Where does project management sit in your organisation? In an all-seeing, directive project management office? A branch of the IT department dedicated to ‘change’? Perhaps you’re embedded within operational units, jumping into project work alongside business-as-usual teams.
In a 2019 ranking of the UK’s 50 most powerful flexible workers, there were seven project managers.
Georgia Wilde, an apprentice junior project manager at Direct Line Group, shares her tips on getting as much as you can from the mentoring experience What is your experience of mentoring? As an apprentice, I’ve had a wide variety of mentors in a short space of time, from a project manager to an operations director.
Preparing Calais for any Brexit eventuality has been masterminded by a mayor on a mission.
Ross Mayles - Director, MPManagement I am based in Sri Lanka, where I work with multinationals seeking an international project management skill set.
What is the best way to organise your time and workload? Here, project managers give their productivity hacks, tips and recommendations.
The Sponsor Effect: How to be a Better Leader by Investing in Others Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Harvard Business Review Press) Sponsorship is often misunderstood, so this book will go a long way to resolve that and demystify the topic.
When you are managing a project, it is easy to get dragged outside your remit.
Follow these five top tips to get your project off to a flying start, writes Emma De Vita.
Matthew TaylorThink like a system, act like an entrepreneur.
