Live Webinar July 21, 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

Are you a confident and competent project manager? What’s next?

Take a look at PMI’s Program Management Standard and the next step in your career growth, the Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification. Take a quick peek at our new Program Management course, in which you master what lies beyond project management – topics such as Benefits Management and Program Governance.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long followed by a live question and answer session.

Subject Matter Expert: Bruce Chadbourne, PgMP®
Bruce Chadbourne (LinkedIn profile) with more than three decades of experience in engineering project and program management, Bruce is a long-standing PMP and one of the first to complete the Program Management Professionals (PgMP) credential. As a contributor to the PMBOK® and BABOK® guides, Bruce has lectured on business analysis, requirements management, system testing, and Agile project management techniques. As former Region 1 Director of the PMI Risk SIG, he co-authored the book The Professional Guide to Risk Assessment (2004).

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Live Webinar – Choose From 2 Offerings
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration: 1 hour + 30 Min Q & A 1 Category C PDU FREE

July 20th, 2011 11:00 AM EDT
July 21st, 2011 4:00 PM EDT

Prosci’s ADKAR® Model describes the five building blocks of successful change at the individual level.

In times of change – whether at home, in the community or at work – individuals need:

1. Awareness,
2. Desire,
3. Knowledge,
4. Ability and
5. Reinforcement

to successfully make a change.

This webinar presents Prosci’s ADKAR Model and six applications of the model for change management professionals.

Agenda:

• The need for an individual change management model
• ADKAR – building blocks of successful change
• Six applications of Prosci’s ADKAR Model

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar – July 20, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

Many businesses today are flocking to social media without understanding why or how they’ll be successful. This has led to a high degree of skepticism and a general hesitancy to implement social campaigns for many companies. Many of them tinker with social media for a short period of time, but abandon it because they fail to see immediate return.

The problem is not with social media as a channel, but with its utilization and integration with the rest of your business efforts. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…the social network of your choice, it doesn’t matter, the key to success is making your business and culture more social.

Are you wondering why you should consider social media? Are you feeling like your marketing is getting left behind?

Are you new to social media, and not seeing the return you were looking for?

Presenters: Chris Moody & JT Moore (LinkedIn profile), Director of Marketing

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Live Webinar July 20 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Tom Kendrick
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Optimizing Your Risk Management Effort

One ongoing project management debate concerns whether risks can really be “managed” at all. Assuming that project business risk can be managed, should it be, and if so, when?

In this Webcast you’ll discover ways to understand when it’s a good idea to manage a risk and when it may not be.

It’s obvious that doing something about a risk that actually occurs makes sense. Doing nothing for a risk that does not happen is also sensible (or perhaps just lucky). However, some risk management we undertake will ultimately prove to be unnecessary and some risks we choose to accept may lead to disaster.

As with any analysis, errors in risk assessment are of two types: “Type 1,” (false positive) errors, and “Type 2,” (false negative) errors. In the context of project risk management, Type 1 errors are the risks we choose to manage unnecessarily. Type 2 errors are the risks we ignore that then happen.

Project managers must use qualitative and quantitative assessment techniques to rank order risks, and then work out responses to deal with the ones that warrant the effort.

To improve the effectiveness of your efforts, you must carefully consider each identified project risk in terms of history and impact, and particularly in consideration with your tolerance for consequences.

What You Will Learn:

• How to identify key criteria to use in determining which risks to manage
• Tips for determining when it is prudent to manage what appear to be mid-range severity risks
• Advice for justifying project schedule and budget reserves for use in dealing with risks lacking explicit risk responses

Featured Speaker: Tom Kendrick (LinkedIn profile), PMP, is Program Director for the University of California Berkeley Extension Project Management curriculum. He is author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project, The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right, and 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges.He regularly conducts classes and presentations on program, project, and risk management for conferences, associations, and universities. He also spent over 20 years with Hewlett Packard in its Project Management Initiative and has almost 40 years of worldwide PM experience, including work for Visa, DuPont, General Electric, and as an independent consultant.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar July 20 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by: Cisco Webex
Hosted By: The Ken Blanchard Companies

Leaders, like teachers, transform people’s lives. That’s because leadership and teaching are both focused on bringing out the brilliance that exists within people. But what often happens is that people who teach—in classrooms, meetings, workshops, or any setting where learning happens—don’t know how to bring out the best from others effectively. They tell people what to do, rather than teach them how, and are often disappointed in the outcomes.

In this presentation, applied learning expert Dr. Vicki Halsey will show you how to structure your presentations in a way that deeply engages and energizes learners because it keeps them front and center every step of the way.

You’ll learn how to create content that is clear, relevant, easily absorbed, and readily retained because it is tailored to each audience’s specific needs, abilities, and inclinations.

Drawing from her new book, Brilliance by Design, Vicki will share a six-step ENGAGE model that radically improves the learning transfer process to drive optimum individual and organizational results.

You will learn proven ideas, strategies and practices that will enable you to:

• Energize learners at the beginning of any learning session;
• Help them Navigate the new content and Generate personal meaning and relevance from it
• Apply their learning to the real world
• Gauge and celebrate their progress
• Extend their learning to action

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to dramatically improve your effectiveness for sharing new concepts, ideas, and content!

Presenter: Dr. Vicki Halsey (LinkedIn profile), Vice Pres. of Applied Learning, The Ken Blanchard Companies

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for 6 Keys to Creating Learning Experiences that Inspire & Engage

Live Webinar July 19; EMEA – 15:00 (London, GMT + 01:00)
Live Webinar July 19: Americas – 1 pm ET / 10 am PT 
Offered by: Rally Software ( REP 3156 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A

When done right, multi-team release planning helps you anticipate and reduce the technical risk of dependencies, resulting in better planning and increased value delivery to your customers. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to prepare for and run a successful multi-team release planning meeting and take away a detailed meeting agenda.

You will learn:

• Who to invite
• What inputs you must bring
• Which outputs you need (risks, dependencies, assumptions)
• How to handle globally distributed teams
• How to sync with waterfall departments or other hybrid environments
• Concrete tactics for dealing with the most common challenges

Intended For: Scrum Masters, Project, Program and Product Managers, Product Owners, IT/Dev Managers, delivery team members and business stakeholders. In other words, anyone involved in the work or who wants to know how release decisions and tradeoffs are made.

Presenters: Ronica Roth (LinkedIn profile), Agile Coach, Rally Software.

Click to download the Release Planning Guide

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