Higher Education CoP - Toolbox Cafe - Data Visualization and Dashboards

Virtual Meeting

Data visualization (e.g. graphs and charts) curates data into a form that is easier to digest. Dashboards are a way of displaying those relevant visualizations in a single place for quick insight. While not a requirement, dashboards are often linked in some way to the detailed data they aggregate, providing near real time insights. Data visualization and dashboards empower organizations, departments, and teams to make data driven decisions.

Data visualization can reduce the complexity of organizing and executing tasks related to any given project regardless of size, resources, and timeline. Reports can be used to understand where the team is heading, how the project tasks are being handled, and how the team is working communally. The presenters in our Toolbox Café will share several visualization and dashboard tools.

Chapter Meeting – September 2023: Effective Team Coaching Strategies for Project Managers

Sheraton Imperial RTP

This is a hybrid event.

Non-Members $25, Members $10, Volunteers $0.   No refunds for No Show / Cancellations.

Attend this event for your chance to win a signed copy of Be a Project Motivator: Unlock the Secrets of Strengths-Based Project Management Or 1-hour coaching session (value $249) to one of the attendees. The session will include the opportunity to take the Multidimensional Inventory of Personal Intelligence assessment from Adaptimist Insights (value $75)

Abstract:

The best leaders using coaching – the art of deep listening and powerful questions - to guide their teams forward. With coaching, project leaders can overcome some of the common pitfalls of a project for example, lack of motivation, idea resistance, poor communication, encouraging everyone to speak up, creating psychological safety.

Ruth Pearce, in collaboration with Berrett-Koehler Publishing, in 2018 published a book about turning project managers into project motivators. Based on Ruth's experience with the use of character strengths and coaching, various recommendations were made through the story of Maggie a program manager in a troubled team.

At the same time, Ruth started looking at the levels of social intelligence in project professionals compared with their non-PM colleagues. What she discovered was that social intelligence seems to be disappointingly low! And as social intelligence is part of the glue that holds a team together, this can be a problem.

There are ways to build social intelligence and to partner with people who have a higher propensity for it. Another approach is to develop coaching skills to bring out the best in the team. We can coach individuals, groups, and teams, and the in this session we will explore all three.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain what coaching is and how it is a helpful skill for a leader.
• Experience coaching approaches firsthand.
• Develop strategies for coaching in typical project scenarios.
• Identify ways to coach through challenges.
• Identify when coaching does not work.

Career Workshop – Brand & Land

Virtual Meeting

Career Workshop – Brand and Land

Abstract:

RECEIVE 5 PDUs

The NCPMI Chapter is pleased to present the Brand and Land professional development event conducted by Signofied Services.  John Signo and his team have been enthusiastically received by numerous PMI chapters across North America and now it’s our turn.

Brand and Land is a one-day 5-hour weekend event that teaches PMI chapter members how to improve their personal marketability by teaching the following skills:

• LinkedIn Do's and Dont's
• Resume Advice
• Tips to Navigate the Application Tracking System (ATS)
• Professional Networking

Whether you are in the market looking for job or not, this hands-on event will improve your marketability and odds of landing that job or advancement opportunity.