Project Timelines

Timelines are the backbone of any project plan. Project timelines lays out your tasks and events in chronological order. This helps project managers plan, create schedules, prioritise work and organize tasks. In other words, they help you to define the duration of the project from start to finish and keep track of time throughout the …

Setting up a community hub from scratch

Over the years I have set up and made sustainable a number of community hubs in a variety of conexts. This blog post is for anyone who is interested in starting, developing or supporting a community hub. Introduction: Below is quite a lenththy introduction which explains what a community hub is. Following the introduction is …

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Project Procurement

Project Procurement. In this post I’m going to explore buying goods and services for your project. The first thing to say is that buying for your project should continually deliver value. Good project buying includes planing and delivering and engaging with suppliers and consistently show that the suppliers being used are providing the best overall …

Project planning – How about a wedding?

In a strange, new world we all live in, we need strong project management skills to help us overcome the issues with change that no one saw coming – especially when it comes to project delivery illustrated in this blog by planning a wedding. but it could be any project. I love weddings so much …

Project Inception Phase

Project Inception Phase When you’re working hard on a project, and one thing goes off track, you enter a thinking loop wondering where it went wrong. Did you misread the brief or did you not clarify the team about the requirements? A: What is a Project Initiation Document? B: Why is a Project Initiation Document …

Community Survey

In this months blog post I want to outline the basic aims and process of an Imagine Projects community survey. One of our main specialisms The primary aim of a community survey project is to find ways in which an organisation can serve the needs of its community (through identifying any shortfalls in provision). The …

Vision, Mission and Values

Vision, Mission and Values This blog continues the theme we have been exploring – leadership. In this blog I want to write about the guiding lights of leadership; vision, mission and values. These three elements create the ‘goalposts’ for the decisions and actions we make on our journey. They will guide and direct everything you …

Transformational Leadership

In this blog post, we will focus on the process of transformational leadership. Developing visionary thinking and bringing about change. A leader purses a passionate and personal cause. An explorer, cutting a path through the jungle for the rest of his group to follow. An executive, developing the organisations strategy to be successful.  Leaders enable …

Using our imginations for good

Our brain is hard-wired to scan the horizon for anything that might be a threat to us – it was always the key to our survival in days gone by. Nowadays the threats aren’t of a big bear coming to eat us but our brain is still hard at work analysing, making us aware of the …

Using your imagination to do great things

Using your imagination to do great things. Our imagination allows us to do more than just daydream. It can spark new and fantastic ideas. The imgaination  helps us visualise ourselves achieving the next goal in our lives. It’s something we depend on every day, whether we’re faced with an issue at work or deciding what …

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