The surprising amount of time you waste on email each day
How much time do you waste on email each day? You are working away quietly then all of a sudden you get an email notification. Because of your over-active FOMO gene you go and check out the latest email that has landed in your inbox. After some time you eventually...
9 Tips for Studying Online
The coronavirus is forcing many students to go online and study. But studying online could be more beneficial than you might think. In fact, many people choose to study online because of the flexibility it offers, especially...
What is RPL?
Are you thinking about propelling your career with more qualifications? Embarking on a career change? Or maybe you want to learn more about your field. But when you look closely at the qualification you want, you’re already experience in half of the topics. There’s no...
Good organisational Project Management ensures good governance and accountability
In a time of skills shortages, organisations frequently need to create project management resources from within. The task of skilling project managers is often left to HR managers who may have neither the time, nor the expertise to advise on the best track for project...
What they don’t teach you in project management training?
What’s included in PM training? When you attend traditional training you might learn how to identify and manage issues, estimate and manage budgets, identify and treat risks, schedule tasks and resources, manage project quality, and identify lessons learned. You might...
The Importance of Project Sponsorship
What is a sponsor? The oxford dictionary defines a sponsor as simply someone who "makes himself or herself responsible for another". In a project sense this means taking on responsibility for the success of a project in an organisation. It means commitment to...
Project Managers – What is the nature of “experience”?
Gone are the days where just anybody can be a project manager. Lack of project management experience can be disastrous for organisations as recent high profile failures have demonstrated. Former AIPM CEO Peter Shears said at a Canberra conference a few years ago:...
Great project managers can manage anything!
Good project managers have skills that apply in every management profession. Most people understand the traditional view of project managers. They establish a project's scope, prepare budgets and schedules, plan communications, monitor and report on all the distinct...
Staff Development – Not Just an Obligation – A Key Success Factor!
How many times have you read the term ‘Staff Development’ in a duty statement and sighed or rolled your eyes and then set about identifying the right “buzz words” to say at interview to secure you the job? The thing is – a great project team leader is one who takes...
Project Management Breeds Innovation
Projects are fundamentally all about innovation. Project Managers are ‘agents of change’ – facilitating what hasn’t been done before. They solve problems to get things done. Taking a project management approach to business is about changing the way things have always...