u/Bananapopcicle

Curious to hear some feedback from others. What courses would you suggest for PMs who are just starting out and need some direction?

For some background: I am a SrPM within my company and have been in a PMO for 5 years now. I started as a coordinator and moved to PM, then SrPM.

Anyway, my team and company is changing, growing and reorganizing. We have a ton of projects coming down the pipe and not enough experienced PMs to take it all on. We have a few coordinators with prospect who will eventually be great PMs, but are not quite ready without some serious handholding. We have also acquired two people from our installation side in the warehouse to now become PMs. So, these people have some management experience and are familiar with the technically side, but they do not have any specific PM experience.

I believe these people could benefit from some PMI courses (or really any training courses) to help them understand some of the basics of PM work. (Management styles, problem solving approaches, excel training, etc.) I have my CAPM right now but am scheduled to take my PMP at the end of June. I’m not sure PMP is necessary for these folks, but I’m thinking at least some training courses could be beneficial for them.

Curious on feedback from anyone and if they have any suggested courses?

I leave for the beach tomorrow. Technically my refill is not until next week on the 7th.

The last 2 weeks, I hit up my insurance company for approval (done - they told me I could renew on 5/1), went to the pharmacy directly to make sure if I need to do anything with them, I called my doctor who said she called the pharmacy directly to confirm the request and that I just needed to go to the pharmacy to initiate the refill on 5/1.

I go to the pharmacy, the tech says OK, I leave and get a phone call 5 min late from the pharmacist who says they can’t fill it, they said need doc approval, I tell them she already called, they say that “the pharmacist on duty that day must’ve not put a note in the system”. Seriously?

I started this process two weeks ago and made sure I did everything right and it still didn’t pan out.

Even at my last follow-up in March, I asked my doctor about an early refill request. Ugh. Her office did tell me if I run into issues to hit them up, which I did, but it’s noon where I’m at, so I’m guessing they’re at lunch.