Driving Environmental Changes

Hi Heather,

I appreciate your wish to mitigate and educate about climate change. I also have severe concerns about this and we as humanity must beef up our efforts to tackle this problem. There are related and maybe more urgent problems though, like preparing and reacting to disasters and catastrophes like fires, floods, plagues, and others.

For handling these problems, we need doers, quick thinkers, leaders - in one word practical project managers. I have seen it now in Germany, we have excellent firefighters, heavy machinery and thousands of volunteers but we lack the capability to coordinate those and bring them to effectiveness in a bureaucracy that - in normal times - focuses on administering social live. Most of them are just not trained and selected for stressful jobs.

So, if you like PM and want to specialise, I would deem it more important to become one of the people capable of handling disasters.

Thomas

Hi Heather,

I appreciate your wish to mitigate and educate about climate change. I also have severe concerns about this and we as humanity must beef up our efforts to tackle this problem. There are related and maybe more urgent problems though, like preparing and reacting to disasters and catastrophes like fires, floods, plagues, and others.

For handling these problems, we need doers, quick thinkers, leaders - in one word practical project managers. I have seen it now in Germany, we have excellent firefighters, heavy machinery and thousands of volunteers but we lack the capability to coordinate those and bring them to effectiveness in a bureaucracy that - in normal times - focuses on administering social live. Most of them are just not trained and selected for stressful jobs.

So, if you like PM and want to specialise, I would deem it more important to become one of the people capable of handling disasters.

Thomas

Thomas,
I agree that there is a demand for that and it is another capability I would not be adverse to learning. Can you help me identify what would be advisable to know/learn for that? While I have assisted my company when we had the freeze in Texas/Tennessee last year, that was the first time I assisted in an emergency response team. (I work for Satellite Healthcare and we specialize in kidney dialysis. )

I look forward to hearing more about this topic and any help you provide is appreciated.
-Heather

Hi Heather,

I appreciate your wish to mitigate and educate about climate change. I also have severe concerns about this and we as humanity must beef up our efforts to tackle this problem. There are related and maybe more urgent problems though, like preparing and reacting to disasters and catastrophes like fires, floods, plagues, and others.

For handling these problems, we need doers, quick thinkers, leaders - in one word practical project managers. I have seen it now in Germany, we have excellent firefighters, heavy machinery and thousands of volunteers but we lack the capability to coordinate those and bring them to effectiveness in a bureaucracy that - in normal times - focuses on administering social live. Most of them are just not trained and selected for stressful jobs.

So, if you like PM and want to specialise, I would deem it more important to become one of the people capable of handling disasters.

Thomas

Thomas,
I did take a look after you brought it up and was able to locate something that might be appropriate. FEMA has Emergency Management Professional Program (EMPP https://training.fema.gov/empp/ ) that I am looking into. There is no tuition and the online pre-requisites are a good way to both get a good grasp of the topic as well as it's suitability to me.

Wanting to help and actually being good at that type of project management is not the same. Thank you again for pointing this out as a potential growth path and the existence of the need.

Thanks,
Heather