Overview

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This Forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. The ultimate goal of this Forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Value Statement

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. ​

The ultimate goal of this forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

Industry Resources

TAG Health

Twitter

@PMIATLHealth

Overview

The PMI Atlanta Governance Forum provides an opportunity for project managers to learn about governance and advanced topics, including program management and portfolio management in a small group setting of similar minded professionals.

This Forum has established a premier collaboration and networking experience for Project/Program Managers and those involved with PMOs – to share challenges, trends, leading practices, and thought leadership.

Governance practitioners typically include members from strategic, corporate, and operational management. Attendees will find this forum beneficial and should gain invaluable, just-in-time insight for existing business challenges. Please find some helpful links below for additional guidance related to governance.

Value Statement

The Governance Forum provides value to the PMI Atlanta community by offering participants:

• Decisions frameworks to assess culture and apply optimal strategy
• Key takeaways to “take to work tomorrow”
• Discussion of field-tested best practices in the oversight and execution of projects, programs, and portfolios

 Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

Frameworks

Calder Moir
COBIT 
Agile/Lean Path

Certification 

ISACA.org

Standards

ISO.org

Industry Resources

Disciplined Agile Delivery
OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
Gartner Webinars

Twitter

@PMIATLGov

Written by: Elizabeth Adeusi, MHA, PMP

Presentation Overview

On November 14, 2024, the Clinical Research Forum of the PMI Atlanta Chapter hosted the Channel Your Inner Child To Become A Better Clinical Research Professional event as presented by The Q-Kids: John R. Nocero, PhD and Andrea L. Bordonaro, MAT.

Andrea and John emphasized that in the stressful world of clinical research, becoming overwhelmed by your emotions can happen to all of us. Emotions are your brain’s way of telling you something good or bad is happening in your life. To emotionally regulate yourself means you can step back from whatever emotion you are experiencing, identify it, and manage it as needed. As a result, an approach taught in schools worldwide for more than 15 years and bringing it into the clinical research world can result in better relationships with your colleagues. It’s emotional intelligence on steroids — The Zones of Regulation.

John explained the Zones of Regulation further. There are four zones: blue zone, green zone, yellow zone, and red zone. It is important to identify what zone you are in and manage it as needed, even in Clinical Research, as this can make all the difference in efficacy and results.

Takeaways

• Emotions do matter. They are incredibly important.
• The Zones of Regulation give us a concrete strategy to maintain emotions in various situations.
• Learning to recognize and regulate our emotions daily is beneficial in our personal and professional lives.
• When we can easily identify our zone as we navigate our day-to-day, we are able to recognize and utilize effective strategies to move us to a more comfortable, successful, and positive place. In turn, we can then make better decisions, improve our interpersonal relationships, and feel better about the aura we put forth about ourselves, which directly impacts how others view and interact with us.
• Use your next team meeting to introduce the Zones of Regulation to your research staff or as an employee engagement activity. This type of employee engagement—the connection that an employee has with their team, their job, the company culture, and the company itself—can have real impacts on productivity and well-being.

Next Event

Join us at the next PMI Atlanta Chapter Clinical Research Forum in March 2025.

Register at www.pmiatlanta.org/events/event-calendar

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by Mike Ososki, PMP 

Energize your potential! And Maria Horstmann may be just the person to help you do it, via her metabolic health-focus coaching practice. From pre-diabetes with an eating disorder and sugar addiction, Maria reinvented herself to become a high energy healthy ball of fire that is a walking testament to the results of implementing her advice.

Working harder and longer just ain’t gonna cut it no more. In fact, doing so without a decent health foundation will increase your risk of multiple body trouble issues. Like a good PM, ya gotta manage yer risk, right? This is not new news. Well, Maria comes at it from her special angle.

Optimize your body’s energy production at the cellular level, through better metabolism—the chemical processes in cells that make energy, promote growth, and keep you healthy. Another way to say it is that your performance is only as strong as the energy your cells can produce. You really want to avoid “Metabolic Chaos®.” 

The science behind all this is quite complex, but you don’t need to deeply understand it. What you do need to do is monitor and adjust your health numbers. Triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C, blood pressure, and waist circumference are the most important indicators. (To know the real deal, you can’t be on any meds for any of these markers.) This data-driven functional lab testing approach will help identify stressors that inhibit, disrupt, and prevent optimal body function.

Symptoms like fatigue, stress, and poor focus are often rooted in metabolic dysfunction. Poor sleep habits, processed foods, added sugars, and lack of movement sabotage your energy and hold you back. To be highly productive, well-focused, and resilient require consistent energy from the cellular level.

What can you do? You can better control your daily input choices of sleep, food, and movement. Small steps got you to where you are, and you can take small steps to make better choices with these oh-so important everyday elements of basic life. Try to think and do like this ... 

So let’s prioritize the basics again: sleep and recovery, mastering blood sugar, and aligning time with your values, like these ...

Remember that teeny-tiny baby steps are powerful over time. And as you experience even the smallest improvements, let them motivate you to keep on keeping on with your easy-does-it new and improved lifestyle and habits program. Over time, it can lead you to accomplish sustainable energy and peak performance—something every good project manager must value!

Visit Maria’s site https://befabbeyou.com/ to learn more about The Horstmann Method.

The next Chapter Meeting "Designing a Career of a Lifetime" will be held at Georgia Tech Global Learning Center on February 25, 2025. Register Here.