At the moment, an overwhelming 75% of female STEM graduates choose to go – leaving the industry within the first year of joining.
According to the latest statistics from the Health and Safety Executive, 822,000 workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in the UK in 2020/21.
Projects tend to be complex and have inherent risks and uncertainties so we use established procedures and templates to manage them.
Leadership is such an interesting and evocative abstract noun.
So you've decided you would like to climb aboard the project management ride, and feel that your love for planning, passion for budgeting and the pleasure evoked by telling people what to do will get you climbing the career ladder.
The global mission to get to net zero may be under more strain than before, so how about some inspiration on how to effect change when it comes to sustainability? Below are some insights taken from APM’s Project Summit in autumn 2024 – where senior project experts, leaders and C-suite executives shared ideas on the biggest challenges facing the profession – and recommendations from APM’s Projecting for the Future: Harmonising energy and environment report.
Once the project requirements are understood, quality planning ensures that they will be met.
Sara Ulrich, Resilience and Wargaming Expert at PA Consulting, talks about what project professionals should be doing right now to up project resilience.
Around two-thirds of Britons will make a New Year’s resolution, and the habit is almost as common in other parts of the Western world.
When used well, lessons learned can contribute to the overall success of projects by re-using and building on approaches that have worked well and avoiding the repetition of previous mistakes.