by Janice Pyka, 2018 President Elect & COO
On Saturday, October 14th, the Chapter gathered together 28 key members from the Board, Operations and Committees to begin planning for 2018. Mohamed Diab, 2018 Chapter President, kicked off the meeting by sharing highlights from our Membership Survey (see newsletter article or PDF). Brian Cohn, MarComm Committee, facilitated our productive meeting; we thank him for his thought provoking and engaging meeting.
The key question posed to all of us, “How can PMI-MN Chapter Committees better support each other?” We have a strong & dynamic chapter, let’s build on our strength & support one another. At the end of the day, each committee committed to key action items to help support, promote and gain momentum with our desire to continue to grow & build our team and Chapter.
We began with each committee charting their committee structure & makeup then identifying challenges. The committees alternated, and visited each area to brain storm on how to better support that specific committee. In the end, each committee specifically committed to support the other committees with details of what they would do. Great collaboration!
From a Membership Committee Perspective, in order to give our readers an idea of how this worked, I have included some of the outputs here in this article. Please talk with anyone of our specific committees about action items, and perhaps consider volunteering for a committee.
Membership committed to assist PDD with correlating membership to PDD, and we will work with Programs to better focus on retention, and there's a significant interest for a Mentor / Mentee Program, and Membership is working on the development of that. Membership agreed to help IT & MarComm with a better profile of CNG attendees, which will help the Chapter to focus on events that are of more interest to attendees.
Feel free to reach out to any committee members who attended:
| Terri Kimball, 2018 PDD Chair Mohamed Diab, 2018 President Joe Perzel, Finance Jean Braun, IT Hakki Isik, IT Corrin Duque, IT Matt Carr, IT Ah Lor, IT Rebacca Johnson, IT Dean Boorman, MarComm Brian Cohn, MarComm Kimberly Johnson, MarComm Don Dockry, MarComm Janice Pyka, Membership Natalia Golikova, Membership |
Heidi Tysk-Poppe, PDD Estevao “Steve” Barros Jay Raghupathi, Partners & Sponsors Kristie Thompson, Partners & Sponsors Tracie Jacobson, PDD Manish Kalra, Personal Development Eric Sit, PrC Group Chris Doyle, President Patrick Cannon, Programs Adam Cherrill, Programs Pamela Palan, Programs Brett Bowman, Synergos Joy DesMarais-Lanz, Synergos Chris Pierce, Volunteer Committee |
