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A key topic for great leadership, right now.

High performance
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The latest ideas and fresh thinking from around the world.

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Guest expert shares their latest insights on the future of leadership

Recent Hot Topics
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Designing Work for What Comes Next: From Flexibility to Intentional Design

Every year leaves behind habits, lessons, and momentum that shape the next. As 2025 closes, leaders face a pivotal choice: keep reacting or start designing. The year ahead will reward those who move from activity to intention; designing work that is clear, sustainable, and human. What we improve now will identify how we lead, create, and perform in 2026.

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Designing Work for What Comes Next: From Flexibility to Intentional Design

From Policy to Practice: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Core Strategy
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From Policy to Practice: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Core Strategy

How structural insight, clear purpose, and practical system design drive Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

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From Policy to Practice:  Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Core Strategy

Learning from Feedback and Setbacks
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Learning from Feedback and Setbacks

Feedback and setbacks are essential to professional growth. When processed through reflection, they turn experience into learning and resilience. This Hot Topic explores how feedback loops, reflective practice, and psychological safety enable professionals to turn challenge into development, building confidence, adaptability, and sustained performance.

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Learning from Feedback and Setbacks

Adapting to Change
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Adapting to Change

Change is constant in data-driven environments. For data analysts, adapting effectively to new tools, priorities, and stakeholder expectations is vital to maintaining quality and impact. This hot topic explores the organisational and psychological foundations of adaptability, demonstrating how analysts can adjust their methods, workflows, communication, and mindset to remain effective in dynamic business contexts.

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Adapting to Change

Managing Stress and Maintaining Performance
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Managing Stress and Maintaining Performance

Managing stress while maintaining performance is a critical skill in data-driven workplaces where cognitive load and tight deadlines are constant. This hot topic explores how autonomy, motivation, and self-awareness enable individuals to transform stress from a limiting factor into a source of focus, resilience, and sustained achievement.

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Managing Stress and Maintaining Performance

Identifying and Sourcing Data
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Identifying and Sourcing Data

Identifying and sourcing data involves locating, evaluating, and acquiring internal and external datasets that meet specific analytical objectives. This process requires consideration of data relevance, quality, accessibility, and ethical use to ensure that sourced data supports accurate, compliant, and value-driven insights (Krasikov & Legner, 2023).

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Identifying and Sourcing Data

Data Architecture
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Data Architecture

Data architecture provides the foundational blueprint for how data is captured, managed, and transformed into insight across an organisation. As data volumes expand and analytical demands evolve, the need for a coherent, scalable, and secure architecture has become critical. Effective data architecture enables consistency, accessibility, and compliance, ensuring that data serves as a reliable asset rather than a fragmented resource.

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Data Architecture

Structured vs. Unstructured Data
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Structured vs. Unstructured Data

Understanding the differences between structured and unstructured data is essential for modern data analysis. Structured data supports efficient reporting and business processes, while unstructured data provides rich insights from text, media, and other diverse formats. Knowing how to manage both enables analysts to apply the right tools and techniques, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and value in data-driven decisions.

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Structured vs. Unstructured Data

Data Cleaning Principles
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Data Cleaning Principles

Effective analysis depends on clean, well-structured data. This hot topic introduces key data cleaning principles used by analysts to prepare datasets for reliable insight generation. It outlines practical techniques to detect and address common quality issues, supporting better decision-making across contexts. As a core stage in the data analysis lifecycle, cleaning contributes directly to analytical accuracy, data integrity, and professional rigour (Chapman, 2005; Ilyas and Chu, 2019).

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Data Cleaning Principles

Law to Policy: What’s the Link?
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Law to Policy: What’s the Link?

Understanding the link between law and workplace policy is essential for anyone working in a business setting. Policies translate laws into clear, practical guidance for employees. Knowing how these connect helps you follow rules, protect rights, and support compliance.

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Law to Policy: What’s the Link?

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Become a Leader Your Employees Want To Follow

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Creating a Happier and Healthier Workforce

Creating a Happier and Healthier Workforce

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Better Management Training, Better Results

Better Management Training, Better Results

Our professional development courses are available to individuals or teams. Funded via the apprenticeship levy, the UK’s government apprenticeship scheme.

Essential Training to Grow Your Small Business

Essential Training to Grow Your Small Business

You can now get the same leadership, management and customer service training as the world’s most successful companies – funded via the government apprenticeship levy.

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Maximise your Apprenticeship Levy

The Apprenticeship Levy, now in its third year, can on the face of it appear complex and inflexible and is often overlooked as a solution to recurring HR and L&D challenges. The good news is, the Levy doesn’t have to be disruptive at all.

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Publicis Groupe

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Cheltenham College

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Assistant Manager

Canterbury Oast Trust

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HR Manager

DENSO Manufacturing UK Ltd

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Operations Manager HVAC

Reach PLC

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Abcam

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EHS Manager

Milling International Marketing Ltd

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Accounts Manager

Ferdinand Bilstein UK

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UK Head of Product, Pricing & Marketing

Boohoo

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