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Looking for top tips, checklists or listed ways to help you along with your management and leadership journey? You can find these here with practical tools and tips to help you to become a better manager.

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Topic: Personal Development

New research: The top five traits of good (and bad) managers

Here are the top five defining qualities of good (and bad) leadership, as revealed by CMI’s Better Managed Britain campaign

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Topic: Managing Failure

Five practical strategies to build your resilience muscle

Drawing inspiration from real-world leadership stories, these approaches will help you bounce back in the face of challenges

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

Five strategies to make difficult workplace conversations easier

Difficult conversations are tricky, but you can’t avoid them. Embracing vulnerability and strategising well will help

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Topic: Workplace Culture

Heritage branding: a tool for developing purpose and people

Don’t underestimate the strength of a shared heritage for fostering purpose and withstanding change

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Topic: Change Management

Five tips for cultivating an innovative mindset

What’s some of the latest thinking about how best to develop an innovative mindset? Here’s some of the latest expert insights

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Topic: Change Management

Benchmarking and horizon scanning: A manager’s guide

Frazer Lowrie CMgr shares his views on the top tools for internal and external benchmarking

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Five cutting-edge consulting insights for 2023

Brexit benefits and a secret weapon for market value. Keep your practice fresh with the latest insights from the MCJ

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Topic: Governance

Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies

These businesses have transformed their leadership approach, and they’re ideas that you can bring into your own organisation

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Topic: Personal Development

Four things Happy Valley tells us about hierarchical leadership

Hierarchical management structures have their pros and cons, and Happy Valley did a pretty good job at demonstrating both

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Topic: Employability

Skills of the future: Your Gen Z Toolkit

Discover the top five up-and-coming workplace skills. Want to incorporate them into how you work? Read on

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Topic: Governance

Flawed leadership: Sauron’s five worst management mistakes

These are the five biggest management issues that led to the collapse of Mordor – don’t make the same errors

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Topic: Personal Development

The four management books you really should check out this summer

Looking for leadership inspiration? These four stunning books are shortlisted for CMI’s Management Book of the Year 2022

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