Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
July 11th & 18th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each)
4 Category C PDUs NOW 4 Category B PDUs Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

When work requires close collaboration, even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of Teamability will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

The Gabriel Institute has created technology that reveals how people will perform when working with others to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve common goals. In short, it measures Teamability: the ability to connect with others to form a productive team.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

There are many ways to measure skills, talents, and traits, but teaming metrics are unique. It took 25 years of research and testing – including 9 years of software development – to produce TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ reports, which are the foundation of TGI’s Role-Based Approach to selecting, structuring, managing and motivating teams.

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

TGI Teamability was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

TGI Teamability can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team. It is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of Teamability and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of TGI Teamabilityâ„¢, and to apply for an optional Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Teamability Report at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications (optional to complete)

PDU Category C B documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C B ‘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 What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

Live Webinar – July 11th, 2012 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Cutting through the technology hype to showcase the art of the possible

New technologies are making their presence felt in every aspect of our lives: cloud based computing clusters on Amazon now account for 1% of all internet traffic, Apple’s iPad drives 95% of all internet tablet traffic, mobile phones sales are outpacing population growth and everyday a million hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook and 294 billion emails are sent. Customers may be moving on but how many businesses are factoring these changing habits into their business operations?

This isn’t a technology challenge – it’s a process challenge.

• How do you develop and design your processes to support the changing expectations of your market?
• How can you use technology to engage, create efficiency and deliver an exceptional experience to your customers?

Some of the world’s top companies have already started to employ these technologies to offer products and services that were unimaginable only a couple years ago – and gain true competitive advantage in the process.

Join Dennis Parker and Andrew Murphy from K2, an award winning BPM vendor, as they explore the reality of what is really happening within companies and showcase real examples of what is already possible.

In this webinar you will:

1. Explore some of today’s most pressing technology trends – including tablet computing, mobile devices, and social – and consider what practical impact they can have on business processes and operations
2. Watch a live demonstration illustrating how these technologies can support real world processes
3. Learn practical real world case studies about how these technologies are being used in companies right now for employee engagement, improving efficiency, and workflow automation
4. Identify practical ways that you can use these technologies to improve your process efficiency and engage your customers

Presenter: Dennis Parker (LinkedIn profile) is the Senior Vice President responsible for the EMEA region for K2. Dennis joined K2 in 2003 and has seen the company grow from a single region company with less than 20 customers into a multi-national company with more than 2000 customers in 43 countries. Dennis has 25 years of industry experience and with a background in data architecture, development, architecture consulting and technology management.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.2 Plan Communications

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 Harnessing the Power of Technology Innovation for Business Process Improvement

Live Webinar July 11th, 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)

• Have you been in the situation where you don’t have the authority to do what you need to do?
• Do you find that you must rely on influencing skills to succeed?
• When does influence turn into a difficult conversation?

This webinar will explore ways to help you have better conversations with all project stakeholders.

Objectives:

1. Describe a difficult conversation and what makes them so difficult
2. Define the dynamics of difficult conversations
3. Use the stake model in addressing difficult conversations
4. Develop a plan for handling a real difficult conversation

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.

Click to register for Difficult Conversations

Live Webinar – July 9th 2012, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Note: You may have to “Public Sessions” tab on the top of the page for this opportunity to appear.

Project managers are constantly juggling schedules, cost, and resources. Because of the rapid, evolving nature of projects today, people will come and go on projects. This webinar will consider how to respond to resource shifts and mitigate the impact of changing roles and people.

Presenter: Alison Sigmon (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 11 – Risk

• 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 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 Managing Revolving Project Resources