Entertainment Forum - 171010

"PM's have Game"

presented by Jamaal Broome, Senior Project Manager/Sports, Turner Broadcasting

The PMI Atlanta Entertainment Forum is launching this Spring! Our focus is expanding knowledge and appreciation of Project Management and its benefits in unconventional fields by providing informational, educational, and networking events for individuals in various roles in the entertainment industry.

Entertainment Industry are those businesses involved in providing entertainment: Media – film, television, radio, theater; Music; Sports; Fine arts; and Digital - Gaming.

Presentation       

An In-depth discussion on Project Management in Sports

Architectural, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) Forum 171010

"Role of Procurement in today's business"

presented by Arvind Swamy,  Encompass Digital Media, Senior Vice President Global Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management

The PMI Atlanta AEC Forum is a focus group that hosts regular events with ranging topics in the architectural, engineering, and construction fields. We will show the importance of solid project management in these related fields of study.

Presentation

The business world today confronts many challenges in procurement, this presentation attempts to touch on and discuss remedies to the challenges:

• Price Inflation

• Demand Exceeds Supply

• Lack of Procurement skills

• BU’s not aligned to generate savings

• De-Centralized organization

• Low hanging fruit achieved

 

PMI-ACP Study Group

Sellers Smith will mentor the PMI-ACP Study Group starting Wednesday, September 27th. The class will meet on Wednesdays for 8 consecutive weeks from 6pm-8pm.

PMP Study Group

2180 Lake Blvd NE

Theresa Brown will mentor the PMP Study Group starting Wednesday, October 11th to December 13th for PMI Atlanta Members only. The class will meet on Wednesdays for 10 consecutive weeks from 6pm-8pm.

PMI Atlanta Toastmasters Meeting - 171012

Kroger Community Room, Kroger, Fountain Oaks Shopping Center

If you would like to earn PDUs while improving your communications and leadership skills, this opportunity is for you! PMI Atlanta has teamed up with Toastmasters International to offer you a chance to hone your public speaking, critical listening, and leadership skills in a supportive environment. You will also have an opportunity to practice speaking off-the-cuff, giving and receiving feedback, emceeing a meeting, and many other valuable business skills. Since this club is exclusively for PMI Atlanta members, you will also have an opportunity to develop bonds within the PMI community.

Creativity and Innovation for Project and Program Managers - 2017608

Hilton Garden Inn-Atlanta-Perimeter Center

Date: Friday, October 13, 2017 - Saturday, October 14, 2017
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Perimeter Center, 1501 Lake Hearn Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30319

Earn 18 PDUs!

In the current global economic climate, organizations are forced to “innovate or die.” Only innovative organizations can survive the highly competitive global market. As organizations utilize programs and projects to achieve their strategies and goals, program and project managers have a major role to play in driving an organizational culture of creativity and innovation.

This seminar focuses on leadership competencies required for project / program managers to manage their teams most effectively and drive an organizational culture of creativity and innovation: developing their (own) individual creative skills, unleashing their teams’ creative and innovative potentials and building on creativity to drive innovation (both sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation) in their organization.

An innovation framework for project management will be introduced – a structured approach for program and project managers to utilize in starting and delivering innovation projects. Participants will explore ways to implement innovation using open innovation and innovation platforms.

Earn 18 PDUs with 14 class hours and pre-seminar reading assignments. Take advantage of discounted rates for PMI members. Continental breakfast will be served at 8:00 and snacks refreshments will be served for afternoon break.

This seminar has also been offered by the same instructor, Victoria S. Kumar, PMP, for PMI SeminarsWorld as a two-day seminar.