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Live Webinar August 24 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: Tim Sanders
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.
Have life’s curveballs thrown you off balance? Best-selling author, leadership coach and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders knows how you feel.
Rediscovering lessons learned as a child, Sanders got out of a tailspin and catapulted himself to financial security and an officer-level role at an S&P 500 company at the center of the Internet revolution.
Today, his promise to himself is, “I will never forget those lessons. The price is too high.†Join Tim as he explores the classic principles of confident living that some of the most successful and joyful people you know live by.
In this Webcast, Sanders updates Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale to tackle a new world, where social media and transparency present unique challenges to our sense of confidence, sanity, and faith.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
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’
Live Webinar August 23: EMEA – 15:00 (London, GMT + 01:00)
Live Webinar August 23: Americas – 1 pm ET / 10 am PT 
Offered by: Rally Software ( REP 3156 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A
Bring us your toughest questions. Enter or vote on them now. Isaac Montgomery, PMP and Agile Coach will bring answers. From real life, in-the-trenches engagements with major enterprise customers.
We’ll cover:
How do I fund and initiate Agile projects?
How do traditional roles change: PMP, BA, Architect, QA, Dev Team?
How do I work with highly distributed, offshore teams?
How do I ensure that governance and regulatory mandates are met?
How do I report progress to my stakeholders?
How can I get started with low risk and high payback?
Live Webinar – August 23, 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
In 2011, as Agile development practices become more mainstream, many business analyst professionals are being asked to apply their expertise to this new approach for product development and delivery.
This can leave many BAs wondering what their roles on an Agile project are, and how to apply their skill set effectively and successfully.
This hour long webinar will work through the mapping of the BABOK to Agile principles, and will explore how to operate as an indispensable asset to the Agile team, the team’s business analyst.
Presenter:
Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.
Live Webinar – August 18 , 2011 1:00 -2:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 1 Hour 1 CAT B FREE
In light of the amount of research indicating the overall positive effect that PMOs have in a wide variety of organizations it can come as a surprise when you see your PMO failing to perform up to expectation. Numerous organizations see their fledgling PMOs struggle to make any financial impact on their operations. In fact, Gartner estimates that PMOs have a failure rate of nearly 50% during their first implementation.
Our experience shows that many PMOs are disbanded every 4-8 years and reconstituted in a different manner. We go over two ways this can happen and what you can do about it.
Most organizations have difficulties implementing a PMO that works within their culture. How does one reconcile this large rate of failure with the benefits that are repeatedly espoused by study after study arguing for the necessity of a PMO in most modern organization? And more importantly, how do you guarantee that your PMO will increase project success rate and guarantee a positive ROI?
By identifying common failure points amongst PMOs it is possible to define and solve problems before they present a major issue for a company.
Attendees will walk away with the ability to:
Identify & solve the most common problem scenarios
Quantify the real value of a PMO
Clearly articulate the long-term financial benefits of a PMO
Implement cost-cutting metrics to all projects in order to validate the PMO’s existence
Live Webinar August 18, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Entrepreneur Source
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free
Many Project Managers are adapting to today’s economy through entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Taking responsibility for project success has always been part of Project Management. Entrepreneurship extends that responsibility to include business functions that PMs don’t traditionally manage – such as Marketing and Finance. If you’re thinking about adopting an entrepreneurial mindset, you should attend this session.
This complementary session for August will feature four business owners that were in your position not long ago. This will be a very powerful presentation. You will be able to ask them questions about their journey to become self sufficient.
PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources
4.1 Develop Project Charter
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’
Courage Goes To Work gives the conviction that ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary results. – Joe Forehand retired Chairman and CEO of Accenture
Please NOTE: The Video shows Bill HighDiving while on fire.
Webinar Information
This workshop will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become “opportunity seekersâ€.
A step-by-step approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better.
Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!
Key concepts covered in this workshop include:
Three distinct types of courage and how to differentiate among them
How to create an environment that supports courageous behavior
The differences between two different leadership dispostions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers (discouragement)
Tips on how to be more courageous and how to inspire more courageous behavior among those you lead
Learner Outcomes:
Knowledge of current research about the negative impacts of fear on performance, and how courage can be used to overcome them.
How to distinguish between three different, but equally important types of courageous behavior.
Specific actions you can take to promote and encourage more courageous behavior within your own work environment.
Who Should Attend:
Executives who wish to transform their organizations.
Independent consultants who wish to build courage in the organizations they serve.
New leaders who want to have more confidence, or are struggling with a lack thereof.
Emerging leaders or those aiming to have more leadership influence.
PDU Category C documentation details for Webinar Or Book:
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
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’
How can you fill people with enough confidence that theyll set aside their fears and do extraordinary things?
What can you do to put courage to work for you and the people you lead?
Courage Goes to Work focuses on building workforce courage. Why? Because when courage goes to work, workers they take on more challenging or complex projects. When courage goes to work people actively seek out tasks that stretched their skills and capabilities. When courage goes to work speak up more frequently, forcefully, and truthfully. When courage goes to work people say “yes†to company changes with more enthusiasm. When courage goes to work people are less risk-averse, less self-conscious, and less apathetic.
Courage Goes to Work categorizes courageous acts into three large “buckets.†These courage buckets are:
TRY Courage:TRY Courage is the courage of initiative and action. It’s what you’re talking about when you say you want people to “step up to the plateâ€. TRY Courage can be seen in “first attemptsâ€â€”for example, whenever you attempt a new, skill-stretching, or pioneering tasks. Volunteering to lead a tough or risky project is a demonstration of TRY Courage.
TRUST Courage:TRUST Courage is the courage that it takes to relinquish control and rely on others. When you talk of wanting employees to embrace company changes more enthusiastically, it is TRUST Courage that you want people to have. When you have TRUST Courage, you give people the benefit of the doubt, instead of questioning the motives and intentions of those around you.
TELL Courage:TELL Courage is the courage of “voice,†and involves speaking with candor and conviction, especially when the opinions expressed run counter to the group’s. When your TELL Courage is activated, you assert yourself more willingly and confidently. Your TELL Courage is at work when you tactfully but truthfully provide tough feedback to others, or when you raise your hand and ask for help, or when you fess up about mistakes you’ve made before others find out.
About Bill Treasurer- Bill Treasurer is founder of Giant Leap Consulting, and the author of Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results, an internationally bestselling book about how to build workforce courage. Bill is widely recognized as pioneer in the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” Bill is also a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team, and performed over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet. His insights about workplace courage have been featured in over 100 national newspapers and magazines.
Bill has worked with many renowned organization including, Accenture, NASA, Spanx, the US Forest Service, CDC, PNC Bank, Highmark, American Family Insurance, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
, an internationally bestselling book about how to build workforce courage. Bill is widely recognized as pioneer in the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” Bill is also a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team, and performed over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet. His insights about workplace courage have been featured in over 100 national newspapers and magazines.