PMI, Tulsa Chapter News

CHAPTER NEWS

December Project Management Institute – Tulsa Luncheon Meeting
Speaker: Amy Hamilton
Wednesday, December 3
ONEOK Café (Dining Room 1)
100 W, 5th
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Cost: Parking and Cafeteria style lunch
No reservations required
Information: DBearden@sjmc.org or 744-3608

Directions:
Take the BA Expressway to the Bartlesville Exit (75 N); take the first
exit which is 7th Street. Take 7th to Boulder, turn right. In the far
left lane, turn in to the ONEOK Parking garage. On level 2, there is a
tunnel into the building. Parking rates are $2.00 per hour.  Dining Room
1 and 2 (Basement Level)

Topic: Handling Difficult Situations & Challenging People

As today’s economic and political uncertainties continue, increased
tensions are being felt in the workplace, creating complex human
dynamics challenges.  Not a week goes by that most of us don’t encounter
some angering or frustrating situation or person.  Because of our
amplified stress, we often don’t approach difficult situations in an
informed, calm and positive manner which can cause minor
mis-understandings to develop into long-term simmering conflicts or all
out wars.  Clearly not a healthy or productive environment to create
success.

During this brief presentation we will investigate two simple concepts
to assist us in remaining calm and objective in the midst of angry or
emotional reactions.  By remembering to practice these techniques we can
increase our ability to handle conflict constructively and focus on
common goals & values instead of on differences, emotions, and past
hurts.  

Amy Hamilton is the owner of Spectrum Learning Resources, Inc.,
providing facilitation and training services in professional
development, leadership skills, coaching, and business analysis to a
wide variety of organizations.  She has over 17 years experience in
facilitating, coaching and motivating people.  Amy's experience as a
corporate manager, business analyst and coach combine to create a unique
facilitation style.  She has the ability to “connect” with her audience
and synthesize their specific challenges with the material to be learned
which produces an informative, interactive and practical learning
environment.  Amy is a service-oriented professional who has a passion
for assisting people in learning techniques and strategies to increase
their productivity and performance. She may be contacted at:
aehtulsa@swbell.net
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Make plans now to attend our January 4 evening meeting:

Speaker: Claudia M. Baca, PMP  
         QuantumPM, LLC, VP Consulting Services

Topic: Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3TM)

Location: Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills, Redbud Room
1902 E. 71st Street
5:30 p.m.  – 8 p.m.
Cost: $15 members, $20 guests

PMI NEWS
The Exposure Draft of the PMBOK® Guide - Third Edition is now live! at
www.pmi.org  The comment period will remain open until 5:00 p.m. (US
Eastern Time, GMT -5) on 9 January 2004.  Comments received during the
exposure draft stage will help to shape the direction of the third
edition of PMI's de facto standard for the project management
profession.  This is your chance to impact the future of your
profession.

New login page for Professional Development Unit (PDU) resources.  PMI
has implemented a new login process for Internet PDU resources.  These
resources include the online PDU transcript and online PDU reporting
form.  Aside from formatting improvements, the new pages have three
significant changes that will affect PMI-certified Project Management
Professionals (PMP®):

1. The login process now requires the following information–PMI
Identification Number, PMP Certification Number and the first four
characters of the PMP's last name/surname.  The PMI Identification
Number is assigned to record a PMP's information with PMI.  PMPs who are
also PMI members have been given their PMI Identification Number as
their membership number.  PMPs who do not know their PMI Identification
Number should contact PMI Customer Service at +1-610-356-4600 or
pmihq@pmi.org and have their PMP Certification Number available.  This
number is located on each individual's PMP certificate and is used to
identify individual certifications;

2. PMPs can now access the online PDU reporting form or their online PDU
transcript from this single login page;

3. Once a PMP has logged into either service (transcript or reporting
form) they may switch between the two resources without repeating the
login process.  A link to the non-selected resource is located on the
left-hand side of the Web page in bold text. 
Please direct any questions to adam.potts@pmi.org.
Volunteer opportunities available at PMI:
http://www.pmi.org/info/AP_VolunteerOverview.asp?nav=0211
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Recommended Weblinks, provided by Lynne Kunkel, Program Director

http://www.gantthead.com/article/1,1380,195807,00.html
'You Can't Be Serious?!' - Wm. Knight, 10.13.03 (gantthead.com)

http://www.quality.nist.gov/PDF_files/Issue_Sheet_SS.pdf
Baldridge, 6 Sigma, & ISO:  Understanding Your Options (CEO Issue Sheet)

http://www.isixsigma.com/offsite.asp?A=Fr&Url=http://www.ebizq.net/news/2997

Metastorm, SigmaFlow Partner On Six Sigma Process Management; 10.09.03
[eBiz]

http://www.mtaexec.com/Newsletter/articles/newsletter_pmmaturity.html
'Is a Streamlined Project Support Office Right for Your IT
Organization?' - PM Principles; Issue #3, June 2003 [ Marina Spence,
PMP; Omada Management Group]

http://www.mtaexec.com/Topics/Accountability/overview.html
http://www.appliedmatrixmanagement.com/Resources/Papers/7Keys.html
=> Several good papers & whitepapers from Paula Martin

http://www.pmpartners.com/resources/once.html
'Once Is Not Enough' [William R. Duncan]
'Project Manager Competence and Competencies' [Wm. Duncan]

http://www.projectmanager.com/dataanalysis/raynorcolumns.htm
Project Management Advisor Columns by Darrel Raynor

http://www.systemcorp.com/index_ns.html
The All New PMOffice Enterprise -- excellent collection of articles.

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