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The following project management tips will provide you with some useful guidance for effective project management.

When your working week is already full on, with pressure to deliver tasks, support services and hit targets, you may feel it doesn’t leave a lot of time for supporting people and considering [...]

Who do you trust with your company’s future? The answer, at the most fundamental level, has got to be your people. I have been doing some really interesting work around building and [...]

It’s increasingly recognised that a stronger focus on people skills is essential, for achieving not only project and change success, but also personal success.

In Titanic Lessons in Project Leadership, we see how ‘small’ and easily overlooked behavioural and communication issues can build into seemingly unthinkable errors.

Last week I was in Barcelona, at the headquarters of Fusion for Energy, the EU body managing Europe’s contribution to the ITER project – the biggest international collaboration in the field of [...]

Most of us are aware that becoming angry, fearful or frustrated gets in the way of clear thinking, so it pays to stay calm. But when we’re under pressure and our emotions are rising, then it’s [...]

The first lambs are appearing in the fields – bright and bouncy, and seemingly unfazed by the coldness of the wind. Whenever I’m admiring lambs, I find myself wondering why we are generally so [...]

For our last piece this week (but by no means least!) we spoke to Melissa Buerbaumer, CPA, PhD and Head of Accounting and Reporting at the International Atomic Energy Agency. Can you tell us a [...]

For today’s profile we managed to catch up with Michaela Lewis over at Domo. Can you tell us a bit about your current role? I am a Senior Manager in Customer Success at Domo and am currently [...]

Why I am Championing Cultural Change to Support Diversity and Inclusion. At school I was always interested in STEM subjects and my recreational time was spent in an odd combination of activities; [...]

It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and the world will be celebrating the achievements of all kinds of women. With this in mind, we thought it would be a perfect time to catch up with some of [...]

It’s World Book Day today and we thought we’d share some of our most favourite industry books with you. It’s easy to buy the ’latest book’ out there, especially if you are new to the field, but [...]

Most Agile methods focus at the product development level. There’s a revolution from below aspect to them which is seductive. It encourages teams to change the world by doing it. Who [...]

Four years seem to have passed by so quickly and it’s taken nearly that long for my ears to stop ringing from the blaring Vuvuzella assault from the last World Cup or maybe age makes the years go [...]

Our brains are constantly on the lookout for signs of threats or rewards – clearly the survival of early man depended on this. The decisions we make about what to pay attention to are based on [...]

Ruby Wax’s new book* is published next week. Not surprisingly, it promises to be a good read and an entertaining portal to some pretty big ideas – neuroplasticity, for instance. But [...]

A recent article in New Scientist* offers some valuable insights — and they’re not necessarily the ones you may expect. Many management courses include some guidance on body language, the reading [...]

Is there a difference between a decision and a choice? And does it matter anyway? Why is it that a decision feels as if it should be based on a full situational analysis and yet a choice can be [...]

Guy Watson, the ethical entrepreneur and founder of Riverford, who created a global business with sales of £30 million and 400 staff from three acres and a wheel barrow, believes that greed is a [...]

Very soon we will all once again be happily jumping up and down cheering the world’s Super-Humans, the Paralympic athletes. After Team GB’s hugely successful performance in the 1st [...]

I hope by now many of you have managed to watch the wonderful spectacle that was the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and you’ll no doubt have your favourite bits – perhaps it was the [...]

You’ve probably heard about statistics that say 55% of meaning comes from non-verbal communication, 38% from tone of voice and just 7% from the words we speak. This is based on Albert [...]

Last year I was running a large number of short change management workshops for an organisation, touching on theory around their change management framework, but mainly facilitating discussions [...]