September Dinner Meeting Highlights

2018 September Monthly Dinner Event was a success!

"The One Thing We All Want More Of" 

Rachel Saathoff from Break the Norm Leadership addressed business related challenges regarding time management and productivity.  She spoke about the myths of multitasking, lists and why they don’t work.  She taught the group to identify the “One thing” and how to put the new learned tools to increase productivity.   Click the photo below to see video highlights.

Recognition of Achievement for PMIGLC

The PMI - Great Lakes Chapter was 1st overall amongst chapters in Region 4 for first year member retention with as 66.43% retention rate. Congratulations to Chapter President Ron Papa and VP of Membership Srini Pinnamaneni.

PMIGLC 2018 Professional Development Day 

"Organizational Structure: The Rock On Which Agility Is Built"
October 26, 2018 

PMIGLC’s theme this year highlights the need to harness the power of innovation, creativity and leadership to flourish in our rapidly changing times. The “Project Management Innovation, Creativity and Leadership” theme centers on the Great Lakes Chapter providing a user experience that stimulates both project managers and business analysts to learn new things and adapt to rapidly changing environments. Innovation, creativity and leadership are the levers to balance the sheer speed of change in our professional environments.

PMIGLC Happy Hour/Social Networking

October 24, 2018

Eat, Drink & Mingle! Take a much needed & deserved mid-week break and join your PMIGLC friends and colleagues for appetizers and cocktails at Granite City in Troy.

October Monthly Event

"The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership
(Understand the Impact on Innovation and Creativity)"
October 8, 2018 

Take responsibility for your impact, results and reputation as a project manager. This session will help participants create awareness of the one thing that will help them improve results in their business and personal roles. It will help them begin to solve the challenges they face every day and to more successfully achieve their goals. The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership has less to do with skill, education and intelligence, and more to do with the ability to think clearly under pressure, manage and motivate people effectively, and to change your approach as necessary. It has to do with your emotional intelligence!

This class provides leaders with the skills to recognize how emotions drive behaviors, the difficulty in managing one’s own emotions, and the emotions of those around them. Tools to manage interpretation of information and appropriate levels of reactions are reviewed. Leaders become more aware of their unconscious behaviors and learn to effectively manage emotions to make conscious decisions for future behaviors.

 DTE Expands its Sponsorship with PMI Great Lakes Chapter

DTE has made the decision to Sponsor PMI Great Lakes Chapter in a big way in 2018!   After being an integral and involved Sponsor with PMIGLC in 2017, DTE has committed to continue their Platinum Sustain Sponsorship for 2018. 

DTE has also committed to sending a substantial employee group to both the PMIGLC Spring Symposium in April as well as the PMIGLC Professional Development Day in October. 

Anthony Almaraj, Director of Sponsorship with PMIGLC, states:“DTE’s continued Sponsorship and support of PMIGLC in 2018 demonstrates how valuable partnerships create an even stronger project management profession, benefiting our business community and PMIGLC's members alike.”

If your organization would like to find out more about how to become a 2018 PMIGLC Sponsor, please reach out to Anthony Amalraj, Director of Sponsorship: director.sponsorship@pmiglc.net