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2010 PM Day of Excellence
The PM Day of Excellence on October 14th will be a combination of events:
- Center Of Excellence Executive Breakfast
- Annual Job Fair / Career Day
- Dinner Meeting
Communicating With Credibility
Credibility. How do you get it? More importantly, how do you keep it? Gaining credibility takes years to achieve, and maintaining it is a lifetime goal for any leader. One wrong move can erase in an instant many years of hard work. Communicating with credibility is an art form, one which you can master by using a few simple guidelines, a handful of which are included below:
PMI South Florida’s Professional Development Day “Think Outside the Project”
This year's Professional Development Day (PDD) was a fun filled, educational and career building experience. For those who attended, the event provided information and techniques to be used at work and in their personal life. The theme of 'Thinking Outside the Project' was very apt in today's environment where we not only need the core foundational concepts of project management but more importantly the soft skills that surround these concepts and allows us to efficiently & effectively utilize them.
Highlights of the PDD included:
Our keynote speakers:
• Gary Bradt - The ring in the rubble, who emphasized ten techniques on finding opportunity within every change;
• Kim Miller - Cheetah Networking, who provided us with essential networking techniques to aid us in our current economic environment; and
• Dr. James T. Brown - Conflict Management and Negotiation, who provided us with introspective strategies to assess ourselves and the relationships that we have at all levels within organizations.
These were insightful, inspirational and entertaining sessions, inter-dispersed with some very powerful personal anecdotes.
MS Project Users Group - Interested?
What makes a great MPUG chapter? You do!
The key to a successful chapter springs from your community participation online and through in-person networking. MPUG members want to be connected to each other and gain information relevant to their jobs. We provide the content and the opportunity to network and you provide the socializing opportunities. Once you have a track record of successful collaboration via MPUG.com, you can then gauge your participants' interest in holding organized meetings and other events to expand your circle of influence and grow your group.
Interested in developing a new MPUG chapter or community group?
To get an MPUG group started, you’ll need just 30 interested folks and valid email addresses to invite them to your group’s page on MPUG.com.
Professional Development Days 2010
The PMI South Florida Chapter is hosting Professional Development Days 2010 on May 14th and 15th.
With the expansion of this very popular event to two days, we’ll have even more to offer than ever before. More speakers, more networking opportunities, and, of course, more PDU’s!
This year you will have the opportunity of earning up to 16 PDUs by attending both days of the PDD. Join us as we explore various project management and leadership topics related to this year's theme of "Think Outside the Project."
Presidents Message January 2010
A new year, a new decade!
I am so amazed by the strength of humanity. We have prevailed through so much in this modern world during the last 10 years. For me it has been insightful to take a step back after major historic milestones and reflect on the events that have transpired during this timeframe. What have you learned? How have you developed? What have you contributed? It’s important to ask ourselves these questions as we move forward into a new decade. Learning and developing as a society, community and an individual is a life long journey.
For the project management community in South Florida we begin a new year and a new decade with the aftermath of an economic crisis while we’re still at war. We have the highest unemployment rates since the last great depression. Do you remember how we started the last decade?
Improving the Performance of your PMO
As organizations clamor to implement initiatives that will help overall project performance, Project Management Offices (PMOs) have taken on a whole new meaning in the business world. Indeed, many organizations have implemented PMOs to enjoy the benefits of centralized project management, repeatable processes, best practices, standardized processes as well as many other tangible benefits. Now more than ever, given the current economic climate, executives are very careful about how they spend their project dollars. PMOs have proven to be a tangible benefit to organizations and a way to improve overall project performance.
PMI South Florida Chapter awarded with a PMI's Component of the Year Recognition of Excellence
Miami, Florida, October 8, 2009
The PMI South Florida Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) was recognized with the PMI Component Award for Component of the Year Recognition of Excellence, Category III, for contributions to its community, project management and PMI. Patricia Garofano, Past President received the award on behalf of the Chapter as she was leading the Board of Directors in 2008.
“The PMI Awards Program recognizes excellence in project management across a broad array of categories for organizations, individuals, community advancement and our chapters and their volunteers,” said Gregory Balestrero, president and CEO of PMI. “Winning this award is a testament to the value project management brings to our varied stakeholders.”
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