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Poor Christmas planning costs UK adults £250 – APM research shows  Project management  APM research has shown that Christmas shoppers who admit to not planning out their festive purchases spend around £250 more each year than those who are more organised. Read article >

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How shared vision led to the ‘timely’ and ‘on budget’ delivery of Thames Tideway Tunnel project  Major projects  APM spoke to Tideway, the company delivering the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, to find out how a clear sense of purpose led to its successful delivery and subsequent public benefits. Read article >

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How to build your self-confidence as a project professional

 Project management 

When you’re shouldering responsibility for successful delivery, keeping to budgets and satisfying stakeholders – all while being buffeted by any number of unexpected hiccups – self-confidence is a must for project professionals.  

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10 top tips for early-career professionals (or anyone who wants to get ahead)

 Communication and leadership 

When it comes to your career, what wouldn’t you give to go back to the start and tell your younger self what you should do differently? If only you’d said yes to those opportunities that you later regretted turning down or spoken up in meetings with ideas you were too shy to mention.

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Five tips on being a clear communicator

 Communication 

As a project professional, you need to be a clear communicator. We’re in an age of information overload, so people need to receive the important messages in a way that will actually cut through. Yet the ability to communicate well is often seen as secondary to project expertise.

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Five tips to boost your AI-readiness

 Women in project management •  AI 

Who knows with any certainty how to be AI-ready? A packed session at APM’s Women in Project Management Conference delivered some great advice on this subject. Sarah Boutle, Deputy Director, Data and Insight, at the National Infrastructure and Service Transformational Authority (NISTA), and Nermeen Latif, Technical Director at WSP, took centre stage.

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