John Baker, our Managing Partner, will be giving a short talk on the state of leadership and management in the UK at a business breakfast in Bristol next week.
​The talk will cover recent research by the Chartered Management Institute on how managers and leaders are trained and low-cost ways that your managers and leaders can develop their knowledge and skills.
​The event is run by SevernNet, ​a not-for-profit enterprise, run by, and working for the benefit of, the businesses, organisations and the community extending from Royal Portbury Dock through Avonmouth, Severnside to Western Approach Industrial Park.

Employers across the UK are urged to back a school-to-work agenda in a new report published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the EY Foundation. This research incorporates the views of over 1,500 16-21-year-olds across the UK and highlights the challenges that young people face preparing for the world of work.  It is a candid snapshot of the experiences they have had in the workplace and of their hopes and fears for the future, in an age of uncertainty.

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We will be running one of our problem-solving sessions for SME owners and managers at a conference organised by the Chartered Management Institute on the 7th October.

The event is on the 7th October in Cullompton, Devon. It has been designed to be an interactive conference that will make you think as you explore your individual strengths, life balance, communication, networking, working smarter and personal productivity in the 21st Century.

For more information, and to book your place, go to the Chartered Management Institute's event page.

The Chartered Management Institute has just released a report that gives insight into how managers cope with adversity. 
The findings of the report, and the recommendations that it makes, are in line with what we experience.
Understanding and managing risk (through tools such as the bow tie) and building a culture where failures are seen as an opportunity to learn (through effective investigation) are at the core of what we do. 

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is the only chartered professional body for management and leadership, dedicated to improving managers’ skills and growing the number of qualified managers. 

Follow the CMI on Twitter at @cmi_managers: if you're based in the South West of England you can follow the regional branch at @CMISouthWest.

More than one in five managers who fell short of performance expectations in the last year still received bonus pay-outs, according to new data published today [10 May] by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and XpertHR.

Data from the 2016 National Management Salary Survey reveal that many managers and professional staff still reap the benefits of bonus pay outs despite falling short of expectations. Of those deemed to be underperforming or developing, 23% still received a bonus payment on top of their basic salary. The average bonus payments to this group were worth £4,270, or 12% of their basic pay, taking their total packages to £40,067. 
The data also suggest that so-called ‘rewards for failure’ could be even more common for more senior leaders. Among senior managers who fell short of performance expectations, as many as 43% took home bonuses.

Booking is now open for the Chartered Management Institute's networking event on the SS Great Britain on 2nd July - non-members welcome. Cost is only £5, and you get food & drink for that too!
You can register for the event through the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) website. If you want to find out more about the CMI or the event contact John Baker through his CMI email address.