Live Event – May 4, 2011 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm MDT in Edmonton Alberta
Presented by: The Training Store and Norquest College
Duration: 1 Hour Keynote Address 1 Category C
Paid Event Includes Refreshments & A Light Meal
Member price: $25.00 plus GST Non-Member price: $30.00 plus GST

Ian Woodall is presenting his keynote address to many PMI® Chapter organizations across North America. In these situations the presentation may qualify for a Category A PDU. He has presented this address at the PMI® West Coast Chapter (Vancouver BC) and the PMI® Tucson Chapter. He is also presenting this keynote address at the PMINAC conference in Edmonton. The PMINAC presentation will be available for a Category A PDU.

If you get a chance to see his presentation take it!

During his first ascent from the south Ian’s team were trapped at 8 000 meters in the worst storm in Everest history which claimed the lives of five fellow climbers. After the trauma and tragedy of the storm Ian and his team nevertheless chose to try again, finally reaching the summit as the only ones left on the mountain.

Two years later while attempting the north side of Everest Ian stopped only a few hundred metres below the summit to try and help a dying climber. Nine years later Ian returned to 8 600 metres on the north side of Everest to bury the woman he had been forced to leave behind.

Using the power of emotional storytelling, Ian describes the triumphs and tragedies of climbing Mount Everest, sharing insights related to Personal Inspiration and Practical Leadership.

This presentation was ‘stimulating, highly motivating, with many pertinent lessons about leadership’

– Mary Chapman, CEO, Chartered Management Institute

Session objective: To gain inspiration about leadership in triumph and tragedy.

Agenda:
6:00pm Refreshments & light meal
6:30pm-7:30pm Presentation and Q & A
7:30pm-8:00pm Networking

Ian Woodall was born in England, but then spent twenty-two years in South Africa, before returning to the UK. Between 1996 and 2007 Ian conceived, planned and led five expeditions to Mount Everest, reaching the summit on two occasions. Before embarking on his Everest expeditions Ian worked as a school teacher, a catering manager, an internal auditor, as well as serving as an officer in the British Army. Ian lives in the Principality of Andorra, deep in the heart of the Pyrenees mountains on the border between France and Spain. http://www.ianwoodall.com/

Live Webinar May 4, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU Free Course ID: 1264

There is no doubt that knowing how to effectively manage the nine Knowledge Areas identified by PMI®’s PMBOK® Guide will make you a great project manager; however project managers must also have sound leadership skills in order to set the project vision and inspire project teams to overcome project challenges and road blocks.

In this webinar, you’ll learn the competencies needed to apply effective project leadership techniques to your projects, so you can create a positive, thriving, and successful project environment.

What you will learn:

• Theories and applications of project leadership styles
• Methods of successful motivation techniques of project human resources
• How to lead effective project teams and negotiate with project stakeholders
• Project leadership ethics
• Project vision and commitment
• Project management strategies that help build and sustain a high-performance project

Presenter: Chance Reichel (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, PRINCE2® is an instructor and consultant for Corporate Education Group, and has more than 25 years of expansive project management experience, most notably for large consulting firms that specialize in project management field operations. In parallel to his consulting work, Chance draws on his industry-specific project management knowledge for course development and instruction, and has designed and delivered training programs to numerous corporate professionals and university students.

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Online Webinar
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Category A Free

Investing in your staff is one sure way to be prepared for economic and industry changes. Staying knowledgeable not only keeps your staff sharp when things are on the downturn, it also keeps them ready to handle the quick acceleration that occurs when momentum changes for the better.

Where many organizations fall short is in aligning their learning programs to their organizational goals. Successful program planning, implementation, adoption and benefits planning are critical to realizing positive return and value from learning opportunities.

A survey conducted by ESI International on what organizations are doing to align learning programs with organizational goals found:

• •The importance of aligning learning initiatives with organizational goals is widely acknowledged, but not put into practice by a large majority of organizations.
• The inability to create and adopt criteria and success metrics for learning programs severely hinders measuring outcomes and overall value to the organization.
• Appropriate skills, tools and processes to implement and measure learning engagements offer organizations a more robust foundation upon which to make budgetary decisions, especially critical in the current economy.
• Selecting a performance improvement provider to help implement best practices, including reinforcement learning to maximize adoption, is crucial to optimize learning investment and return.

Join Raed S. Haddad (LinkedIn profile), Senior Vice President of Global Delivery Services, for a webinar providing valuable insight into the state of affairs of measuring the business impact of training initiatives especially in the areas of project management and business analysis.

Using results from ESI’s survey, and considering best practices, we present pragmatic best practices on how to embark on a measurement program that

1. does not overwhelm the participants or the organization
2. provides various data points that, combined, can set the stage for actionable results that show the value of your investment (VOI) in Project/Program Management or Business Analysis improvement initiatives.

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Online Webinar
Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

The key building block of all project planning is the work breakdown structure, WBS. The WBS defines all the work necessary to deliver on projects.

Although projects are unique, there is usually enough commonality within an organization to warrant the creation and maintenance of project WBS templates for certain types of recurring projects.

Learn how to create a template and maintain it for optimal use into the future.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc) and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Live Webinar Tuesday May 3, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Phillip LaPlante examines value engineering activities for requirements engineers and includes concepts from requirements engineering, project management, and systems engineering.

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