Top tips to improve churn and delivery in your organisation
With hiring leaders reporting a steady uptick in staff turnover, what can you do to dissuade your project teams from seeking out greener pastures? Here, PM-Partners In-house Training Manager Nekta Vamvoukakis and Talent and Service Delivery Team Manager Joanne Ortiz consider some of the key reasons why employees are moving on, and some effective ways to
- Published in Delivery, Industry insights
Professional development trends in 2022
We are well into 2022 and with March just around the corner we thought you might be interested to learn about our top three trending courses for professionals looking to develop their skills this year.
- Published in Uncategorized
10-step project health check
We know what keeps a body healthy – nutritious food, exercise and good sleep, but what are the secrets to project health? Here we share our 10-step project health check to help keep your projects in top shape from start to finish.
- Published in Advisory, Assurance and governance, PMO
3 essential soft skills for project managers
As more organisations embrace new ways of working to solve problems, project managers need a suitcase of soft skills to swiftly pivot, drive change and maintain momentum. Arm yourself for the future and make sure your resume has these top three soft skills for project management success.
- Published in Learning and Development
Which project delivery framework is right for your organisation?
The number of organisations taking a hybrid approach to managing and delivering projects has increased. Here’s why customising your project management framework to reflect this will better support project success.
- Published in Advisory, Projects and Programmes
Helping employees deal with change in the workplace
Unpredictability and flux may be the new status quo but there is plenty leaders can do when it comes to helping employees deal with change in the workplace. Taking steps to address the psychological safety of your employees at every stage of the change process is a good place to start.
- Published in Advisory, Change Management, Delivery
11 reasons why organisational change fails
60-70% of organisational change projects fail. Various studies show that this failure rate has stayed constant from the 1970s to the present day. Why is this? Here are our 11 most common failings – avoiding them is first step to improving your odds of success.
- Published in Advisory, Change Management, Delivery
Why you need a post implementation review for your project
A notable reason for ongoing project failure is the absence of conudcting a post implementation review (PIR). But what is a PIR, and how can an organisation use this opportunity for analysis and reflection to boost the likelihood of future project success?
- Published in Advisory, Assurance and governance, Delivery, Projects and Programmes
How to write a business case: 20 point checklist
No organisation has the resources to fund every project. It’s therefore safe to say that when decision makers are reviewing your business case they’ll most likely be looking for a reason to say ‘no’. This is why an effective business case is about more than simply listing the costs and benefits of a project. As far as possible it needs to be watertight. When writing a business case, use our comprehensive checklist and prove your project is worth the investment.
- Published in Advisory, Delivery, Industry insights
The role of local council in crisis management
In an ideal world, local council would spend most of their time managing day-to-day community priorities. Unfortunately, the rising frequency of impactful emergencies – droughts, fires, storms, coastal erosion and the COVID-19 pandemic – means councils must be able to react to new crises at a moment’s notice. Near-perpetual crisis management means business-as-usual has fallen
- Published in Agile and Scaled Agile, Delivery