In February we invited members to an initiatives, activities and ideas studio to help us plan for 2018. Here are some of the initiatives that we agreed to implement this year. 

Soft skills training course

PMINZ has partnered with Results Coaching with the support of Momentum Consulting to create a soft skills menu of courses, starting Monday 9 April 2018, delivered by Cillin Hearns. Read more about the series of workshops.

An introduction to Agile

A one-day course, on 25 May 2018, to introduce agile methodology and practice. Read more details and register.

International Women’s Day celebrations

A breakfast event was held on Thursday 8 March.

Reboot your career workshop series
A series of 60–90min workshops in May–June, specifically aimed at those who are wanting to market themselves well for new a job

Looking for assistance with recruitment agency and liaison; promotions; communications with participants (pre- and post-workshop); evaluation and analysis; helping out at the sessions; managing collection of money and providing receipts.

New graduates introduction to PMI

Encouraging a new generation of project managers into PMI.

Movie event

Building on the success of the Dunkirk movie evening in 2017, a new movie and social event for members and their friends and colleagues

Looking for assistance with selecting the movie; cinema liaison; registrations and money, publicity.

Facilitated networking activities at member events

Initaives to provide and promote networking opportunities

 Refresh the monthly member events

An inquiry project
Looking for assistance with ideas, data collection; preparing options paper; testing ideas; recommendations report.

Using the interislander ferry as a venue for one of our events

Loyalty and appreciation acknowledgement programme

Increase members’ and supporters’ sense of feeling valued by and sense of belonging to PMINZ. Initiatives include providing presenters with double guest passes for our events member events, emails to event guests and new members, acknowledging member loyalty, etc

Looking for assistance with data analysing; phoning members; 2018 Wellington members survey data collation and analysis and report writer.

PMINZ is agile

Promotion of PMINZ at the IPENZ conference in Wellington in September 2018.

 Education forum

 Project management forum

If you are interested in being a part of the planning or implementation of these initiatives, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..