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Leadership and people management are core skills required to effectively communicate, to engage and motivate employees and colleagues towards a common goal. These attributes will help you develop as a leader within your organisation and the wider community.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

1. Establish vision relating to areas of responsibility and communicate vision together with supporting objectives and operational plans

2. Ensure team members and related stakeholders understand relevant vision, objectives and operational plans

3. Guide team members and stakeholders, and when appropriate empower individuals, to deliver relevant vision, objectives and operational plans

4. Establish targets and monitoring processes for self, team and stakeholders to ensure that relevant vision, objectives and operational plans are delivered

5. Develop a range of leadership styles and select and apply these as appropriate to situations and people

6. Deploy guidance, mentoring and/or coaching skills as appropriate in order to achieve vision, objectives and operational plans

7. Motivate and support team members and stakeholders, providing recognition when individuals successfully meet vision, objectives and/or operational plans

8. Develop mechanisms to establish feedback from team members and stakeholders on personal performance, and address issues that arise

9. Review plans, responsibilities and objectives periodically and in light of any relevant change in circumstances

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People Power: The Original Research Tech

Webinar

Understanding social and business phenomena means humans understanding humans, both what’s expressed and what’s unspoken. In this sense, the human brain is the original research tech.

Apr
15
2026

Wednesday
14:00–15:00

The future of AI in research: Sustainability, cost, and responsible scale

Webinar

The future of AI in research is often portrayed as a race for larger models, more GPUs, and faster infrastructure. Success is commonly measured by computational scale. Yet this narrative overlooks a growing structural challenge: the financial, environmental, and operational costs of AI systems are rising faster than their practical returns.

Apr
16
2026

Thursday
11:00–12:00

The Alchemy of Insight: Technology, Hype, and the Search for Truth

London

The market research industry has spent 80 years rapidly reinventing itself, engaging in a form of modern alchemy, chasing the dream of turning messy human behaviour into clean, predictable data, hoping each new technology will be the magic solution.

Apr
20
2026

Monday
14:00–16:00

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