Archive for September 23rd, 2013

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Live Webinar Sept 30th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Change Management CoP (REP #S056)

Have you struggled with how to integrate change
Across a project environment?

This presentation explores the practical links between project management and organizational change management.

Tim Jaques, IPMA-D, will present four critical rules, derived from practice in the field, to surviving changes in a project. Tim will explore the core tenets of change management and engage the audience in key questions about resistance, communication, buy-in, and more.

You will leave this presentation with some best practices and tools for immediately implementing new ways of engaging stakeholders in a positive way.

Participants will leave this webinar with:

  1. Four practical rules for success for maximizing change management in a project environment.
  2. Guidelines for handling resistance
  3. Specific resources for integrating project management and change management.

Who should attend:

  • Project and program managers
  • Organizational change practitioners
  • Executives
  • Project team members and project manager associates
  • Consultants

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

Presenter: Tim Jaques (LinkedIn profile), has architected major change initiatives in a diverse set of business sectors including insurance, not for profit, government, transportation, energy, and technology. Tim has written extensively on project management, organizational change, and the planning-execution cycle. He co-authored “Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government,” and his newest book The Government Managers’ Guide To Project Management was just released.

Click to register for Projects and Change: Four Rules for Survival

Motivation

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Live IIL Webinar – Sept 30th, 2012 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: XX

Note: You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. This session may fill up quickly so sign up today.

People don’t wake up in the morning thinking:
“Today I am going to go to work and mess with people”.

Instead, they go to work and behave in a way that rewards them in a way that makes them feel or think is good.

The difficult person who often argues over how to do something probably gets satisfaction from feeling powerful, or knowledgeable.

This webinar presents a very simple three step model, ABC analysis, which can be used to understand what motivates people, and how change reinforcement gets them to behave in a productive way.

Using proven behavioral concepts, this webinar teaches how to analyze an undesired behavior. Next it will provide the participants with a method to change the motivation that minimizes the undesired and maximizes the desired behavior which leads to better productivity on a project.

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will learn:

  • Understand what drives a certain behavior
  • A two-step method to analyze behavior
  • A third step to change undesired behavior
  • How to effectively provide reinforcement
  • XX

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Featured Webinars Tab on the Left and then Choose Motivation and Begin Registration.

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Live Webinar October 1st, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This eye-opening webinar reveals the flaws in common UAT beliefs and describes more appropriate models and methods that build user competence, confidence, and cooperation.

Click to register for Overcoming Common User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Misconceptions

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Live Webinar – Sept 30th, 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

There’s a silent revolution taking place in offices across the globe: knowledge work is being transformed by new tools that enable real-time communication, collaboration and efficient execution of tasks.

Today, it’s no longer a question of if your company will adopt these tools, but when.

  • But how do you know which tools to use?
  • What are the best practices for getting up and running quickly?
  • And how can you harness the power of new technology to transform knowledge work at your organization?

In this webinar Glen E. Schrank (LinkedIn profile), CEO of Eccentex, takes us on a tour of the new technologies completely changing knowledge work as we know it and offers up practical case studies from numerous clients.

In this webinar you will:

  1. Learn about technology’s effect on the evolution of the knowledge worker and gain a clear understanding about how today’s modern knowledge worker is being empowered by technical advancements
  2. Understand why knowledge workers are turning to cloud-based tools to execute daily tasks and get insight on how to determine which technologies are right for your organization
  3. Hear practical case studies of how other companies have selected, implemented and adopted some of these technologies and the results they’ve achieved

Presenter: Glen E. Schrank Chief Executive Officer Eccentex Glen E. Schrank most recently was President and CEO of HireRight, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company. As a member of the executive team, he contributed to growing HireRight from $ 20M to $ 182M in revenue, launching a successful IPO on NASDAQ, and getting acquired for approximately 25X EBITDA.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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 Making Knowledge Workers More Productive Through Disruptive Technology