Topic: Employee Engagement

It’s All About Relationships: Engaging your Employees

Gain an understanding of how and why you should engage with your employees and team members to drive success for all.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Moving the Dial: Good Conversations

Explore Corndel’s journey to be an anti-racist organisation and the steps they have taken to support people who face racism.

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Topic: Employability

Pay rises and promotions in the time of Covid

In normal circumstances, career progression is incredibly important to many of us. But right now, many people feel stuck

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

This leader made a career of being a diversity and inclusion straight-talker

Zaheer Ahmad MBE explains how he made real progress on diversity and inclusion by having the courage to speak up

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Deep dive: Seven rules for ‘hybrid’ remote and office working

When we do finally return to workplaces and offices, managers and leaders should learn these effective lessons

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Topic: Employment Landscape

The changing landscape of education, before and after Covid-19

Two higher education leaders on how we set learners up with the skills to thrive in the workforce of the future

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Topic: Governance

Three management and leadership trends for the new normal

How to capture the best new working practices – and avoid snapping back into old in-office norms, with Bruce Carnegie Brown

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Topic: Ethnicity

Inclusive Leadership: From why to how

Inclusive leadership offers access to greater ideas, impetus and skills. It could be your organisation’s most powerful asset.

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

These proven techniques will help you and your team beat burnout

Fight or flight? Try rest and digest. A renowned neuroscientist teaches us how to deal with burnout – for good

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

CMI response to ethnic disparities and inequality in the UK

CMI publishes its response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities call for evidence

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How to keep your company culture in a contact-free world

Organisational culture is under threat in this strange new, contact-free world. How do you preserve your special workplace?

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Topic: Personal Development

Five proven methods to achieve true self-awareness

Great leaders understand their strengths and weaknesses. But achieving genuine self-awareness is not always easy

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