Finding new ways to serve your profession

After record participation, five new directors were elected to the Board of Southern New England Chapter of PMI, include none other than yours truly. I will serve in this position for the next two years.

I volunteer and take leadership roles in PMI (Project Management Institute), because I believe that Project Management is the profession that makes a difference in our world. Better managed projects take us from daily firefighting into controlled management of our futures. We are making project management indispensable for business results and Project Management is a noble profession.

What are you doing to serve your profession? How are you sharing your expertise, experience and scars with other people so that they can be more successful? Have you offered to mentor anyone in the recent past?

How much fun can you have with your clothes on?

Today's mail delivered my copy of Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. My first impression was that it looks thinner than the 230 Pages.

I have just paged through the book. WOW!!!!. This is one awesome book, and much better than I could have imagined.

Guy Kawasaki shows the foreword as an hilarious slide presentation. These 15 slides capture exactly what followers of the Pow'rFul Philosophy and Dodging the Bullet Points readers believe. Over 90% of presentations SUCK.

I wish I could show you some of the fabulous slides in Presentation Zen. You will have to just take my word for it, until your copy arrives - if you are a presenter you need Presentation Zen. Don't leave home for your next presentation without Garr's book.
(Disclaimer - I don't make anything if you purchase Presentation Zen. I just want you to know that you should own this book)

So many presenters, so little time

I just sat through two PowerPoint Presentations by two distinguished speakers at the Southern New England Chapter of Project Management Institute.

Sigh!! The audience got the usual experience that we are accustomed to when PowerPoint is used. Too much text, too many slides, presenter reading slides to audience and no audience involvement. It is such a pity as both speakers were well intentioned and have incredible information to share.

I wonder how we can get the word out to presenters and encourage all PowerPoint speakers to study the art of presenting with PowerPoint. I would love to get a copy of "Dodging the Bullet Points" into the hands of all presenters, one week before they go on stage so that they can implement some of the proven strategies in the Pow'Rful Process.

Do you have any ideas on how supporters of the Pow'Rful Process can spread the word?

I think we can start by advertising the benefits of Toastmasters to all members of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and will submit an article to our local newsletter.