In recent years, working with our clients, we have noticed a common trend focusing on employees engagement. I believe It all started when a book by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman reported on the stunning discovery that the greatest managers have a habit of “first break all the rules” as the book was titled. In Read more...
Find out at our upcoming IMI Business Finance Briefing with Cormac Lucey on Wednesday, 13th February. Understanding your business’ critical numbers is not about doing your accountants job, rather it’s about knowing your businesses financial health at all times and knowing how the decisions you make affect the company accounts. Cormac Lucey, Programme Director of Read more...
The IMI Diploma in Data Business leading to an MSc in Data Business The companies of tomorrow are already thriving today on the fact that harnessing data not only delivers an exceptional user experience to all stakeholders, but also drives incremental organisational change, while reducing time and costs spent on IT and encouraging company-wide innovation. Read more...
Gain an exclusive insight into the High Performance system that saw the Irish Boxing Team return from London 2012 with four Olympic medals. Fergus Barry, IMI Programme Director for the Diploma in Strategic HRM will host a conversation with Billy Walsh, Head Coach of the Irish Olympic Boxing Team and explore the practices underpinning this phenomenal Read more...
As managers and leaders, how can we keep ourselves and our teams consistently motivated over time and how can we achieve this against a challenging economic backdrop? This will be the topic of our next IMI Evening Briefing – SMILE! The briefing will be led by Brendan Foley and will take place on Wednesday September 19th Read more...
IMI’s Dr Jonathan Westrup has written a chapter entitled ‘Regulatory Governance’ in the newly published book Irish Governance in Crisis. The book which was edited by Niamh Hardiman and published by Manchester University Press was launched yesterday by Brendan Howlin, TD, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. “While the cost of failures of regulation are Read more...
Applications are now being invited from indigenous Irish companies from all industries for the 2013 Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme, which IMI has been involved with since the programme was launched in Ireland five years ago. Twenty companies which demonstrate superior business performance will be recognised at the end of the Best Managed Companies Read more...
The IMI Conference Centre & Residence has been nominated in the Best Conference Event Venue categroy for the 2012 Event Industry Awards. This is the third year in a row that IMI has been shortlisted for this award. IMI Conference Centre & Residence has also been shortlisted in the Best In-House Event Team category this year. Read more...
One of the things about leadership is that you’re probably constantly negotiating without even knowing it. Leadership is no longer, if it ever was, something possessed by a person by virtue of position. It is a set of skills, chief among them, the ability to negotiate change rather than dictate it. IMI will host an Read more...
The Irish Management Institute has maintained its position as the only Irish business school to be ranked among international providers of Customised Executive Education in this year’s Financial Times (FT) Executive Education Rankings published on Monday May 14, 2012. This confirms for the fourth year in succession, IMI’s place among the top global providers of uniquely Read more...
Six word wisdom: Build the organisation of your dreams – Professor Gareth Jones
We’re launching a series where we call on thought leaders in business to summarise their message – in just six words. In honour of Bloomsday on Sunday we’ll kick off by quoting Molly Bloom and asking: “Oh Rocks – Tell us in plain words what you really mean!”. First up is Professor Gareth Jones expert in Read On
MOOCs won’t change learning – they will change teaching.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and their B-movie monster-like threat to traditional education are all over the blog world again this week. I’m personally very excited by the tsunami of free online content. I just finished the excellent Model Thinking from the University of Michigan on Coursera on models for better decision-making. The platform felt flexible but was deceptively fast-paced so Read On
Are You Interested? – Guest Post: Nancy Kline
To coincide with her visit to IMI this week Nancy Kline – the originator and pioneer of The Thinking Environment® process shares her thoughts on attention and interest in a coaching exchange: Are You Interested? By Nancy Kline ‘You are so patient.’ I hear this after almost every Thinking Session demonstration. Other people tell me Read On
Who Needs a PA? Free Online Tools for Managers
As a manager you need the right information delivered in a succinct and timely manner. It’s easy to feel bombarded by the different data sources competing for our attention in the modern working environment. And while the Internet is undoubtedly a rich source of information, comparatively little has been done to connect the vast number Read On
Empathy, the ‘hardest’ management skill at work…
Just over a week ago I was sitting in the panel of the IMI Diploma in Leadership audit presentations, as I heard each manger and executive reporting back on their leadership audit journey I found very interesting how many of them recognised empathy as a critical area for development. In my job as facilitator, empathy is the Read On