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Topic: Apprenticeships

Apprentices, this is how to ace your End Point Assessment exam

Dr Neel Sharma recently completed his End Point Assessment with Distinction. Here, he shares his winning tips

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Topic: Productivity

Your pathway to authentic leadership

Being authentic can boost your team’s performance — find out how in this infographic

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CMI Highlights – 31 January

Banging the drum for great management everywhere, from the school corridor to the hybrid team.

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Topic: Workplace Culture

How senior leaders can transform culture – and refresh and re-energise their workforce

In the first in a series of articles on transforming organisational culture, we focus on how senior leaders can drive change

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Topic: Productivity

Authenticity at work boosts team performance

Want to optimise your team’s performance? New research shows it’s not just leaders that need to be authentic

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Topic: Employee Engagement

What is ‘purpose’? Six steps to lead your organisation to higher ground

Alison Taylor’s new book will give you a fresh perspective on purpose – and how to get the best from your team

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Topic: Productivity

Top of the class: How better management boosts education

Head teacher Andrew Martin CMgr FCMI explores the difference that quality leadership can make to the education sector

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Resolving the great WFH vs office debate

As the hybrid work revolution turns four, is this the last battle of the return-to-work war?

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Topic: Productivity

Rethinking leadership amidst global crises

Rapid growth has driven a global sustainability crisis but how do we rethink leadership with sustainability at the centre?

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Topic: Employment Landscape

Providing security: how to give insecure workers a firmer foundation

Managers may feel they lack the resources, power and support to help support insecure workers. Here are seven practical tips

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Topic: Productivity

Management and leadership in local government report

CMI has partnered with the Social Market Foundation to examine the state of leadership & management in local government.

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Childcare Entitlements and Support in the Workplace

Discover insights on government childcare entitlements and workplace support from a recent CMI panel survey

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