Dinner Meeting - 170109

Join Us for our bi-monthly dinner meeting! Earn up to 2 PDUs while building your professional network, viewing new products and services, and enjoying dinner.  Earn 1 PDU for attending the Professional Growth event and 1 PDU for attending the dinner meeting.  

Keynote Presentation - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

"The Dark Arts of Project Management" presented by Joe Perzel, Partner of JPerzel, Inc.

Join us before the keynote presentation for these optional meetings and networking:

• Newcomers Meeting:  5:00pm - 6:00pm

If you are a new member to PMI Atlanta, you do not want to miss this opportunity to hear how PMI Atlanta can help you achieve your goals and meet members of the leadership team.

• Professional Development Session:  5:00pm - 6:00pm

Topic:  "How to position yourself for amazing career success!" presented by Theresa Brown, The PM trainer
 

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Date:  Monday, January 9, 2017
Time:  5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:  The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North, 7 Concourse Pkwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30328
 

Keynote Presentation Details

Successful journey from start to finish of a project is not linear, clean, forecastable or easy. Your interest is to deliver the project on time, on budget with a smile on everyone’s face, but others have conflicting interests.

Armed with your System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), a planning tool of your choice and the innocence that always comes at the start of a project you think you are set to go. Then the plan that you have worked so hard to perfect shows a flaw, falls behind schedule or budget, gets amended or completely thrown out all together. How do you minimize these occurrences and
provide the best chance to survive the project intact.

This presentation will start with the Top 10 Keys to Success which include Communicate, Communicate, Communicate; Managing Change and Expectations; Pace, Perfection and Price – pick 3? We will then discuss how to become a Master Magician covering topics such as Winning at Politics; Control others through Influence; Communicate & Motivate and why you need to Market the Project.

While it takes less than 8 hours to learn how to use a tool to manage a project it takes a lifetime to learn the art of successfully running a project. This presentation will focus on the Soft-side of project management, having fun with the topic and using audience participation to share the community’s intelligence.

Talent Triangle Category: Strategic & Business Management

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Joe Perzel has been leading projects of all sizes and managing staffs since 1982 in both a corporate and vendor capacity. He has a background in multiple industries including healthcare, insurance, finance, government, non-profit, K12 and higher education, audit and compliance, manufacturing and agri-business. Presently Joe is Partner JPerzel Inc. as well as Program Manager at Surescripts LLC. He has also held leadership positions at Thomson Reuters, MN Workers Compensation Insurers Agency, Cargill and International Multifoods.

Joe has been presenting since 2002 on topics ranging from project management, leadership, career management and entrepreneurship. Most recently he has presented at PMI-MN (Twin Cities, Lacrosse, St Cloud, Bismarck, Mankato, PDD), MN State Symposium, St Cloud State University, Minnesota Recruiters (Un)Conference and the University of St Thomas and will be the keynote at the Rochester CTC Leadership conference in March 2017. His presentation and seminars titles include:

Leadership/Strategy/Project Management
• Selling the Value of the PMO and Project Managers to Management
• How to be a Chameleon: A key to enterprise project success
• Leadership: The Making of a Professional, Enterprise PM
• Managing Change and Surviving to Talk about it
• Managing Innovation: When thinking out-of-the-box is Required
• Building your essential PM Soft skills
• How to Train Your Sponsor: a project sponsor primer
• The Dark Arts of Project Management
• Top Ten ways to Screw-up a Good Project
• Project Management for the Business Analyst – the minimum you need to know
• A “Surefire” way to Ensure Schedule Performance! (Surefire Scheduling)
• MS Project 101

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Professional Development Presentation Details:

Anyone can accomplish a successful career in Project Management with purpose, passion, and performance. It doesn't take much effort to have an ordinary career; anyone can do it. If you want to add extra to the ordinary it must be intentional—focused not only on the end game, but on your inner game as well.

Talent Triangle Category: Leadership

Theresa Brown is an internationally known project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. She works with project professionals, in any phase of their project management career, that are ready to improve their bottom line career performance.

Theresa is passionate about project management and that passion is felt and seen in every encounter she has with the project managers and clients that she serves.

Prior to starting her own company, The PM Trainer, Theresa was recognized as a respected business leader, with over 20 years’ experience in delivering value and benefits to Fortune 100 companies. As a fully qualified corporate and executive coach, certified training director and Project Management Professional, Theresa is uniquely qualified and positioned to help high performing professional catapult their income, impact, and influence into an amazing project management career.

Theresa lives in Hiram, GA with her three dogs—Nylah, Basil, and Sassy.
 

Please Note:  Early Bird Registration ehas been extended until Wednesday, January 4th at noon.   
 

**Effective immediately - We will no longer be accepting cash for walk-ins**