PMI Mass Bay Chapter e-Newsletter

The modern profession of project management had its beginning in the construction and aerospace/defense industries. Interest and participation continued to grow until a group of five volunteers founded the Project Management Institute (PMI) outside of Philadelphia in 1969. Today the Project Management Institute is the global advocacy organization for the project management profession with more than 200,000 members and 254 chapters in over 150 countries. The Mass Bay Chapter has grown to 1972 members which puts us as the 17^th largest PMI chapter in the world! Now it is more important than ever to focus on how the chapter can best serve you and to understand what all of us can do to make our PMI memberships more valuable.
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October PMI Mass Bay Meeting Speaker - Neal Whitten, PMP
On Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Leaders
by Nicholas Muir, Associate at Hanscomb Faithful & Gould

Your leaders want you to know—need you to know—the behaviors they consistently expect from you. Just because you have a leadership role doesn’t mean you are living up to their expectations.
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Best of Neal Whitten
Special PMI Mass Bay Chapter Seminar
http://www.acteva.com//ttghits.cfm?EVA_I...
by Meera Vijayan, Ph.D., Director of Marketing, and Linda Desmond, PMP

Successful projects don’t just happen—they are made to happen. Popular speaker and best selling PM author Neal Whitten takes leadership and project management to a personal level and reveals leading-edge best practices that make all the difference between leading consistently successful projects and playing the victim with troubled projects.
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News from PMI
by Ed Horniak, PMP, Past President, PMI Mass Bay Chapter

PMI's Plan of Action to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina - PMI Global Congress 2005—North America - PMI’s New Web-based Certification System - New PMI directors - 2005 PMI Component Award Winner - PMI sponsors National Engineers Week
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New Volunteer Organization Initiative
by Michelle Runge, PMP, Director of Volunteers, PMI Mass Bay Chapter.

In an effort to address the inevitable turnover and strengthen our infrastructure, we will be instituting an expanded organizational structure whereby there is continuous training and protection of our legacy and advancements.
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Help us to help you!
Project Management Career Connections Initiative
by Thomas O'Connor, PMP

Project Management Career Connections Initiative seeks to create another resource for job seekers.
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Education Update
Maintaining Certification
by Linda F. Desmond, PMP, President-Elect, PMI Mass Bay Chapter

At the September chapter meeting, I was overwhelmed by how many PMPs were present and how many first time members there were. It made me think that I could use the article on getting PDUs to maintain your certification, just one more time. If you have read this in the past year, pass it up, but if you are newly certified, this will be of interest. If you know me, you know I am always looking for ways to get PDUs for free, or for a low cost, so consider this a lesson to feed your “frugal” gene.
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Is It Time To Update Your Resume?
Being Prepared Isn't Just for the Boy Scouts
by Deborah Walker, CCMC , Resume Writer and Career Coach, Alpha Advantage

Is It Time To Update Your Resume? The motto "Be prepared," isn't just great advice for Boy Scouts; it's also great career advice. You never know when the perfect career opportunity will present itself. If a recruiter called you today with your dream job, would you be prepared to send out an up-to-date resume right away?
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Project Management’s Role in Recovery
Reprint of a column from the Know How Network – The Project Managers Guide to Getting it Done
www.cheetahlearning.com
by Michelle LaBrosse, CEO, Cheetah Learning

Project Management is the “can-do” of any risk management program put into motion. It’s the engine of recovery because it’s the place where the strategy jumps off the paper and gets into human hearts and hands.
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How to Get Out of a Slump
Volunteering not only brings joy to others—it can help you feel better about yourself
by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D

There are times on our Journey through the huge-ness of life that we feel lost, unloved, helpless and defeated. What do we do when we find ourselves in such an unhappy state? Some of us escape into the land of danger and defeat. We "get out of ourselves" by drinking too much, or taking drugs, or feeling sorry for ourselves, or complaining, or whatever else that stops us from doing what is truly necessary...and that is taking responsibility for our own experience of life.
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September Meeting Review with Keynote Speaker Tom Mattus, President, Successful Strategies International, Inc.
“Winning the War on Retaining Brain Power"
by Ann O'Connell, PMP, Recording Secretary

Martin Hatzadourian, Chapter President welcomed the large crowd gathered for our first meeting after a summer hiatus. Martin pointed out a significant turnout of members attending their first PMI Mass Bay Chapter Meeting. During the past year, the Chapter has grown by 300 members and 255 new PMPs. As we are close to approaching a 2000 member benchmark, Martin promised a major celebration when this milestone is met. BUCEC, Boston University’s Corporate Education Center, sponsored this meeting and donated several free dinner meetings. BUCEC is a PMI education provider and major supporter of the Chapter Dinner Meetings and Educational Programs.

The keynote presentation was given by Tom Mattus, President, Successful Strategies International, Inc. on "Winning the War on Retaining Brain Power". The highlights of his presentation are summarized below.
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mScholar is our October Meeting Sponsor
A Project Management Learning Solutions Company
http://www.actionforresults.com

mScholar is a project management learning solutions company based in Andover, MA, that integrates strategic competency development with tactical action learning.

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Published by PMI Mass Bay Chapter, Inc.
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Website: www.pmimassbay.org / Email: info@pmimassbay.org / Edited by: Michelle Runge, PMP, Director of Marketing and Communications

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