The power of networking to elevate your career is a theme close to the heart of APM’s new President Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE DL (she gave some brilliant tips at the APM Fellows’ dinner in Coventry).
We are all familiar with the narrative ‘you must record lessons throughout a project lifecycle’, but the more I talk to professionals, the more I realise it’s often not done to the nth degree, and that it seems to be seen as a tick boxing exercising within the project closedown process rather than a meaningful, dynamic process that occurs throughout a project lifecycle.
Poor air quality is described by Public Health England as “the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK”, with long-term exposure to air pollution causing conditions including lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, reducing life expectancy.
Project managers, along with HR and staff in the finance department, aren't always terribly well served by traditional cybersecurity advice.
The fight for gender equality has always fascinated me.
With a rich heritage including The Beatles and a thriving live music scene that saw the city host Eurovision 2024, Liverpool remains a cultural powerhouse.
Before offering ideas and practices to improve our project leadership skills, I invite you to pause and examine assumptions about leadership we may rarely have had cause to question.
Transitioning from project to programme management is like stepping from a photograph into a kaleidoscope.
The benefits of an inclusive workplace are endless; from reduced turnover rates to improved customer satisfaction, but most importantly, improved employee engagement, innovative thinking and potential improvement in wellbeing and positive mental health.
Over the past two decades, England has become renowned for delivering outstanding international sporting events – including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, Rugby Union and Rugby League World Cups, the UCI Combined World Championships, and Men’s and Women’s Cricket World Cups.