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Please join us for our next our next “Discover PMI - Ask Us Anything!” webinar, Leapfrogging Into the Future—How a New Perspective on Youth Will Help Us Get There, scheduled on 17 March 2021 at 12:00PM EDT. This series includes PMI guest presenters, Anja Blacha, PMI’s Vice President of Youth (as well as the youngest woman to ski to the South Pole), and Ashley Forsyth, Executive Manager of the PMI Educational Foundation.
Our world is evolving at an ever-increasing speed. Keeping up requires us to innovate and change more rapidly to find new solutions to burning issues, including strategies for empowering the next generation of youth to lead and conquer today’s challenges. So, how can a fresh perspective on youth help us to not only keep up with current demands but also bring us into the future faster, better? This webinar will explain PMI’s new perspective and the actions we are taking to embrace today’s young leaders—and how you can do the same. Join us to learn:
- Why we all benefit from rethinking youth.
- What PMI is doing to engage and strengthen youth around the globe.
- How you can help amplify this effort in a local and global capacity.
Both Anja and Ashley will be on hand to answer your questions, discuss your thoughts and provide perspectives on the future we need to embrace right now.
As you may know, the format of this series of webinars is executed through FREE, non-PDU bearing webinars, meant to encourage conversation with various PMI departments. Simply put, community members, like yourselves, having a one hour Q&A session with a particular PMI department.
Register for FREE at https://www.projectmanagement.com/webinars/679980/Leapfrogging-Into-the-Future---How-A-New-Perspective-on-Youth-Will-Get-Us-There-. We certainly hope you will join us!
As always, our project is YOU. Your successes and setbacks, your passions and peeves—we want to hear about them all, and help you get to where you're going today and tomorrow. We hope these webinar series guide you in the right direction. Your feedback and ideas are most welcome!
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Bob Marquis
Program Manager| Kunz, Leigh & Associates
East Lansing, Mi, United States
This webinar topic is so wrong! It is completely inappropriate. Are you not aware of the cultural bias you are displaying with your focus on 'youth?' The biggest problem in the workforce today is age discrimination. And the technology industry - where so many project managers practice - is the worst offender. Age discrimination is insidious; everyone knows it is there, gives it lip service as to how it shouldn't be there, and then goes on with it as if it were just accepted fact.
Your focus on 'youth,' your comment that the word of the year is 'youthquake,' perpetuates the acceptance of age discrimination. Why are you not focused on the skills needed for future leaders rather than their age? Are you suggesting that only young people have these skills or need help developing them? There are many experienced practitioners just as eager for, and capable of, leadership opportunities in our changing world. And so often they are denied them as a direct result of the very bias you are promoting.
I encourage you to re-think the title and focus of this webinar.
Just as importantly, you and PMI need to take a serious look at your overall effort to keep up with our changing world – a world that is focused on eliminating implicit bias.
Antonio Nieto
HBR Author | Director PMO | PMI Fellow & Past Chairman | Professor | Thinkers50 | Projects & Company
Brussels, Belgium
I completely disagree with the comment above.
We are used to seeing adults teaching youth and children; it has always been like that. Yet, a few years ago, while researching for my next book, I realized that there is so much to learn from them. In fact, some of the most impactful inventions, projects, and movements from the past decades come from youth. Think about Greta Thunberg and Boyden Slat, with The Ocean Clean Up project. You can find out more in my latest PMI webinar, and the learnings are so amazing.
Project managers need to keep learning and find inspiration from great leaders. We should stop thinking that leaders are always the more senior people; the new world needs open minds and breaks up some of the models of the past.
I couldn't think of a more appropriate topic. Congratulations PMI for bringing such a fresh perspective to the project management community; always eager to learn and keen to make a better world!
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