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.

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/

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.