Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

“Boring”. “Tedious”. “Painful”. “Do I have to?” These are the moans and complaints of learners as receivers of the data-dump type of very technical and compliance forms of eLearning.

Technical and compliance elearning can be fun and definitely help people learn when we shift the design by focusing less on just the technical view and instead, considering the learner’s perspective. This webinar will present ideas on how to make this shift possible.

Topics to cover:

• Kill the myth that technical and compliance elearning have to be boring
• Persuade technical writers or experts to shift focus: from technical to learner’s view
• Assess your program’s point of view to achieve a high impact response
• Locate “context-driven content” – those that add usefulness to procedures, policies, software, guides, assistive tools, forms, statistics, legal and citations, etc.
• Discover, focus and use “work around” content – troubleshooting, incidents, crisis, defects, rejects, returns, complains, etc.
• Use techniques to engage learners: cases, scenarios, applications
• Converttechno-geek and legalese language into understandable, digestible form for non-technical people
• Demos and examples of engaging technical and compliance programs
• To be received in advance:PRE-WEBINAR STUDY KIT, white papers, demos and examples

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of “3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos“, “Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1)“, and “DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning“. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as “fun”, “engaging”, “technically savvy”, “has depth in e-learning experience”, “balances theory and hands-on experience” and “inspiring”. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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Live Webinar May 17th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Are you making any of the common errors in risk management? Attend this webinar and learn the top ten mistakes people make in dealing with project risks. This webinar will discuss how to avoid these mistakes, along with effective risk techniques that should be used on projects.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Sally Elatta

Note: This session has limited seating register early if you are interested.

We will be hosting Rory McCorkle (LinkedIn profile) again to get an update from him on how the PMI-ACP (PMI Agile Certified Practitioner) pilot has been going. We’ll ask him about the feedback he has been getting on this new exam and what the future looks like!

So plan on attending if you’re considering taking this exam and you will have an opportunity to ask live questions to Rory via the webinar session or via twitter with the #pmiacp or #pmiagilecert.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Sally Elatta, one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

If your customers respond “yes” to the ultimate question (would you recommend our solution to others like you?) you’ve just located a potential advocate.

This is good news for marketing and sales – since advocates have been proven to be your best sales people. But not all advocates are equal in their influence and ability to support your goals.

The upper segment of your advocates (the evangelists) help you accelerate sales cycles, grow revenue and encourage loyalty better than anyone. But you need a process to find them, nurture them, and to sustain their high level of enthusiasm.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand the business case for mobilizing their advocates, and why evangelists are the secret weapon of any advocacy marketing program.
• Use the ultimate question to find their pool of advocates, and how to segment them into logical groups where they can be most effectively utilized.
• Use the upper rung of their advocates, (the evangelists) as a catalyst to nurture other customer types into higher levels of advocacy.

Presenter: RichardFouts, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating Executing

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations

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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Online Webinar – Presented by: Adaquest
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: A personalized Category B certificate will be sent to you within 5 business days of registering & viewing this webinar.

All the tasks in a linguistic supply chain ultimately come down to the project manager.

It’s the PM that coordinates everyone’s efforts and is the hub of a wheel with many quickly rotating spokes. adaQuest’s Hiram Machado, one of the top PM experts in the business, will help identify the most important bottlenecks in the project management of localization.

He will then recommend software, technology, best practices, and common sense solutions to avoiding or minimizing these bottlenecks and getting the absolute most from your localization efforts.

If any of the following apply, this 1 hour webinar is definitely for you.

• You are a Localization PM looking for best industry practices
• You work with a Localization team
• Your organization’s products and services need to be culturally and linguistically adapted to other countries
• You simply want to know about Localization Project Management and how PM best practices are used in that industry

Presenter: Hiram Machado (Linkedin) As the President and Co-founder of adaQuest, Hiram Machado brings a high level of expertise after over a decade in localization and project management industries to the company. Hiram oversees day to day operations across all departments and provides continual support and mentoring in all areas of the company. Hiram is also a faculty member at the University of Washington, teaching Localization both at the Master’s level and in extension programs. His highly developed leadership skills paired with his dedication to customers and a strong allegiance to his staff, have helped adaQuest grow into an industry leader.

* This webinar was developed in collaboration with Across Systems, Inc.

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Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Note: This session has since been renamed “Going for Gold: How Top Companies Make High Performance a Daily Discipline”

We typically think of high performance as significant achievement under pressure – the Olympic athlete who wins the gold medal, the football star who scores the winning goal. But top performing athletes know that high performance is not a one-off event. It is the result of daily discipline, practice, coaching and continual improvement.

In operational terms, the best organizations sustain long-term competitive advantage by maintaining high levels of productivity, optimising processes and managing cost. For these organizations mobilizing for high performance is not a one off event , it is a daily discipline that needs to be developed and sustained.

As Olympic athletes prepare to compete in the next global sporting extravaganza they all have three things in common: they want to achieve their very best, they are making tough choices about how they spend their time, and they are all seeking specialist advice and coaching every step of the way.

In this webinar you will:

1. Identify the characteristics of high performance culture and recognise cultural readiness when embarking on significant change
2. Understand why business leaders need to have “decision-making discipline” in order to make high performance business the norm
3. Learn eight reoccurring choices required to under-pin operational excellence
4. Explore the importance of doing the basics right and continually improving through monitoring and feedback mechanisms

Presenter: Martin Wing (LinkedIn profile) Regional Managing Director – Europe Kepner-Tregoe

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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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