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Cancer, coronavirus and other news from M-Powered
This article will be more personal than usual. I would like to tell you the story of the last four months of my personal and professional life, which has been a complete rollercoaster. I would like to share with you the challenges I faced, to (perhaps) give you calm...
Surviving Self-Isolation Checklist: How to balance your life during coronavirus (with kids!)
At the moment, many of us are confined to our homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Often the whole family is stuck inside, and we are having to balance work life, home life and sometimes parenting, all in one space. We may be able to escape outdoors from time to time,...
Coronavirus and risk management
This article is in no way meant to add to the sense of panic circulating about Covid-19. However, the pandemic has become a serious case study for risk management in projects. It has created an unprecedented challenge in both our professional and personal lives and...
Project implementation checklist
Just last week, we delivered one of our flagship courses, Stakeholders, Risk and Change in Projects, for a fabulous group of school directors and head teachers from the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale in France. It reminded me of how important it is for us as...
Time management for Work-life Balance
I’m one of those people who needs to be busy. Well, sometimes I think I want to lie around on a beach, reading a book, and sunning myself but I know from experience that anything more than two days and I start to get fidgety. Too much unstructured time has a strange...
The Power of Socks: The dress codes of project management
A couple of months ago, I led a project management course in the Connemara mountains in Ireland. The venue is very informal. We go outdoors in the morning to hike, cycle or kayak. Then, in the afternoon and evening, we gather for project management workshops in the...
Why use the Design Thinking Method in project planning?
The M-Powered team has extensive experience with social and educational projects. In many cases, we were the project managers of such initiatives, but there were also times when we ourselves were the intended beneficiaries of the project. This perspective gives us...
Experience our courses for free with Erasmus+ funding
Happy new year! After a relaxing and rejuvenating Christmas break, the M-Powered team is back and ready to get stuck into a new year - and a new decade! We hope that, like us, you had an enjoyable holiday and are feeling refreshed and excited for the year ahead. The...
What are your core values?
Over the last few months, I have been regularly meeting online with M-Powered’s resident work-life balance and design thinking expert, Kasia Piecuch. The premise of these meetings is to help Kasia improve her English, although it’s proven to be a mutually beneficial...
Managing Stress in the Classroom: a new M-Powered course!
The New Year is coming fast and we have been working hard to develop a programme of training that will meet the needs of our clients. To do this, we have been in “empathy mode” over the last few weeks, getting in touch with our clients – especially those in the...
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