Ideas from PMI R5 Leadership Meeting 2009

Below are a selection of some of the strategic ideas from the PMIWDC Board members who attend the annual Region 5 Leadership Meeting in January 2009.

Have additional ideas of your own? Please let us know. We're glad to get your input.

Other chapters in the Region have made it a standard practice to provide event participants with a satifaction survey. They capture the results. Some use paper, others use an esurvey tools such as Zoomerang or SurveyMonkey. We are already knowledgeable in the survey domain and should consider implementing a similar practice for our events.

Other chapters submit a list of attendees at meetings to GOC/PDU center for entry of PDUs, rather than having each person submit. (I wonder if they would do that for us when we have 498 attendees! But a great idea).

Virtual conferences have a large interest than expected from multiple PMI chapters. There are other chapters that are already using it for meetings, development programs and other activities. Their process includes PDUs. We should move forward much faster with this type of activity.
Presentations, conference schedule and other conference information should be available in a web site that is formatted for mobile devices. The large majority of participants got a mobile device and they can probably could follow the presentation better by looking at their mobile device better than the screen projection.

Look hard at costs.
It's hard to initiate projects
It's important to be flexible and adaptable.
You have to know where you want to go and the environment in which you are; then predict how you're going to get there.
Leadership is about the leader, not the team.
Empower other people to get things done.