Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
August 3rd & 10th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

NOW 4 Category B PDUs

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 teams – 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 Fridays – 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)

Click to register for What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

.BOOK – Agile Project Management
Earn Up to 8 Category C PDUs for Reading the Book (320 pages)
Project Management the Agile Way: Making It Work in the Enterprise byJohn C. Goodpasture

Bonus with your PMI^® Membership!

• Are you member of PMI^®?
• Did you know that one of the advantages of a PMI^® Membership is a number of Books online available for you to read and study?

PMI^® has a good selection of Project Management books from “Books 24×7” including Project Management the Agile Way: Making it work in the Enterprise for the use of it members.

Note: Log in to your membership before clicking this link to access the book as a part of your PMI^® membership benefits.

In this book, Goodpasture explores uses and nuances of both agile and classical project management methodologies in 12 domains ranging from the essential business case to benefits realization. The chapters on governance and quality are particularly outstanding.

He describes how agile, as a methodology, might align with the existing PMI standard for a single project (PMBOK^® Guide, Chapter 3, 4th Edition) it is fairly easy to see how it relates to the five major processes – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing.

About the Author – John C. Goodpasture, PMP (LinkedIn profile) and Managing Principal at Square Peg Consulting, is a program manager, coach, author and system engineer specializing in defense systems, aerospace and information systems. He has extensive experience in project management and system engineering, risk management, strategic planning and portfolio value management. He is the author of two other books in the field of project management; Quantitative Methods in Project Management, and Managing Projects for Value (Project Management Essential Library) as well as numerous magazine articles in project management publications. Read John’s blog, and his work products are found in the Square Peg library, and on Slideshare.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

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

Earn up to 8 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs for reading Project Management the Agile Way: Making It Work in the Enterprise (Purchase Link)

OR… Click to read Project Management the Agile Way: Making it work in the Enterprise on the PMI^® Site if you are a member..

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

Half of all office workers use Facebook at work. Why?

Because it’s far more satisfying and rewarding than the vast majority of the tasks we’re given during the workday. Facebook has a highly engaged audience for the same reasons we enjoy watching football, playing video games or gambling at a casino. The process is called Gamification and you may already be using several game mechanics now.

Gamification is the application of game mechanics and game-thinking in non-game environments to increase fun and engagement.

This webinar will explore how specific mechanics influence behavior and how you can add them to your own training programs.

This session should appeal to all Training professionals who wish to add a layer to their existing training programs which develops greater engagement and feedback.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction to gamification and how it has penetrated society as well as current business practices.
• Overview of game design and game mechanics.
• Investigate why game mechanics such as points, quests and levels influence behavior.
• Explore techniques and resources to use gamification for your own training programs.

Presenter: Greg Greunke (LinkedIn profile) is the president of tuzooni, a platform for improving employee recognition, feedback, training and rewards. Greg is also the president of Greunke Gifts, a manufacturer’s representative for special markets. From 2009 – 2011 he served on the board for the Incentive Marketing Association. He speaks and writes about employee loyalty, motivation and gamification. Email Greg or follow him on Twitter (@greunke or @tuzooni) .

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 Gamify Your Training: Use Gamification to Increase Employee Engagement and Improve Feedback

Live Webinar July 31, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Job seekers and employees with disabilities are regularly faced with the decision of whether to disclose their disability or difference, and if they do, there is uncertainty of when, how, to whom and for what purpose. When someone does disclose, employers are faced with knowing how to appropriately respond and leverage that difference.

No matter the country, although employers want to leverage every employees unique attributes and differences, it is clear that when it comes to employees with disabilities, they are mostly struggling with how to get these individuals comfortable disclosing in the first place.

It is also clear that people with disabilities are not obligated nor interested in disclosing their disability unless it is likely to directly affect their job performance. What impacts that ultimate decision to disclose or not is their own struggle with not knowing how, including what to say, when and to whom. This last issue is often misunderstood by employers and blocks any ability they might have to leverage such talent.

This webinar will address:

• this complex issue from the perspective of corporate culture,
• fear and confusion of employers and employees alike and solution based tools and best practices.

At the end of the day it is about providing guidance to help these individuals make such decisions with thought, care and knowledge while helping the diversity, human resource and other professionals respond in that same manner. Only then can the leverage begin.

Presented by:Nadine Vogel (LinkedIn profile) Founder and President of Springboard Consulting LLC. Springboard collaborates with multinational corporations, Federal governments and national agencies on initiatives to successfully mainstream disability in the workforce, workplace and marketplace. Vogel is the author of Dive In: Springboard into the Profitability, Productivity, and Potential of the Special Needs Workforce, a highly acclaimed must-read business book.

Click to register for Diversity: You Can’t Leverage the Differences You Don’t Know About