Archive for October, 2011

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Live Webinar 2 Offerings
October 26, 2011 10:00 am – 10:30 am EDT
October 26, 2011 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

For Front Line Leaders today, it is important to be flexible and adaptable in the face of constant change and challenges.

Leaders are being asked to continually increase productivity even though they face tighter and tighter budgets, fewer employees, limited training opportunities, and pressure from overseas competition. It’s critical for Front Line Leaders to incorporate effective tools and techniques into daily operations.

What You’ll Learn in this Webinar:

  • Understanding the unique challenges faced by Front Line Leaders today
  • Possible obstacles Front Line Leaders face in the attempt to increase productivity
  • Tools and processes Front Line Leaders can implement to leverage strengths of those on their team

PDU Category C documentation details:

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’

Click to register for the October 26, 2011 10:00 am session of Equipping Front Line Leaders: the Tools and How To’s

Click to register for the October 26, 2011 1:00 pm session of Equipping Front Line Leaders: the Tools and How To’s

 

 

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Live Webinar October 25, 2011 4:00 pm – 5:30 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)

In this webinar Peter Hill (LinkedIn profile) will use a case study to demonstrate how software sizing and project history data can help achieve successful outsourcing outcomes.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the set the dropdown box to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

Click to register for Successful Selection and Management of Software Development Outsourcing

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Live Webinar – October 25, 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:30 pm GMT Summer Time (London)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:30 pm Egypt Time (Cairo)

Professional and Persuasive Presentations is the third module in the Leadership and Business Skills for IT Professionals series.

During this session Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) will talk about common presentation challenges, and provide tips on how to effectively structure and deliver a professional and persuasive presentation.

Click to register for Professional and Persuasive Presentations – Leadership and Business Skills for IT Professionals

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Live Webinar October 26 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 is an advanced webinar for senior project managers.

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
  2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
  3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Conducting a Technical Interview

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Live Webinar – October 25, 4:00-5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

  • Given a 30-45 minutes to select a new colleague, what do you ask?
  • What can you determine in your time slot?
  • How can you decide that this candidate is truly qualified?
  • (Is it your fault if they don’t work out?)

This webcast answers those questions and more.

Targeted toward managers and engineers looking to hire for technical positions, it will also be useful to job seekers who want to understand what is happening on the other side of the table.

Presenter: Elecia White (LinkedIn profile) has worked on DNA scanners, inertial measurement units for airplanes and race cars, toys for preschoolers, a gunshot location system for catching criminals, and assorted other medical and consumer devices. She is the founder of Logical Elegance, an embedded systems consulting company based in San Jose. Elecia has developed strong skills in signal processing, hardware integration, complex system design, and performance. Having been through FAA and FDA certification processes, she understands the importance of producing quality designs and how they lead to quality implementations. Her newest book Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software is to be released Nov 22 2011.

PDU Category C documentation details:

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’

Click to register for Conducting a Technical Interview

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Live IIL Webinar – October 20, 2011 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: LI0006
You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity.

NOTE: This session is popular may may reach capacity – Register early to reserve your seat.

Participants will learn to use the readily available power of acknowledgment to engage, motivate, and inspire teams, employees, and people they lead and to strengthen their personal leadership skills. They will learn to use the tool of acknowledgment in an immediately effective way.

Benefits

This Webinar will help participants identify and utilize the Power of Acknowledgment throughout their professional lives. Benefits include:

  • Immediately improvingrelationships with colleagues and team members
  • Enhancingemployee engagement using acknowledgment as a critical tool and focus
  • Developing personal leadership capabilities using acknowledgment in the workplace
  • Observing the strong business case for acknowledgment and participating in a case study to drive home the need to incorporate it into the workplace
  • Increasing productivity and well-being in the workplace byidentifying opportunities to enhance employee engagement

What Your Will Learn:
Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

  • To identify and define two of the seven major principles of acknowledgment as outlined in the book The Power of Acknowledgment, IIL Publishing, New York
  • Understanding the need for acknowledgment in creating a culture of appreciation within an organization or team
  • Defining “acknowledgment” and understanding its profound, far-reaching benefits
  • Overcoming the barriers to acknowledgment
  • Demonstrating the language and subtleties of authentic and heartfelt acknowledgment behavior
  • Describing how to coach teams managers, and other corporate stakeholders in using the Power of Acknowledgment to produce breakthrough results

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Featured Webinars Tab on the Left and then Choose Leadership and The Power of Acknowledgment and Begin Registration.