Inspiration

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.” ? Malcolm X

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Introduction

PMI Charleston Professional Development Newsletter 
Monthly Theme: Governance  
Issue: July 2024 

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New Certifications

Congratulations to our June certified professionals! Your efforts and dedication have led to this remarkable achievement, and we're thrilled to celebrate this milestone with you. Please join us in extending heartfelt acknowledgments to the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments:

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Professional Development Events

Highlighted are upcoming events, spanning from local gatherings to nationwide conferences, tailored to enrich your calendar. Whether you're seeking community engagement or industry insights, there's an event for everyone. Save the dates and get ready for exciting opportunities ahead!

Notes:
¹ ProjectBites can be accessed through the member area on the PMI Charleston website. PDU opportunities are free to PMI Charleston Members.
² All times are Eastern Time. 

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Books to Share

The following books explore project governance:

1.    The Practitioners Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards by Cathy A. Trower offers a resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in Governance as Leadership. This proven model of effective governance explores how to attain proficiency in three governance modes or mindsets: fiduciary, strategic, and generative. Throughout the, author Cathy Trower offers an understanding of the Governance as Leadership model through a wealth of illustrative examples of high-performing nonprofit boards. She explores the challenges of implementing governance as leadership and suggests ideas for getting started and overcoming barriers to progress. In addition, Trower provides practical guidance for optimizing the practices that will improve organizational performance including flow (high skill and high purpose), discernment, deliberation, divergent thinking, insight, meaningfulness, consequence to the organization, and integrity. In short, the is a combination of sophisticated thinking, instructive vignettes, illustrative documents, and practical recommendations. The includes concrete strategies that can help improve critical thinking in the boardroom, a board’s overall performance as a team, as well as information for creating a strong governance culture and understanding what is required of an effective CEO and a chairperson. To determine a board’s fitness and help the members move forward, the contains three types of assessments: board members evaluate each other; individual board member assessments; and an overall team assessment. This practitioner’s guide is written for nonprofit board members, chief executives, senior staff members, and anyone who wants to reflect on governance, discern how to govern better, and achieve higher performance in the process.

2.    Data Governance: The Definitive Guide to People, Processes, and Tools to Operationalize Data Trustworthiness: 1st Edition examines moving data to the cloud, that you need to consider in a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure your organization meets compliance requirements. Data governance incorporates the ways people, processes, and technology work together to ensure data is trustworthy and can be used effectively. This practical guide shows you how to effectively implement and scale data governance throughout your organization. Chief information, data, and security officers and their teams will learn strategy and tooling to support democratizing data and unlocking its value while enforcing security, privacy, and other governance standards. Through good data governance, you can inspire customer trust, enable your organization to identify business efficiencies, generate more competitive offerings, and improve customer experience. This book shows you how to develop data governance strategies addressing people, processes, and tools, the benefits and challenges of a cloud-based data governance approach, how data governance is conducted from ingest to preparation and use, how to handle the ongoing improvement of data quality, challenges and techniques in governing streaming data, data protection for authentication, security, backup, and monitoring, and how to build a data culture in your organization.

3.    Unbreakable: Building and Leading Resilient Teams 1^st Edition by Bradley L. Kirkman and Adam C. Stoverink is an essential guide for managers and leaders on building resilient teams in turbulent times. As a result of global economic changes, new technologies, and increased competition, business environments are becoming increasingly turbulent and unpredictable, requiring new forms of resilient work teams. Due in part to the increasing complexity of business environments, more and more organizations worldwide are using teams of employees to respond to adversity. Whether it be new product development teams; business crisis response teams in companies; front line response teams such as fire, emergency medical technicians, or emergency room teams; research and development teams; or pharmaceutical development teams, employees can no longer rely on their own knowledge, skills, and abilities to get their work done. Rather, employees must work collaboratively with one another and combine their expertise to achieve the synergy and breakthrough thinking that is necessary to be successful at completing complex tasks in today's dynamic environments. Today more than ever before, work teams must demonstrate resilience. In the face of volatile, complex, and ambiguous business environments, all teams inevitably suffer setbacks. Kirkman and Stoverink provide hands-on practical tips for building and leading resilient teams equipped to bounce back from those challenges. They highlight four team resources that are essential to any resilient team, including: team confidence, teamwork roadmaps, capacity to improvise, and psychological safety. These four resources are brought to life through compelling stories of teams that performed well in the face of adversity―and a few that didn't. They also provide leaders with step-by-step guidance for how to grow these resources in their own teams, whether they're in-person, remote, or hybrid. This book delivers all the tools necessary to build and lead resilient teams that are virtually unbreakable.

4.    Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence by Rachel E. Start, Beverly J. Hancock, and Tim Porter-O'Grady published in partnership with AONL, Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence expertly covers concepts, roles, application, and demonstration of professional governance that facilitates the nurse’s role in advancing the impact and value of nursing care across all health settings. This nursing book informs and deepens understanding of the centrality of nursing professional governance in addressing contemporary issues affecting nursing practice. The editors and contributors utilize their extensive scholarship and experience as nurse leaders to provide examples of professional behaviors that exemplify the importance and impact of nursing professional governance across all clinical settings and roles. This unique text also equips organizations with professional governance strategies and tools to achieve exemplary, ongoing practice transformation, with tactics to support innovation and programs of excellence. With a focus on effective management and clinical leadership behavior Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence provides the necessary tools for nurse leaders to create an environment in which nurses can practice with expertise, accountable to advance care and collaborate in the continuing transformation of health care. In today’s high stakes health care environment, the path forward for nursing must be to realize full power to lead and improve service.

5.    The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Board Members 3rd Edition by Richard LeBlanc award-winning professor and lawyer Dr. Richard Leblanc delivers a comprehensive overview of all relevant topics in corporate governance. Each chapter is written by a subject matter expert working in academia or industry and illuminates a different area of board governance: value creation and the strategic role of the Board, risk governance and oversight, board composition and diversity, the role of the board chair, blind spots and trendspotting in the boardroom, audit committee efficacy, and more.

This latest edition contains updated coverage of a wide variety of key topics, including Governing, auditing, and working from home, as well as conducting virtual and hybrid meetings New and necessary skillsets for directors, including contemporary environmental, social, and governance considerations for firms. An essential resource for board members and directors of organizations of all kinds, The Handbook of Board Governance is also an important source of information for managers and executives seeking greater understanding of the role of the board in the day-to-day and long-term management of a modern firm.

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Outro

As we conclude this edition, we trust that the insights and resources shared on various aspects of governance and leadership have inspired you to cultivate stronger, more collaborative relationships within your projects. Effective collaboration across departments can truly transform your organizational goals and drive innovation.

Please share your thoughts and suggest topics you'd like us to explore in future editions. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping our content to better meet your professional development needs.

Contact us at [email protected] with your theme ideas or topics for upcoming training sessions.

Thank you for being a valued member of the PMI Charleston community. We eagerly anticipate your continued engagement and involvement.

Warm regards,

The PMI Charleston Professional Development Team

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