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Dr Paul Chapman named OBE in New Year Honours list
Honours
Dr Paul Chapman, former Vice President of Association for Project Management (APM), has been named Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list.
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‘First of its Kind’ UK Energy Project shines a light on the need for collaboration
Sustainability • Energy
The Eastern Green Link 2 project is set to function as an electricity ‘superhighway’ from Scotland to England bringing the energy from where it’s generated, to homes and businesses across Great Britain.
How reliant should project professionals be on AI?
AI • artificial intelligence
As we lean more heavily on AI, it is right to question whether this reliance is becoming too great and whether it introduces risks that must be actively mitigated.
Five tips on how to delegate effectively
Leadership
In a recent episode of APM Podcast, Jo Owen and Andy Alder gave their expert tips on how to be a brilliant delegator. Here’s what they have to say.
Leading through the winter: Three ways women in project management can foster team resilience and prioritise wellbeing
Mental wellbeing • Wellbeing
Winter doesn’t have to mean burnout — but how can project leaders integrate practices that prioritise both personal and team wellbeing? We’ve put together three strategies women (and people of all genders!) in project management can utilise to not only navigate the season with strength, but actually emerge stronger.
Five leadership lessons from professor Mike Bourne
Leadership
Success requires not only the traditional virtues of project management, such as scheduling and budgets but also a greater emphasis on active and ongoing project leadership to ensure that what is being delivered remains relevant to changing needs and requirements.
How to manage your projects reputation in this social media age
Risk management • Social media
Every project will face challenges, even if there has been detailed planning and management at the outset. Things do not always align as we would want. This is why risk management and crisis preparation are so important and need to be part of project development.
In people we should trust
Project failure
So, what do we do to prevent failures? We put in place more controls, governance, procedures, training and assurance. None of this is wrong, in fact having the skills, tools, structures and data in place is essential to be able to monitor, mitigate and make decisions.
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