Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/PMO-Sydney/events/263572744/
This session is LinkedIn training, Session 2. It is a Paid Event @ $30 per ticket. Please purchase your ticket at the Meetup website above. Please bring your laptop, iPad or your phone connected to the Internet to edit your LinkedIn profile during the session.
Attend the session if you know your LinkedIn Profile is letting you down
What we'll do
Does your LinkedIn Profile show your PMO Professional Journey? Do you have a self-brand?
With seconds to make a professional first impression, is your online presence creating the right digital impression to communicate the value you bring?
To be found, remembered and chosen it is important to build visibility, establish authority and earn influence in a connected economy.
LinkedIn is an essential tool for building your career brand. With over 575 million users around the world, your ideal clients, strategic partners, employers and potential employees are on LinkedIn.
In this interesting and overview session, Jo Saunders, will educate, inspire and guide you to build your LinkedIn presence to advance your career.
Date: 20 August 2019
Time: Registration and Networking: 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The session: 6:00pm -7:15pm
Networking and Closure: 7:15 PM 7:30 PM
Venue: EPM Partners. Mezzanine, 50 Margaret St, Sydney 2000
PMI Sydney invites you to join this social networking meet up about Women in Projects.
Pls. click the link below to know more and register your interest.
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Women-in-Projects-Australia/events/262799926/
Venue: Arcadis, Level 16, 580 George Street · Sydney
The Psychology of Change
Achieving project outcomes means getting people to do something different. The best project strategy will not achieve its objective if your people are slow to embrace change.
Ignoring or delaying action on the people side of project management results in resistance, delays and failure to meet efficiency and performance targets. Likewise, the challenge for today’s program and project managers is to gain airtime and support for their initiative, from key stakeholders who may already be experiencing change fatigue.
Most project managers recognise the need to strengthen their capabilities to quickly overcome resistance, foster collaboration or cultivate a culture of innovation and change agility, but many do not know how to most effectively build these organisational and personal skills.
To quickly realise the return on your investment and avoid performance reductions during planning and implementation, project managers need to know how to quickly influence, guide and inspire people often in situations that are characterised by uncertainty and ambiguity.
Recent neuroscience provides methods program and project managers can use to mitigate common, people-related pitfalls that can slow or derail projects.
PMI Sydney Toastmasters is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
We are a friendly, welcoming group. Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month at 6:15 PM.
Feel free to attend the events to assess whether you would like to attend regularly. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should you be interested to join as a member. Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Date Wednesday August 21, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 PM https://www.meetup.com/PMI-Sydney-Toastmasters/events/vqtzqlyzlbcc/
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
PMI Sydney Toastmasters is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Presentation skills and confidence can both be learned. Practicing these in a supportive, open and fun environment where you can learn from a variety of other speakers is invaluable.
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 PM https://www.meetup.com/PMI-Sydney-Toastmasters/events/cnnpnmyzmbgb/
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
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There’ s been a lot of change in the Project Management arena over the last year. The PMI Career night promises a market overview so attendees can best position themselves for future opportunities. We’ll touch on what interview questions are in vogue at present. We will hear from LinkedIn about their updates and tips on how to make your online brand stand out! We’ll hear directly from a large employer of Project Practitioner talent on how they select candidates. We will finish with a panel of recruitment experts.
PMI Sydney invites you to join this social networking meet up about Women in Projects.
Please click on the link below to know more and register your interest to attend.
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Women-in-Projects-Australia/events/262799961/
Venue: Arcadis, Level 16, 580 George Street · Sydney
PMI Sydney Toastmasters is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Presentation skills and confidence can both be learned. Practicing these in a supportive, open and fun environment where you can learn from a variety of other speakers is invaluable.
Date Wednesday September 18, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 PM https://www.meetup.com/PMI-Sydney-Toastmasters/events/vqtzqlyzmbxb/
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
Workshop : Value Engineering, Why, What and How...
Join us to learn the Value Engineering Method and how the PMO can enable it in the Business
What we'll do
Value management is a creative thinking technique and a problem-solving tool which enables project managers and engineers to precisely optimize value while minimizing overall cost for any project, product, system or process.
In this interactive and challenging session, Prof. Emad Shublaq (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emad-shublaq-061821180/ ) will present the principles and basic knowledge of the value management/engineering approach and how it can be integrated with Project management areas of knowledge to achieve a functional balance between quality, performance, and cost.
Attendees will be learning – through exercises and quizzes - how to do function analysis, FAST diagramming, Wt. Matrix (Option design making) and alternatives comparison (Initial and LCC).
A case study might be presented at the end of the workshop.
Join us for the hands-on interactive session specifically targeted for PMOs to learn the techniques and enable it in their businesses.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/PMO-Sydney/events/264445691/
Date: 25 September 2019
Time: Registration, Pizza & Networking: 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Workshop commences: 6:00pm
Session ends: 7:15 PM
Venue: EPM Partners. Mezzanine, 50 Margaret St, Sydney 2000
Sustainably Smarter: How PM knowledge networks improve skills
For over twenty years organizations have championed knowledge networks, also called ‘communities of practice’, as a way to improve innovation, productivity and job satisfaction. Networks, they claim, support members’ learning in a trusted space.
However, few actually understand the mechanisms that make networks work. How do networks facilitate cooperative behaviors and endure the pressures of deadlines, scarcity, reorganizations, and ROI scrutiny?
The answer, we found, lies in clear intention, operational structure, and novel feedback mechanisms. Even while networks are volunteer-led and improvisational, they are most effective with thoughtful design.
Organizations invest in networks to add a sense of emergence — to break down some of the silos and biases that can thwart learning in the traditional hierarchy. But, in a paradoxical way, we find that design, not just emergence, brings out the best in the network. Traditional project management capabilities complement other network leadership practices, such as motivating volunteers, amplifying their common sense of scarcity, and defining their shared purpose. When networks hum along, balancing emergence and design, members can use each other as a voting block, curation partners and a sounding board. That improves overall project management capabilities and outcomes.
Cost: Free for PMI Sydney Chapter Members (log in first). $200 for Non PMI members.
