Help us Honor Excellence in Project Management and Contribution to PMI

As you may be aware, every year PMI bestows its Professional Awards on those who manage successful, innovative projects, conduct research, publish excellent books, create outstanding training products and help their communities prosper through the use of project management.

Many of these award recipients are honored at the Awards Ceremony that has traditionally happened at the PMI® Global Congress—North America. Those who win the PMI Distinguished Project and the PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Awards are recognized at their organizational events or other occasions that make the most sense in each specific case.

Awardees receive coverage in electronic and print publications that PMI puts out. Information about them is permanently featured on PMI.org. Award winners also receive a PMI winner medallion, an emblem they can use on their websites and in other materials (please see the image below). They are also provided with the video that is specifically created to recognize their achievements and is played in their honor at the PMI Awards Ceremony. This video can be posted on their sites as well.

The PMI Professional Awards are different from PMI Chapter Awards. Professional Awards honor service to the profession and PMI while chapter awards mainly focus on the contribution to PMI and its communities.

Chapter leaders may also nominate their chapters for one Professional Award – PMI Community Advancement through Project Management (PMI Chapter category). This award recognizes significant pro bono achievement that improves the well-being of a community by applying project management principles.

Most PMI Professional Awards nominations are due on 27 April 2009. Nominations for PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award and PMI Distinguished Project Award are accepted throughout the year.

Attached is the 2009 PMI Professional Awards Program brochure that highlights the eligibility requirements and deadlines for each award. You can get all the information you need to nominate for a PMI Professional Award online at www.pmi.org/Awards.

If you have further questions, please contact me or email PMI at awards@pmi.org.

Gordon Bartlett  PMP
PMI Component Mentor
Region 10
pmicm.region10@optusnet.com.au

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