Live Webinar – December 15th, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Note:Registration Ends Dec 15th for members Dec 14th for Guests
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.36 USD Fee

Part 1 was held October 3rd 2011.

It’s time for the annual budgeting process for many of us. And that can be one of the most mysterious processes known to mankind!

• What goes on in this back-room meetings?
• And how are next year’s projects really selected?
• What’s the project list look like today?

Probably different than it did yesterday! How can we, as project management professionals and PMO professionals, get this process under control?

As usual, the ProjectTalk guys have some opinions on the subject, and some tips for how to get Strategic Portfolio Management started in your organization. Join us as we explore the approach to Strategic Portfolio Management and how to start leveraging the functionality of Microsoft Project Server 2010 to get your project portfolio under control.

Project Talk is an interactive ‘radio show’ and web-session with real-time demonstrations of common project management and scheduling issues and how to address them using Microsoft Project and other tools.

If you’d like to participate in the show, ask a question or offer a comment, simply type it into the Q&A Tool, then raise your hand using the ‘raise your hand’ tool, and un-mute your microphone so you can join the conversation!

Anyone who participates live on the show will receive a stylish MPUG T-Shirt or other great prize!

Note: When registering for this event REMEMBER to answer the question “Are you requesting a PMI PDU for this event?”

Click to register for WebnLearn Project Talk: “It’s Budget Time! What’s In Your Portfolio?” Getting started in Strategic Portfolio Management Part 2

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Even if you are well-versed in project risk management, you may be unaware of the complexities of managing these risks across a suite of projects.

Done properly, management of risk at the project portfolio level can deliver significant value to your organization. It’s your job to ensure that you have an adequate balance of low-, medium- and high-risk projects in the pipeline at any given time—to maximize your resources and avoid portfolio meltdown.

How do you assess the impact of a specific risk? For example, how do schedule risks affect not just one project, but your entire portfolio?

What You Will Learn:

In this one-hour Webcast, you’ll discover the basics of:

• Identifying the three critical aspects of project risk
• Assessing and managing project risk to avoid portfolio meltdown
• How to differentiate between portfolio risk and single-project risk
• Taking overall portfolio risk into account when selecting new projects
• Recognizing when projects are going off track.properly diagnosing problems and preventing other stumbling blocks from impacting the portfolio

This Webcast is ideal for executives and project managers who are charged with initiating and managing multiple projects in a portfolio, managers working as part of a project team, or anyone interested in learning more about managing projects as part of a portfolio.

About the Presenters:

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 The Art of Managing Risk in Your Project Portfolio

Live Webinar December 15th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

When budgets are tight, it’s more important than ever to get the best performance from the people who deliver, support and deploy technology. But over the past decade, managers have fallen into the trap of believing that motivation requires ever larger bags of money.

Join Paul Glen (LinkedIn profile), author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology, as he discusses the most effective and surprisingly inexpensive ways to motivate geeks.

Getting the best from your people requires clearly understanding what really drives them.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• How geeks are different from other employees
• Immediately applicable approaches to geek motivation
• Why traditional approaches to motivation don’t work with geeks
• And more…

Speakers: Paul Glen, author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology

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 How to Motivate Geeks Without Breaking the Bank

Live Webinar – December 15th, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Training Magazine Network
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

What are the leading benefits & barriers to implementing social learning? Jeanne Meister, Partner of Future Workplace and best selling author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today (Harper Business May, 2010) is joined with Glenn Scott (Global Leader – Technology-Enabled Learning) of P&G to discuss benefits and barriers to social learning.

Learn:

• Key benefits & barriers of social learning as uncovered in leading best selling book, The 2020 Workplace
• How to anticipate barriers and communicate benefits
• What you can do to overcome barriers
• Participate in group poll on crowdsourcing your benefits and barriers
• Discuss a plan of action for moving to build a business case for social learning
• How P&G has used social media to drive innovation in building the learning brand and making connections to learn together

This webinar will also share pre-work for our session entitled (Social Learning: Drivers, Practices & Business Alignment for Re-Imagining Learning) on FEB 13th at Training 2012.

Start tweeting your issues, challenges and best practices to #Training2012

Presenters:

Jeanne Meister (LinkedIn profile) – Jeanne is a globally recognized expert in the design and management of corporate universities. As vice president of market development for Accenture Learning, she is responsible for working with clients in the design and management of corporate universities, identifying emerging enterprise education opportunities, and communicating the complete range of Accenture Learning’s offerings to the enterprise learning marketplace. Meister is also the author of Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World-Class Work Force, Revised Edition, as well as Corporate Quality Universities: Lessons in Building a World-Class Work Force. Meister currently writes a monthly column on enterprise learning trends for Chief Learning Officer magazine.

Glenn Scott (LinkedIn profile), Global Leader, Technology-Enabled Learning, Proctor & Gamble – Glenn has built capability in multiple brands (including the Bounty & Millstone brands) over his 15-year career with P&G. His current role of Global Leader – Technology-Enabled Learning focuses on how to reach more employees in non-traditional learning methods and encourage collaboration regardless of role or level. His HR leadership role in deploying a global social learning platform resulted in over 120,000 employees connecting their knowledge in one place by building their personal profiles online.

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’

Click to register for Benefits & Barriers to Social Learning