How to Develop your Career In Project Management - Strategies, Tactics and Tools. Is becoming better at what you do bringing you any closer to what you want to be? What do I want to be? What do I want to do? Where do I start and what's next? How do I get there? What's the process? What tools can I use to help me? Why would anyone want a Career? One should formulate their own honest definition of success based on their own beliefs, values, wants, capabilities and capacity. A space we would like to live in. An internal perspective and a “reflected” perspective. The value of this space (of success) is subjective. The defined space of success is multidimensional: professional, spiritual, social, financial, and dimensions related to health, family, physical appearance, etc. Use your Effective Intelligence: Your ability to use your natural and developed capabilities effectively in order to achieve "success". Effective Intelligence is demonstrated by: Defining (and continuously refining and evolving) your own honest definition of success. Acknowledging the multidimensionality of success and the need for trade-offs and productive compromises. Exhibiting productive self-awareness. Understanding your constraints and capacity limitations. Understanding the physics (laws) of the systems you interact with. Defining a plan on how to achieve success (translate your honest definition of success into goals and actions). Optimizing (continuously) your plan - finding your Personal Efficient Frontier. Developing and aligning values, beliefs, mindsets, attitudes, capabilities and goals. Managing effectively the dynamic nature of life. Balancing the contribution of both goals and journey. Learning from the challenges while enjoying the journey. The more you achieve or the more capable you are, the more is expected from you.

1. Nicos Kourounakis,
MASc, PMP, MBA, IPMA-D, PRINCE2, PM²
How to Develop your Career
in Project Management
PMI Belgium Chapter
Dec 10th, 2014

74. Nicos is a Project Management Consultant with expertise in Project Management Methodologies, Portfolio
Management and Organizational Project Management Maturity.
Nicos has been involved in many international projects in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
Belgium, Austria and Greece, working both with large organizations and with smaller ventures and start-ups. As a
Product Manager he also managed the successful development and launch of an innovative Enterprise Project
Management software application, which is currently used by several EU Agencies.
Mr. Kourounakis has also several years of experience in training and public speaking. As an Adjunct Professor at the
Professional MBA program of the Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece, he has taught courses and delivered
seminars in Project Management, Portfolio Management, Operations & Supply Chain Management and Management
of Information Systems. He has also been involved with PMI both as a speaker at the 2011 PMI Global Project
Management Congress in Dublin, at PMI-Istanbul 2012, and PMI BeLux in 2012 (Keynote Speaker), and as an elected
Vice President of the Board of Directors of the PMI Chapter in Athens, Greece (2008-2011).
Mr. Kourounakis holds an MBA from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Victoria, Canada, and a BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Nicos is also
one of the first 100 professionals to be certified in PMI's Organizational Project Management Maturity (OPM3).
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