Live Webinar – September 30, 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

Projects can get into trouble occasionally, and the business analyst can help the project manager get it back on track.

This webinar will step the audience through some “red-flag” symptoms seen in projects that need business analyst skills, their tools and techniques to help the project manager get the project back on track.

Clarity around the accountability and needed collaboration between the project manager and business analyst are provided. The audience will step away with an improved awareness on how much they can contribute to project recovery.

But then we must not forget! We must leverage our business analyst recovery experience in future risk management plans for similar projects with defined ways to reduce the probability of re-occurrence or at least have a contingency if it does happen again.

This webinar will give you some hints and tips to avoid getting back into those situations again. If you are currently in the role of a project manager or business analyst (or both), then this webinar is for you.

Presenter: Gina Schwalm (LinkedIn profile), PMP, CBAP, has spent more than 25 years working in both project manager and business analyst roles in various industries. She has also been in various other roles throughout her career; requirements workshop facilitator, release coordinator, project sponsor, PMO manager, quality assurance manager, and methodology expert. Her passion is helping projects bring value to their companies in the most effective ways possible (with no casualties)! Gina was part of a Quality and Risk Management team that did project recovery work for a top US consulting firm and not only assisted project managers in building a recovery plan, but also worked with project stakeholders (team, sponsors, vendors, functional areas, etc.) to ensure full participation and buy-in. Recently, Gina has worked to build a competency center for project managers and business analysts.

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Live Webinar September 28 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: Dave Bellon & Ed Reilly
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

A good leader has the ability to make the right decisions during a crisis and perform their best in challenging circumstances. A great leader has the ability to help everyone in an organization make the right decisions and flourish during crisis and sustained stress.

This Webcast explores the key elements of how to build a resilient thought-based organization that uses critical thinking to assess situations and act swiftly.

In a conversation with Ed Reilly, CEO of the American Management Association, Col. David Bellon of the United States Marine Corps Reserve will share leadership lessons he has learned while leading Marine units in combat zones during four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In this enlightening session, you’ll hear how strong organizational culture was successfully created and how an entire unit was trained and prepared to proactively think and respond in a rapidly changing, often ambiguous, high risk environment.

Attend this Webcast to Learn:

• Key cultural qualities associated with success
• How to build the right culture
• Leadership qualities needed to create success
• How to develop proactive, critical thinking leaders across an organization

Bellon will share a heroic and heart-warming story of how Marines in his battalion task force saved the life of a little girl, Amenah, by thinking through problems and tackling challenges.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Presenters:

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Live Webinar – September 28, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Do you use Google every day? Mastering Google’s powerful search refinement operators and lesser known features could, over a year’s time, save you days scouring over irrelevant results.

Even more enticing is the promise of elusive nuggets of market research and competitive intelligence out there waiting to be discovered — IF you know how to wield Google.

Neurologists estimate that we humans use a mere 1% of our mental capacity. Similarly, the majority of our search queries are surprisingly unsophisticated and thus the true power of the Google search engine, for most of us, remains untapped.

Learn how you too can become a Google expert searcher and extract invaluable data about your competitors and about the market like never before — with laser-like accuracy and extreme efficiency.

You will learn:

• How to cut through the clutter with Boolean logic, exact phrase matching, wildcards, and search operators like filetype, intitle, site, and “daterange”
• How to cast a wider net by expanding your search to include synonyms with the ~ (tilde) operator.
• How to conduct specialized searches using Google’s many search sites like Google News, Google Groups, and Google Blog Search.
• How to obtain real, confidential business plans and marketing plans
• How to invoke the Google search box as a phonebook, a calculator, a measurement converter, a dictionary, a package tracker, an airline timetable, a street map atlas, and a stock ticker.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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 28 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices, and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time.

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Live Webinar September 29, 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 Course Id: MDW1258

Meetings are an opportunity to bring out the best in people in a collaborative, safe environment. Meetings can also be an incredible waste of time and resources if they’re not managed effectively. Creating an effective meeting involves making a series of conscious choices, and also preparing, conducting, and following through.

This webinar concentrates on how to use meeting effectiveness tools and best practices to promote energizing, focused meetings that produce results; it also provides opportunities to discuss specific meeting challenges and how to successfully facilitate your way to resolution.

What You Will Learn:

• Foundation tools to set the stage for meeting effectiveness
• Steps and actions to successfully manage the 3 phases of a meeting: Before, During, and After
• How to prepare an action agenda
• Strategies to keep participants engaged and focused
• Facilitation skills and techniques to guide meeting interactions
• Guidelines and tips for managing difficult behaviors and situations

This is also available as a recorded webinar – register to receive access.

About the Presenter:
Crystell Anthony, M.Ed., MBTI®, CAGS from Northeastern University, and a certified State Trainer for Massachusetts, is a Lead Consultant for Corporate Education Group and Principal and founder of her own consulting company, The Focus Group. Crystell has successfully designed and facilitated training programs in the public and corporate sectors for executive, managerial, and administrative professionals since 1979. Crystell’s training programs are known for containing simplified “best practices” for easy on-the-job applications and have been successfully installed in organizations across the globe.

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Live Webinar September 29 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the fourth in a 6 part series series of Project Leadership vs. Project Management by Solutions Cube. An overview of the information in the 6 Part Series was held September 1st, September 8th was Team Focus & Support, September 15 was Personal Growth, and September 22 was Team Development. Each module in the series can be taken individually. The entire series qualifies for up up to 7 pdus .

Many people are project managers but few exhibit project leadership skills. 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 possess certain leadership attributes and skills.

• Do you practice truthful, direct, and constructive communication?
• Do you measure team success using balanced scorecards?
• Do you facilitate efficient team meetings? Do you practice active listening?
• Do you treat everyone with courtesy and respect?

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how improving your project leadership is a journey of continuous improvement and starts with self assessment. Discover leadership attributes and tips for improving project leadership.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Differences between project leadership and project management
• How to assess your project leadership skills in the area of team focus and support**
• Distinguishing characteristics and qualities of a leader and practical tips for improvement
• Practical tips for:
  • – truthful, direct, and constructive communication
  • – active listening
  • – treating people with courtesy and respect
• Fundamentals of balanced scorecards
• Keys to effective and efficient team meetings
• Developmental activities for sharpening your leadership attributes and skills

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.

Click to purchase Project Leadership vs. Project Management Series 4 of 6: Leadership Attributes and Skills