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Communications and Relationship Management

Written by Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski of Energizing Enterprises

In this age of electronics and connectivity to all it is still possible to miss something essential in effective communications, and, by extension, relationship management.

The human touch.

Young or old, there is an essential value in the impact of connecting to each other at the simple level of human to human. It is the lack of that connection that can lead to misunderstandings at the lowest level of negative impact, and ruptured relationships at highest level of negative impact.

Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF's) Newest Toolkit Becomes Online Course for Teachers

More than 100 teachers will receive project management training to support their instruction

A new online course hosted by eNetLearning brings PMIEF's Project Management Toolkit for Teachers™ to life for educators around the world this summer. The four-week class, which will be piloted once each, in July and August,. The online course assists helps teachers’ understanding on how helping students acquire, apply, and strengthen project management skills prepares them to successfully transition from secondary school to college and career.
Teachers from across the globe are participating in this unique initiative. The international cohorts include educators from Brazil, Brussels, the U.S. United States and Uruguay.

For more information visit http://pmief.org/

PMI Atlanta Toastmasters’ Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests

Written by Valerie Williams-Ndikintum, PMP

Competitions are one method Toastmasters International utilizes to build speaking skills among its members. Each year Toastmasters clubs worldwide host and encourage members to compete in Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech competitions. Speech contests benefit Toastmasters members by providing the speakers opportunities to improve speech skills and for the audience to learn by observing fellow speakers who have advanced their speech aptitude from the program.

On July 24th, PMI Atlanta Toastmasters’ Club held its annual Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests. The meeting, which felt more like an event, was held at Global Payments in Atlanta, Ga. The Humorous and Evaluation contests were held as two separate competitions.

ISACA Atlanta Geek Week

ITMPI Breakfast Opportunity for PMI Atlanta Chapter Members!

PMI Atlanta Chapter and ITMPI, IT Metrics & Productivity Institute has partnered to provide more ways to help you earn PDU’s!  Since May 2014, many lucky chapter members have received raffle giveaways and access to free unlimited webinars and PDU’s for one full year. These giveaways were generated to support ITMPI who is hosting a breakfast meeting September 11th at the Marriott Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel. ITMPI is also sponsoring our August 11 Dinner Meeting event. Please step up and support our sponsors!
 
What’s happening now? PMI Atlanta members can attend the September 11 Breakfast meeting for free of charge by using code: CAI_14_ATL during online registration.  Best of all, each attendee will receive one FREE ITMPI Premium Membership good for one year of unlimited FREE PDU accredited education.  For more information and to register in advance, please click here.