Empowered - Vol 5/2022 July 2022

Who are we?

A global network of individuals who believe that everyone has some unique skill. We just PowerUP! Here’s presenting a group of passionate individuals (of all genders) who are positive, with a make-it-happen and lead-by-example attitude. A peer-to-peer network to support and PowerUP each other! Do I need to be an expert to be a part of this group? NO. We do not need to be experts to PowerUP each other. We just need to be good enough; Good enough to own up to our limitations, be willing to respond to others, and be social and acceptable.

Leader's speak?-?Priya Patra

Life – A negotiation? The winner is YOU

They say Life is a negotiation, whether it is your spouse, your kids, your employer, your boss, employee, or peers, it is all a negotiation! Right isn’t it!

Well for me the most prominent negotiation is with oneself. Negotiate with oneself? Wait a moment, what does this mean, and how can we ever negotiate with ourselves. It is about transcending your beliefs, breaking barriers, and emerging better.

Over the years, I have realized that I have four negotiators within myself. They help me to think differently, analyze, and solve problems while building relationships. Let me introduce you to them

1.???Disagree with yourself – The Warrior, battle with me,?disagree with my beliefs to think differently

2.???Dare to dream big – The innovator, always trying to find innovative ways to solve the problem

3.???Analyze and evaluate information – The Thinker, leading by reason, taking informed decisions with the information in hand

4.???Let the heart reign- ?The Lover, keeping relationships in the center, led by emotion. ?Have you been negotiating with yourself lately??Who is the winner? Write to us and let us know here.

From the Editor's desk?-?Parminder Kaur

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, But let us never fear to negotiate." said J.F.Kennedy. This definitely resonates with the situation where one has to prove their stance for an ideology or a product. What does it take to negotiate? Right data, right fact along with knowledge that is exactly what we have abundantly available in this group!

This July 9th, look forward for a power pack session on negotiation skills by Dr. Mitra Arami. Register here!

We witnessed an amazing session driven under guidance of Meghana Parwate on speed mentoring last month and have an incredible depiction of the event by our Visual thinker?Fernanda Freytes Ramos. Thanks to Franca Ibuzo for the quote and Arunanjali Maria for sharing their valuable thoughts.

Featured in this issue is the book - Say Yes to Project success by Mr. Karthik Ramamurthy and Ms. Sripriya Narayanasamy. It is quite unique in its structure, and has global Amazon ratings of 4.7/5.0.

Quote of the month:?Franca Ibuzo

"The world we are living in is fast and dynamic, where change remains the only constant thing.

To succeed today we must be in a constant state of adaptation – continually learning, unlearning old 'rules' and relearning new ones."

Member Spotlight: Arunanjali Maria

• How would you describe yourself in 1 word? Enabler
• What is the most cherished moment of your career???When I transitioned from being a Banker to a Business owner along with 2 of my colleagues. There was absolute trust and a common vision despite being very different as people. What got us together and has kept us together is a dream to enable people to be the best versions of themselves and bring human conversations into the workplace.
• My advise to members of this community ??Quote by Ijeoma Umebinyuo that stays with me and am happy to share: “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... Start!”

Past Power Connect: 11 June 2022 - Speed Mentoring - Meghana Parwate

WEMentor conceived and curated a very unique event - a connect on Speed Mentoring. The last event from WEMentor, was Speed mentoring, where we had an unique opportunity to interact with the panel of expert mentors - Major Pramila Mohite - Indian Army Veteran, Victor Loke - Enterprise Agile Coach, Arpita Gupta - Data Scientist and CEO at the Let the Data Confess Pvt. Ltd, Arunanjali Maria - Executive/Life and Business Storytelling Coach. They?shared their insights into career, coaching and their personal guidance on how to succeed at what you do! The participants had the opportunity to join two breakouts with different sets of participants and a different mentor each time in a very closed and safe?environment.

Watch the recording here. Some key takeaways recorded by our visual thinker Fernanda Freytes Ramos:

Upcoming Power Connect: 09 July - Negotiation skills required for Leaders– the role of gender - By Dr. Mitra Arami

“Different culture, different gender, different negotiation approach.” Join Dr. Mira Arami to hear about negotiation tips and techniques.

Dr. Mitra is a speaker with a multicultural background, and vast experience in program and project management, leading complex business change and transformation solution programs across the global multinational environment, including Global Telecom, Financial, IT, education, and gaming industry.

In this session, Dr. Mitra will explain cultural differences in negotiations that take different approaches even if spoken in the same language. Why are negotiation skills required? What are the phases of negotiations? What is framing in negotiations? What are power differences related to gender, and what are gender differences in asking? How do we neutralize gender differences in negotiation?

Here's a depiction of the event that we look forward to, from Fernanda Freytes Ramos

Do Register for this exciting event here.

Special Feature:

Many a times we come across situations where the tight time lines, demanding clients, skill gaps impact our project deliverables. How would it be to have proven tip and techniques that help us cruise through such times! This is exactly where the book - Say Yes to Project success comes handy.

About the Authors:

Sripriya Narayanasamy

Sripriya is an accomplished P3M professional with a 25-year track record of project success across continents.

Organizations from many industries have benefited from her expertise in setting up PMOs, Dashboards, Project Knowledge Bases, etc. Co-author of the international bestseller, “Say Yes to Project Success,” she leverages her bubbly personality by helping teams succeed through positive leadership.

Priya has presented several engaging sessions with excellent feedback at PMI Global & India Conferences. She is an expert trainer in various PM, soft skills topics. As PMI Chennai Chapter volunteer, she won the “Volunteer-of-the-Year-2012” award.

?Karthik Ramamurthy

Author of the recent international bestseller “Say YES to Project Success,” Karthik is a P3M, Leadership and Social Media expert with 30+ years’ delivering project success across four continents.

As Founder and Principal Consultant of KeyResultz, he helps global organizations harness the power of PM best practices. His expertise includes PMOs, Risk Management & Project Knowledge Bases.

Karthik holds dual Masters degrees (MCA, MBA), is PMP certified, and is a graduate of PMI's Leadership Institute Master Class. He has trained 2,000+ professionals in project management, leadership, soft skills.

A PMI volunteer since 2005, he currently serves on PMI's Ethics Insights Team (EIT).

The Women PowerUP Network Team: