March Project Management Roundtable

We are starting up something new this year! We invite you to join us in a Project Management Round Table. This will be a discussion based series on relevant project management topics.

For our first round table we will be discussing stakeholder engagement and resource management. From discussing the different types of software to discussing practical examples we will have several questions queued up to keep the conversation flowing.

This event earns 1 Ways of Working PDU.

IIL Advantage Program: Negotiating for Optimal Outcomes

As a PMI Inland Northwest Chapter Member, we are excited to invite you to our next free live webinar Negotiating for Optimal Outcomes (1 PDU), presented by International Institute for learning.

Learn how negotiation is defined and the phases of negotiation from preparation through measuring the outcomes of the negotiation and explores common approaches to negotiating. Key takeaway: an in-depth review of the rules of principled negotiation.

Join us on Tuesday, April 18th at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT, for this highly informative webinar and earn up to 1 PDU! Can’t attend live on the 18th? Don’t worry! Register today and enjoy on-demand access for 30 days! 

PMIINW is a proud member of IIL’s Chapter Advantage Program, learn more about course discounts and exclusive offers here: www.iil.com/pmiinw

April Chapter Meeting

We'll start by introducing our new partnership with IIL - including how you can access discounted on-demand learning and PDUs. Then we'll have a great talk from Guy Grindborg from IIL, focusing on communication and stakeholder engagement.

This webinar is designed to help you better manage your interactions with project stakeholders and
enhance your communications effectiveness on your projects. By exploring critical leadership and crossfunctional team topics, you will gain a detailed understanding of:

• The journey of stakeholder management and engagement
• The competencies required to excel in building stakeholder engagement
• How to build the relationships required for project success
• How to develop your emotional intelligence to support building effective stakeholder relationships

After this one-hour session, you will be able to:

• Understand how to align and manage your stakeholder engagement efforts and investment
• Understand the stakeholder engagement and supporting activities to ensure a strong stakeholder support
• Structure, organize, plan, and manage the level of communications on an ongoing basis to respond to changing stakeholder roles and expectations in a given project lifecycle
• Articulate the role that managing conflict and building trust has in creating high performing teams capable of better stakeholder engagement
• Understand the need for managing the organizational change process by engaging people’s hearts, minds, and hands

This event earns 1 Business Acumen PDU.

April Tech Talk

Learn how to manage project communications using the Microsoft ecosystem (Teams, SharePoint, etc...). This session will focus on practical techniques for streamlining communications to help reduce the time you spend crafting emails.

Our speaker is Shawna Ernst, PMP, DASM, CGEIT. Shawna is the IT Manager for the Spokane Police Department where she uses Microsoft products daily to keep stakeholders informed and engaged. She's also the PMIINW chapter's VP of Marketing.

This event earns 1 Ways of Working PDU.

April PMO Forum

Join local PMO leaders for a quarterly discussion of all things PMO! Topics include running a successful PMO, managing programs and portfolios, and navigating competing demands.

This event earns 1 Ways of Working PDU.