Project management is a complex activity that has to do with four traditional components: cost, timing, duration and producing a satisfactory result. A bit more challenging goal is to enchance work organization and resource distribution. Take any project and you will notice that it employes people, money and machinery to deliver needed results. To manage projects successfully one need to handle a number of things. A couple of them can be found below:

- Setting objectives and conducting analysis.

- Managing negative possibilities. Take any project and you will see that it contains a lot of uncertainties that have to be dealt with.

- Allocating and managing resources.

- Understanding the product you wish to have on completion of the project.

- Supervising the project in terms of who is doing what and when.

- Assuaring adequate quality.

- Handling instability. Everything changes. When you start out on the project, you should forsee how it will develop with time.

- Talking to people doing the project.

To deal with these components you can use pen and a notepad or perhaps a spreadsheet program. But you get quite a few benefits if you decide to use project tracking software:

- It makes scheduling easy. (more…)

There are four components to efficient project supervision: expenditure, schedule, time and quality. Professional PMs also aim at making the organization of business processes more efficient. Look at any project and you will see that it employes labour, money and equipment to deliver end results. You should know that there are a number of things that are very important for effective project management. You can see a few of such factors below:

- Task setting and reviewing achievement.

- Managing uncertainty. The majority of projects have a this or that level of uncertainty.

- Assigning and supervising resources.

- Determining the outcomes of the project.

- Overseeing the project from the point of view of who is performing what and at what time.

- Managing quality.

- Managing changes. Everything changes. All tasks develop in time, so the element of dynamics should be accounted for.

- Communicating with sponsors and participants of the project.

To handle these components you can use pen and a notepad or perhaps MS EXCEL. However, dedicated project tracking software offers a lot of significant advantages:

- It makes scheduling easy. (more…)

You may have come across managers who assume that employee performance evaluation is nothing but a number of principles and ratings that workers are evaluated against. In reality it is somewhat more tricky. Working with a proper employee performance tool, an employer can handle all the components: strategy, watching, improving, estimating and appraising the work of ones workforce. Employee planning software will help you plan ahead and agree on expectations. Perhaps you know that it is vital for any business to have a vision, set priorities and communicate performance requirements. It is nonetheless vital to involve your employees into strategy formulation. They should clearly see why the job should be done, and why it has to be done well. If you would like your company to be successful, you must check how your people work at regular intervals and talk about it with them. (more…)

MCSI was formed as a result of an overwhelming desire expressed by people to establish a MCS society. With the assistance of the Environmental Law Centre (ELC), a registered charity specialising in human rights, environmental law, family law and health, we were successfully formed in 2002. Working in collaboration with ELC, our priority is to raise awareness of MCS as an increasingly common disease.
Our primary role is to act as an information centre to promote awareness of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and to help sufferers’ access information which will help to raise their quality of life and reduce their suffering.

MCS is an isolating illness, physically and often emotionally. It is also a debilitating illnesses which has no physical characteristics. Our objectives are many but our main goal is to help sufferers and their families regain the quality of life that MCS has denied them and in the process help MCS sufferers find their voice. In the short term our aim is to provide and collate information which will assist MCS sufferers towards this goal; to establish a MCS society, to make contact, to establish this web page for the dissemination of information and an advice column, and form self –help groups forming a network offering help and advice.

We appreciate the problems faced by sufferers of MCS and other related syndromes CFS, MS, ME Gulf War Syndrome, EMF and others. As sufferers ourselves or having family members who suffer we appreciate the mass of untapped experience and understanding out there isolated by an often unrecognised illness. We want recognition, and we want to be able to benefit fellow sufferers.

We are currently applying for a grant from the EU. With the help of this grant and we hope to help sufferers reach a better quality of life and eventually to provide an environment in which they can socialise and meet. We also aim to provide training for careers in their better understand on the needs of suffers. It is also hoped to educate suffers whose illness can be contained by management of their environment.

By raising awareness of MCS we will be able to promote awareness of this debilitating condition and most importantly provide preventative information so individuals and families are not struck down by this terrible illness. We intend to provide SUFFERERS with self-help strategies and support as well as information on how to cope with daily life and provide a vehicle by which an exchange of experiences and individual achievements. We also hope that, as in the USA, the UK medical profession will recognise MCS as a 21st Century illness.

MCSI will undertake a campaign role by bringing the condition of MCS to both Government and medical bodies in order to have MCS recognised as an illness related to the environment we live and work in. We intend to seek support from WHO, EU, and national governments to assist in raising the awareness and acceptance of MCS.

Of importance is to collate statistical evidence which can be put forward to these political and medical bodies. We need to develop a research programme into the causes and consequences of MCS. MCS has to develop credibility in this country if it is to achieve ‘legitimacy’ and recognition. Only after recognition will authorities take MCS on board as a condition which will affect your rights to disablement benefits among others.

Clearly by increasing the understanding of the syndrome by the public and medical professionals alike, sufferers of MCS can be protected from exposure to those chemicals in their own environments that cause problems. We will assist sufferers return to a quality of life and health that enables them to work and to reach a reasonable standard of living and to get away from the inappropriate and unnecessary medications often prescribed.

We need you and your support whether you are a victim of MCS or not, to ask your MP to support our aim and to put a bill through Parliament.

If you do not know what MCS is please visit our information page to learn more. MCS is an equal opportunity calamity, it could happen to you; anytime, anyplace, anywhere!