Live Webinar August 16th, 2012, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

In her latest book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brené Brown (LinkedIn profile @BreneBrown) urges us to realize the importance of engaging our vulnerability and embracing it. In doing so, we may plumb the depths of our courage and emerge as more purposeful, intentional leaders who dare to be truly and authentically seen.

In this free webinar, you will learn:

1. What drives fears of vulnerability
2. The cost when we, or our followers, shut down and disengage
3. How we can engage and own vulnerability, so we can start transforming the way we lead.

Presented by: Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent more than a decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. A nationally-renowned speaker, Brené and her work has been featured on/in PBS, NPR, CNN, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and TED. This year, Linkage welcomes Brené as a faculty member of its Global Institute for Leadership Development™ (October 14-19, 2012) and Women in Leadership Institute™ (November 7-9, 2012)

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 (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar August 16th,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

Utilizing the JAD Session method developed by IBM in the 1970s, the Requirements Workshop is one of the most effective techniques for quickly developing high-quality requirements.

This webinar will explain how to prepare for and conduct a Requirements Workshop, and will also provide tips on how to handle potential problems that can sidetrack the workshop.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

Click to register for How To Run An Effective Requirements Workshop

Live Webinar – August 16th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

For years now we have heard that content is king on the web. But how do you write good content for the web?

Writing for the web is a whole different skill, but you’re already 80% of the way there. The attention span on the web is approaching zero. You know your company, now you must also know your audience.

You have to know how to appeal to their needs and wants. You may have written some really solid, thought-provoking content that didn’t generate any engagement or traffic. Good content is useless if nobody ever sees it. Getting people to find your content is what makes good content great content!

In this seminar, Phil Buckley, (LinkedIn profile) Director of SEO at Virante and the organizer of the most successful SEO Meetup group in the United States, will discuss how to write for the web.

Phil will discuss how small changes can make a big difference when attempting to increase the findability of your content through proper search engine optimization. If you are writing content that is posted to the web, but are not a technical SEO professional this event is meant for you.

Copywriters are not the ones building the page or coding up the meta information, but there is a lot you can do to help optimize your content. Once you are “SEO aware” you will see everything differently, what was once a mystery will become clear and understandable.

Learning Objectives:

• Creating catchy and search engine friendly titles and headlines
• Choosing keywords
• Why you should be linking out
• Proper tagging
• Proper keyword usage

Presenter: Phil Buckley, (LinkedIn profile) Director of SEO at Virante

Click to register for Writing for the Web

Live Webinar August 15th, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar August 15th, 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Strategic technologies are those with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise during the next three years. This session presents the Gartner annual list of top 10 technology trends that companies should be factoring into their strategic planning for 2012.

Discussion Topics:

• Which technology trends are driving the most change or disruption?
• What technologies are reaching a level of maturity or encountering a tipping point over the next three years?
• What critical decision must be made with regard to these trends and technologies?

Many discrete technologies are part of a broader technology trend, which this session will expose, pointing out connections and alternatives.

Hosted by: Carl Claunch, VP Distinguished Analyst (Gartner Analyst Profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 August 16th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Coaching is needed today more than ever as a critical tool for organizational change, and is a core competency for those helping organizations develop.

In today’s frenetic work environment, coaching has become a business necessity to drive practical business results and advance real change while helping employees more effectively transition.

In this free webinar, you will learn:

• Key principles of coaching
• How coaching can help you and your organization handle difficult changes
• How to improve interpersonal relations

Join Linkage’s Mitchell Nash on the subject of Coaching, Change, and Transition.

Presented by:Mitchell Nash (LinkedIn profile) has over 20 years experience in the organizational development, training, executive coaching, and technology fields. His expertise is in assisting organizations to identify and organize their intellectual capital for outstanding results by using technological, organizational, and skill development solutions.

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 Coaching for Change

Live Webinar – August 16th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

This webinar will teach you how to create custom calculated fields and graphical indicators in Microsoft Project that will help you identify and resolve quality issues with your schedule.

You will learn how to:

• Create a custom field to identify tasks that have not been baselined,
• Summary tasks that have dependencies,
• Summary tasks that have resources assigned, and …….
• Tasks that are in need of being updated.

These techniques can be applied to both standalone Microsoft Project, as well as Project Server.

Presenter: Ira Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the President and CEO of Project Widgets, a Microsoft Project Partner specializing in add-on products, implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He is a is a recognized Microsoft Project expert with over twenty years of experience.

Click to register for Using Custom Fields and Graphical Indicators to Analyze the Quality of Your Schedule In Microsoft Project