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PgMP Certification Training | Program Management Professional Course with CoachPro Consulting

An online crisis management certification program helps to plan an event, not only for the survival, but also for the integrity and sustainability of an organisation management.

The course; Identify potential risks Understand the myths behind workplace violence Define escalation and identify examples Learn concerning behaviors Know what a trigger is and how that can escalate Understand the proper response to an event

"The existence and consumption of coffee has many advantages in human society, but perhaps the lesser reported advantage is what it can offer the environment.

There is arguably no other monocrop so capable of thriving in an intact, natural ecosystem, and in Ethiopia, where coffee is a major export, the adoption of climate-compatible and conservation strategies among coffee growers recently proved a major success, with over 5,000 acres of land reforested, 45% increases in household income, and a 70% increase in exported coffee.

Coffee is a major lifeblood of Ethiopia’s economy (we’re talking about a quarter of the whole), accounting for around half of the livelihood of 15 million people, 95% of whom are small landholding growers.

In the ecologically critical Ilu Ababor Zone of nation’s western region of Oromia, where Coffea arabica is native, Farm Africa led a project on sustainable agriculture among coffee growers inside 19 local forest management cooperatives totaling around 4,000 people between 2021 and 2024.

The results were better than a hot cup of coffee on a cold early morning, as the residents took to the skills, incentives, and even stakeholder meetings with great interest and dedication according to a report on the project entitled Coffee for Conservation.

Of the project aims regarding forest management and conservation, the objective was to instruct the landholders and growers in ways to get everything they needed from their forest homes without felling too many native trees.

For example, locals were shown how to cultivate fast-growing trees optimal for firewood in small plots, as well as methods on how to maximize the growth cycle of these fuel trees. Six tree nurseries were opened and staffed by around 60 people taught to sell seedlings for reforestation of native woodland in the area.

By the end of the project, over 300,000 seedlings had been planted over 5,000 acres of forest, and they enjoyed a five-year survival rate of 85%. Climate-smart practices such as cultivating bamboo for making the mats on which the coffee beans are dried, removed the need to truck in bamboo from other regions, while 66% of homes were able to be convinced to switch to energy-efficient wood stoves to reduce fuel consumption.

Most of the landholders growing coffee or managing the forest had plots for vegetable and fruit production to feed their families and those of their communities through trade. Percentages of these Ethiopians who adopted climate-smart farming techniques increased from 49% to 76%, while 10% more began growing fruit and vegetables. Income generated from the increased production amounted to around 280% more than what was made before the project, adjusted for inflation.

Coffee production, marketing, and returns, have all improved. 73% more coffee from the Ilu Ababor region is now export-quality than in 2021, and 44% meets the standards for specialty grade, which is up by 20% from 2021.

Connections with national financing intuitions have allowed some of the co-ops to buy proper equipment for drying and storage, as well as support by city marketing agencies who could work directly on behalf of the Ilu Ababor growers to carve out a space in the national and international markets.

“Prior to the project, our limited knowledge meant we had to sell our coffee to local traders at lower prices,” said Abde Musa, a member of the Abdi Bori forest management cooperative. “Now we’ve taken control and are the ones negotiating and determining the coffee prices.”

Co-op leaders received training in business management, quality control, and certification processes, which majorly improved their incomes. One of the 19 co-ops in particular grossed $58,500 on their coffee sales.

Project wide, incomes and access to financial services almost doubled, with the latter now reaching almost 100% of the community.

Lastly, deforestation plummeted in the area to just 0.08 acres a year.

There’s so much good news to read in the report on the project’s success beyond the headline data, like the Abdi Bori co-op’s incredible rise which saw coffee revenue increase by a multiple of 20 from 2018 to 2023, or Solomon Mekonnen’s story of turning his land into a forest farm that produces export-grade coffee, firewood, and organic honey, or the tremendous involvement of women at all levels of the education and participation.

It’s a document that captures the very real phenomenon that African problems are best solved with African solutions."

“Sonar, ah, it’s too much—”

A head pops up from between your thighs, ears trained towards you and milky eyes reflecting the light. The fur around his mouth is soaked, clumping together down past his chin. The grin on his face is all teeth. 

“C’mon, you can go a little longer,” he says, tongue lolling out of his mouth to drag across your clit. The nerves fire off just on the right side of painful, overstimulated and raw but still not quite enough. “I promise I’ll get you there, baby, don’t you trust me?” 

check the 10h of your solar return chart! that house shows where you leaped the highest this year: your achievements, visibility, career shifts, and the moments you proved something to yourself!

𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓 (𝟒°, 𝟏𝟔°, 𝟐𝟖°) 𝒂𝒏𝒅/𝒐𝒓 𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓: your biggest wins this year were rooted in home, care, emotional labor, and/or personal stability. you could have moved homes, redecorated, renovated, or upgraded your living space. or improved your financial stability through saving, budgeting, or securing something long-term like insurance, benefits, and/or a retirement plan. or established healthier work–life boundaries. maybe took care of family matters: supporting a parent, helping a sibling, resolving conflict, or stepping into a role of responsibility. or started/strengthened a home-based business, side hustle, or creative project that runs out of your personal space. maybe healed something like childhood patterns, attachment issues, or emotional habits that once held you back. or improved your health routines, sleep habits, and/or stress management to better stabilize your overall life.

𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒈𝒐 (𝟔°, 𝟏𝟖°) 𝒂𝒏𝒅/𝒐𝒓 𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒚: you may have improved your work efficiency (refined systems, created better workflows, cleaned up processes, or organized chaos at your job). maybe you learned new skills that improved your career or confidence: writing, software, certifications, courses, or professional training. got recognition for your reliability, accuracy, or ability to handle complicated tasks others avoid. maybe you became the go-to person for advice, editing, troubleshooting, planning, or managing details. maybe you streamlined your finances, created a budget, set up auto-payments, tracked spending, or just finally got organized with money. you could've wrote something important (reports, emails, content, essays, scripts, posts, pitches, etc).

𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏 (𝟏𝟎°, 𝟐𝟐°) 𝒂𝒏𝒅/𝒐𝒓 𝟏𝟎𝒉 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏: your achievements came in the form of hitting a major career milestone (promotion, title change, bigger responsibilities, or finally getting recognition for long-term effort). maybe you completed something big that took months of commitment - a project, program, certification, or long-term goal. maybe you improved your long-game planning, like starting retirement savings, insurance, or long-term financial structures. or maybe you let go of something like a draining obligation, a toxic dynamic, or a workload that was crushing you.

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A lot is sheer force of will. Despite being shy and an introvert, I have a strong and charismatic work persona, including in interviews (my music training helps a lot here). And it's really just practice that gets you to that point.

But there's still others things I did:

When I went from a music performance degree into web design, I relied on some certifications, my freelance and hobby portfolio, and being able to talk shop to land me a job. I also talked about how my music training gave me unique soft skills (able to teach myself and others, able to work both independently and in groups, etc).

When I went from web design to project management + business development (same company), I pointed to all the ways I was already doing the new job, from leading meetings to defining scope to writing status reports.

When I went from project management to programming lead (new company), it was portfolio again + being able to position myself as a solid hybrid.

When I went from web programming in advertising to service design + product owner in govtech, it was about positioning my background as both a technical and soft skills strength (understanding scope, being able to communicate with diverse stakeholders).

And when I went from service design to product management (back to private sector), I read a ton of books right before the interview to talk shop and positioned all aspects of my 20+ year background to demonstrate I was well-versed in the entire product lifestyle, despite having very little formal product management experience.

Amidst all that, I also found that I like managing projects. I always knew that I like doing volunteer work and running clubs and it was my dream job to run an animation studio one day but with everything...I think I should still do management...but for something that isn't art related.

Ik you're mostly a blog about money but do you happen to know where to redirect someone on what to check out? Now that I'm looking into an entirely different career field for income, I don't know what to do or how to get a job like that

First of all, we're a blog about money and CAREER ADVICE! So this question is right up our alley, my dear.

Second, Project Manager is literally a job title that is both highly paid, valuable, and sought after. You can work in almost any industry as a Project Manager if you have the right certifications. And that certification usually comes in the form of a single course outside of the usual college curriculum. You'll have to pay for it, but it'll cost way less than a full university degree and it'll open doors for you to have it on your resume.

As far as that certification goes, search for "PMP certification programs" to find the training you need. Forbes has a pretty good list.

At my last full-time job we had several on-staff PMs who would float from department to department, managing big projects as they came up. I worked with one and loved him!

Here's more advice:

Season 1, Episode 9: "I've Given up on My Dream Career. Where Do I Go From Here?" 

So I recently started working at Large Aircraft Manufacturer. (LAM) The plant I work at employs 30,000 people. The company as a whole employs 170,000. Usually you only hear about LAM when something goes wrong. But no matter how bumbling it seems from the outside, it's way worse on the inside.

Three months after my first day, I have been "graduated" from "training." In reality, I'm still completely worthless on the floor: the training center has given me a paltry subset of the production certificates I need to actually to do my assigned job. A commonly cited statistic at LAM is that a hundred men a day are retiring, each one representing decades of experience, walking out the door, forever. The training center is in the unenviable position of managing a generational replacement, and have resorted to shoveling heaps of zoomers through as fast as possible. (As one of the few people with a visible hairline and who is not wearing a Roblox graphic tee; I am frequently mistaken for an instructor, and asked where the bathroom is, what time the next class starts, etc)

In theory, the training center knows what shop I'm assigned to, and can simply assign me all the required classes. In practice, they do the absolute minimum amount of training in a desperate attempt to relive the crowding in their handful of computer labs and tell graduates to pick up their certs later.

Of course, the irresistible force of the schedule meets the immovable object of the FAA. If you don't have the required production certificate to perform a particular job, you don't touch the airplane. Full stop, end of story.

And so the curtain opens on the stage. It reveals a single senior mechanic, supervising a mechanic who finally received all the certs and is being qualified on this particular job, surrounded by another three trainees. Trainees are less than nothing, absolute scum. At best we can fetch and carry. Mostly we are expected to stay out of the way. And the senior mechanic is only senior in title. He is one of six assembler-installers who is certified to actually work on the plane, out of twenty people on the crew, and spends every day with a permanent audience. He is 23 years old.

("Mechanic"? If you think the jargon at your job is bad, try joining a company that's a century old. Assembler-installers are universally referred to as "mechanics", despite doing work that's nothing like what a car mechanic does, and who are generally paid far worse than FAA certified A&P mechanics. Mechanics are the 11 bravos of LAM, grunts, the single largest category of worker. The tip of the spear. Hooah!)

Large Aircraft Manufacturer is in a dilly of a pickle. All of its existing airframe designs are hilariously antiquated. It tried designing a brand new plane from a clean sheet, and lost billions of dollars to a decade-long integration hell. After that, to save money, it tried just tacking bigger engines on an older design without changing anything else, and the stupid things plowed into the ground in an excruciatingly public manner.

LAM is now trying a middle road. It is upgrading one of its designs that is merely middle aged, rather than ancient, and with proven, de-risked components built in-house, rather than scattering them to subcontractors across the world. And it's still blowing past deadlines and burning billions of dollars LAM really doesn't have to spare.

This is the program I've been assigned to.

Advanced Midbody - Carbon Wing has taken the bold step of just tacking on carbon fiber wings to a conventional aluminum fuselage. Shockingly, AMCW is now stuck in lightning strike testing, due to that troublesome join between conductive aluminum and conductive...ish carbon fiber. But LAM, confident as ever, or perhaps driven by complaints of its customers, has announced that full rate production will begin just next year. Thus the tide of newhires. According to the schedule, we're supposed to jerk from one wingset a month to one wingset a week. That's not going to happen, but, oh well, orders from above move down at the speed of thought, while reality only slowly trickles upwards.

"120 inch pounds? Really?"

I startle upright. I have observed one hundred pi bracket installs, and I will observe a hundred more before I can touch aircraft structure. This is the first disagreement I've witnessed. A more advanced trainee is questioning the torque spec on a fastener. It is not an entirely foolish question-- most sleeve bolts we use are in the 40 in-pounds range. Doubling it that is unusual. I cough the dust off my unused vocal cords and venture an opinion.

"Well hey I could look it up? I guess"

The lead mechanic glances at me, surprised that I'm still awake, then looks away. Excuse enough for me!

I unfold myself from the stool I've been sitting on for the last four hours then hobble over to the nearest Shared Production Workstation.

We do not get Ikea-style step by step instructions on how to put together the airplane. Like any company that's been around for long enough, LAM is a tangled wad of scar tissue, ancient responses to forgotten trauma. If you state a dimension twice, in two different places, then it is possible for an update to only change one of those dimensions, thereby making the engineering drawing ambiguous. Something real bad must have happened in the past as a result of that, so now an ironclad rule is that critical information is only stated once, in one place, a single source of truth.

As a result, the installation plan can be a little... vague. Step 040 might be something like "DRILL HOLE TO SIZE AND TORQUE FASTENERS TO SPEC". What hole size? What torque spec?

Well, they tell you. Eventually.

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You are given an engineering drawing, and are expected to figure out how things go together yourself. (Or, more realistically, are told how it's done by coworkers) Step by step instructions aren't done because then dozens of illustrations would have to be updated with every change instead of just one, and drawings are updated surprisingly frequently.

Fasteners are denoted by a big plus sign, with a three letter fastener code on the left and the diameter on the right, like so: "XNJ + 8"

To get the actual part number, we go to the fastener callout table:

(Note the use of a trade name in the table above. There is nothing a mechanic loves more than a good trademark. Permanent straight shank fasteners are always called HI-LOKs™. It's not a cable tie, it's a Panduit™. It's not a wedgelock, it's a Cleco™. Hey man, pass me that offset drill. What, you mean a Zephyr™? Where'd the LAMlube™ go? This also means you have to learn the names of everything twice, one name on the installation plan, and one name it's referred to in conversation.)

We find XNJ on that table, and fill in the diameter: BACB30FM8A. Now we look up the spec table for that fastener:

The eagle eyed among you might note that there is no "diameter: 8" on that table. As a LAM mechanic, you are expected to simply know that "diameter" is measured in 32nds of an inch, which simplifies down to 1/4.

(LAM preserves many old-school skills like fraction reduction and memorizing decimal equivalents like this, like flies caught in amber. Not least is the universal use of Imperial units. Many American manufacturers have been browbeaten into adding parenthetical conversions. Not LAM! Any risk at all of a mechanic seeing a second number and using it by accident is too great, and anyway, it violates SSOT. Lengths are in inches and feet, weights are in pounds, volume is in gallons and if you don't like it then you can go eat shit!)

After 10 minutes of following references, I arrive at that table, print it off, highlight the correct row, and hand it off to my senior mechanic.

"Great, thanks."

Gratified that I have enhanced shareholder value, I sit back down, and immediately fall asleep. Another day living the dream.