PMI Virtual Experience Series - The Community: Together We Rise

This month's PMI Book Club finds renowned editor-in-chief and podcast host Bob Safian in conversation with Rana el Kaliouby, author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology (Currency 2020). In this captivating memoir, Rana provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling--to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another.

Attention Attendees! PMI will randomly select 50 registered attendees by Thursday, 13 August to receive a free copy of Rana’s book.

Being invited to pitch an idea to senior executives can be both a blessing and a curse. On the upside, it provides an opportunity to showcase expertise before individuals with influence and strategic decision making within an organization. On the downside, a poor presentation can cast a negative shadow over the perception of someone's capability. This session will demonstrate how to design and deliver information more effectively at the senior level and enhance preparedness for leadership.

Learning Objective:
At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to: Apply a presentation design process to more effectively engage senior executives.

The digital age is disrupting every area of business, and adapting to this transformation requires more than new strategies. This session will examine the challenges and discuss the transformational leadership competencies needed to thrive in this era of rapid technology and evolving customer expectations. Project management professionals can rise together and contribute by leading to build an engaging and digitally-savvy “change" culture to deliver value. The impacts of transformational leadership with some bold and inspired leadership successes will be presented.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Describe the disruption caused and the new business opportunities created by digital transformation; (2) Recognize different leadership behaviors and develop new digital skills for this era of technology, change in markets and social media.

We will share apps and productivity tips to help you and your team automate actions so you get more time to handle your day-to-day, especially with the need to juggle both home and work. Your goal for this session: take away at least three apps or tips to implement and test out after this session.

Learning Objective:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: Identify and utilize apps to help juggle their personal and professional lives.

This session focuses on how companies can survive disruptive changes in business by undergoing a digital transformation. Digital transformation is not just the digitization of processes or using modern digital tools, but reinvention of business by re-imagining the processes, using digital tools, changing culture, improving ability to take risk and organization's ability to innovate, collaborating to deal with disruptive changes in a business model, and adapting to a competitive landscape/business environment.

Learning Objective:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: Describe what digital transformation is and identify practical insights into how to successfully lead a digital transformation.

This session will explore how non-linear thinking can help the project manager to plan and manage holistically by examining real-life scenarios. We will describe typical cross-dimensional scenarios that illustrate the need for non-linear thinking and examine how embedding risk management in our thinking will help projects avoid mistakes and embrace opportunities.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Apply non-linear thinking to integrate risk management into all project management domain activities. (2) Apply simple principles to achieve complex results.