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Saturday, May, 25
North York Civic Center, Committee Room #3

3 PDUs
The purpose of the event is to provide an effective communication channel for the Project Management Professionals, Hiring Agent/ Hiring Managers, and Training Organizations to socialize with each other. Career Day will include several Career Seminars, Networking Activities and Job Fair.

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CPMP 2nd Mentoring Program - May Event NEW
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Time: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: North York Civic Centre, Committee Room #2
CPMP peer mentoring program is recruiting mentor.
If you are interested become mentor, please contact Robert at robertchoi@hotmail.com
To help CPMP member in project management knowledge sharing, we establish this mentoring program.

The objectives of this program are:
  • Project management knowledge sharing.
  • Expanding professional network
  • Career development.
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Saturday, April, 27
You are invited to 第三届加中科技论坛, Saturday, April 27, 2013, 1:30-5:30 p.m. at Council Chambers, North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Street, Toronto
Sunday, March 3, 2013
To help CPMP member in project management knowledge sharing, we establish this mentoring program.

Event location: North York Civic Center, Committee meeting room #2

The objectives of this program are:
  • Project management knowledge sharing.
  • Expanding professional network
  • Career development.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Happy Chinese New Year! You are invited to the CPMP 2013 Chinese New Year Celebration Tea Party on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013, 2-6 p.m. at Stephen Leecock Community Recreation Center (Birchmount & Sheppard). In the party, you will enjoy followings:
  • The opportunities to connect with old friends meet and socialize with new friends and industry professionals.
  • Performance, Games and lucky draw
  • CPMP membership renewal and new members enrollments
  • Light refreshments and drinks
  • 1 PDU for PMPs
Sunday Night, December 9, 2012
2012 Xmas Party Brochure It is Christmas time once again and we cannot let this season pass without seeing you! On behalf of all three organizations (CPMP, CCFA, and BayStreet BBS), we are very excited to announce that we will have a joint Bay Street Christmas Party, in Hilton, Markham Suite Conference Center, in the evening of Dec 9th, Sunday. There will be hundreds of old and new friends from Bay Street celebrating together, as well as a lot of great performances! With great pride and joy, we are honored to invite you with your significant other to join the marvelous Christmas party. It will be like no prior party, you should not miss it!

Early bird ticket price $68 until Nov 9th.
Regular ticket price: $78 between Nov 10th and Nov 29th
Late ticket price: $88 between Nov 30th and Dec 9th

Ticket Contact:
Juliet Bi: 416-917-9598, juliet.bi@cpmpac.org, QQ:1279093565, Downtown Yonge & Dundas
Jet Chen: 416-799-1821, jet_chen88@yahoo.com, College/University or Bayview/Sheppard
Howard Huang: 416-558-1136, howard.huang@cpmpac.org, 16th Ave/McCowan Rd
Robert Choi: 416-937-1998, robertchoi@hotmail.com, Markham North
Tracy Duan, 416-826-8986, tracy.duan@cpmpac.org, Eglinton/DVP
Saturday, October 20, 2012
With only a very limited time available, business analysts must establish an effective and positive communications rapport with a wide variety of project stakeholders, as well as fellow team members. This session provides an easy to use assessment and model for adapting your communications style to others while minimizing conflict potential.

In this presentation:
  • Explain the “context” Share your knowledge and expertise by describing underlying circumstances
  • Discuss the “action” Show your competence by looking at specific actions related to the issue
  • Present the “vision” Show leadership by inspiring others with a positive, constructive outlook for the future
  • ... and much more
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Why is communication so important? Should you know how to use Power of Three?

In this presentation:
  • Explain the “context” Share your knowledge and expertise by describing underlying circumstances
  • Discuss the “action” Show your competence by looking at specific actions related to the issue
  • Present the “vision” Show leadership by inspiring others with a positive, constructive outlook for the future
  • ... and much more
Saturday, August 18, 2012, 12:30am-16:30pm
Dragonfly is dancing in the balmy breeze, flowers is smiling under the golden sunshine; the kids are laughing, the gens are chasing the soccer ball, the ladies are cheering for the gens; someone can't help self to screaming because of winning a gift, someone is singing and dancing and gaining lots of applause, someone is filling the mouth with delicious food ignoring everything else, someone keeps pressing the camera buttons capturing every memorable moment . “I Know What You Did Last Summer!!!”

Dear member of CPMP, CCFA, CCPAA and BaystreetBBS:

On behalf of all four organizations, we are very excited to announce this year most wanted party, the associations' joint summer BBQ party, is coming! With great pride and joy, we are honoured to invite everyone with your family to join this exciting outdoor party.
  • “Enjoy the fresh air, in the community, meet old friends and make new friends”
  • Location: High Park
    Toronto, ON (map)
  • Join Method: Bring cooked or uncooked food, or bring money
    Free for person who brings food, $15/person for person brings money only, kids 6-12 are $10/person, and kids under 6 are free
  • Ticket Sale: Online Purchase(EventBrite)
Saturday, September 15, 2012, 9:30am-15:30pm
Canadian-Chinese Professional Accountants Association(CCPAA) cordially Invite you attend the CCPAA 2012 Annual Conference-Toronto.
  • Theme:“The Real Estate Development & Investment in Canada”
  • Location: Holiday Inn and Suites
    7095 Woodbine Avenue, Markham, ON L3R 1A3(map)
  • Fee (including lunch): CCPAA Member: $80, Non-member: $100,
    Early bird discount: $40 off if register before August 10, 2012.
  • Deadline of Registration.September 12, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
What is innovation? Why innovation? Should project managers pay attention to innovation?

Topic will cover:
  • Explore three levels of innovation and provide a glimpse of innovations transforming work place, enhancing collaborations
  • Also, this workshop will discuss how to deliver projects and briefly touch upon innovation design in various organizations and how project managers have risen to occasion in infusing innovation in project management and delivery.
  • ... and much more
Saturday, June 16, 2012
This working's subject is "Practical Scope Management". The one day workshop is designed for project managers and program managers who need enhance their hands-on experience through this intensive training course.

Course Topic:
  • Concepts and Definitions
  • Scope Definitions
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Risk and Assumption
  • Change control
  • ... and much more

Feedback Form:
    To help us to promote more quality seminar ongoing, please download the Feedback Form for this seminar, and send back to members@cpmpac.org
CPMP One-Day Project Management Workshop Feedback Form
Saturday, April 21, 2012
In this workshop you will learn about PM and BA roles in the project

Topic will cover:
  • Explore the overlaps and distinctions through the knowledge areas, skills and project deliverables of the PM and BA roles
  • Define the critical success factors for good, synergetic working relationship
  • Share experience through cases studies
  • ... and much more
Saturday, March 17, 2012
In this workshop you will learn about SLIDING, a tool designed to help you create the most important part of your presentation, the structure. SLIDING is also a flexible tool that can be applied to many other areas, including speech writing, books or manual design.

Bring your ideas to our course and leave with a great structure and a design plan ready to implement using your own presentation software. This workshop is designed for professionals who want to create slid presentations that stand out in a highly competitive environment. Topic will cover:
  • Visual Thinking
  • Your audience king
  • The SLIDING process to create structure
  • ... and much more
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Happy Chinese New Year! You are invited to the CPMP 2012 Chinese New Year Celebration Tea Party on Sunday, February 5th, 2012, 1-5 p.m. at Stephen Leecock Community Recreation Center (Birchmount & Sheppard). The party theme is “How to apply project management skills to day to day life”.
  • The opportunities to connect with old friends meet and socialize with new friends and industry professionals.
  • Performance, Games and lucky draw
  • CPMP membership renewal and new members enrollments
  • Light refreshments and drinks
  • 1 PDU for PMPs
December 27, 2011




November 19, 2011
The 11 CPMP NEW BOARD members are: Tracy Duan, Paula Zhao, Juliet Bi, Kent Liu, Howard Huang, Jet Chen, Jie Wang, Cynthia Yeh, Roy Zhou, Yida Zhang, Amy Xu.

Tracy Duan has been elected as the CPMP President for 2011 - 2012, effective immediately.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
This workshop is designed to provide the participants with an opportunity to learn and practice project management communication skills, particularly in communicating and establishing rapport with executives. The workshop agenda as the following:
  • Registration & Networking
  • Objective of the Session
  • Role of an Executive in Project Management
  • Establish Rapport with Executives
  • Manage Expectations of Executives
  • Case Discussions
  • ... and much more
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
  • How to negotiate and persuade project team members and stakeholders to buy in your ideas
  • ... and much more
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 11:00am-4:00pm
CPMP, CCFA and CCPAA cordially invite you to attend the 2011 Late Summer Picnic Event.
The big social event with hundreds people
The crowded 3 leg race video

    Location: Serena Gundy Park, Area 3 - close to the intersection of Eglinton & Lesile
    Registration: Require to accept Evite invitation from CCFA
    Format: Potluck
    Fee: Free if you bring some dishes; or $10 charge without any food
    Parking: Free
     

Saturday, August 13, 2011, 9:30am-16:30pm
Canadian-Chinese Professional Accountants Association(CCPAA) cordially Invite you attend the 2011 CCPAA Ontario Annual Conference.
Theme:“The opportunities of Mining Investment in Canada”

Location: Sheraton Parkway, Toronto North Hotel & Suites,
600 Highway 7 East, Richmond Hill, ON L4B1B2

Fee (including lunch): CCPAA Member: $80, Non-member: $100,
Early bird discount: $40 off if register before July 25, 2011.
No acceptance for registration on site.
Free Parking
Saturday, July 23, 2011
This workshop is designed to provide the participants with an opportunity to learn and practice facilitation skills. Participants
will gain the knowledge of how to prepare, conduct a facilitation session and what tools are available to a facilitator. Workshop agenda as the following:
  • Welcome and Overview
  • Ice Breaker Exercise
  • Ground Rules Setting
  • Definition of Facilitation (Facilitator vs. Chairing a Meeting)
  • Facilitators Role
  • Leading a Facilitation Session
  • ... and much more
July 9, 2011
CPMP is always striving to help any project management professional to improve their knowledge and skills to manage the projects better. In this month, we are honored to have two very success project/program management leaders to present the hand-on workshop on "How to rescue your troubled project". They will teach you the tactic in the practical way rather than just a speech. You will practice the skills during the session. This is a fun-filling interactive workshop. We fully believe you will master some tricks to save a troubled or to be troubled project. Meanwhile, you will earn 3 PDUS.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Have you been looking for ways to improve communication skills? As a project manager, possessing effective communication skills is the key to success in your career. CPMPAC is pleased to announce the Project Management Communication Program coming this MAY.
  • How to facilitate a project meeting effectively
  • How to deal with common communication barriers
  • How to communicate with multiple stakeholders with conflicts in priority
  • How to persuade team members to buy in your ideas and build rapport with management
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Have you been looking for ways to improve communication skills? As a project manager, possessing effective communication skills is the key to success in your career. CPMPAC is pleased to announce the Project Management Communication Program coming this MAY.
  • How to facilitate a project meeting effectively
  • How to deal with common communication barriers
  • How to communicate with multiple stakeholders with conflicts in priority
  • How to persuade team members to buy in your ideas and build rapport with management
Saturday, April 30, 2011
The marketplace is showing keen interest in agile methods as a way of dealing with complex or high change projects. While the adoption rate for agile methods is increasing, people interested in trying these new approaches are struggling with a common challenge: How to estimate costs and schedules up front when using methods that break projects into iterations that uncover requirements and produce emerging solution designs throughout the Projects.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
As a project management professional, we have to face public speaking every day. But as everyone knows, public speaking is not an easy thing. Your posture, tone, body language will impact the effectiveness of your speaking. CPMP will invite 3 highly appraised public speakers around GTA to hold a special seminar on March 26, Saturday, 2011. They will bring their fantastic public speaking skills and experience to us, we believe all attendants will be benefit from their speech. Please book your time for this hard-to-find opportunity to enjoy the speech and also earn PDU for free.
February 12, 2011
For the purpose of improving communication and coordination between Canada and China in the Sci-Tech area, 6 major Sci-Tech Chinese organizations are releasing a new platform: Canada-China Sci-Tech Alliance
February 5, 2011
  • The opportunities to connect with others
  • Two new CPMP programs launched
  • Games and lucky draw
  • Light refreshments and drinks
  • 1 PDU for PMPs and more...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
  • Xmas Party Event Lessons Learned
  • 2011 Events Plan
  • 2011 Action Plan
  • Spring Festival Planning
  • CPMP Speach Corner Planning
  • more...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
  • 120 people social networking
  • Meet City Councillor, PMI Ontario members, and surprise...
  • Earn 1 PDU & enjoy party
  • Industry networking: Canadian Top 5 banking, IT and Consulting, Supply Chain, and much more...
Sunday, November 07, 2010
1. Training on How to organize an event better ...
2. Real Project Brain Storming ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Take the clouds out of negotiating IT vendor contracts by attending this half day event, where experts from the Legal, Accounting and IT Project Management fields will provide clear insight on what each profession brings to the contract negotiation table.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Agile Methodology is touted to be one way of delivering projects in a world of expectations and in a tighter economic situation. This topic will explore what is Agile development? How to manage and deliver projects in Agile manner. Furthermore, this topic will explore ...
September 12, 2010
- Golf in summer time
- PMP professionals gathering
- Volunteer at CPMP
September 2010
- CPMP new website project announcement
- CPMP conference bridge
- September upcoming events
June 29, 2010
Dear CPMP Fellows: it is my great pleasure to announce that Howard Huang has been elected as the CPMP President for 2010 - 2011, effective immediately. Howard has over 10 years' project management experience and currently works as a Project Manager in Rogers Communication Inc, simultaneously managing multiple medium-size to large-scale projects across the functional teams and the vendors.
June 26, 2010
Dear Fellow CPMP members, Thank you all for your participation in CPMP Board Election 2010. As the completion of election on June 26, the new Board is born and a new chapter of CPMP begins! All the new Board Directors are certified PMPs. As professionals in IT, Finance, Engineering and other fields...
June 26, 2010
In current project management world, especially during the economic downturn period, risk management is becoming more critical to ensure the project success. Risk management normally is overlooked by many companies and program/project managers, so the projects easily go over budget and behind schedule, thus how to utilize and balance the risk management to ensure project success is a more demanded topic.
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