PRINCE2 Blog | Project Management Training Courses

Do you need a degree to be successful in project management?

Posted on Monday, 19th July 2021 16:45
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

Project management is a lucrative, versatile, exciting, and rewarding job, but in order to be successful in this career, you must have the right skillset. Project managers need to be organised, knowledgeable and able to multitask. They must be strong leaders in order to drive employees and possess the communication and motivational skills which go hand in hand with managing teams.

Beyond the board: How Kanban works within agile

Posted on Wednesday, 7th July 2021 16:04
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

Kanban is a system for managing the flow of work. Developed in the 1940s, the system was originally designed to improve manufacturing efficiencies by tracking production. Surprisingly, when Kanban first started out, there was no visual board at all. It was a foundation of principles that made the Kanban system.

How to become a future-proof organisation

Posted on Monday, 28th June 2021 17:21
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

The common assumption is that organisations who are investing in technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, automation and Virtual Reality are future-proofing themselves. But is that necessarily the case? Is becoming future-proof really as simple as spending big on technology? Or what more can we do to give our business the best possible advantage going forward?

How project failures can bring about growth

Posted on Thursday, 10th June 2021 11:11
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

The saying goes that you learn far more from your failures than you do your successes. This is almost certainly true in project management roles. Here we take a look at what we can learn from project downfalls, and how best to take these lessons and grow.

Why millennials choose PRINCE2

Posted on Monday, 24th May 2021 12:24
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

Here at ILX we’ve been delving into our stats and have discovered that millennials are choosing PRINCE2! Over the past financial year, millennials – also known as Gen Y – have made up our biggest customer segment with 36% of PRINCE2 web sales coming from this age group. So why are millennials choosing PRINCE2? And what does this spell for the project profession? Read on to find out.

How leaders can communicate in a way which resonates

Posted on Wednesday, 28th April 2021 11:06
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

The role of a leader entails communicating with a variety of people from different roles, on different levels, with different interests on a daily basis. With this in mind, should managers just accept that they are never going to please everyone? Or is people-pleasing communication achievable? Read on to discover our top tips for communicating effectively and in a way which resonates.