Archive for March, 2013

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
April 5th & 12th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Understanding the Natural Roles that Your &lt
Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

When work requires close collaboration, even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of Teamability will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

The Gabriel Institute has created technology that reveals how people will perform when working with others to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve common goals. In short, it measures Teamability: the ability to connect with others to form a productive team.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

There are many ways to measure skills, talents, and traits, but teaming metrics are unique. It took 25 years of research and testing – including 9 years of software development – to produce TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ reports, which are the foundation of TGI’s Role-Based Approach to selecting, structuring, managing and motivating teams.

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

TGI Teamability was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

TGI Teamability can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team. It is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of Teamability and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of TGI Teamabilityâ„¢, and to apply for an optional Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Teamability Report at no additional cost
  • Four contact hours of training, including all materials
  • Readings to be completed during course attendance
  • Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications (optional to complete)

Click to register for What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach – The Gabriel Institutes Basic Teamability Course

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Live Webinar March 28th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour

Credit Note: Although Corp Ed is an REP this session may not qualify as a Category A Session as it is an overview of PMIs® Certificate Programs.

Are you ready for a fresh, new approach to mastering the project management framework established by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)?

Whether you want to enhance your on-the-job project management competency or are pursuing your PMP® credential, this new certificate program delivers all the essential tools you will need. From traditional classrooms to virtual, instructor-led sessions, professionals everywhere can fulfill their training needs.

In this webinar you will gain an overview of CEG’s new Project Management Certificate program and a sneak peek of the integrated product development case study.

Rather than learning the project management framework in rote fashion, this program takes a dynamic view in four streamlined courses:

  • Managing Your Project and Its Stakeholders
  • Planning Project Scope and Schedule
  • Managing Process Resources, Cost and Quality
  • Controlling Project Change and Risk

Presenter : Bruce Chadbourne, PMP® PgMP® PMI-RMP® (LinkedIn profile) was one of the first to complete the Program Management Professionals (PgMP) credential. Bruce has over 30 years of project management experience in a broad range of industries and functional areas, from aerospace to software systems development and IT services. As a contributor to the PMBOK® and BABOK® guides, Bruce has lectured on business analysis, requirements management, system testing, and Agile project management techniques. As former Region 1 Director of the PMI Risk SIG, he co-authored the book Professional Guide to Risk Assessment (2004).

Click to register for Project Management Certificate Programs: An Overview

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Live Webinar – April 9th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) – 1 Category C 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 only … Borders or Barnes & Noble had the right intrapreneur in their organization, maybe Amazon’s rise wouldn’t have been so impactful to them.
  • If only … Yahoo incorporated the position of Intrapreneur into its culture maybe they would be neck and neck with Google instead of on the outside looking in.

In this web seminar we will provide a detailed look at Intrapreneurship. Basically smart organization will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of changes. These individuals will work just like entrepreneurs but will work within the structure of a company, and they are Intrapreneurs.

An intrapreneur is someone who has an entrepreneurial streak in his or her DNA but choose to align his or her talents with an organization in place of creating his or her own. These professional are critical to the success of organizations as corporations have to continuously deal with the speed of disruption and disruptive technologies.

Learn what skills and talents are required to be a successful intrapreneur, understand the techniques an intraprenuer can use to distill ideas and focus their efforts and learn how intraprenuers must maneuver to successfully incorporate the right idea into their organization.

Presenters: Brad Lienhart, Fred Hathaway and Scott Baker

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 Intrapreneurship: The Key to Capturing Value out of Major Disruptions for Companies (Large and Small)

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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 🙂

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

susanne-madsen 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’

The #PMChat Community Is Made Up Of The
Top Project Management Thought Leaders Today

Don’t Forget To Follow
Some Great #PMOT (PMs on Twitter)!

About Twitter & Twitter Chats

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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

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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