APM Blogs

‘Hyper agile’, ‘new agile’, ‘future agile’, ‘agile & flexible’ join the ‘agile’ buzzword culture throughout our organisations and daily life.

Project managers Abdul Wahab Ghumra and Aqeel Bashir say there are many things that project professionals of all faiths can learn from Ramadan, such as communication and sharing.

 Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of Cornwall’s Eden Project, explains how a galvanising message can hold a team together through the toughest of projects.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Gillian Jones-Williams sets out six tried and tested strategies that project professionals can use to help manage stress levels at work.

Over the past few months, we have seen the profession rise above a challenging environment to continue delivering life-saving and critical projects.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Clara Cheung explores resilience – a quality we all need during stressful times – and how to build it.

To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, Andrew Higson and Ian Holden, founders of mental health charity Black Dog Outdoors, provide some tips for boosting wellbeing during stressful times.

To mark the start of Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, Sellafield’s Kevin Bell recalls the steps the SMF project team took to roll out mental health initiatives – and the positives as a result.

What comes to mind when you think of continuing professional development (CPD)? Do you see it as an burden placed on you by your employer – something you ignore until you must submit your CPD log; or is it an opportunity to take stock and think about your career goals and whether you have the necessary skills to achieve them?The chances are that it is probably somewhere between these extremes.

Coding is out, so is PRINCE2, but social influence is rising up the list of must-have PM skills, writes Mike Wild Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, national lockdowns and a global economy that is projected to contract more than during the 2008/09 financial crisis, you would be forgiven for questioning why anyone would be thinking about job specifications right now.