Live Webinar – June 19th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Virtual teams often face difficulties solving problems, making decisions, generating innovative ideas, and reconciling differences. When team members don’t meet with each other face-to-face, it can be harder to build rapport, develop trust, and establish meaningful collegiality. Team members multi-task, leaders fall back to presenting endlessly, and the work goes sideways.

The speakers help you tackle the common challenges that go along with leading virtual teams. Our speakers will describe and demonstrate several practical skills and methods you can use right away to help team members and leaders improve the way they collaborate and perform.

Virtual teams often face difficulties solving problems, making decisions, generating innovative ideas, and reconciling differences. When team members don’t meet with each other face-to-face, it can be harder to build rapport, develop trust, and establish meaningful collegiality. Team members multi-task, leaders fall back to presenting endlessly, and the work goes sideways.

Join us as the speakers help you tackle the common challengesthat go along with leading virtual teams. Our speakers willdescribe and demonstrate several practical skills and methodsyou can use right away to help team members and leaders improvethe way they collaborate and perform.

At this interactive webinar, you will learn 10 Practical Tools and Techniques for:

• Setting up virtual teams for success
• Maintaining good working relationships
• Facilitating team collaboration
• Producing quality results

Speakers:

Patty McManus, (LinkedIn profile)has worked in the fields of organization development and leadership development for twenty years.support their organizational and personal goals and building high performing teams that succeed through commitment and collaboration.

Beth O’Neill (LinkedIn profile) With expertise in curriculum design and development, Beth specializes in transferring skills that help individuals and organizations develop and increase their leadership and collaboration capabilities. Beth also contributed to the development of Interaction Associates’ Mastering MeetingsTM and The Coaching EDGE® workshops.

Barry Rosen (ZOOM Collaborate profile) is the co-Founder of ZOOM Collaborate, a virtual coaching and training company focused on the human side of collaboration – how people get clear, aligned and productive together. He is a past President & CEO of IA and was the thought leader for many of the firm’s core learning programs, including Leading Online Meetingsâ„¢.

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage 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’

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Live Webinar June 19th, 2013 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Negotiate Like A Professional!

We all benefit from learning to think like a negotiator, even if we don’t negotiate. Interdisciplinary research from the last 30 years has produced a wealth of insights and a robust theory of negotiation that every leader needs to understand, regardless of your role.

In this webinar you will learn:

• The most but limiting misconceptions about what negotiation is and isn’t
• How thinking like a negotiator can instantly make you a better leader, influencer, and problem-solver, regardless of your role
• Traps that most negotiators – and leaders – fall prey to, and how to avoid them
• How a good theory of negotiation can spur innovation across your organization
• Ways that top HR/LD programs have incorporated negotiation into core leadership training curricula
• Why you are probably wasting money on negotiation training programs
• The ways in which negotiation is both an individual and organizational capability worth developing

Presenter: Dr. Hal Movius, (LinkedIn profile) President of Movius Consulting, Inc. and lead author of the book, Built to Win: Creating a World Class Negotiating Organization (Harvard Business Press). Dr. Movius has trained and consulted to leaders of dozens of top organizations, including McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, and the WPP Group, and has been affiliated with Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Darden School of Business.

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 Think Like a World-Class Negotiator: Drive Innovation Across Your Organization

Live Webinar June 20th, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Leadership in PM CoP (REP #S051)

This popular Decision making webinar is based on Harvard University Prof. Michael Roberto’s “The Art of Critical Decision Making“. (LinkedIn profile for Michael Roberto)

Decision making is one of the most essential skills that a leader must possess. Razza will be looking at decision making failures at the Individual, Group and Organizational level.

This webinar touches on 24 topics including cognitive biases, wisdom of the crowds, reasoning, and normalizing deviance.

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

Presenter: Raza Usman (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Decision Making for the Project Leader

Live Webinar – June 18th 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

As companies work to migrate their software development approach from Waterfall to Agile, they often begin to discover that the limited set of tools offered by the Agile (or Scrum) framework alone do not satisfy organizational needs.

Larger projects, more teams, and limited resources are often the hallmark and impetus to implement a Lean development approach where value streams and waste elimination drive the creation of better products, more profitable efforts, and fully utilized resource teams.

In this web seminar ASPE will discuss the process, function, and benefits of utilizing Kanban and Lean to streamline your efforts.

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
• 9.4 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 June 21st, 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)

There are many ways for teams to achieve the Objectives and Goals of an organization.

Part of the Strategic Planning effort is determining the appropriate actions to be taken to enable the objectives to be met.. These actions should be based on conditions associated with the current environment as well as changes associated with the future environment.

Unfortunately, many teams feel the list of prioritized projects is a result of random selection and are left wondering how their projects fit into the overall corporate direction, if at all.

Planning and change management staff as well as department and team leads require appropriate tools and techniques to define Action Plans for implementing future change. They can use these tools to define plans for tactical and strategic projects which will enable the organization to successfully perform its mission and achieve its vision.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the relationship between initiatives and projects
• Develop an Action Plan establishing direction and accountability for achieving documented Goals
• Update the Strategic Plan to reflect shifts in the organizational environment
• Understand the use of a Communication Plan in keeping a Strategic Plan alive

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – June 19th, 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

Budgeting and Cost Tracking is one of the PPM Building Blocks of Proactive Scheduling.

This webinar will show you how to set up your project so that you can load your budget and cost estimates, then track actual costs and variances during project execution.

You will see how to set up Cost Resources (Budget and Expense), as well as custom fields to aid in reporting. The techniques that will be demonstrated are applicable to Project 2013 and Project 2010.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to set up Cost Resources (Budget and Expense), as well as use custom fields to aid in reporting.

Presenter: Terry Kneeburg has more than 25 years combined experience in product development, project management, and consulting. He has been working with the Microsoft Project Server platform since 2004. Terry is passionate about helping clients achieve success in managing their project portfolios, delivering to companies in a variety of industries including Healthcare, Transportation, State and Local Government, Energy, Technology, Insurance, and Pharmaceuticals. He has conducted training classes for project managers, administrators, portfolio managers, and team members.

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 Project Budgeting and Cost Tracking with Microsoft Project 2010/2013