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Topic: Crisis Management

Risk management vs crisis management – are you in the right mode?

What happens when risk flips into crisis? Do you have the tools and behaviours required?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Ethical and Inclusive Leadership: Why does it matter?

Discover the insights from the CMI and YouGov partnership study, revealing the impact of poor management on organisations.

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Myth busting (or how an apprenticeship gave me the edge)

Apprenticeships: non-academic and just for boys? Think again, argues high-flying apprentice Kate Walker

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CMI Highlights – 14 February

The highlights from National Apprenticeship Week 2024 – and how management apprenticeships boost your career

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Topic: Consultancy

Change management trends for 2024

Uncertainty and the pace of change continue to increase – how can change managers ensure they add value to clients?

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Topic: Consultancy

“Burningness” and growing outside-in beliefs: five ways to give customers what they really want

Speak directly to customers and don’t ignore inconvenient truths – how organisations can be more customer-centric

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are important – here are five ways they could be better

From flexibility to future-readiness, here’s what an expert panel at a recent CMI event had to say about apprenticeships

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Topic: Crisis Management

How to fight fires with critical command decision making

Assistant chief fire officer Richard Stanton CMgr shares how decision making under intense pressure can in fact be taught

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Topic: Apprenticeships

Booster jab! How better management is invigorating healthcare

An Executive Master’s course is giving doctors the management and leadership skills to drive their organisations forward

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Topic: Apprenticeships

“My management apprenticeship helped me get a job as a CEO”

Looking to skill up? Discover how a management apprenticeship can give your career a boost

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Topic: Trust

Building trust: Elevating wellbeing and inclusion

It’s time to delve into the core of transformative leadership — trustworthiness.

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Topic: Employee Engagement

Employer or employee – who’s responsible for value creation?

Both employers and employees play their part in increasing the value of the organisation, explains Taranjeet Singh CMgr CCMI

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