Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
September 19th & 26th, 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 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)

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 – September 14th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by: International Project Management Day 2012
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

Frank P. Saladis (LinkedIn profile) PMP, Founder of International Management Day (IPM Day), travels the world speaking and training on project management topics. We featured Frank in our post Great PMs BAs & Agiles Know How To Smile! Project Management Lessons with Humor.

Frank is constantly monitoring the trends, challenges, job opportunities and where the profession appears to be going. For a list of Franks “Great Project Management Books” see the resources section below.

Join in this webinar to get a glimpse into the future and make sure to visit the IPM site and see what you can do to celebrate IPM Day!

Presenter: FRANK P. SALADIS, PMP, is a senior consultant and trainer for the International Institute for Learning Inc. (IIL) and is the originator of International Project Management Day, a day of recognition for project managers held during November each year.

Frank is the author ofnumerous highly regarded Books within the Project Management community and a popular series of articles entitled “Positive Leadership in Project Management”. He was awarded the 2006 Linn Stuckenbruck Person of the Year Award by the Project Management Institute. He is a past president of the PMI New York City Chapter and was the Chair of the PMI Education and Training Specific Interest Group (EdSIG) through 2008.

Click to view The State of Project Management: Where We Are & Where We’re Going – IPM Day Webinar: With Frank Saladis

Enjoy The Project Manager Blues
Written and sung by Frank Saladis

Project Management Books By Frank Saladis:

• Bringing the PMBOK Guide to Life: A Companion for the Practicing Project Manager
  
• What Executives Need to Know About Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• What Functional Managers Need to Know About Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• Value-Driven Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• Project Management Workbook and PMP/CAPM Exam Study Guide , 9th Edition
• Your Future as a Project Manager

Live Webinar – September 17th, 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

During your project meetings, are the participants
reading email, surfing the web, or doing instant messaging
while they “half-listen” to the meeting?

Research shows that 90% of people participating in virtual meetings are “multitasking”: doing at least one other thing that is not related to the meeting.

Wouldn’t it be better for your project outcome if team members and stakeholders paid full attention for the whole meeting?

You may be surprised at the answer.

This entertaining and information-packed talk examines the challenge of multitasking and teaches coping skills, techniques, and tools to manage the attention of meeting participants.

Created and delivered by a master presenter who is a veteran of both project management and executive management, this course shows you how to manage participants’ attention, get your issues resolved, and adjourn the meeting with time to spare.

After this presentation, you will be able to:

• Take a rational, systematic approach to managing attention
• Get more done in less time
• Apply techniques that reduce everyone’s frustration level

Why attend?

• You sense that meeting participants are not paying enough attention.
• You have trouble getting informed decisions from busy stakeholders.
• Your meetings run too long and still do not achieve their goals.
• You experience mounting frustration about multitasking

Presenter: Jim Black (LinkedIn profile), PhD

Click to register for Coping with Multitasking During Project Meetings

Live Webinar September 14th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

As organizations fund and initiate project after project, teams often work off of sketchy project charters, unsure of the focus or expected outcome of each effort. Often times, teams feel that the list of prioritized projects is a result of random selection and are left wondering how the project fit into the overall corporate direction, if at all. What’s lacking are the tools and techniques for defining Strategic Plans and transforming these plans into prioritized initiatives.

Attend this segment of the 5 part series on The Living Strategic Plan to learn how to document an organizational assessment to achieve critical alignment on the core drivers that serve as the foundation for and influence the creation of a realistic Strategic Plan.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Identify gaps between what Customers expect and what the organization can deliver
• Gain alignment on the 5 – 7 major functions each organization provides
• Clarify products and services associated with current and future initiatives
• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the organization which will influence how the Strategic Plan can be achieved

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase The Foundation for a Living Strategic Plan – Strategic Planning Series 1 of 5

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

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Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar September 13th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Bob Galen (LinkedIn profile) will share real-world experiences where he’s observed product owners who deliver truly balanced value for their business stakeholders, and he will explain how they do it.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

Click to register for The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with the Team

Live Webinar September 13th, 2012 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – 1 Free PDU
Presented by: HR.com

Note : This session is a part of the Social Media and Employee Communications You will have to scroll down the page to see this webinar Webinar.

Registration is free and is available for 16 sessions over 2 days (September 12th and 13th) All Sessions would Qualify for Category C PDUs – Earn up to 15.5 PDUs For the entire Conference 15.5 PDUs Free

If you have the time I highly recommend the Entire
Social Media and Employee Communications by HR.com
– EdmontonPM

Learn:

• Precisely learn what it takes to have a clear message.
• How communication culture affects nearly everything a company or organization does.
• What makes identifying communications problems so difficult. And …
• Much more ….

As the Internet has produced an explosion in the consumption of information, communication basics have become more important than ever.

The Internet has raised the stakes for companies, organizations and agencies relying on good internal communication to help meet their goals.

Many decisions are no longer made sequentially, one following another. Decisions are often made simultaneously because of the fast pace of communication and the interactive nature of 21st work life.

Those who master clarity will own this century.
Those who fail to adapt to the new realities will flounder.

“Mr. Clarity,” longtime communications expert Mark Grimm (LinkedIn profile), precisely explains what it takes to have a clear message, how communication culture affects nearly everything a company or organization does, and what makes identifying communications problems so difficult.

Mark will offer a step-by-step plan to fix internal communication problems, offer compelling examples of good and bad case scenarios, and show how human resource professionals can strengthen their case on the value of what they do.

The session will show how many of the secrets to productivity involve communication — everyone knowing how they fit in, how workers are evaluated and compensated, and a culture that encourages initiative and new ideas but has a plan to avoid big mistakes and wasted effort.

Attendees will leave the session with fresh ideas and a new strategy to make internal communication improve morale and boost productivity.

Confront internal communication problems and further your own career goals.

1. How do you track and quantify what really is important?
2. How do you improve the writing of e-mails and memos?
3. How do you get top brass to fully appreciate the value of HR?

Sign up for this session and find out! Registrants are entitled to A Real Media file of the presentation. This file can be downloaded to your iPod or MP3 player after the presentation.

Recommended Resources:

• Book: Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations By Alan Robinson (LinkedIn profile) and Dean Schroeder (LinkedIn profile)
• These blogs will be very helpful to read in advance of the session:
  • Social Media and the Tech Communication Marriage
  • How to Get People to Read your Emails
  • Top Presentation Strategies for Women

PDU Category C documentation details :

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communication

• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholders Expectations
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 the Mr Clarity On How To Fix Internal Communications Problems: Fix It or Flounder in the 21st Century! You will be directed to a page to register for the Social Media and Employee Communications – Hit the registration button – This session is a part of this conference.