Chat Live with World-Class Professionals – Every Friday
March 29th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Connect With Other World Class Project Managers
Learn Their Secrets To Success!

#PMChat is a “Live Weekly Twitter Chat” with PMs throughout the world – hosted by Robert Kelly (LinkedIn, @RKelly976),Hala Saleh (@halasaleh1) and Rob Prinzo (LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo).

#PMChat – participants ALWAYS tell it as it is Not what we learn it should be! It’s 60 minutes of lively discussion with practical Project Program and Portfolio management ideas that will stimulate you!

Chats have been archived by @EdmontonPM on Your Project Success – Read some 🙂

• Political Savvy #pmchat Feb 1st , 2013
• E-Negotiations #pmchat Feb 8th, 2013
• Project Communication #pmchat March 1st, 2013

Always with A sense of humor, A reality check, and …. Lots of support
#PMChat will will be the highlight of your week.

Susanne Madsen – March 29th 2013

In a project management context, Coaching is the practice of helping project manages to identify and articulate what their professional challenges, goals and aspirations are and subsequently assist them in achieving these goals through in-depth conversations.

Project Manages can use coaching as a tool in many different contexts.

• First, they can coach and mentor junior project managers and help them grow and develop.
• Secondly they can choose to be coached themselves by engaging a professional coach or by asking a more senior colleague to be their mentor.
• A Third way of using coaching is for project managers to get in the habit of asking insightful questions of themselves and keeping an open mind.

This type of “self-coaching” is especially useful in combination with a good coaching or leadership book that can help guide the individual.

Questions which are likely to be up for discussion during the live #PMCHAT include:

• What are the benefits of coaching and mentoring PMs?
• How big a role does coaching play in your daily job?
• What are your best coaching tips & experiences?
• What would it take for us to coach more and also encourage others to do so?
• What would the benefits be to you personally if you had a coach?

About the Guest

Join Susanne Madsen – Program Director, Project Leadership Coach, author of Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential. Susanne has over 15 years experience in managing and rolling out large change programs.Susanne’s big passion is helping project managers get to the next level – and to help organisations set-up coaching and mentoring programmes to enable that.

Susanne believes that a great project manager is first and foremost able to manage his or her own state of mind and that project management success is as much about managing people as it is about managing tasks, plans and resources. As a result she helps people to look inwards and become a better leader; someone who sets a great personal example, who is excellent at inspiring and focusing the team and who also understands how to liaise with the client and senior stakeholders to deliver that which they really need.

Join us on on #PMChat Friday March 29th to discuss project management coaching benefits, tips and techniques. To read more about coaching for project managers, please check-out Susanne’s informative blog On Coaching PMs including lots of great resources for PMs.

In addition to the lively discussion & idea sharing, #PMChat participants are eligible to receive PDU credits. Read the page on The PM chat Website that talks about Category C PDUs.

About Twitter & Twitter Chats

JOIN #PMCHAT: You can sign in to your Twitter account and Search for #PMCHAT and make sure that all your replies have #PMCHAT within the 140 character response.

BUT WE RECOMMEND: http://tweetchat.com/room/pmchat Just click on the link and sign in with your Twitter account. Tweetchat makes the Twitter chat easy.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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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Top Project Management Thought Leaders Today

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About Twitter & Twitter Chats

Live Webinar March 28th, 2013 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)

Projects create unique products, services, or results. Thus, the inevitability of change is an inescapable factor resulting from every project.

Every project creates opportunities that must be seized or forever lost. Capitalize on these opportunities by using critical success factors, assessing organizational performance levers, and creating the environment necessary for successful change.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to gather practical implementation tips for making organizational change last.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Critical success factors for implementing organizational change
• How to use organizational performance levers to diagnose sustainable change
• Environmental factors needed for successful change
• Practical implementation tips to make change last

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Making Change Last

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!!

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available!
Memberships Include all PDU Codes

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 March 28th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
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 will present current research in value measurement for enterprise architecture and will explore a new framework for determining the value measures that are right for your organization.

Presenter: Brian Cameron

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

Click to register for A Value Measurement Framework for Enterprise Architecture

Live Webinar – March 29th 2013, 12:00–1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is right around the corner and introduces new ways for users and organizations to communicate, collaborate and share information.

Beyond its highly promoted features (See Below), including the new user experience and enhanced collaboration through social networking; SharePoint Server 2013 provides many improvements in the support of bottom-line business requirements: workflows, business intelligence, business connectivity services, mobile productivity, eDiscovery and more.

In this web seminar series, we will focus on many of the features of SharePoint 2013 and will explain what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what is new!

Some topics explored, include:

• SharePoint’s new Modern Interface (Windows 8 Style)
• Socialization with SharePoint Server 2013
• Similarities and New Features of SharePoint Workflows
• Business Intelligence Enhancements
• SharePoint’s Expanded Mobile Functionality
• Architectural Changes in the SharePoint 2013 Platform
• Upgrade Options for Previous SharePoint Versions
• Regulatory Compliance and eDiscovery Capabilities
• SharePoint’s Enhanced Project Management Capabilities
• Discovering People, Files, and Information with SharePoint Search
• Utilizing SharePoint’s New Publishing and Design Capabilities
• And more …..

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control Communications
• 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 SharePoint 2013: What’s New and Why You Need It!

SharePoint 2013 The 10 New Features You’ll Love

1. Search Engine Optimization – is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.
2. My Documents — My “SkyDrive for Work” – Storing all your documents in the cloud via your MySites was always a good idea – but a bit clunky. SharePoint 2013 greatly improves the MySites capabilities and defaults to saving to SkyDrive. You’ll love the ability to save and sync documents directly to SkyDrive.
3. Rich Workflows – If workflows were a sore point, they’ve gotten a lot better and seem much more able to handle more complex activities including looping and working with webservices (anyone thinking orchestration?).
4. App Store – Microsoft is introducing the new App Store model to SharePoint! Users will find dozens and hundreds of pre-built applications you can easily add to SharePoint.
5. Social Enterprise – Micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, Following, Likes, and Reputations are some of the new social features being added. The ability to follow users or content will be especially helpful.
6. Mobility – Microsoft has recognized the importance of mobile optimized views for SharePoint. You will see greatly enhanced mobile capabilities.
7. Site Permissions – SharePoint 2013 offers a simplified sharing-based model for site permissions management. This will give users easier ways to manage site security.
8. Themes – SharePoint 2013 brings much richer theme functionality and the ability to add background images.
9. Content Search Webpart – A really cool webpart. This can be thought of as the next generation of Content Query webpart. Content Search Web Part displays content that was crawled and added to the search index via a query. This query is automatically issued, and it returns results from the search index when users browse to a page that contains the Content Search Web Part.
10. Metro Interface – The new metro interface sports a much cleaner and concise look. Less clutter. And optimized for touch devices.

Live Webinar March 27th, 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar March 27th, 2013, 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

Does your company wants to be more innovative,
But you don’t know the next steps…

In this webinar we use the Gartner Innovation Maturity Model to examine key decisions and activities in running successful innovation initiatives, from those just getting started to those that aspire to join the ranks of world-class innovators.

Jackie will address issues such as instilling a culture of innovation, funding and staffing, incentives and metrics, the innovation process, and running successful innovation challenges with employees or customers.

Discussion Topics:

• The key decisions in launching an innovation program
• How to overcome the typical failure points in innovation
• How to harness the power of employees and customers in driving innovation

Presenter: JackieFenn, (LinkedIn profile) VP & Gartner Fellow

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Innovation Management Best Practices