Live Webinar – July 18th, 2012 1:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

Strategic partnerships and alliances have existed as long as there have been businesses. They can be as simple as having a mentor to as complex as creating a joint venture. They operate internally between departments as well as externally.

Statistics show 60% fail but having one is critical to career and business success.

Handshake Strategyâ„¢ provides an effective process for finding, choosing, and managing the right type of alliance for your success.

Presenter: Jan Triplett, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D. CEO, Business Success Center (BSC) The federal Small Business Administration (SBA) honored Jan and the BSC as one of three five-star national programs. She is the author of Thinking Big, Staying Small: Communication Practices of Small Organizations, and she has just released, Easy to Be Green: A Guide for Small Enterprises. She has been profiled in the Austin Business Journal and Austin Woman. She is a guest blogger for the Business Bank of Texas and maintains her own blog.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope

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 July 19th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1268
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Meetings are nothing more than a tool to get results.

A successfully facilitated meeting helps to achieve and exceed project goals, by improving issues resolution, decision making, and risk management. Facilitation is an art and science that consists of a set of skills that can be learned.

Successful facilitators can recognize and balance the needs of the meeting, the individuals, and the team.

This webinar discusses typical challenging behaviors of individuals and groups and associates them with various animal metaphors. We will review a few facilitation strategies for key challenging behaviors.

We’ve all been in meetings with the “wise old owl” who philosophizes at great length. And we all know what it feels like when there is an “elephant in the room.” The images may be simple to grasp, but this is not a basic meeting management webinar.

Learning objectives include:

• What are the fundamentals of facilitation?
• A perspective shift and tool to use meetings as a tool
• Overview of the top individual challenging meeting behaviors
• Strategies for dealing with some challenging behaviors

About the Presenter:

Star Dargin (LinkedIn profile), PCC, CPCC, instructor and consultant for Corporate Education Group, is founder of Star Leadership, a management consulting firm that offers coaching, training, and consulting services for businesses.

Star held leadership positions at several high-tech companies, in roles such as Director of Engineering, Director of Project Managers, and International Program Manager; additionally, Star is an adjunct professor at Boston University where she teaches graduate level courses on Leadership and Communication for Project Managers.

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On Demand Webinar – Recorded
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Cost: $19.99 1 PDU / CDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: BA0007

You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. This session may fill up quickly so sign up today.

There are three things a Business Analyst needs to know in a negotiation:

• What’s in it for me?
• What’s in it for you?
• What’s in it for us?

The goal of this webinar is to introduce participants to the basic principles and concepts related to negotiation methods for the Business Analyst.

This webinar will provide you with a working knowledge of the art of negotiations and how a Business Analyst can apply negotiation to their role as facilitator for their initiative in the organization. Knowing how and what to negotiate is an important component of the role of the Business Analyst.

This webinar will:

• Provide you with a working knowledge of negotiations for business problems
• Set a foundation for how to manage conflict in a project
• Describe a few useful negotiation principles

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will learn:

• What a BA can negotiate
• About the role of the BA as a negotiator
• How to create a win-win strategy for negotiations
• When to walk away from the negotiation table

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Featured Webinars Tab on the Left and then Choose What a Business Analyst Needs to Know About Negotiations and Begin Registration.

Live Webinar July 19th, 2012 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The athletes have trained, the spectators have scheduled their journeys, and London has prepared the venue.
Let the Olympics Begin!

You may be asking yourself what the Olympic Games have to do with Human Capital and organizational outcomes. Surprisingly, many lessons about effective business and engagement techniques can be gleaned from the competition.

In this creative session, various Olympic events will be used as metaphors to illustrate the key drivers of engagement and their importance to overall business outcomes.

Don’t fall behind in the Olympics of business; tune in to this webinar for thought-provoking organizational advice.

Attendees will leave with an understanding of:

• The effect of employee engagement on business outcomes
• The relationship between the Olympic Games and employee engagement
• How to use lessons from the Olympics to encourage engagement at any organization

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 July 18th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

NOTE: You can also claim as Category C PDUs the time to install/review/learn the features of this PM Template.

If you have not downloaded Brightwork’s Project Management Template For Sharepoint yet, you can do so here:
Brightwork’s Free SharePoint Project Management Template.

If you have downloaded the free SharePoint Project Management Template from BrightWork, we know you will find it useful to manage projects on SharePoint.

On July 18th BrightWork will host a free training webcast that will focus on how to deploy and configure the Project Management Template on SharePoint. This webcast will explain and demonstrate:

• How to capture and organize project goals, issues, risks, tasks, and more
• How to create My Work reports, Gantt charts, discussion forums and team calendars
• How to generate project status reports for real-time project visibility
• How to use the two way sync to Microsoft Project

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork and learn how to make the most of your SharePoint Project Management Template from BrightWork.

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control 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’

Click to register for Free SharePoint Project Management Template

Live Webinar July 18th, 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)

This session provides an explanation of a Software Development (SD) lifecycle. It describes the purpose of a SD lifecycle, the nomenclature (phases, deliverables) used as part of the SD lifecycle, and an overview of SD deliverables.

The intent of the session is to provide the audience with an understanding of the SD lifecycle and an understanding of the fundamentals that are associated with the SD lifecycle.

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 Why Use a Software Development Lifecycle