Upcoming Events

NC SCPM hosts NCSU MPA faculty at first Lunch & Learn May 11, noon to 1:00!
Did you know that being a Certified Public Manager gains you 9 (nine) hours towards a Master of Public Administration degree see pp.14-15) at North Carolina State University? The NCSU MPA program has had an historically close relationship with the OSHR NC CPM Program. Indeed, faculty and students from NCSU were largely responsible for creating the NC CPM program. Drs. Tracy Appling and Rich Clerkin from NCSU will discuss the NCSU  MPA program benefits and answer your questions at our next lunch & learn. We look forward to hearing from you on May 11th!
Registration opens 4.30.2021

2021 Officers & Board of Directors Installed


The key principle of the North Carolina Society of Certified Public Managers (NC SCPM) is to promote professionalism in state, local, and municipal government service by ascribing to high moral and personal standards. The 2021 Board of Directors (BOD) was installed at the Society's virtual annual meeting held on January 27, 2021.  Ready to continue your CPM journey by serving on the board in 2022? Download the NC SCPM By-Laws and Procedures click here or contact one of our Officers or Board members for more information:

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JOIN/RENEW

• Full membership for 1 year (January - December) is $75.
• First time members pay a fee of $50 for the first year (applies to current students or recent graduates of the CPM® program.)
• Friends of the Society (without the CPM® credential) is $50.

Messages from the President

December 10, 2020

Dear Fellow Society of CPM members,
Eight months ago, I started my message with, “I hope that this message finds you all doing well considering the circumstances that we are all facing in today’s world.” Here we are in December, and we are all still likely experiencing the same circumstance of leading our teams and programs remotely.  What a challenging year 2020 has been!
As I reflect over this last year as President, I thought about the challenges we have faced this year under pandemic circumstances. I asked myself – did I represent the Society well as a President?  Did I provide leadership that helped to ensure we were success in our goals for this year? Did we, as a Society, do all that we could to further the principles of NCSCPM, or could we have done more?

Over this past year, I had the privilege of leading this organization with the expertise of a phenomenal board of directors. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to surround myself with excellence.  Together, I think we were successful this year despite the unexpected. Here are a few of our successes:

• The Board of Directors was already accustomed to conducting board meetings via monthly conference calls; each monthly Board of Director meeting was successful and productive.
• But we had to change our “Lunch and Learn” strategy from scheduling in-person face-to-face meetings to web-based opportunities. The Program Committee scoured available resources to find quality web-based presentations to offer to the Society membership and even took that a step further as we interacted and documented some of those presentations with a live discussion board in our NCSCPM Teams site.
• Speaking of the NCSCPM Teams site – this year we adopted Microsoft Teams as our official communications and collaboration platform for the Society.
  • We use now use Teams to conduct our monthly board meetings and committee meetings.
  • We leverage the files repository to store our documents so that each member can access all documents – anything from the latest board meeting minutes, to the NCSCPM bylaws, the Governor’s Proclamation for CPM month, to pictures of past events, and many more documents.
  • And we frequently use the chat feature to collaborate with our peers when seeking advice or suggestions on how to handle a given situation.
• We participated in the CPM Class of 2020 graduation virtual gathering to congratulate them and share information about the Society and encourage participation and membership. We look forward to one-day participating in a “live” graduation ceremony to honor those graduates.
• We revamped our Society webpage; we update it as often as possible to keep our Society members informed with important information and we use social media – Facebook – as an extension of that public-facing communications to get the word out in another medium.
• We are working with the Academy of Certified Public Managers to reestablish ties to that national organization that will bring value to our members but in a way that will not increase costs.
• As for the annual conference, we had had to adjust our usual means of conducting the conference – instead of securing a venue and catering, our resources this year are all virtual – we are using industry standard WebEx for this conference to ensure all participants can enjoy the incite and wisdom they will bring in their presentations today. 

Sincerely,
Danny

2021 Officers
President, Joel Jordan, NC Office of State Human Resources
Past President, Danny Bell, NC Department of Information Technology
President-Elect, Kim Gillespie, NC Department of Transportation
Secretary, Karen Morrow, NC Department of Justice
Treasurer, Charlene Dixon, NC State Treasurer

2021 Board Members
Nancy Astrike, Office of State Human Resources
Bill Bailey, Retired
Danny Bell, NC Department of Information Technology
Wrenie Bratts-Brown, NC Department of Health and Human Services
Amy Chapman, NC Department of Environmental Quality
Charlene Dixon, NC State Treasurer
Kim Gillespie, NC Department of Transportation
Joel Jordan, NC Office of State Human Resources
Karen Morrow, NC Department of Justice
Wayne Randolph, NC Department of Environmental Quality
Sarah Smith, UNC System Office
Reed Altman, Office of State Human Resources, ex-officio
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We are anticipating a variety of events in 2021, including the Annual Meeting, Fall Conference, and multiple Lunch and Learn sessions.

Thank you for your continued interest and membership.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress.
Working hard for something that we love is called passion."
- Simon Sinek