Live IIL Webinar – August 9, 2011, 9:00 – 10:00 am EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A $10.95 USD
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0010
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Overcome limited budgets and time constraints by learning how to optimize the project schedule using Microsoft Project 2010. Learn how to get your projects back on track!

You will gain insight on how to apply practical techniques for reducing time and cost in projects and learn how to save time with “fast-tracking” and “crashing” schedule compression techniques. Compare task and resource costs against the project budget and apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs. The new Task Inspector will help you recognize budget and time issues so you can take action early, solving problems by managing effectively early on.

With the new Microsoft Fluentâ„¢ User Interface, you can view the critical path or see how Project 2010 highlights lag in your schedule. Compare project versions using the Gantt bars and additional features to help you see more clearly how one version of a project differs from another. Use the Timeline View to see highlighted changes and graphically recognize essential optimization differences.

Benefits
In this webinar, you will learn how to apply practical techniques to reduce time and cost in your projects with Project 2010. Discover how to compare task and resource costs against the project budget, apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs and make optimal use of the new Task Inspector. A simple click on the Ribbon will now show the critical path for project progress, or click on “compare projects” to quickly identify changes between two project versions.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• Optimizing for time, budget and cost
• Applying the new Task Inspector
• How to use the one-click Critical Path
• How to easily compare project versions

Who Should Attend
This webinar is designed for individuals who use Microsoft Project regularly, including those who use it on a day-to-day basis: project schedulers, project team members, project managers, project controllers, project control officers, and project engineers.

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Live Webinar – August 11, 2011 3:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 30 minute 0.5 CAT B FREE

This is a live webinar – A previously recorded version of this presentation is available. Click here to view the previously recorded version.

According to a Gartner report, 1 in 3 technology projects failed. Why such a dismal success rate?

In this webinar, we’ll explore ways to improve your odds of successfully completing projects on time and on budget through:

• Precise management of resources. Who is working on what?
• Accurate project tracking. How do I get this project back on schedule?
• Effective decision-making. What’s wrong and what do I need to address?

This webinar is 30 minutes long and attendees are eligible for 1/2 PDU credit.

Click to register for 3 Critical Components Of Project Success.

Live Webinar 2 Offerings
August 4, 2011 10:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT
August 4, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Gartner Webinars Hosted by: John Pescatore

NOTE: You will require a Gartner Account to register for this webinar.

While security concerns are often listed as the top impediment to cloud adoption, the demand for business use of cloud computing is exploding and unstoppable. Even the US Federal Government announced it would take a “cloud first” view by 2012, and GSA and the Department of the Interior have moved to cloud-based email. Security groups need to evolve their security architectures to support multiple styles of securing cloud-based services, to meet business demand while keeping sensitive data and business processes safe.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope

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.’

Click to register for the 10 AM EDT Session of How to Use the Cloud and Stay Secure
Click to register for the 1PM EDT Session of How to Use the Cloud and Stay Secure

Live Webinar – August 10, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU Free

Starting this year in the U.S, 10,000 people a day are turning 65, and will continue to do so for the next 19 years. With a big dip in the Gen X population behind the Baby Boomer group, a natural conclusion is that we will need to get the newest workforce, Millennials — also called Gen Y — up to speed pretty quickly. And what is their number one preferred method of learning? Mentoring.

Mentoring conjures up thoughts of one-on-one, long-term relationships. But it doesn’t have to be so. Forward-thinking companies are reinventing the meaning of mentoring, and using innovative techniques to be able to scale in mass proportions to prepare for the future workplace. Based on research from the book “The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today” by Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd, this session will cover examples from companies like American Express, AT&T, and PricewaterhouseCoopers to explore how to get talent ready fast for the upcoming shifts in the workplace.

Presenter: Karie Willyerd (LinkedIn profile)

Karie is the Vice President of Learning and Social Adoption at SuccessFactors. Prior to that she was the cofounder and CEO of Jambok, the industry’s first informal social learning platform, which was acquired by SuccessFactors in March, 2011. Karie was formerly Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems. During the last 24 months at Sun, Karie and her team won over 30 awards for excellence in creating an innovative learning & development function for Sun Microsystems. In October 2009, ASTD named Sun the #1 BEST learning function in the world. In February of 2010, Sun was named #11 by Training 125.

Karie is the coauthor of the bestselling book The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today (Harper Business May, 2010). Along with Jeanne Meister, she is a regular blogger for Harvard Business, and their article on Mentoring Millennials was a feature article in the May, 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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’

Click to register for Mentoring for the 2020 Workplace