APM Blogs

How you conduct yourself as a professional and a person is vital during the last phases of a project, as it defines your brand as a professional project manager.

As the world grapples with lockdown measures, Richard Young asks project professionals how their projects have been affected – and what their path back to ‘normality’ might beIt’s not just employees who’ve been put on furlough.

Escalation should never be a threat or a punishment; escalation should be for the benefit of the organisation, says David Hamilton Have you ever looked at a project or a workstream that is not going anywhere and thought to yourself, ‘why hasn’t this been escalated?’ We all know that, sometimes, projects need to be escalated to a senior level to get decisions made or things unblocked.

‘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.