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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Live Webinar October 23rd, 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)

This webinar with Don Estes (LinkedIn profile) explains how formal complexity and hubris are the root causes of legacy modernization failures, and how to overcome them with technology, methodology or both.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a 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. Start to record your PDU – on Step 2 place the Rep # 2733 (in our listing) in the “Provider Number” area and the title of the webinar in the “Activity Name” and hit search. Select the code and continue to record the event. If you need further assistance contact us at Hello at pduOTD.com

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Live Webinar – October 22nd 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

• Rapid,
• Scalable,
• Flexible,
• Collaborative:

Words that all marketers strive for to achieve real-world success in their creative process. And beyond the marketing world, business leaders everywhere are realizing that the new economic paradigm rewards speed, flexibility, and response to change.

If you’ve read The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, you know how FAST economic disruptions now move through the world economy. Some disruptions are flashes in the pan. Others bring about marketplace revolutions that none of us have the tools to entirely predict, or even catch early indicators regarding the direction they will take.

So in the face of this reality, marketers need to look at work values, principles, and processes that enable the nimbleness required to “catch a black swan”.

In search of practices which enable this success, creative leaders in marketing fields are looking to their brethren in another profession which is high-stakes and project-based: software development. They are finding that the foundational values (and the practices associated with them) of highly successful software development philosophies such as Agile can also be leveraged to bring speed, quality, and flexibility to processes which yield fantastic creative.

This is Agile Creativity: the fusing of the software world’s
Agile values with the creative initiatives of marketing.

In this web seminar, we will discuss in detail the core values of Agile work, then look at the practices and principles being implementing to fuse marketing needs with those values.

The outcome is a powerful structure for quickly bringing ideas to life, rapidly developing iterations that increase quality, and incorporating feedback and input earlier in the creative process.

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.

Click to register for Agile Creativity: A Look at how Google is Supporting the Adoption of Agile Methods into Marketing & Agency-level Creative

Live Webinar October 22nd, 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)

Planning and scheduling are the heart of all organizations.

This workshop is about applying the best practices in operations that include the organization’s unique position, proposition and resources.

Every organization that delivers something [product or service] has production capability. Attention is applied to the clarity, communication and focus that has made difficult projects come into being. Operations are addressed as the integrated functions that create and deliver to customers.

Discussions will also focus on the additional tools derived from quality, science and real life experience as well as methods to use incentives and measuring results.

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 23rd, 2012 2:00 pm – 3;00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management 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 October 25th, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour – PMP Exam PREP

NOTE: Although the Corporate Education Group is an REP this session may not qualify for a PDU because of its subject matter. Please contact them for further information.

Since the 1990s, the general approach to PMP exam preparation has remained static. Candidates study PMI®’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and some ancillary primers, then take practice exams until they feel ready.

While this approach works, there is a more effective new approach to PMP exam preparation that has more benefits than just getting you ready to pass the exam:

The Task-Skill Method

The Task-Skill Method takes a unique approach that focuses on the expected roles and responsibilities of a Certified Project Management Professional.

Armed with an intuitive understanding of on-the-job requirements, you will better understand PMP exam questions and achieve higher overall scores.

CorpEd provides a complete overview of the Task-Skill Method, including:

• The 28 must-know PMP Tasks
• The 28 must-know PMP Knowledge and Skill Sets
• How to structure your own PMP Exam prep approach using the Task-Skill Method
• How leveraging the Task-Skill Method can enable an immediate impact to productivity in the workplace.

The Task-Skill Method identifies 28 essential PMP Tasks and PMP Knowledge and Skill Sets and provides sufficient training for each. It still relies on the PMBOK® Guide, but as a reference standard, not a foundational requisite.

About the Presenter: Eric Nielsen, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 30 years of work experience in small, mid-size and large corporate environments, at all levels from technical to executive. Drawing on his background in the Nuclear Power industry, Eric has helped numerous organizations improve their project performance across many industries including Defense, Aerospace, Medical Devices, and Healthcare. Eric also designs and facilitates project management training programs and is dedicated to supporting the development of project management professionals worldwide.

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