Live Webinar April 10th, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Brandon Hall Group & KMI Knowledge Mgmt Interactive
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Front line employees are the nameless heroes in today’s workforce. These employees interact with our clients, build our products, and offer our services day in and day out. Yet, this audience often receives less training and limited development opportunities. Working conditions can make training difficult, and operational demands require that training time has immediate bottom line impact.

Research shows that small changes on an organization’s front line can have a major impact on business – so the real question is how you leverage training to engage performance and improve business outcomes on the front lines.

Join Stacey Harris, (LinkedIn profile) VP of Research for Brandon Hall Group and Joel Copeland, COO for KMI as they share recent research on training and development that engages the front line workforce, and creates an atmosphere of genuine respect.

Event topics include:

• The business value of developing front line employees
• Changing front-line workforce: motivation and engagement factors
• Key practices in developing engaging content for front-line audiences
• The importance of creating a performance improvement environment over a training class
• Illustrative examples of engaging front line learning initiatives, with real business outcomes

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’

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Live Webinar April 10th, 2012 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)

Measuring and communicating value is often reported as one of the greatest challenges associated with Enterprise Architecture (EA).

This webinar with Brian Cameron (LinkedIn profile) will present recent research on the current state of EA value measurement in a broad cross-section of organizations and will discuss best practices for communicating EA value.

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Live Webinar April 5th 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

In SharePoint 2010, there are several options to organize and classify content through sites, lists, libraries, folders as well as managed metadata and other properties.

These tools help build a SharePoint Information Architecture and are the foundation for improving document search within SharePoint. But as that architecture gets more complex, users can leverage enterprise search features (integrated FAST Search) for to improve document findability and to make the Search button more powerful than ever.

In this Webinar, Microsoft MVP and BA Insight Consultant, Agnes Molnar will demonstrate how Search Services really work and how to create the most effective Search Solutions within SharePoint.

Attendees will learn how to build a bridge across content silos and provide familiar, ergonomic and an easy user experience for content stored in SharePoint.

Presenter: Agnes Molnar, Microsoft SharePoint MVP Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and serves as a Senior Solutions Consultant for BA Insight. With a strong focus on Enterprise Search and Knowledge Management, she has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001, and has architected dozens of SharePoint and FAST implementations for commercial and government organizations. A co-author and contributor to several books, including Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs (Wrox Programmer to Programmer), Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, as well as Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One (Wrox Programmer to Programmer). On her blog (www.Aghy.hu), Agnes regularly writes on the topics of enterprise search best practices, and SharePoint & FAST technologies.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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 April 10th, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar April 10th, 2012, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The best source for discovering sentiment: Unsolicited first-person commentary that is detailed with the nuance of human communication in an un-filtered form.

The only way to do that is to mine the content available on the web by applying very sophisticated techniques for identifying topics and the human sentiment of those topics from the morass that is human language.

Sentiment analysis is not just one thing and it is a hard information technology challenge.

In this webinar we will discuss sentiment, how to find it and how to make it useful in a business context.

Discussion Topics:

• What is sentiment analysis?
• How is sentiment analysis done?
• What does the IT professional need to know about sentiment analysis?

Presenter: JamiePopkin, (LinkedIn profile) Managing VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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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What is EQ & Why You Should Care

Downloadable Audio Course- Offered by Meloni Coaching Solutions
Duration 2.5 hours 2.5 Category C PDUs – $24.95 USD for 2.5 PDUs

Smart is Good, People Smart is Better!

Listen to the audio program What is EQ and Why You Should Care during your daily commute and learn why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is important and how to create a more motivated team through your understanding of EQ.

Get through the day in Peace not in Pieces! – M Meloni

Emotional Intelligence helps you drive effective leadership on your projects! Unlike IQ, EQ can be learned and enhanced adding strong positive results to your projects.

1. Learn the elements of emotional intelligence and WHY THEY MATTER
2. Assess YOUR emotional intelligence
3. Receive tips and techniques to GROW YOUR emotional intelligence NOW

Note: This is a 100% downloadable AUDIO program. It is eligible for 2.5 (Category C self-study) PDUs.

Reading Margaret Meloni’s book Emotional Intelligence: Stories from the Workplace would earn you an additional Category CPDU. The Kindle version is ONLY $1.99 USD! – an excellent value! You can download a Kindle reader for your PC or phone for FREE.

Presenter: Margaret Meloni (LinkedIn profile, @MargaretMeloni) spent over 18 years in Corporate America observing how individuals who learned to cope with conflict succeeded and recognized their full potential, while others became road blocked.

Margaret acted on her vision by founding Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. As a former Information Technology Executive, Margaret always knew her preference was for the people behind the technology. Now Margaret brings those beliefs to individuals from many professional backgrounds.

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’

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Live Webinar April 5th, 2012 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Companies are becoming more reliant on their employee’s ability to thrive in a complex work environment where projects, processes, and business priorities are in a constant state of flux.

With automation reaching its limits, employees need to expect the unexpected:

• to “figure out” the best way to handle exceptions
• to self-synchronize their work with the activities of their colleagues
• and make decisions collectively rather than waiting on top-down direction from management.

In this “Organization Next” environment, employees must continually improve individual competencies, group work practices, and community relationships while becoming more skillful at cultivating and mobilizing their professional and personal networks.

An increasing number of workforce studies indicate that employees are becoming more detached and less passionate about their job, their employer, or both.

Leadership teams, HR professionals, and strategists involved in business transformation initiatives are now investigating how new user experiences that leverage “gamification”, social networking, and “in-flow of work” learning helps deliver a more compelling workforce experience that encourages greater employee participation, community-building, and identification with the organization and its goals.

This webcast will examine the synergies when networks, learning, and “play” are applied to improve work practices and the workforce experience.

If you are involved in HR, training, knowledge management, collaboration, E2.0, or projects focused on improving organizational effectiveness and business transformation, this webcast is for you.

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 Organization Next: Bridging The Participation Gap – Networks, Learning, and “Play”