Don't forget that vacancies on the Board of Directors will be filled at the December meeting!

Michelle Gladieux, President of Gladiuex Consulting, presented a half-day session on "Interpersonal and Workplace Conflict Management Skills."  25 people attended this session.  Some of the comments received were:

• "Awesome presentation!"
• "Provided specific tools to use
• "Very impressive!"
• Great presentation and very applicable"

Session evaluations showed that 94% of the people who attended this session would attend another session and that - on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being Very Useful) - this session was rated at 4.6.

New Members
Please be sure to greet our new members:

• Scott Kardys, PMP, from DePuy
• Albert Lewis, PMP, from Fiserv
• Amitabh Bhargava, PMP, from IBM
• Mark Jeffrey, of Maple Leaf Farms, Inc.
• Deanna Steininger, of The South Bend Clinic

Welcome Back!

Julie Hertzler, of Mennonite Mutual Aid

We extend our Congratulations to the following people who recently achieved their PMP Certification:

• Christopher Anderson, Jr., who works for IBM
• Sarah Paxson of First Merchants

PMPs are now 61% of our chapter's membership.

Mr. Frost's presentation is entitled, "Innovation and R&D Metrics: Most of us know about using metrics to measure on-going operations, but Mr. Frost suggests that organizations should also have metrics to measure innovation.  The life-cycle of each product or service will die out over time unless innovation allows them to "jump the curve".

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The meeting will be Wednesday, December 5th at Hall's Guest House on Washington Center Road in Fort Wayne.  Networking begins at 5:30, dinner is served at 6:00, and the presentation begins at 7:00.

Dave Maynard, PMP, the Chapter's VP of Professional Development, will be speaking about the new PgMP credential at the January meeting.
If you're already decided to get one of PMI's certifications, remember that the mandatory 35-hour preparation class can be obtained for $150 through our NEIC Chapter, whether you're a PMI member or not.  Information about this internet-based class is available on our website. 

Greg McCormick, PMP, the Chapter's Director of Communications, was invited to speak at the 2007 Professional Development Summit, which was held October 27-30 in New Orleans. Here is Greg's report on the conference.
The Summit Conference was co-sponsored by the Greater New Orleans PMI Chapter, and "LavaCon" a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing professional Technical Communications.  There were about 250 attendees and speakers at the three-day event, and there were two dozen vendors represented.

Mike Krouse, PMP

Dr. Tim Kroecker, of Cambria Consulting in Boston, was the speaker at our October Chapter meeting.  His presentation was entitled, "From Managing Projects to Leading Programs: Defining and Building Program Leaders." 

Tim started his presentation by stating that most projects and programs to falter due to a lack of interpersonal skills cause, and that leadership skills can re-vitalize such initiatives.  Organizations have a business interest in developing program managers, and such managers should be grown within the organization from the project management ranks.  Individuals have a personal interest in acquiring the skills needed to expand their work from individual projects into more extensive programs.

The Board of Directors met on Wednesday, November November 14th.  Here's what we're working on: