Over 600 Consultants, Business and Government leaders attended the new Chartered Management Consultant Award today Key speakers included Lord Grimstone, Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Anne Boden MBE, CEO of Starling Bank and Bruce Carnegie-Brown, Chairman at Lloyd’s Attendees heard from leading clients and members about the new award and the importance and impact it will have on future consultancy buying decisions. Over 600 Consultants, Business and Government leaders attended the launch of the new Chartered Management Consultant Award (ChMC) created in a joint partnership between the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), the trade association for the UK’s leading consulting firms, and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the UK’s leading chartered professional body for management and leadership. The initiative has been developed for the purposes of setting and maintaining the highest standards in the management consulting profession and creating an award which recognises consistent and high levels of professional competency and achievement. The launch event captured and highlighted the importance of this award for the industry and the value that it can bring by inspiring higher levels of client trust and confidence.

Dr Adam Marshall, former Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), has become a Senior Adviser to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)  with immediate effect. 

The past year has been a turbulent one. We’ve seen the tragic killing of George Flloyd which has been the catalyst for a global outpouring of anger and grief towards racism and discrimination in society, adding huge momentum to the Black Lives Matter movement. Whilst the pandemic has highlighted some stark inequalities in British society.

New Research from @cmi_managers - Apprenticeships: Reskill to Rebuild  According to research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), management apprenticeships have had a positive impact on the success of those organisations that participated in the scheme. However, as the UK government starts to plan the country’s economic recovery, the CMI analysis estimates that even pre-Pandemic there were a staggering 1.3 million employers who were not offering any  apprenticeships.

#ManagementTransformed - Thinking ahead to the new world of work: Top Four ‘Lessons From Lockdown’  The Spending Review announcement last week focused heavily on lower-level skills and helping the unemployed.