Live Webinar July 13, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Training Magazine Network
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free
Earn up to 7 PDUs for reading the companion book for this presentation
Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants 272 pages

If you are working with and agile team and are looking at using Business Games and Learning Simulations than look no further than Thiagi The Mad Scientist of the Thiagi Group. Thiagi has published 40 books, 120 games and simulations, and more than 200 articles including the definitive chapters on simulations and games for ISPI’s Handbook of Human Performance Technology, ASTD’s Training & Development Handbook, and the American Management Association’s Human Resources Management and Development Handbook.

The Problem: Simulations are the best way to prepare a team for new experiences, however Experiential Exercises require such a long time to prepare and to conduct and often there is no time is available for debriefing. These Simulations create a shared experience for the team that can create bonds and assist with team problem solving.

The Solution: Use a jolt! Participate in different activities, each conducted in a few minutes and giving you a long-lasting wake-up call. Learn about the advantages of using brief simulations called jolts. Locate several ready-made jolts and create your own. Master a powerful model for debriefing to maximize team learning.

The Book: Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants

“Only Thiagi and his co-author, Tracy, could have devised a list of 50 magical learning moments that are concise and certain to JOLT learners into new perspectives and profound insights. If you facilitate group learning or change management, you won’t want to miss this one!” —Elaine Biech, author of Business of Consulting and Training for Dummies

Click to see a list of Thiagi’s Simulation and Business Games Books

The Presenters/Authors:

Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, Ph.D., (LinkedIn profile) is Resident Mad Scientist at the Thiagi Group, a Bloomington, Indiana-based organization with the mission of helping people improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. Thiagarajan has published forty books, including Thiagi’s 100 Favorite Games (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)
and Teamwork and Teamplay: Games and Activities for Building and Training Teams, as well as numerous games, simulations, and articles.

Tracy Tagliati, CPLP, is a Senior Associate at the Thiagi Group, where she specializes in designing and delivering training to international clients. Prior to working with the Thiagi Group, Tracy was a corporate trainer for Mercury Insurance Group and Mindset development, a franchise of Crestcom International.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

Click to register for Jolt Participants into Awareness and Action

Live Webinar July 14, 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Stakeholder analysis is the starting point of requirements elicitation. Your information production techniques are not going to be very effective if you are not talking to the right audience!

Attend this webinar and learn the purpose, methods and outcome of stakeholder analysis, something that all Business Analysts should have expertise in.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

Click to register Who Are the Important People On Your Project?

Live Webinar July 13 2011 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by: PDUs For Lunch – The Project Whisperer
Speaker : Margaret Meloni MBA, PMP
Certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees upon request.

Topic: “Emotional Intelligence for PMs”

EQ is the acronym for Emotional Intelligence. So not only do we have an IQ (Intelligence Quotient), we also have emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is not about traditional intelligence. It is about our ability to handle ourselves and others. It is all about our ability to get along with others and build relationships.

The concept of EQ was introduced by Daniel Goleman in 1995. His book (also called Emotional Intelligence), helped us to understand that it is not just technical and analytical abilities that make a successful leader. Yes these are important qualities. But the most successful leaders also have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Here is the great news; EQ (unlike IQ) can be developed. In this session, you will learn how YOU can grow your emotional intelligence right now!

Speaker: Margaret Meloni (LinkedIn profile) spent over 18 years in Corporate America observing how individuals who learned to cope with conflict succeeded and recognized their full potential, while others became road blocked.

Margaret acted on her vision by founding Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. As a former Information Technology Executive, Margaret always knew her preference was for the people behind the technology. Now Margaret brings those beliefs to individuals from many professional backgrounds.

Learn more about Margaret’s Courses and Programs on:
MargaretMeloni.com

Click to register for PDUs For Lunch Live Webinar
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers

This webinar brought to you by Pam Stanton’s “The Project Whisperer”
Click here to visit her website.

Live Webinar July 13, 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: MDW1268

Meetings are nothing more than a tool to get results.

A successfully facilitated meeting helps to achieve and exceed project goals, by improving issues resolution, decision making, and risk management. Facilitation is an art and science that consists of a set of skills that can be learned.

Successful facilitators can recognize and balance the needs of the meeting, the individuals, and the team.

This webinar discusses typical challenging behaviors of individuals and groups and associates them with various animal metaphors. We will review a few facilitation strategies for key challenging behaviors.

We’ve all been in meetings with the “wise old owl” who philosophizes at great length. And we all know what it feels like when there is an “elephant in the room.” The images may be simple to grasp, but this is not a basic meeting management webinar.

Learning objectives include:

• What are the fundamentals of facilitation?
• A perspective shift and tool to use meetings as a tool
• Overview of the top individual challenging meeting behaviors
• Strategies for dealing with some challenging behaviors

About the Presenter:

Star Dargin (LinkedIn profile), PCC, CPCC, instructor and consultant for Corporate Education Group, is founder of Star Leadership, a management consulting firm that offers coaching, training, and consulting services for businesses.

Star held leadership positions at several high-tech companies, in roles such as Director of Engineering, Director of Project Managers, and International Program Manager; additionally, Star is an adjunct professor at Boston University where she teaches graduate level courses on Leadership and Communication for Project Managers.

Click to register for Facilitation Skills for Project Managers

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available!
Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar July 13, 2011, 11:00 – 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)

This webinar with Pat O’Toole provides practical advice that will help attendees invigorate their process improvement programs.

Blending real world examples, practical advice, and humorous analogies, participants will learn to think more robustly about their approach to process improvement, and apply proven approaches that they can implement immediately upon their return.

Click to register for Do’s and Don’ts of Process Improvement

Live IIL Webinar -July 13, 2011 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A $19.95 USD
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: SS0004
You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity.

Uncertainty. It is a word often used to describe risk. It is also the best word to describe consumer behavior relative to spending in the next 12-24 months.

What must be done to survive in an economy with such a high degree of uncertainty?

This webinar will logically lay out the steps that must be taken from the top of an organization to the bottom.

Benefits:
Utilizing the proven concepts within the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Process Improvement Methodology, participants will hear real-world examples of how companies have dramatically reduced costs will simultaneously improving quality. Lean Six Sigma is a proven formula for surviving times of economic uncertainties and reducing non-value added costs.

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

• How the concepts of Lean Six Sigma can quickly allow participants to improve processes associated with delivery of products and services
• How companies from diverse industries have used these concepts to survive tough times
• What skill set you will need to remain marketable in this economy
• What three things you can do immediately to take out costs

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Lean Six Sigma Tab on the Left and then Choose “The Secrets to Surviving a Challenging Economy”.