Live Webinar – April 4th 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

Project Problems Have Plagued Companies For Years

Many projects are:

• Over budget,
• Behind schedule, and
• Implemented with poor quality.

As companies struggle to figure out why, many have discovered a consistent trend: Projects struggle or fail because of poorly defined and misunderstood requirements.

As companies try to improve their project delivery processes, many are focusing on improving Requirements Engineering activities and adding more Business Analysts. With the number of Business Analysts increasing, so is the potential for inconsistency and poor requirements quality.

Companies might be faced with questions such as:

1. How can Requirements Engineering be streamlined and implemented consistently?
2. How will Business Analysts be coached, trained, and mentored?
3. How will Business Analysts know which process to follow and which templates to use?
4. How will executive management know that the increased focus on Requirements Engineering is having the positive effect on project delivery they were hoping for?

The answer to all of these questions is the same:

• The Business Analyst Center of Excellence.

Join us for this free one-hour web seminar to learn more!

Presenter: Sherry Pate is a PMP with a proven track record of Project Management success and a strong expertise in Project Management training. She is also a seasoned Business Analyst who has trained over 1,500 professionals on Business Analysis techniques. Her extensive experience not only includes Project Management but also Software Development, Portfolio Management and Program Management.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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 Why Create A Business Analyst Center of Excellence? (BACOE)

Live Webinar April 3rd,, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst
Note: The Category for this session may change to a Category A as ESI (REP #1038) is sponsoring this event. More details will be available at the end of the session.

2013 is here and with it a changing organizational environment for Business Analysts. The emergence of Agile as a popular and modern method to manage projects as well as an expanding job scope for BAs means there is change to prepare for.

The top 10 BA trends for 2013 include information on the importance of requirements, the new Agile landscape and the new ways in which Business Analysts will be expected to work.

In this webinar Nancy Y. Nee, VP, Global Product Strategy, ESI International will delve into the following industry trends for 2013 including:

• Role of the BA in Agile adoption
• Effective requirements analysis and prioritization
• Importance of modeling skills in BA
• Leveraging BA skills in business architecture

Make sure you are ready for what this year will bring. Be prepared with the knowledge and understanding that will get you ahead in 2013!

Presented by: Nancy Y. Nee, PMP (LinkedIn profile), CBAP, CSM, Executive Director of Product Strategy, ESI International

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 Top 10 Business Analysis Trends of 2013

Live Webinar – April 2nd 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

If you are in business, you must grow in order to evolve. Growth enables you to increase income and profits and allows you to evolve to ensure long term survival. Wanting to grow is easy, doing it is difficult. There are assumptions that drive your strategies and tactics. Those assumptions are the foundation of your failure or success.

In this web seminar, learn how to look at your business in a way to find opportunities. Use problem solving techniques to find opportunities. Learn how to better understand the market segments you serve, the business problems you solve, industry trends and competitive differentiation.

With this understanding Mike will introduce methodologies to construct a forward thinking business model that will serve as the platform for a fresh value proposition, corporate branding and messaging and a sales and marketing strategy that will win in the market place.

History has proven that doing things the same old way
Delivers the same old results

This seminar will introduce ways to look at your business with a new set of optics. This new fresh view of your business and supporting business plan will enable your organization to cross the chasm from good product to great company.

Learning Objectives:

• Unique problem solving techniques
• Competitive differentiation strategies
• Developing strong actionable market segments
• Creating a meaningful defensible value proposition
• Go to market strategy alignment

Presenter: Mike Shook (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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 Growth Enablers: Learn Critical Best Practices

Live Webinar – April 3rd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Engagement Is The Foundation Sustained Improvement

It’s easy to change processes but much more difficult to make continuous improvement and excellence a habit without the systematic engagement of your team. This is something that textile manufacturer Milliken understands well. The company has developed a structured cross-functional team-based approach to performance improvement that has helped to create an environment where all employees understand the importance of “zero loss” thinking and continuous improvement for the benefit of customers and stakeholders.

In this webinar, seasoned practitioners Nick Bailey and Chris Poole go through the principles and building blocks of the Milliken Performance System, a “Daily Management System” that provides a systematic, step-by-step method leading to sustainable business excellence. Every aspect of the business is touched by this system, balancing sustaining and improvement activity across all processes and functions.

In this webinar you will:

1. Learn a structured, step by step approach to work that systematically engages all employees in ownership for continuous improvement
2. Identify practical steps to help shift the mindset of your organisation so that all employees start seeing “losses” (problems) as opportunities for improvement and where the role of leaders evolves to support and reinforce the elimination of these losses
3. Look at practical examples of these principles in action in Milliken’s businesses alongside their client experiences and benchmark specific tactics you can employ in your organization

Presenters:

Chris Poole – (Linkedin profile) Senior Practitioner Milliken Performance Solutions
Nick Bailey – (LinkedIn profile) Senior Practitioner Milliken Performance Solutions

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 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 Improvement Through Involvement: Engaging Your Entire Team To Reduce Loss And Sustain Improvement

Live Webinar – April 2nd, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Typically, people consider coaching as a way to catalyze some type of change: change in career, change in behavior, change in business results or income and change in life satisfaction.

Most often, coaching interventions involve employing an individual who serves as a coach to help facilitate that change, but what would it look like if individuals could coach themselves? More importantly, is it really possible for self-coaching to effect positive change?!

That’s what researchers set out to discover in a recent self-coaching program with managers of a plastics manufacturing organization.

Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, two groups of managers were formed: a control group, which received no self-coaching intervention; and an experimental group, which received the self-coaching intervention.

The self-coaching intervention included Five self-coaching skills that were taught to managers during a 90-day learning program, combining classroom and online instruction, on-the-job skills practice, journaling and peer interaction to learn, apply and develop a regular habit of employing self-coaching behaviors.

Attend this webinar to learn what is self-coaching and how researchers used the ROI Methodology(TM) to determine pay off and ROI of a self-coaching solution.

Speakers:
Lisa Ann Edwards, (LinkedIn profile) M.S., ACC, Partner at Bloom Coaching Institute, an organization that advances coaching effectiveness through research, tools, training and consultation on ROI of Coaching. Lisa’s coaching work has demonstrated as much as a 251% return-on-investment and has been shown to lift employee engagement nearly 20%.

John J. Kmiec, Jr., (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., CRP, United States Air Force Curriculum Development Subject Matter Expert, Science Applications International Corporation John is also an Adjunct Instructor at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches Workforce Analysis in the Workforce Training and Development Master of Science Program. His performance improvement accolades include the 1993 United States Air Force Chief of Staff Team Quality Award, the 1995 Rochester Institute of Technology/USA-Today Quality Cup, and the 2011 ROI Institute Best Published Case Study Award.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 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 Self-Coaching: What is it and Does it Pay Off?

Live Webinar April 3rd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Jump-Start Career Growth by Boosting Your Competitive Skills

• Do you feel that you are more task oriented and perfectionist while the people that are advancing faster than you seem to be focusing on networking and know all the right people?
• Do you feel that there is no one at work who supports you, gives you honest feedback and applauds your success?
• Do you feel you are too nice and well liked yet you aren’t invited to key meetings or don’t get on critical assignments?

Women leaders tend to be caught between impossible choices – trying to conform to traditional masculine leadership behaviors and those of femininity. This situation makes it challenging for women to bring their best self to work which is required if you are going to succeed in today’s highly competitive environments.

It’s like playing in the super bowl wanting to be liked by the opposing team and aspiring to win at the same time.

During this webcast, Kathryn Mayer will take you through a quick assessment to help you understand how you approach competition and your responses will be compared to the results of the 40 successful women she interviewed to write her book, Collaborative Competitionâ„¢: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing.

Then she will provide a proven strategic approach to competition and how to form partnerships which will jump start your career growth.

What You Will Learn:

• Gain a snapshot of your current approach to competition and competitive situations
• Identify a strategic mindset and a personalized, healthy approach to competition
• Learn how to form partnerships within competitive environments that will enhance your performance and reduce stress.

Presenter:Kathryn Mayer is presidentand founder of KC Mayer Consulting, Inc., a strategic leadership development firm. Mayer has been a leadership professional for over twenty years and she currently leads workshops and does executive coaching work focusing on developing high potential women leaders. She is the author of Collaborative Competition: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing. For more information, visit her site.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

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 How Women Succeed in Competitive Business Environments