Live Webinar September 1 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is an introduction to Solutions cube 6 Part series Project Leadership vs. Project Management With part 1 starting September 8. Earn up to 7 pdus with this seminar and the entire series.

Leadership presents the ultimate bottleneck for business.Project leadership remains largely overlooked.And yet, project leadership is one of the dimensions that differentiates effective project managers from non-effective project managers.

Being a leader requires more than managing the mechanics of a project.Effective leaders inspire and motivate their teams, develop themselves and their resources to be more effective contributors, understand how their work fits into the bigger picture, work collaboratively across organizations, and make tough decisions when necessary.

Do you have the vision and attitude of a leader?

Join us for this free 1 hour webinar to learn how improving your project leadership is a journey of continuous improvement and starts with self assessment.

• Understand the difference between project leadership and project management
• Recognize leadership styles and traits
• Learn five practices and ten commitments of leadership
• Discover stage specific project leadership styles and tasks
• Gain insights for assessing your project leadership

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

Who Should Attend This Webinar:

• General Managers
• Team Members
• Project Managers
• Portfolio Managers
• Project Leads
• Program Managers
• Business Stakeholders
• Business Leads
• Facilitators

For more info contact:

Carly Burek at 972.786.0900 or carly.burek@solutionscubegroup.com
http://SolutionsCubeGroup.com

Earn 1 PDU by attending this Webinar. SPACE IS LIMITED. To secure a seat Register Now.

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
September 9th & 16th , 2011 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU Free

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided! For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful! – Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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’

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Online Course – Slides file
Presented by Mountain Goat Software
Duration Up to 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category C Free

This is the slide set for the presentation on April 7, 2011 – to the Danish Agile User’s Group. The slide set provides excellent strategies for working with distributed agile teams. Mike Cohn is the author of Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum, also Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development.Mike has more than 25 years experience and is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance.

The early agile literature was adamant about two things: stick with small teams and put everyone in one room. However, in the years since the Agile Manifesto, the increasing popularity of agile and the dramatic improvements it brings has pushed it onto larger and larger projects. Additionally, having an entire team–especially on a large project–in one room, or even one building is a luxury no longer enjoyed by many projects.

This slide set looks at how agile can be scaled to work on any multi-team project. Even a project with two teams will benefit from learning how to proactively manage interteam dependencies, conduct iteration planning for multiple teams, cultivate communities of practice, and coordinating work. Because so many projects are spread across multiple sites they also look at overcoming the unique challenges facing distributed teams.

The information looks at deciding how to distribute a team, how to create coherence among team members, the importance of getting together and when are the most important times to use the travel budget, changes to what the team documents, and how to handle meetings when spread across time zones. Whether your project is spread across two locations in the same city or spread around the globe, you will leave with practical advice to try tomorrow.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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.’

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Live Webinar – September 1, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 40 min 0.5 Category C PDU Free

To foster a learning environment that builds upon formal learning, engages employees and creates competitive differentiation, organizations must embrace and support learning wherever it occurs. To do so, we need to provide the tools and technology that enable this to happen, as well as an understanding of how the role of learning professionals is evolving to support learning beyond the classroom.

Join us for this one hour webinar to discover how you can keep your training and development initiative up to pace with the rapidly evolving dynamics of how, when and where employees acquire knowledge.

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.

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Live Webinar – September 1, 12:00-12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 0.5 Hour Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by: PM Centers USA (Rep 1016)

Note: A previously recorded version of this session is also available

• Do you have clients that constantly ask for minor extras at no additional cost?
• Do you have problems getting the right resources for your projects?
• Do your team members consistently miss schedule dates or exceed budgets?

Maybe the problem is that you are not an effective negotiator!

Most experienced Project Managers typically have good ‘hard skills’ in project management, such as defining scope, budgeting or scheduling, but come up short in some soft skills areas such as negotiating.

The top ten mistakes made in conducting project negotiations, along with techniques that can be utilized to avoid these mistakes will be presented.The talk will then describe a recommended procedure to follow when preparing for a negotiation.

This webinar should be of interest for experienced Project Managers looking for pointers on how to be more effective in negotiation situations.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP®, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering project management and business analysis training and consulting to clients across the country.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs. His project management experience spans information systems, product development, capital construction and manufacturing projects. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional and Certified Cost Engineer.

You will need to register for a PM Centers USA account to download this opportunity.

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Live IIL Webinar – September 1, 2011, 6:00 – 7:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A $10.95 USD
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0010
You will need to register with IIL to access the site

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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