When you’re shouldering responsibility for successful delivery, keeping to budgets and satisfying stakeholders – all while being buffeted by any number of unexpected hiccups – self-confidence is a must for project professionals.
When it comes to your career, what wouldn’t you give to go back to the start and tell your younger self what you should do differently? If only you’d said yes to those opportunities that you later regretted turning down or spoken up in meetings with ideas you were too shy to mention.
As a project professional, you need to be a clear communicator.
Recently, I was tasked with establishing a brand-new aviation equipment department within a fast-paced engineering environment of a newly established organisation.
Who knows with any certainty how to be AI-ready? A packed session at APM’s Women in Project Management Conference delivered some great advice on this subject.
In today’s business environment, project management is often framed as a technical discipline - one defined by methodologies, schedules, budgets and performance metrics.
In today's rapidly changing business environment, the importance of effective project management has never been greater.
Picture a leader, and what do you see? A Winston Churchill figure, taking centre stage to give a rousing speech, steer a crisis, or make a bold decision? Perhaps a decisive strategist, acting with speed and confidence under pressure, such as Horatio Nelson? Or a visionary motivator like Nelson Mandela, winning people’s hearts and minds and inspiring passion? These kinds of leadership are hugely compelling: they rally people, they offer clarity and they shape direction.
In an ever evolving and changing climate VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) is especially important for international projects where a change in policy or legislation, issues with shipping terms and traffic or the crash of a country’s financial system can impact the viability or requirement for a project overnight.
Every project leader has faced the same uneasy moment: presenting to the board their project update report, with its on-time deliverables, glossy graphics and impressive metrics, but with a nagging concern that something critical has been missed.