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September Dinner Meeting: "Stakeholder Relations in Project Management—Perspective from a Start-Up City"

Announcements September 29, 2013

Presented By: J.D. Clockdale, Co-founder, City of Brookhaven
Written By: Ronke Oyemade, PMP MBA CISA CRISC

J.D. Clockdale was the speaker at the PMI Dunwoody Dinner Meeting held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Atlanta on September 9th, 2013. He spoke about how the city of Brookhaven was created in a month after voters successfully voted during the elections held in November 2010, that the city of Brookhaven should be created. He explained the challenges faced by his team when creating the Brookhaven City. These challenges included the following – Different sets of expectations held by the Brookhaven City’s 50000 new stakeholders had to be met, the city hall had to be set up, roads had to be maintained, the municipal court had to be created, and business and other licenses had to be issued. He said the successful creation of Brookhaven city was due to the Threshold Rule which he implemented. According to Mr. Clockdale, the implemented Threshold Rule comprises of 3 concepts which are:

Concept 1 – Perspective
Concept 2 – Communications
Concept 3 – Collaboration

2013 Board of Directors Elections

Announcements June 09, 2013

This year, there are 3 Board of Director positions open to election:

•Vice Chair
•Secretary (Director 1)
•Director at Large (Director 3)

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Feel free to direct any questions about the Board of Director elections to nominations@pmiatlanta.org.

PMI Atlanta Toastmasters Division C Evaluation and Humorous Contest

Announcements September 23, 2013

By: Shannon Kraiger

It was a day of winners for PMI Atlanta Toastmasters at the Division C, District 44, Toastmasters Evaluation and Humorous Contest held Saturday, September 14th at the UPS Headquarters in Atlanta.

Dionne Saunders, DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) placed first in the Evaluation contest as she gave a riveting evaluation of target speaker, Magdalene Womack’s speech, “Transformer.” Saunders a Toastmaster since 2007 and a former member of AT&T Expressions group shared with Womack the strengths of her speech which included humor, voice projection and animation while also providing a few suggestions for areas of improvement.

Saunders will compete in the Evaluation Contest at the District Level contest during the Imagine 2013 fall conference November 8th and 9th at the Crown Plaza Ravina Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

We Have Heard You!

Announcements August 26, 2013

Our Communications team has worked diligently this summer to bring changes to our membership emails.

Our first change will begin September 16 with an Upcoming Classes email. This will replace the individual event email alerts. Please watch your inboxes for this new email!

We will introduce you to more of our changes soon. Please send your suggestions and feedback to communicationsfeedback@pmiatlanta.org.

Roadmap to Ethical Decision-Making

Announcements August 20, 2013

by Mike Ososki, PMP, Communications Committee

“Ethics discussions are not always fun,” declared Shobhna Raghupathy, presenting at August Dunwoody Dinner Meeting. Ms. Raghupathy is one of 8 members in PMI’s Ethics Member Advisory Group, or “Ethics MAG.”

All will agree that applied ethics in context can be extremely challenging, and may inspire great controversy as we grapple with such lofty concepts as fairness, honesty, responsibility and respect. Some may even say that it’s fun.

Regardless of emotional perspective, Shobhna’s intent was to impart PMI-style guidance for us as we inevitably face the need to make decisions regarding ethical issues in work and life.

For our work in project management, the best place to start is with PMI’s Code of Ethics, the document that lays the ethical groundwork for us at PMI, sort of like the constitution does in part for our country.

Decision-making is a cognitive process that ends in a choice and results in an action that may impact others. Unavoidably, every leader’s job description includes ethical decision-making. It is best to holistically view your organization’s culture and operate from within its framework.