Watch out for the perfectionists on your team, warns Greg Chasson, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and author of the new book Flawed: Why Perfectionism is a Challenge for Management — they’ll need careful managing.
Laura Ellis is Head of Technology Forecasting at the BBC and a speaker at the APM Conference 2024, where she will address the question, ‘Where’s the value in people?’.
An old saying reminds us, 'No risk, no reward.
Good emotional intelligence (EQ) is paramount in project leadership as it fosters effective communication, collaboration and conflict resolution among team members.
We’re less than a month away from APM’s flagship conference, this year held at the CBS Arena in Coventry on 5 and 6 June.
Landing in the UK to pursue my MSc in Project Management was a thrilling leap into the unknown.
Recently, I re-watched the original Star Wars trilogy and whilst watching A New Hope, I was struck by the project management failures — in this blog I propose three ways that a project manager could have saved the Death Star.
The PRACI matrix I developed is a simple yet effective means of communicating to project team members who is accountable and who is responsible for completing specific tasks while at the same time conveying to those: who are required to participate in their preparation; who will be consulted; and those that are simply to be informed.
It’s easy to see the association that the profession of project management has with building and engineering.
Embarking on a new project is much like setting sail on uncharted waters.