Live Webinar May 23rd, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Most of us encounter politics in situations every day.

Understanding and being able to collaborate with others and create alliances within the politics of any organization is a key success skill we must all master.

This session is designed to provide you with strategies to creating alliances, identifying and understanding potential allies and developing our interpersonal influence effectiveness.

You will leave the workshop with an action plan to use specific tools and techniques to handle a politically-charged successfully. Collaborating Within The Politics is a six-hour program to hone your influencing skills.

You will learn more about:

• The three types of influence
• The components necessary to be politically savvy
• Building an alliance mindset
• Identifying and understanding your potential allies
• Developing a success strategy for a real, politically-charged situation

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

This session provides the overview for the series.

1. It discusses why Lean is essential for implementing Agile at scale.
2. It discusses the value stream and lays the foundation for the rest of the series.
3. It explains that Agile must be led by looking at delighting customers while driving from business value.

The webinar incorporates Lean-Startup ideas into the Agile development space.

Learning points include:

• Why you must focus on business value by delighting customers & not merely team productivity
• How to provide work to teams to enable them to work together
• Why you must change your perspective from a bottom-up to using a top-down context with a bottom-up implementation

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Live Webinar – May 24th, 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

Lean Six Sigma, Business Transformation, Operational Excellence, Change Management – it doesn’t matter what you call it, if you are in the business of improvement – this webinar is for you. Put simply, Business Execution is literally transforming the way organizations think about and approach improvement.

The big idea is that it’s not (just) about the methodologies, tools and frameworks, it’s about how you pull it all together – how you link what your organization is trying to achieve (its goals) to the things you are doing to make them happen (the initiatives) and ultimately how you get clarity of whether those initiatives are moving the dials (metrics) we care about.

Join Paul Docherty, (LinkedIn profile) founder of i-nexus and a pioneer in the discipline of Business Execution, as he explains how you can take your transformation initiative to the next level – moving from a focus on financial benefits to a focus on whether your initiative is actually moving the dials that track achievement of the strategic goals.

Take part in this LinkedIn poll on the registration page to vote on the primary way organizations measure the success of process excellence initiatives and during the webinar Paul will discuss the results.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution

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 May 23rd, 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

HCI and Pearson TalentLens have joined forces to give you an exciting development opportunity, free of charge!

We all use a variety of thinking styles in our daily lives, but we tend to favor some but rarely use others—and that hurts our ability to make good decisions. My Thinking Styles™ from Pearson TalentLens helps you find the right balance, so you can make the best choices, in life and at work.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about your own communication style.

The Seven Powerful Thinking Styles:

1. Analytical
2. Inquisitive
3. Insightful
4. Open-Minded
5. Systematic
6. Timely
7. Truth Seeking

Knowing your preferred style will help you approach problems and decisions with the right mindset so you can be more successful.

You Should Prepare For This Session: Between now and May 23rd, we’re giving HCI users access to a complimentary administration of My Thinking Styles and a personalized Development Report. Then on May 23rd at 3:00 EST, Dr. Judy Chartrand will give a brief overview of the seven styles and she’ll help you interpret your results. Your report will unlock a unique combination that will help you be more successful with your decisions, relationships, projects, and every aspect of your life – so don’t miss out!

To take My Thinking Styles and receive your report, complete these steps:

1. Go to: https://tara.vitapowered.com/MTS/HCI
2. Fill out registration information: First Name, Last Name, Email, Login ID and Password
   • You’ll receive two emails:
     • Test Registration – Information on what to do if they lose your connection
     • Account Registration – Account registration information (login info and link to view your report)
3. Fill out demographics section and complete the My Thinking Styles Assessment.
4. Once you’ve completed taking the assessment go to https://tara.vitapowered.com/MTS, then enter your login information (if you don’t remember your login information check your email account for the account registration email).
5. Once logged on, select the Results menu to view your report.
   • Please print out your report and bring it to the HCI Webcast session on May 23rd.
   • My Thinking Styles takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.
   • Supported browsers include: IE7> and Firefox 3>

Please Note: If you have any questions, contact chad.fife@pearson.com.

Presented by: Judy Chartrand (LinkedIn profile) author of the Now You’re Thinking series including Now You’re Thinking!: Change Your Thinking…Revolutionize Your Career…Transform Your Life

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’

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1303
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Business Analysts have to analyze new opportunities and make the business case for new project initiatives.

That requires quantitative analysis of costs, benefits, risks, alternative solutions, and the net return on investment so that the proposed investment can be compared to other opportunities and a sound business decision can be made.

Learning objectives include:

• Discover fixed, variable, and other costs and benefits
• Quantify costs and benefits in their present value
• Calculate net present value, net cost-benefit, net risk exposure, and ROI
• Assemble a convincing business case

This webinar is an overview of the skills needed to perform cost-benefit analysis and assembling a business case.

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: InfoTech (Rep 1223)

Statusing is the focus of project controls during the project’s execution phase. It like all other aspects of projects must be planned and planned well. Statusing should provide information that compares planned project performance to actual performance. However without a good plan, “actuals” have little meaning.

Topics will include:

• The planning tools that can and should be used as part of status
• Establishing appropriate completion credit rules
• Aligning completion credit rules to different task types
• Determining frequency of statusing

Who should attend: This webinar is designed for project managers and those who are responsible for updating and statusing project work.

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