How to project manage your Christmas shopping
For the majority of people, the build up to Christmas is a hectic period with stress levels running high. Each year we vow to be more organised and each year this vow falls flat! As a Project Management Training organisation, we felt it was our duty to provide all last minute Christmas shoppers’ with some basic project management
APM project management training: a student’s perspective
As a Project Management training specialists, we are proud to provide classroom courses to the highest standard. With this in mind, we thought it would interesting to provide our readers with an insight into one of our public courses. One of our students documented her experience from our recent APM Project Management Qualification training course in a montage of
Our top 10 exam tips
As Project Management Training specialists, our number goal is to ensure you pass your exams and we like to think we have the experience to help you! Our training advisors and exams team have compiled our top 10 tips on how to prepare for and approach your exam. 1. ORGANISE YOUR STUDY SPACE Remove all distractions! We are all
Why you should invest in project management employee training
Project management training is vital for employees’ development and subsequently, their development is vital for the success of your business. In order for your employees to be efficient and productive, they will need to learn the necessary skills and procedures to enable them to fulfil their role to the best of their ability. Corporate training is growing,
Differences and relationships between planning and scheduling
As you may know, APM have recently published a comprehensive guide entitled ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk’. This has been produced by expert volunteers bringing many years of experience together in one, accessible book. There is also an APMG qualification scheme to support this guide which
Project management training and the ROI
There was a really interesting article published by Seth Godin which looked at ROI on training. Although it was generic, I wondered how it might apply to Project Managers. Just how much better is the ROI from a trained PM? The article is reproduced below: Training and the infinite return on investment Training pays. Sometimes, it’s easy to underestimate just