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There are many misconceptions about undertaking a programme or project sponsor role effectively.

Gregory Brennan, service delivery manager at WSP, had a rose-tinted view of his allotment when he first took it on.

They say that "a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step".

At some point in your career, you will have to negotiate.

There are four steps in competence – unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence.

Building Equality is an alliance of construction consultants, engineers, contractors, developers and institutions who are passionate about working together and harnessing their collective power to drive LGBT+ inclusion in the construction, engineering and the built environment industries.

New ‘smart infrastructure’ project aims to revolutionise UK roads Buckinghamshire County Council and Lancaster University’s Department of Engineering have launched an incredibly ambitious infrastructure project – one that has implications beyond just the roads we drive on.

Nick Gray of Network Rail (NR) recently presented on the Thameslink programme and reflected on overall sponsor challenges in NR at the APM Governance SIG event, hosted by Transport for London (TfL).

As a person of colour and a female, it quickly became apparent to me, quite early on in my career, that my experience was slightly different from everyone else.

If you’ve been given a project team, it’s likely you’ll have diversity; both introverts and extroverts to handle.