Live Webinar May 29th, 2012 1:00am – 2:00 pm
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

In “6 Steps,” Linda discusses how losing key employees is costly to an organization. Studies have shown that replacing a productive and contributing employee can cost an organization between 30% – 50% of the former employee’s annual salary. In addition, the loss of valuable knowledge can delay projects, erode employee morale, and negatively impact the bottom line.

The questions haveto be asked;

• What is it about our organization’s value proposition that is not resonating with employees?
• What can our organization do in 2013 to retain valued employees?

Watch this webinar to learn how to better ensure a happy, motivated, loyal, and productive workforce. Linda focuses on improving your employee retention rates in 2013 and maintaining a workforce focused on driving company success. Find out the best ways to establish a culture of employee career growth, satisfaction, and shared commitment to teamwork and company success.

For example:

• Cascading goals throughout all levels of an organization to ensure that everyone is focused on the organizations most critical success factors
• Establishing Career Pathing as a core organizational value, in which upward mobility and career growth are promoted
• Formalizing a Succession Planning process that identifies high potential employees and maintains a “ready” talent pool of qualified future leaders

Participants will learn about the importance of:

• Unifying and cascading organizational goals
• Providing easy-access to career pathing services for all employees
• Formalizing a succession planning process to assess your talent pool and create a bench of “ready now” employees.

Presenter: Linda Ginac (LinkedIn profile) TalentGuard, Inc.

PDU Category C documentation details for this session:

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 the 6 Steps to Improving Employee Retention

Live Webinar May 29th, 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

Are you ready for the CLevel Suite?

In recent years, the percentage of women holding senior and C-Suite roles in organizations has increased. However, breaking through the glass ceiling remains a very real challenge for most women – and the organizations that seek to retain and leverage their talent – to overcome. This is evidenced by the drop in the percentage of women from the mid-level leader range (28% women) to just 17% at the senior executive level.

PDI Ninth House – A Korn/Ferry Company, recently studied women leaders’ competencies, motivators, and experiences to understand the underlying dynamics, yielding insights that individuals and their managers, organizational leaders, and HR teams can act on immediately.

In this session, you will learn:

• The differences in motivators, experiences, and competencies between men and women that were identified in our recent “Women Executives: Breaking the Glass Ceiling” research, and the insight they provided into how to have an impact on career advancement for women
• Actionable insights that women can apply to address these issues to facilitate their own professional development and advancement, and that managers and mentors can use to better support the success of women professionals
• Strategies that leaders and human resources departments can leverage to drive widespread change on women in leadership throughout the organization

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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’

Click to register for Leaning in Together: Using Shared Responsibility to Shatter the Glass Ceiling

Live Webinar – May 30th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
By: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

A critical component for a Project Manager or Business Analyst’s success is oftentimes their ability to build and sustain a high performing team.

To make matters more difficult most PMs/BAs don’t have the benefit of traditional managerial authority over these resources, and the dynamics can often be quite difficult to manage.

In this engaging two hour webinar participants will learn about the “Thoroughbred style” of management and why it’s oftentimes the secret to leading a high performing team.

Dana will also explore specific techniques for managing team conflict, building a solid team infrastructure, influencing without authority, encouraging effective and productive team communications, and maintaining high morale on the team.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to effectively navigate the team through the five stages of team development
• Critical components to include in the team charter
• Techniques for managing conflict to produce positive outcomes and preserve relationships
• Best practices to avoid miscommunications on the team (and beyond)
• Tips for keeping the team motivated

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Handy “team leader reminder card” filled with tips and suggestions
• “The Secrets to Motivating Teams During Difficult Times” white paper
• Sample team charter template
• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Dana Brownlee (LinkedIn profile); an energetic and innovative corporate trainer, speaker, and workshop facilitator; garnered her critical team leadership and management consulting experience through her years with AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM Consulting, and EMC Corporation. She possesses an impressive array of credentials including an MBA (Emory University), BIE (Georgia Tech), BS (Spelman College), IBM Business Transformation Consulting Certification, Project Management Professional, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator Qualification.

Click to register for The Secrets to Building a High Performing Project Team

Live Webinar – May 29th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Effective collaboration will help build more effective teams across corporate boundaries, companies, and projects, providing quick answers to questions, speed decision-making, and improve communications.

This Web’n’Learn will guide attendees to become more effective collaborators.

In this session, you will learn:

• How SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 furthers real-time collaboration for project teams
• Some of the new product capabilities that enable:
  • Collaborative idea generation
  • Document sharing and collaboration
  • SharePoint-based Project Management

Presenter: Bill Raymond, MVP, MCTS, MCITP is a seasoned executive with over 20 years’ experience delivering transformative projects. Bill has held the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award since 2001 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT…. Even if you only take the 3 session 6 hour MPUG Project Portfolio Management Masterclass (6 Category A PDUs) the$129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value to get the PPM MPUG Certificate and add it to your resume.

MPUG Membership also includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for There is no “I” in Project Server 2013

Live Webinar – May 30th, 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

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

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.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar May 29th, 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar May 29th, 2013, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Supporting business architecture as part of EA is of critical importance to organizations focused on delivering outcome driven EA. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution and by illustrating the impact of business and IT changes, business architecture is a key to making EA relevant to business leaders.

Discussion Topics:

• Why supporting business architecture is of critical importance
• How business architecture enables business transformation
• Best practices for supporting business architecture

Presenter: BetsyBurton (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst

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

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 Business Architecture: Bridging Strategy and Execution