Live Webinar April 25th, 2011 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

There come times, and they come more often than we’d like to think, when influencing without the authority to make the final call, is the only and the most powerful tool we have in our kit.

It is about
influencing the right stakeholders at the right time
for a fair reason with realistic expectations.

A great way to set stage for long-term relationships is to have the collaborative spirit built into the influence-without-authority grid. After all, no matter where we are on the corporate ladder, we hardly ever have enough authority, right?

Get a closer look at the six steps that enable us to have a high success rate in our outcomes for the Project “influence-without-authority”.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Ulka Shrikhande, (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a natural motivator, consultant and Speaker- and is passionate about developing strong collaborative leaderships to create healthy organizational performance. Ulka is a Senior Scientist at Beckman Coulter, Inc. and helps organizations identify success gaps and develop strategies to bridge those gaps using a collaborative approach. She has worked with academic institutions, start-up and mid-size companies and non-profit organizations and contributes actively to the PMI community through volunteerism and various presentations.

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Live Webinar – April 23rd 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

You installed the software and took the training but it’s not being used the way you expected. Worse, you spent a lot of time and money and it isn’t being used at all.

The project managers are “too busy” to update schedules, team members don’t want to or don’t know how to update tasks and even if they did you don’t have the reports that you need to run our organization.

In this webinar David will discuss how to use Microsoft Project Server more effectively so that you can better achieve your organization’s goals and your teams can deliver their projects with less effort and greater reliability.

For The PMO:

• Improved compliance of the Project Managers
• Improved compliance of the Team Members
• More accurate reporting
• Better management reports
• Improved resource management

For the Project Manager:

• Improved deliveries
• Better team member communication
• Decreased effort to maintain your MS Project schedules
• Insight into resource bottlenecks
• Better resolution of resource conflicts
• Easier reporting to management
• Shorter team meetings

For the Team Member:

• Improved communications with the Project Manager
• Less overallocation of your time
• Shorter team meetings
• For the New User of MS Project:
• A true understanding of how to use MS Project in a practical, real environment
• Instructors who are PMP certified project managers as wells as qualified instructors
• Tips about how to best apply MS Project in your organization

Presenter: David Mack PMP (LinkedIn profile) has 15 years of experience with Microsoft Project. He is an instructor and a mentor to several Fortune 500 companies. He teaches Microsoft Project, Project Server, Project Theory and Executive oversight. David is the Co-President of the Tampa chapter of the Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG). He is an active member in both the Tampa and Saint Petersburg chapters of the Project Management Institute.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 – April 23rd, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Project Management and Methodologies are really twins separated at birth. A smart and busy project manager knows the benefit of leveraging a standard development process methodology as a ‘cheat sheet’ to determine the tasks needed for a project to be successful.

Learn about traditional ‘waterfall’, agile, SAM, Lean, Six Sigma and every hybrid in between and figure out the best ‘cheat’ for your project.

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand. She focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 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’

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Live Webinar April 23, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

So many productivity strategies today are built assuming that one size fits all and that everyone thinks and manages their time and work the same way. To maximize workforce productivity when information is constantly flowing and time and attention are at a premium, we need to help people of all thinking styles embrace their natural preferences to structure smarter workflows that work for them.

Join presenter Carson Tate, (LinkedIn profile) Principal at Working Simply, for an interactive webinar that will show you how to use proven tools and techniques to “Work Smarter, Not Harder,” whether you need to focus on your own productivity or on coaching others.

You’ll learn about:

• Recent research correlating thinking preferences with individual productivity
• How thinking styles impact the way people approach and organize their workflows
• Techniques and tools for maximizing your productivity based on your preferred modes of thinking
• How to structure workflows and coach people to be more productive and efficient, based on an understanding of their thinking preferences

If you’re wondering where the time goes and how to get more focused, you won’t want to miss this webinar! From email overload to time and task management, you’ll discover how to use the tools and techniques provided to start investing your time and attention and your team’s time and attention in the smartest, most efficient ways.

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’

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Live Webinar – April 23rd, 2013 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

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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

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