Calendar of Events

July 9th, 2020 Online meeting

Program: Due to COVID-19, Many Employees Are Becoming Remote. Did We Lose Sight of Our Work?

Description: The sudden movement of workers into a remote work environment is often harder than many initially
believe. New remote workers, including their management team members, have difficulties in sensemaking,
the finding one’s place in any new working context. Many technologies have aided the quick
transitions and organizational realignment into the remote work environment. However, worker settlement
into remote work situations remains difficult to overcome without a common framework. This is
especially true for the COVID-19 being a catalyst to suddenly shock our work environments into a rapidly
changing and likely unstable revised working culture. As a result, team member onboarding, engagement,
and retention practices can be considered suspiciously weak given a context of long-time,
slower to change traditional work management practices. This webinar is being held to help you understand
remote worker enablement based on over a decade of practical experience and applied doctoral
research.

Talent Triangle: Leadership

Presenter: Douglas Williams, PhD, PMP

Dr. Douglas Williams (Dr. Doug) is a senior consultant practicing organizational change management, management consulting, project management, and general systems engineering. He has acquired over 30 years of experience within varied industries like financial services (banking, mortgage and investments), insurance services (casualty, medical, and life), medical systems (hospital, clinic and clinical trials), computer consulting services, higher education, non-profits, electric utilities, and state government. More recently, Dr. Doug has been implementing an online software product called Workfront that enables today’s workforce, collocated or remote, to be connected and engaged from most anywhere on the planet.

He has a PhD in Organizational / Industrial Psychology from Capella University. His interest in this area study started about forty years ago when talking with a professional development expert that helped others in becoming enthusiastic at work. Since then, Dr. Doug has participated in many roles and situations to develop a very broad sense of understanding in why people choose to work, or not. He has applied his research-based understanding into the work settings. He has expansive experience in helping groups distributed across the planet learn to work through common barriers like language, culture, and time-zones.

Location: Online link to the conference will be given to registrants after 7/7/2020

Guests: Free!

Chapter Members: Free!

PDU's: 1.0

Check in              11:45 AM
Program begins  12:00 PM
Program ends     1:00 PM

Pre-registration Expires: 11:59 p.m. CT on Monday, July 6th

Please note that since September 2018, due to PMI process change in reporting PDUs, we will not be reporting PDUs on behalf of members for Chapter Meetings. The members will have to claim on their own manually. We still plan to do for Yearly Professional Development Day (PDD). Please refer to the link for more info. 
https://pmieasterniowa.org/2-uncategorised/433-change-in-reporting-for-pdus