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Training Providers – they are not all the same!Making a decision on which training provider to use is usually quite important. If you are an individual you have to consider the financial impact, time off work and the convenience of the location. If you are a corporate buyer of training services, there are other considerations around ongoing relationships with suppliers, confidentiality and levels of support.

Let us start with the basic understanding that the role of a programme manager is different from that of a project manager and in order for us to consider the attributes of a good programme manager, we need to know what the role entails and acknowledge the differences between those two roles.First, a project is a “temporary organisation created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed business case.”

Why we should not lose sight of an ‘old technology’ in the face of new ideas.Back in the exciting times of the 1950s and 1960s, people had some amazing ideas of how the world would look today. Cars flying along highways in the sky, jetpacks for everyone, homes and towns under giant glass domes and cities under the sea. Holidays on Mars, vegetables as big as a bus, or all food replaced by pills.

Achieving good stakeholder engagement .5,000 to 1 – we have all seen recently the fantastic odds that bookmakers were offering to people last August who were prepared to bet that Leicester City Football Club would win the Premier League title. It is amazing that these were the same betting odds that bookmakers were offering on Elvis Presley being found alive.

Can you Codify Change Management? The need has never been greater for leaders who can take people through turbulent, and sometimes radical, change. A couple of years ago, I was asked to contribute a chapter on “Stakeholder Strategy” to a book that was published as The Effective Change Manager's Handbook (ECMH for short), a title commissioned by the international Change Management Institute.