I hope you’re doing great and enjoying the benefits of the PMI New
Jersey Chapter!
Symposium and Sunday Seminar are open for registration. This is the
most valuable day and a half for keeping up professionally as well as
earning many PDUs across the PMI Talent Triangle. Check the videos
on our YouTube Channel that will preview our terrific speakers, which
you can access directly from our website pminj.org.
Our Symposium theme is “Today’s Disruptions, Tomorrow’s Skills”, and the
Sunday Seminar is led by Alan Mallory, on the topic “Emotional Influence
for Managing Hybrid Teams”.
Be sure to share your views with us via the
2023 Member Survey from
PMINJ Communications, which was first sent out mid-February. There’s
still time to respond! I will be sharing highlights during the introduction to the April
Program Meeting.
This month’s
program on March 21 will feature Jim Benvie PMP, The
“History PM”, sharing with us a classic project from 1879 with many
lessons learned, as well as a very interesting story behind it: “Project
Management Lessons from the Tay Bridge Disaster”.
Our
Career Fair will take place on Friday, March 31, and registration is
open. This is always a beneficial event for our members, including the
keynote, panel, our varied dedicated and skilled career coaches to help
you, and opportunities to talk with recruiters who need you and your
skills!
Be sure to always keep your eye on our
DEI page. Each month, you are
reminded of important cultural events; March 8 is International Women's
Day, and there are many other important celebrations to be aware of.
Also be sure to read the article on the volunteer featured each month.
If you have missed any, you can always go back and read a quick Q&A of
our many diverse volunteers and get to know them better!
We have updated the
Volunteer page, where many positions have
descriptions that are crisper and share with you why you would want to
take on the opportunities, and being clear about the expectations. I
hope you find it useful to investigate ways to give back to the
profession thru PMINJ volunteering!
We are keeping our
Ukraine Save the Children fundraiser open, as the
need for help for families there is as great as ever, with the war
continuing unabated through the winter. Please donate as you are able.
You are making a difference!
Wishing you a great month and year ahead, and I look forward to seeing
you soon!
"Wherever you are... we are there with you!"
Mark
