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‘How do you value benefits?’.

Over the past two decades, England has become renowned for delivering outstanding international sporting events – including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, Rugby Union and Rugby League World Cups, the UCI Combined World Championships, and Men’s and Women’s Cricket World Cups.

In tech circles, we say that the latest wave of artificial intelligence (AI) began in 2012 and was kicked into overdrive at the end of 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT and the subsequent launch of other large language models (LLMs) like Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Gemini.

Ahead of International Women’s Day 2025, APM Podcast brought together three project professionals working in the built environment sector – which is still disproportionately dominated by men – to discuss what action can be taken to improve gender equity in organisations such as theirs.

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to attend a Friday and Saturday APM forum in York.

Like any job candidates, those seeking project management roles need to ensure they’re putting their best foot forward when they enter the job market.

Employability is a “big conversation” at the moment, according to Killian Underhill, talent acquisition partner at global property and construction consultancy Gleeds.

The backbone of any successful endeavour, good project managers focus on orchestrating the various components of a project with planning and precision.

Globalisation for many project management professionals is likely to require interaction with people from different backgrounds and cultures, possibly involving virtual teams, organisational collaboration or complex matrix structures where hierarchy and positional power count for little.

Do today’s problems come from yesterday’s perfectly executed solutions? If so, how should we be managing benefits?I’ve been asked to deliver a keynote talk at a benefits management conference and it’s given me an ethical dilemma.