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Topic: Communication

World-class performance in your team. Why not?

The mindset that underpins workplace culture is often overlooked – yet it determines the quality of work in your team

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Covid-19 may achieve the impossible: it might make us fall back in love with the office

Managing remote workforces comes with challenges and upsides – but is a surprising outcome that we appreciate the office?

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Topic: Employment Landscape

“Don’t just have Plan A; have Plans B and C too”

The lessons I’ve learned about adaptability and resilience from interviewing more than 20 Chartered Managers

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Topic: Communication

Managing Upwards

How do you manage your manager and keep sane? Here are some tips on how to manage when your manager doesn’t!

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Topic: Governance

Lessons in kindness from a top-50 kind leader

Tamara Box CMgr CCMI is one of the UK’s 50 Kindness & Leadership Leading Lights. She explains why kindness is so valuable

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Topic: Personal Development

‘Share sparkling as well as challenging moments’: CMI members share lessons from 2020

Have a clear vision. Go with the flow. Share sparkling moments as well as challenges. The CMI community shares 2020 learnings

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Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

How to help your team thrive in 2021

CMI has launched a new wellbeing toolkit to enable you to boost the mental health of yourself and your team

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Topic: Personal Development

Here’s to a year of communication and competence (please!)

Truly human leadership will get us and our people through a tough 2021.

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Topic: Flexibility

How to be a Flexible First organisation

This #FlexibleFirst Toolkit, produced with contributions from CMI, provides reasons for flexible working practices.

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Topic: Governance

Mission critical: the management hot topics

John Board dean of Henley Business School and top NHS leader Delroy Beverley share what’s on their radar for 2021

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Topic: Governance

“Managing threat and risk completely changed” – an in-depth look at reactive police force leadership

Police Chief Superintendent Paul Griffiths CMgr CCMI, talks about his leadership style during the Covid-19 crisis

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Topic: Personal Development

CMI’s CMgr of the Year relives six months of transformation

Manisha Mistry CMgr explains how Covid-19 accelerated positive, digital transformation at Rolls-Royce

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