Live Webinar January 5, 2011, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or
Live Webinar January 5, 2011, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Board Directors have made known their top priority is maintaining competitive advantage. Competitive advantage needs a fresh look.

While not a new subject, Gartner has found that the term ‘competitive advantage’ is used in ways which diminish its meaning.

In this webinar, you will learn how to define competitive advantage in a way that resonates with your board of directors, look at different technologies and capabilities that will get you there, and understand and make effective the enormous impact that corporate culture has on competitive performance.

Discussion Topics

• What is competitive advantage, why does the Board of Directors set it as their top priority?
• A review of different actions that IT can take with the business
• A look at ‘Big Culture Technologies’ and how they provide massive competitive advantage

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 Seizing Competitive Advantage: New Opportunities in IT

Online Webinar Presented by: Cisco Webex
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Hosted By: Randy Conley, Trust Practice Leader, Ken Blanchard Companies

Trust continues to be identified as a missing ingredient in today’s workplace.

Surveys show only a small percentage of today’s workers strongly agree that they trust their leaders. To ensure high levels of organizational performance, leaders need to tackle trust head-on. The key is to demonstrate the behaviors people most associate with trust.

In this webinar, Blanchard Trust Practice Leader Randy Conley (LinkedIn profile) will show you how leaders can improve the levels of trust in their organization by identifying potential gaps that trip up even the best of leaders.

Participants learn how to:

• Recognize the warning signs that people lack trust in you and your leadership
• Purposefully engage in the four trust-building behaviors
• Create strong, long lasting, trust-based relationships

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to raise the level of trust in your organization by increasing the “trust-ability” of your leaders.

Note: You will need to fill in a registration form to view this session

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 view Four Leadership Behaviors that Build or Destroy Trust

Live Webinar January 5th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
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.

This webcast gives you a comprehensive overview of how emotional intelligence drives effective leadership by detailing the link between Emotional Intelligence & Effective Leadership.

The webinar explains, in a concise way, the brain-basis of leading yourself and others. The emphasis is on information that can be applied by any leader at any level. Distinct leadership styles will be discussed, along with their effects on the climate of a business.

You will learn how to develop and implement emotional intelligence competencies in yourself and others, and how to manage emotions for optimal performance.

What You Will Learn:

• IQ vs. EI – The Brain Basis of Emotional Intelligence
• Optimal Neural Performance
• Emotion/Cognition Interaction
• The Social Brain
• Creativity
• Emotional Intelligence Framework
• Self-Awareness, Self-Management and Social Awareness
• Leadership Styles
• Enhancing Emotional Intelligence

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for How Emotional Intelligence Drives Effective Leadership

Online Webinar – Hosted by: Competitive Solutions Inc.
Duration: 30 minutes Credits: 0.5 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Seth Davies Recorded: June 2011

Managing Partner, Seth Davies (LinkedIn profile) delivered a live Webinar (now Recorded) on how leaders and employees can create bring visibility to accountability and raise employee engagement levels.

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 view Employee Engagement: Achieving High Performance with Accountability Processes