APM Blogs

With a rich heritage including The Beatles and a thriving live music scene that saw the city host Eurovision 2024, Liverpool remains a cultural powerhouse.

Before offering ideas and practices to improve our project leadership skills, I invite you to pause and examine assumptions about leadership we may rarely have had cause to question.

Transitioning from project to programme management is like stepping from a photograph into a kaleidoscope.

The benefits of an inclusive workplace are endless; from reduced turnover rates to improved customer satisfaction, but most importantly, improved employee engagement, innovative thinking and potential improvement in wellbeing and positive mental health.

Over the past two decades, England has become renowned for delivering outstanding international sporting events – including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, Rugby Union and Rugby League World Cups, the UCI Combined World Championships, and Men’s and Women’s Cricket World Cups.

Building and launching a space telescope is a hugely complex task, fraught with setbacks and intense meetings.

Having uncovered the core function of leadership in project delivery, to establish and support a collaborative collective of diverse stakeholders, the next big question is: how? What skills can we develop to enable, realise and release our personal potential in project leadership?   The relaunch of my book by APM Evolving project leadership is a chance to reflect on one of the key functions of project leadership: securing and fostering engagement from, and between stakeholders, who then actually deliver the project.

Project management in the heritage sector requires an interesting skillset – one that extends further than the typical toolkit of a project manager with PRINCE2 or similar training to include another set of skills that ensures the conservation of historic buildings is considered, or the heritage of a site / place / collection is understood and managed effectively.

On July 17th, the APM Governance Interest Network hosted a well-attended virtual meet-up session featuring about 150 participants.

If the last five years have taught us anything, it’s that projects are risky places to be.