Auckland Branch
2010 promises to be a great year for PMI Auckland members with our latest offerings listed below.
If you haven't been to a branch meeting in a while, come along!
We look forward to seeing both familiar and new faces.
- Sally and the team.
Wanted: Volunteers
Volunteer your time with PMI Auckland and increase your opportunities for leadership, collaboration and networking. Maybe you think you don't have time to volunteer, or your schedule makes it difficult for you to make a commitment, however, if you can help out for just one hour, you'll be surprised at the difference it can make (and it looks good on your CV). More...
Upcoming Events
Thursday 18 March
Putting together effective project teams
by Winston Pond, Director at Leadership Solutions Limited
For a successful project, getting the team balance sorted is just as important as having the right skills on the job.
Winston Pond will outline the team performance research work done by Meredith Belbin and how this has been applied in a
range of project management situations. More...
Thursday 22 April
Rational Change Management: Without Hype & Myth (one day workshop)
by Peter de Jager, World-recognised Keynote Speaker.
Registration Fee: Members $550, Non-members $600
Do you want ...
* A rational approach for implementing change within your organisation?
* An approach devoid of the myths and hype which serve to make a relatively simple task almost impossible?
* A reality-based model of the change process which explains not only why we resist being changed, but also how to convert
our natural response to change into support and enthusiasm for the change?
* To introduce both staff and management to a way of thinking about organisational change that encourages the formation of
teams, respects intelligent criticism, invites participation and breaks down the obstacles of the "we" vs "them" culture? More...
Friday 23 April
The Art of Problem Solving (one day workshop)
by Peter de Jager, World-recognised Keynote Speaker
Registration Fee: Members $550, Non-members $600
For the most part, we don't typically use any sort of problem-solving methodology - unless you call 'jumping in with both feet' a
methodology. We're stumped by the simplest problems: even problems with only a handful of possible, and readily
identified, solutions routinely confound everyone from the president of a company all the way down to the youngest student.
This workshop will challenge you to think about how you go about solving problems, identify YOUR weaknesses in this area,
and provide some surprisingly simple techniques to correct those problems. More...