Archive for September, 2011

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Live Webinar September 21 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: John J. Hampton
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

In this Webcast, you’ll discover a basic overview of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), a systematic approach to recognize risks, risk contributions and how technology can assist your risk management efforts.

Risk management has traditionally been a 2-tier structure. The first tier is daily operations where risk is managed by unit heads aided with oversight by internal audit, compliance, and others.

The second tier is looking at risk from a long-term perspective. Here, higher-level executives seek to understand new risks and opportunities, often related to products, market changes, customers, and competitors.

This Webcast explores enterprise risk management and how technology and specifically “the cloud” can assist you in your ERM efforts.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Presenter: John J. Hampton is a professor of business at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, and from 2000 to 2004 he was executive director of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS). Hampton specializes in Financial Risk Management and was named a “Risk Innovator of 2008” by Risk and Insurance magazine. He has spoken at many professional meetings, including the Business Insurance Risk Management Summit (2011) and Georgia State University CFO Council (2010). American Management Association has published five of his books, including Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management: How Top Companies Assess Risk, Manage Exposure, and Seize Opportunity and The AMA Handbook of Financial Risk Management.

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’

Click to register for An Overview of ERM and the Ways to Use Technology to Achieve Effective Risk Management

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Live Webinar September 20 , 2011 – 12:00 pm- 12:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Min Webcast – Up to .5 PDU Free Category C – Free PDU

Microsoft SharePoint is a great platform for Project and Portfolio Management (PPM). It’s economical, easy to use and an effective alternative to the more complex, costly PPM tools out there. The challenge is most organizations don’t know how to leverage it for PPM.

This 30 minute webcast will walk you through 5 case studies detailing problems companies faced and the solutions they implemented. These case studies explore the entire spectrum of project management, from simple task management to full program management. Organizations including Children’s Hospital Boston, Sheppard Mullin, Brandwise, Amsurg and the Georgia Farm Bureau have explained the challenges they faced and how templates and reporting on SharePoint delivered a practical solution to collaboratively and efficiently manage projects.

All attendees at this webinar will receive a copy of the slide deck, the webinar recording and an eBook with these 5 case studies plus 5 extra ones!

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution

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 Project and Portfolio Management Using SharePoint – 5 Case Studies

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
September 21 & 28 , 2011 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 9m EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU – Free PDU

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 Wednesdays – 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’

Click to register for Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

A Closer Look at Context Diagrams

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Live Webinar September 21, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free

The business analyst uses numerous methods and tools to structure information collected from stakeholders when eliciting requirements, assessing gaps, and defining and documenting the capabilities of the solution. One often under-utilized tool is the Context Diagram.

In this webinar, you will acquire practical techniques for analyzing and documenting a Context Diagram.

This technique will help you manage your project scope and perhaps, more importantly, assist in the management of stakeholders’ expectations; additionally, you will discover strategies for analyzing and documenting accurate and complete requirements from your stakeholders as well as ways to overcome challenges when applying these techniques in real world business situations.

About the presenter: Sandy Lovell (LinkedIn profile), CBAP®, PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, brings to her students over 25 years of professional experience. Sandy spent most of her career working in consulting firms, including ten years with Ernst and Young LLP Consulting and she has also performed various roles such as Business Analyst: Data and Process Modeling, Project Manager, SDLC Methodologist, CASE Tool Specialist, and Business Case and Portfolio PMO Manager. Sandy is an Instructor and Mentor on all of these topics and holds a Bachelor of Mathematics, Business Administration and Computer Science Double Major, from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Click to register for A Closer Look at Context Diagrams

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Live Webinar – September 21, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

Times are changing, and gone are the days that you can look out the window of your business and see your competitor across the street. With business making a transition from brick-and-mortar locations to the internet, it can be difficult to easily identify your competition.

Learn how to use your online presence, your goal market and online tools to assess, monitor and engage online competitors. Any online marketing strategy without competitive insight is at a disadvantage. Find which assets your site holds which can’t be compromised as well areas of opportunity within your reach.

Presenter: Josh McCoy (Linkedin profile), a Lead Strategist at Vizion Interactive, possesses a strong dedication and passion into the understanding and execution of successful search marketing campaigns. Deeply ingraining himself into “all things search,” Josh’s years of expertise in search marketing help him to concentrate on how to effectively harness all areas of online marketing including SEO, social media and local search to create an encapsulating approach to search engine marketing ideation as the online landscape continues to evolve.

Click to register for Identifying and Monitoring your Competitors Online

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Live Webinar September 20, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

The makeup of projects today are changing and therefore the skills needed by Project Managers must also evolve.

This webinar by Kerry Wills explores these trends and suggests techniques for evolving from a Project Manager to a Project Leader.

Click to register for The Evolution of a Project Manager Into a Project Leader