Live Webinar – October 30th 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

Agile principles are dominating the discussion in software development. As it goes mainstream, software practitioners in almost every vertical are utilizing what Agile offers.

It is only a matter of time before other professional disciplines begin to incorporate Agile for professional and organizational success.

Radical Management is one such incorporation. Started by Steve Denning and chronicled in his book The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century, it uses the foundational values of Agile and develops specific principles and practices for managers and leaders.

In this web seminar, you will initially look at the foundational values of Agile and discuss how and why they can be interpreted and utilized for managers and leaders inside and outside software development. Then dive into the specifics of Radical Management, the fundamental rationale for it, the defining principles and how those principles are acted upon.

There is NO doubt Agile values can be used by managers and leaders.

The challenge for them is the struggle to redefine themselves and their place in a business world that is rapidly going Agile. However, if they can cross this “chasm,” the business opportunities on the other side in today’s environment are significant.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Live Webinar – October 30th 2012, 10:30 am – 11:30 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Work is no longer defined by where you go – it is what you do. Research conducted by Gartner expects that the number of worldwide remote workers will double between 2008 to 2014.

Remote and long-distance work will increase in volume and intensity, with people spending more than 80% of their time by 2015 working collaboratively at a distance.

There are a number of challenges however that come with virtual working:

1. Team members can feel disconnected from the organization,
2. There is an increased likelihood of miscommunication, and ….
3. It takes a different approach to build trust with virtual colleagues.

In this 60 minute webinar Michelle Moore will address the challenges of working virtually and provide tools and techniques to minimise those challenges.

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Live Webinar October 29th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 162118 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

The newest release of Visual Studio 2012 is rich with new tools that enhance standard developer activities.

In this session, Imaginet will review and demonstrate some of these new features, such as Unit Testing, Code Reviews, Code Clones, and other developer tools.

Come join them for this free Webinar!

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 30th, 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

Tune into this webinar to become a GhostBuster
And rid your organization of its disengaged spirits.

With Halloween right around the corner, there has never been a more perfect time to explore the scary aspects of employee engagement.

Many of us know how beneficial engaged employees are for an organization. Now is the time to focus on how scary the disengaged employees can be.

In this amusing webinar, Kevin Sheridan will provide detailed best practices to rid your workplace of the ghouls and goblins holding your employees back from being fully engaged.

He will examine popular Halloween costumes and themes in the context of the workplace, and help attendees better understand how haunted their organization really is.

Attendees will leave with a sense of:

1. The scary truth about disengagement in the workplace
2. How Halloween can help you understand the importance of employee engagement
3. Techniques for removing the cobwebs and barriers to increase engagement

Presented by: Kevin Sheridan, (LinkedIn profile) is the Senior Vice President – HR Optimization of Avatar HR Solutions. Kevin has over thirty years of experience in the field having consulted to some of the world’s largest corporations. Kevin has earned several distinctive awards and honors. His newest innovation, PEER®, has recently been nominated for the “HR Product of the Year” award. PEER is consistently recognized as an industry-changing innovation in the field of employee engagement. Kevin is the New York Times Best-Selling author of Building a Magnetic Culture®: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce and the author of The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees.

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’

Click to register for Do the Monster Mash: Halloween Lessons About Employee Engagement