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.

Written by: Juliette Johnson, Communications Committee Writer

The workplace landscape is changing and PMI Atlanta is committed to offering programs that provide an insight on how members can position their career status. Throughout the month of July, PMI Atlanta asked sponsoring companies like DISYS, Truebridge, Prestige Staffing, Matrix Resource, InComm, CCCi, Riverwood Resources, and Daugherty Business Solutions to share their industry knowledge and experience with regard to job trends, networking, and the challenges job seekers are facing in this new social media-centric world. The Dinner Meeting Recruiter Panel kicked off the month long focus on career strategy programs.

Yvonne Byars, Chair, and Doug Guice, VP of Membership acknowledged that setting a job positioning and networking strategy was key to moving a career forward. This year, PMI Atlanta presented 8 experienced recruiters in nearly every industry Atlanta has to offer. These industry experts quickly honed in on the importance of certifications and branding your professional social media presence. Inventing and reinventing your brand and skills is critical to anyone’s career strategy. Thinking through how your business and soft skills can transfer from one industry to another as technology skills are now driving the job market in Cyber Security, Big Data, Mobile Apps, and Healthcare.

Written by Valerie Williams-Ndikintum, PMP

Twice monthly PMI Atlanta Toastmasters conduct meetings at 6:30p at Nancy G’s.  The July 10th PMI Atlanta Toastmasters meeting was high in attendance with 11 guests in addition to Toastmasters members.  Guests included professionals, as well as students, most of which were PMI Atlanta members.

Each Toastmasters meeting is led by members who rotate facilitating and driving the meeting.  The different roles, which must be filled at each Toastmasters meeting are:  Sergeant-at-Arms, Toastmaster, Joke Master, General Evaluator, Evaluators, Timer, ‘Ah’ Counter, Topics Master, Grammarian and Vote Counter.

Toastmasters International has two tracks available to members, the Communication Track and the Leadership Track.   New members receive a New Member Kit, including a manual, which serves as a step-by-step guide to speech writing and delivery for each respective track. Each manual walks members through 10 different speech types, all of which members are required to deliver to receive a certificate for their respective track.