Chartered Management Institute

MAY 14, 2025

Article: Is middle management just a thankless slog? Written by CMI Insights Share Share to LinkedIn Share to Facebook Share via email A Financial Times article suggests young people see middle management as an overburdened and underpaid position. H alf didnt want to be middle managers at all.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 30, 2025

Amazon also made the decision to lay off over 14,000 manager positions to save approximately $3 billion annually. Similarly, in December, Google moved to cut 10% of its managers, directors, and VP roles to improve the efficiency of the organization and cut costs.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2025

Through the Level 5 Diploma in Operational Management, the College empowers learners with practical, nationally recognised management and leadership skills tailored to meet industry demands.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2025

Case Study Developing Leadership Excellence in the Fire Service In partnership with the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), CMI has developed and delivered two bespoke leadership programmes designed to empower both new and middle managers.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 27, 2025

TTROs vast experience in creating customised leadership learning journeys is key to building capability for frontline and middle managers, perfectly complementing WDHBs executive approach. This creates a solid, multi-level development path, ensuring consistent, high-impact learning for every leader.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 25, 2025

Article: Highlights – 25 June Wednesday 25 June 2025 Share Share to LinkedIn Share to Facebook Share via email David Brent, the productivity gap – and other management issues 25 June View all 2025 CMI Highlights “ In the UK we still live with the David Brent effect, treating middle managers as punchlines instead of vital leaders.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2025

Middle managers like me were told wed have chances to pivot internally, but the reality is tougher , wrote a former Chrome Product manager to The HR Digest in an email. As tech giants pivot to stay competitive, middle managers and specialized teams often face the brunt of restructuring efforts.

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Coaching Ourselves

JUNE 25, 2025

Reflective Mindset Simply Managing: From Reflection to Action Seeing Beyond Belief: Observation Skills for Managers Reflection Dealing with the Pressures of Managing Time to Dialogue Managing Time and Energy Ordinary People, Extraordinary Leadership Building Purpose in Life and Work Building Resilience: Taking Care of Ourselves and Others through Crisis (..)

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Often, in the gender space, it's senior management that have the data, and they don't share it with middle management, so middle management can't be held to account properly, said Patrick Macdonald CMgr CCMI, chair of Arcus FM and Moneypenny.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Discover more key findings Navigating the squeezed middle Managers could also be something of a squeezed middle here, trying to reconcile the needs of their team with the views held by senior leaders in some organisations that only on-site working will work.

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HR Digest

APRIL 16, 2025

After an early phase of job cuts this year, another round of layoffs at Google has been announced for 2025. This time, the Google layoffs are said to affect hundreds of employees in the platform and device unit, unlike the previous cut that targeted the HR and Cloud divisions of the company.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 11, 2025

Read more: is middle management just a “thankless slog”? Aim higher than your goal always, apply personal continuous improvement and upskill and learn. Be thirsty for knowledge and become the master of what you do.” But he also sounded a note of caution around the wisdom of putting all your career eggs in one basket.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2025

If you want to attract them– and we do still, are very much open to attracting them, and we always look for– for most senior leadership or middle management roles, we look across sectors. You have to do some homework. So that’s one.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 14, 2025

In this weeks newsletter, she breaks down her work as a manager who faces unique pressures, and the key role CMI plays in her response. A Financial Times article suggests young people regard middle management as a thankless slog. Others may see such challenges and run a mile.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 11, 2025

But I wanted to stay within the sport, so I transitioned into a career in logistics and management, taking teams of horses and riders to competitions around the world, to championships and Olympic Games, and it went from there.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Last week, the Financial Times shared how Gen Z workers are uninterested by opportunities in middle management. The paper quoted Ann Francke OBE , CMIs chief executive, who offered a spur: Gen Z employees need well-qualified guides, not accidental managers. It may be about overcoming imposter syndrome.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Also in this weeks newsletter, Dr Rodney Toh , principal teaching fellow in the Department of Management at Malaysias Sunway University, explores what ethical managers can learn from the mistakes of Icarus and King David. Before you sack people, says Ann, ask whether you have the right people in the right roles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Middle managers lead in a precarious situation. The post One Crucial Skill the Best Middle Managers Master appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. And, every day, their teams look to them for support, […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 28, 2021

If you are (or have been) a middle manager, you know how tough this role can be. In this episode, you’ll get practical steps you can take to master one transformational role the best middle managers do better than anyone else in an organization. Middle Manager Super Power. Middle Manager Super Power.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I N Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work , authors Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field contend that middle managers are crucial to the new world of work. They came to realize that they needed middle managers more than ever.

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HR Digest

APRIL 28, 2025

With no room to ascend to more senior roles as employers dont want to pay for their experience, Gen X workers are forced to apply for middle manager-level positions and compete with younger workers who bring more energy and a more modern perspective to their work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

Practical Ideas For Becoming a Better Middle Manager. Middle managers are like the middle child of an organization; often neglected by senior managers and blamed by their reports. We end up with middle child syndrome, enshrouded in conflict, wanting more of a say, and not sure how they fit in.” .

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HR Digest

JULY 9, 2025

We’ve known change was coming, but Lip-Bu Tan’s focus on cutting middle management to fuel AI and manufacturing hits hard,” said Sarah Kimball, a 12-year Intel veteran and senior project manager. The HR Digest has detailed all you need to know about the Intel layoffs in July 2025 and its ripple effects.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

On paper, your middle managers are in your organization’s sweet spot. In reality, however, your middle managers are in a tough place. They’re the conduits between your strategic vision and the teams who implement that vision. They’re under increasing pressure–from above to […].

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 12, 2021

If you’re reading this, odds are, you’re a middle manager, i.e. someone who has a boss and is a boss, who has to lead and influence from the messy middle, up, down, and across their organization. Take pride and take heart because I’m going to help with the toughest job. Click to continue reading.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

Let’s set aside the boring debate about leaders vs. managers for a moment and take a look at daily life for most managers in organizations. The reality is that middle managers provide leadership, or at least have the opportunity to provide leadership, all the time.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Managing managers is way different that managing individual contributors. According to Charon, Drotter, and Noel, from their classic book The Leadership Pipeline , the most important things middle managers need to do are: 1. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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LDRLB

MAY 20, 2013

Middle managers don’t get a lot of attention or respect. Even most business satires are targeted squarely at middle managers, think Michael Scott or Bill Lumberg. In most organizations, the impact of middle managers is just as important as that of senior leadership. But leadership happens at all levels.

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

A study from McKinsey & Co reveals some possible reasons why the careers of most business women stall at middle management. Vikram Malhotra, McKinsey’s chairman of the Americas, says, ‘Middle-management women get promoted on performance, while middle-management men get promoted on potential.’

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 9, 2021

5:14 – What does it mean to Lead from the Middle and why Scott avoids the label “middle manager.” ” 7:28 – The passion Scott has for people leading from the middle and the opportunity you have when leading from the middle. Are autonomous but need to collaborate.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Research shows that middle managers don’t get much love. When I was a middle manager – a program director at three different non-profits – I felt this frustration. Middle managers are employees, too! How can a middle manager lift themselves up, in the midst of demanding circumstances?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2015

Great middle managers take time to learn the languages of those around them, and listen well to hear the truths from multiple perspectives. They empathize with the stress and concerns of their team. They help employees frame their needs so they can be heard and addressed to get the resources and support they need.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It’s also quite likely that you might pin the blame on middle managers, who often seem to be the scourge for all seasons. Alas, as new research reminds us, middle managers can also be just as much victims of such toxic workplaces as the rest of us. Self-protection strategies. The effect of abuse.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. The authors define middle managers as the people who are at least once removed from the front line and at least a layer below the senior leadership.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2024

Middle managers are a much-maligned presence in the workplace, with few people having much good to say about them. However, research from Wharton reminds us that this image is often unfair and that middle managers can play a crucial role in a functioning workplace.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Middle managers are often much-maligned individuals who are seen as doing little but push paper around and try and make themselves as important as possible. Of course, the reality is somewhat different, with middle managers playing a crucial role in things like innovation , idea management , ethics , and so on.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at Harvard Business School’s Dynamic Women in Business Conference. Our panel discussion was titled, Working in Heels: Women in the Workplace today, and the focus of the discussion was the internal barriers and external barriers that women hold women back from advancing their careers [.]

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