Live Webinar – October 23 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

Believe it or not,
Most project failures are not the fault of the project manager,
But instead are a result of poor program management.

Even the most exceptional project manager can fail when the work environment lacks leadership, supporting project participants, or engaged stakeholders.

Whether you work in an agile, traditional, or operational environment, this overview will help you see where these worlds collide.

In this web seminar you will discover the principles and tools to strengthen your processes by learning how to create a successful program management culture.

This includes an environment of integrity, trust, with support from engaged personnel and stakeholders. And, to accomplish this feat, you will find it does not have to be overly complicated or costly.

Presenter: Kelley Bruns PMP (LinkedIn profile) has over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry and is a PMP and a certified Development Dimensions International Facilitator. Kelley’s expertise lies in her extensive experience in a wide range of industries including banking, construction, energy, engineering, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

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Live Webinar October 24th, 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)

Make the most of your meetings!

Are you one of those people that feel like the meetings you attend or conduct is wasted time?

It has been said that “Meetings are where minutes are taken and hours are wasted“. Recent data suggests that 25-50% of meeting time is ‘wasted’, per the attendees view.

Learn to conduct and/or be an effective contributor to meetings.

The focus is on learning the correct elements of meeting anatomy, how to go about planning a good meeting, how to facilitate and win during meetings, and lastly, how to determine your approach to executing meeting to value time, get results, and have effective meeting follow-up and assigned action items get the attention they deserve!

Course Objectives:

• Identify the necessary roles at a meeting
• Set an agenda that determines topics for the meeting
• Identify the necessary participants
• Determine the set-up of the meeting environment
• Handle questions, negative reactions, and distractions

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.

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Live Webinar – October 23, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

A Goal-Based Approach to Modelling – Supporting Strategy Execution

Is it possible to create a successful process excellence program without clearly defining and working to attain the strategic and tactical goals of the business? Definitely not!

Goals are essential as the guiding beacon toward which your decisions and activities must be focused. Yet traditional approaches to automation are unable to use identified business goals to directly influence execution of the actual business processes that drive end-to-end business operations.

In this webinar, you will learn a practical approach to help you address this gap:

• Understand the “why” and the “how” of connecting goals at the business execution level to goals at the process execution – or automation – level
• Learn the fundamentals of a practical, goal-based modelling approach that helps you link top level strategy with processes at any level of the business
• Identify ways that this technique can help you build agility directly into process models
• Watch a first hand a demonstration of the Living Systems Process Suite, from Whitestein Technologies, to see the modelling technique in action

Presenters:

Dr Paul Buhler (LinkedIn profile) with 25 years of diverse experience is the Chief Scientist at Modus21 where he is responsible for aligning corporate strategy with emerging trends in business architecture and process execution frameworks. Paul is a respected researcher, practitioner, and educator of service-oriented computing concepts, technologies and implementation methodologies.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 October 25th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 161003 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Test environment vary based on release cycles

Sometimes you are releasing numerous products in a short time frame; sometimes your releases are sparse. While you are in crunch time, so is your hardware.

• Do you have enough test systems to support your testing needs?
• What do you do if your test environment needs exceed your hardware capacity?
• And what do you do with the excess hardware while you’re in a lul?

This Live Web Workshop will help answer these questions using Windows Azure and TFS 2012.

We’ll discuss and demonstrate how you can easily create test environments in the cloud, wire them up for use with TFS, and then tear them down when they’re no longer needed. Come join Imaginet for this free Live Web Workshop! ”

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar October 22nd, 2012 11:00am – 12:00 pm
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

Sure, you’ve sat in meetings all day and you’ve jotted down a million notes. But, you’ve left off some really important things:

• Create and support an environment that’s conducive to crucial conversations
• Make sure everyone on my team knows their role, how they fit in the big company picture, and what they contribute to overall strategic objectives
• Confirm that each team member understands what it takes to get promoted to the next level
• Help each team member create a career and employee development plan that lets them gain new skills to take on more while addressing their weaknesses and improving upon those

During this webcast we’ll cover the mistakes managers often make:

1. Acting as your team’s mother instead of being their leader
2. Not defining clear goals and expecting results
3. Lacking development resources for employees
4. Treating coaching as an annual process and not checking in enough and making sure it’s ongoing
5. Being afraid to coach because you don’t like confrontation or you really don’t know how to coach

Learn why it’s imperative that human resources work directly with managers and their executive to teach them how to become effective career coaches.

By doing so experience these stats gathered from our network of certified career coaches:

• 77% Better at Working Relationships with Direct Reports
• 77% Better at Working Relationships with Immediate Supervisor
• 61% Improvement in Job Satisfaction
• 53% Improvement in Productivity
• 48% Improvement in Quality of Work
• 48% Improvement in Organizational strength

Register today for our upcoming webcast and walk away understanding:

1. How to build better working relationships that result in increased engagement and retention.
2. The common mistakes managers often make when coaching employees.
3. How to give managers confidence and turn them into true career coaches.
4. How career coaching helps align employees with corporate strategies and goals.

Presenter: Linda Ginac (LinkedIn profile) TalentGuard, Inc.

PDU Category C documentation details (for this conference):

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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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