APM Blogs

The project profession is not for the faint of heart.

The demand for project professionals today is high and will continue to grow well into the future.

This year’s National Apprenticeship Week has a special significance.

Managing one client and one project can be stressful.

Recently I helped to run a series of workshops to raise awareness of Mental Health at work.

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.

If we consider a project to be ‘a unique, transient endeavour undertaken to achieve a desired outcome’ – we can see why projects are inherently stressful.

Sounds simple, right? But is it?  The concept of making time to talk is one we have likely all said we could and would do at various times yet in reality, it can be hard to make that time.

Here’s a possibly controversial statement: stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Gillian Jones-Williams’ mother is a manic-depressive.