Your path to business agility
Laptops and phones have become virtually omnipresent in most professional spheres and it has become the norm for staff to take either one or both into meetings with them in case they have a need to use them. A growing movement has begun however that seeks to ban the use of these in meetings, to...
Every project’s success depends on the team that is undertaking it, no matter how skilled someone is as a project manager, without a good team around them, the project will struggle and quite possibly fail. As a project manager, knowing what makes an effective team member is a core skill that can define their career....
End of year reviews are an excellent tool for managers to check in with team members and assess performance, while for employees they are given an opportunity to find out how they are doing and seek advice on improving skills where they need them. That might seem like a positive and rational part of professional...
Though there are considerable similarities between project workflow and the management of a specific project, the differences and what they can mean for consistency throughout all of your projects mean that workflow is an important element to understand and integrate into your processes. Project workflow is a system, a default way of approaching every project...
Millennials in the UK, just like in much of the rest of the developed world, are causing much upheaval in the workplace as their shifts in attitude challenges the outlooks and expectations of older management and the organizations they work for. Green collar jobs One significant area of change is the focus on environmental awareness...
The uncertainty for business in the UK remains palpable as the country edges towards its exit from the European Union (EU) in March 2019. The latest figures show that consumer spending has begun to tail off significantly, with total year-to-year UK retail sales of 0.7% for September being much slower than the 2.3% growth for...
For many existing in a standard, office-based work environment, “working from home” can often seem completely interchangeable with “remote work” but the truth is that the two terms are actually very far from being synonymous. As technology changes and planning and working with teams without any physical contact becomes more common, the entire dynamic of...
Focus isn’t just the absence of distraction. It’s an immersive state in which meaningful work simply flows. Organizations that truly want to get stuff done will do everything they can to empower their teams to reach this state. Here’s six ways your businesses can stay focused on focus. Have a plan Meditation is all about...
Getting the heads of different teams together to get updates on project progress and the state of play for each team is an important and relatively straightforward element of project management that is often made easier by the fact that everyone is speaking the same “management” language of KPIs, milestones and deliverables. Knowing how to...
Risk assessment is an important part of every project plan and the quality of these assessments defines how well prepared your project is for the likely problems that can arise. Most PMs will have their own favorite risk assessment techniques that they use for every project or their organization might prefer certain formats over others....
