President's Report

Happy Spring PMI-CIC!

Spring is in the air and the world around us is changing at a rapid pace.  Spring normally brings inconsistent weather that affects schedules and timelines, changes in social itineraries as the warm weather allows us to get outside, and additional work that comes with warmer weather such as mowing the grass.  Each of these things in their own right can take up space in your life that you now are working through new and competing priorities. In addition, the world is waking up from a pandemic state and companies everywhere are returning to a business as usual state and reviewing their own priorities and strategic approaches.  

In the last month I have started working through Tom Wujec and PMI's Wicked Problem Solving course.  This hands-on self-paced course and toolkit that provides guidance, processes, and examples on how to efficiently solve your most wicked problems.  As our world changes and our companies towards the future as Changemakers and Project Professionals we need to be at the ready with tools that will support the work of our organization.  

I challenge you to join in me taking Wicked Problem Solving in the next couple months and engage with me on Social Media on your own Lessons Learned.  Sign up for the course now Here and use the code ACTFASTWPS20 to save 20%. 

Sincerely,

Pamela Clapp, PMP, CLSSGB, Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner

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Featured Article

Please go here to read the full article. On our side, as a chapter, our commitment to bring you diverse events/offerings will continue and will be in alignment with the PMI Triangle's evolution.

• Ways of Working: formerly Technical Project Management
• Power Skills: formerly Leadership
• Business Acumen: formerly Strategic and Business Management

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Upcoming Events

Join us on May 19th for a Dinner event with special guest, Ashaki Sorrell. The market is saturated with various assessments & tests. Ashaki Sorrell will teach you how to easily leverage the traditional SWOT in your personal development plans. Go register here--https://pmi-cic.org/meetinginfo.php?id=307&ts=1650180219.

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Welcome New Members

Brad McMurray

Chuck Lear

Joe Fuchs

Jordan Miller

Leigh Johnson

Makayla Fowler

Ruben Perez

Salam Kelleher

Seenivasan Narayanan

Tony Huston

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Member Renewal Spotlight

Amy Delcomyn	Kathryn D'Alfonso
Amy Stuepfert	Kelly Tenhaken-Freeman
Babu Gupta	Kiranmayi Konam
Carol Morrell	Lindsey Sefried
Chris Olson	Lisa Disney
David Dougall	Lisa Watkins
Debra Price	Lori Dixon
Dongmei Luo	Margaret Christopher
Garry Boatz	Michael Allen
Hari Pallem	Patrick Clapper
Ike Chancellor	Rory Nolan
JuLee Hong	Sandra Sharp
Julie Bovenmyer	Steve Chu
Justin Schmidgall	Steven Mahnich
Jyotika Sirohi

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New Designation Recipients

Member	New Designation
Marshall Brown	PMI-ACP
Samuel Mueller	CAPM
Anna Nabhan	PMP
Seenivasan Narayanan	PMP
Yousaf Shah	PMP

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Volunteer Opportunities

Members and non-members are invited to become active participants in the PMI Central Illinois Chapter (PMI-CIC) by becoming a volunteer. It’s never too late to volunteer! The PMI-CIC chapter has many different opportunities available and the hours and skills required for each opportunity are different! There's a volunteer opportunity to fit everyone's busy schedule! To view our current volunteer openings, click here and thank you for supporting your local PMI chapter!

Volunteering Benefits:

• Earn PDUs
• Get real-life hands on experience that can be added to your resume
• Meet project management professionals in different industries, organizations, and jobs
• Expand your skills in project management by working outside your normal role as a sponsor, project manager, planner, project coordinator or team member on a PMI-CIC team
• Be a part of a team of project management professionals working to provide project management knowledge and opportunities to Central Illinois
• Advance the project management profession and Central Illinois' understanding of the importance of project management
• Gain insight into the inner workings of the PMI chapter activities, and contribute your knowledge and insight to streamline and improve their processes and procedures
• Take pride in accomplishment! When you volunteer, you're doing your part to improve the practice of project management for the benefit of everyone!

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Calendar of Events

As our calendar is subject to change, please be sure to find us on social media, open our emails, and/or check the events page (https://pmi-cic.org/meetinginfo.php) for latest updates and to register so you don't miss a thing. If you do miss an event, you might be able to catch a recording of it in about 3-4 weeks on our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKB5DY9Q1ECs9zd9eyN2iA) and/or our Facebook Chapter Member Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/3377937998972876). 

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Guest Blog

Please go here to check out what John St. John and Leonardo Grandinetti Chaves, MSc, PMP  had to say in their latest blogs.

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Find Us On Social Media

Use pmicicsocialmedia to help us find your PM-related posts and pics.

“Like” our Facebook Page for additional content such as Live Streaming, recorded and or “Premier” interviews and panel discussions: https://www.facebook.com/pmicentralillinoischapter

Follow our LinkedIn Company Page for updates around our Chapter events and offerings: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pmi-central-illinois-chapter/?viewAsMember=true

Join our LinkedIn Group for additional group discussions: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2387238/

Join our Facebook Group for even more fun insights around our chapter, your Board members, and everything project management: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3377937998972876

Watch licensed, recorded and “Premier” Monthly Chapter Meetings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKB5DY9Q1ECs9zd9eyN2iA

Follow our Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/pmicicsocialmedia/) for updates around our Chapter events and offerings

Follow our Twitter (https://twitter.com/pmicic) for updates around our Chapter events and offerings

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