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SIG
Updates
SIG
Operations
SIG Events -
Thank you to the hundreds of visitors at our networking
events for making the PMI
NA Leadership Meeting and Congress in Seattle a great success
for our SIG. It was wonderful to meet our members one-on-one at
our Annual
SIG Meeting and share our successes in 2006 and plans for
the coming year. This year's meeting was well attended with participants
from Alaska to Australia, and was a great representation of our
male AND female members! The meeting wrapped up with volunteer
recognition and door prizes (always a fun part!!). And, although
the joint event with ITT SIG, TSA and Gantthead was an
overall success, we do apologize for the venue limitations and
not being able to meet and greet our guests as much as we had
hoped to do. Now it's time for all of us to slow down, relax,
enjoy the holiday season and close out the year--from
the SIG Board, we wish you all PEACE and PROSPERITY in the coming
year.
Thank you to member volunteer, Serena Ainsworth,
for doing another excellent job of representing the SIG at the
PMI NJ Symposium- "International Project Management Day"
on 2 November. Visit
their website for more info on the speakers and presentations
and 2007 events in which the SIG will be participating.
On a related note, we hope you all were able to personally celebrate
International Project Management Day in some way. The official
website had a very clever and amusing video clip created in
conjunction with the PMI Government SIG; it also had opening remarks
from Frank Saladis who created this concept year.
Programs
& Education
e-Mentoring Program to Launch in January
2007 - The SIG's e-Mentoring Program is
slated to launch early in the new year. The team has been madly
working on the collateral for the program and have leveraged existing
new material. Watch for communication seeking mentors and mentees
interested in participating in the program that will be emailed
to members in the new year. For more information on this new program
contact mentoringprogram
@wipmsig.org.
WiPM
PMP® eStudy -
the eStudy team continues to provide an excellent service to our
members. As the year draws to a close many people are preparing
to write their PMP exam to meet a personal goal - and we wish
them all well! If the interest is high enough, we'll host another
eStudy group in 2007. If you are interested in participating as
an instructor OR a student please contact estudy@wipmsig.org.
PMI
News
Volunteers Sought for Updates to PMI’s most Influential Global
Standards
PMI seeks volunteers to participate on the teams to update and
rewrite two of PMI’s most influential global standards: PMBOK®
Guide—Fourth Edition and The Standard for Program Management—Second
Edition. To
become a volunteer team member please register on the PMI
Volunteer Opportunities web page>
SIG/College Call for Papers 2007 - members can submit
their topics to the call for presentation for the 2007 North America
and/or Latin America Congresses. Get
information on how to submit a proposal>
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Just
Stuff
Secret Lives of Bread Winner Wives
Every time you turn around it seems there's
another rah-rah story about the rise of the "alpha
earner" wife -- women who bring home most of the
bacon while their husbands happily shuttle the kids
to and from soccer practice.
Learn why some alpha female are becoming tired of the
pep rally>
Massachusetts
Study Finds that Woman-led Businesses Make up $10B of
Local Economy
The
women at the helms of large businesses in Massachusetts
like to call the shots, but they are quick to seek
input from others along the way, according to an annual
study of the state's women-led companies. The women
who participated in the study make philanthropy a priority
at their companies -- and the more women a company hires,
the greater its focus tends to be on social good. These
women CEOs are experienced, coming to their executive
positions with an average of 13 years of work behind
them, and their businesses contributed a total of $10
billion to the local economy in 2005.
Learn
more>
Source:
bizjournals.com
Kenya
President Orders, "Give Women 30% of All New Civil
Service Jobs"
Women in Kenya received a major boost when
President Kibaki directed that 30 percent of all
jobs in the public sector be reserved for them.
It is the first time Kenyan women will be benefiting
from affirmative action and it comes after years of
agitation by lobbyists for parliamentary seats
to be reserved for women. Read
more>
Source:
allafrica.com
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Did
you Know?
FORTUNE Ranks 50 Most Powerful Women
in Business 2006
Call
it the year of the Most Powerful Woman CEO. In fact the
top seven positions on the 2006 list are held by chief executives.
View
the list>
Source:
cnnmoney.com
Top
Facts About Women-Owned
Businesses
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Nearly 10.4 million firms are owned by women
- Women
of color own an estimated 1.4 million firms
- Women-owned
businesses spend an estimated $546
billion
annually on salaries and benefits
View
more stats>
Source: Center for Women's Business Research
Need
a Wardrobe Shrink?
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Profiling, to
help people respond to the perennial question "What do
I wear?" by focusing on the bigger question of "Who
am I?"
Using in-depth phone and Internet consultations, consultants
provide clients with a blueprint for style that
mirrors
one's inner self.
Source:
Psychology
Today Nov/Dec 2006
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18
ways to say focused at work
Sometimes it is difficult to stay focused in office environment
- hallway chatters and shoulder tapping distractions etc.
Business blogger Dave Cheong provides 18 ways to stay focused.
» Commuting
Time and be Key Learning Time
Management
and customer service trainer Laura Laaman provides advice
on how to "use your commute as wisely as possible to
allow you to be even more awesome at work and help you to
be the fun, relaxed person you want to be in your personal
world."
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