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Chapter
Meeting & Forum
Project Management as a Strategic Competency
Monday, September
12 • Presenter: Dr. Bill Moylan
The 20th century brought organizational
management of routine operations to a high level. But executing
change in an increasingly fast-paced and competitive world
remained a challenge – one that project management
has evolved to meet. This presentation emphasizes that project
management is a profession distinct from “management
in general,” and gives examples of organizations that
are aligning their projects and programs with strategic
goals.
Report
PDUs
Leaders'
Corner
Outreach Programs
Community and Academic Outreach recently partnered
to complete sessions of the “PMI Skills for Life”
with two local community organizations—St. Thomas Syro
Malabar Church in April, and New Life in Christ Ministries
in June. Corporate Outreach completed its second
Corporate Roundtable on June 30th
with Eaton Corporation as the host presenter on the topic
of project management maturity within Eaton; Johnson Controls
(JCI) was the host presenter on the topic of program management
at JCI for the previous roundtable in March. Academic
Outreach participated in the recent Career Day event
in May at Walsh College. Many thanks and congratulations
to the volunteer team members for all their time
and effort to make these activities successful. For more
information on Outreach Programs, visit www.pmiglc.org
or contact vp.outreach@pmiglc.net.
PMI®
News
Region
4 Conference
PMI® Region 4 is the largest of
PMI’s 13 regions and includes 24 chapters total (five
are in Michigan). Held in Saratoga Springs (NY) and hosted
by PMI Upstate New York Chapter, the theme of this two-day
Leadership Conference on June 11-12 was “Planned
Leadership, Productive Organizations” with
an attendance of approximately 80 chapter leaders, including
several from the Great Lakes Chapter. It proved to be a
very worthwhile networking and sharing event covering topics
such as communications, training, governance, membership,
and role definition.
Conference speakers provided very motivating talks on related
topics. PMI also had representatives from its PMI Educational
Foundation (PMIef), Learning Systems and Information Technology
groups. One presentation from PMIef was from a local high
school teacher and several students who gave an update on
their semester-long course using PMI provided curricula
on a school project. Another speaker discussed how project
management and leadership helped him make dramatic improvements
to the Saratoga Regional YMCA.
PMI
Publishes Salary Surveys
Ever wonder where you fit into the PM profession from a
salary perspective? The PMI®
Research Department has published several salary surveys—2009
Project Management Salary Survey Sixth Edition is
the most recent and is based on self-reported salary information
from almost 35,000 project management practitioners in 19
countries. It’s available from the PMI®
Marketplace on www.pmi.org.
Free
Webinars!
PMI®
Communities of Practice (CoPs) which are the virtual communities
of PMI frequently offer free webinars such as these; just
go to the respective websites for more information and registration.
Defining
Organizational Project Management
Presented by Dr. Nigel Williams
Date/time: July 12, 2011 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM US EDT
Diversity
and Global Communication Challenges
Presented by Camille Dickson-Deane
July 26, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
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