November 10 2023 at 12:00PM
November 2023 President's Corner
The Thanksgiving holiday is quickly approaching and time to start getting ramped up for the holidays with friends and family. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to express my gratitude to the membership for supporting our chapter initiatives and events this year and would like to wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday.
Here are some articles and Podcasts of interest for this month:
Generative AI: You Have To Apply It To “Get” It
24 Oct 2023
Senior Advisor to the CEO | PMI
Given many companies are now leveraging Generative AI and adoption will only increase, project professionals can – and should – be leveraging it in their own projects. But many professionals don’t have the practical know-how when it comes to AI. In this post, Dave Garrett discusses how PMI’s new e-learning course can help project professionals looking to master AI.
https://community.pmi.org/blog-post/75487/generative-ai--you-have-to-apply-it-to--get--it
How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks
October 30, 2023
Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding. Third, adopt a growth mindset to help others strive for improvement instead of getting stuck on autopilot. And fourth, scenario plan so that you have clear options for moving forward.
How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks (hbr.org)
Getting Feedback Right on Diverse Teams
We know that teams mixing people of different generations, genders, and cultures yield better outcomes, and that frank, constructive feedback is key to improving individual, group, and organizational performance. But these two attributes -- diversity and candor -- often clash, says Erin Meyer, a professor at INSEAD. She's studied the challenges that arise when teammates with different backgrounds try to give one another advice and offers recommendations for overcoming them, including establishing norms around regular feedback and ensuring that it is asked for, designed to assist, and actionable. She’s the author of the HBR article “When Diversity Meets Feedback.”
