Live Webinar Sept 17th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Many business professionals struggle to write because they can’t clearly define what good writing is and then do it every time they write.

In addition, the skills they learned in school don’t match the way information-overloaded business readers read.

These written messages are grammatically correct, but fail to get results.

Write it Right provides five practical techniques to help business professionals get better results from written communication.

In this webinar, Diane will focus on techniques that anyone can implement to improve their writing skills as well as their credibility.

Diane will also demystify writing and make it easier and faster to write simple messages as well as more complex documents.

You will learn:

1. How information-overloaded readers read and why most writers don’t write that way.
2. What effective writing is (the recipe) so you can do it quickly and easily.
3. How to get crystal clear about your purpose.
4. How to create a purpose line subject line as well as a strong opening.
5. Six techniques to eliminate unnecessary detail and words.

About the Presenter: Diane Brewster-Norman, (LinkedIn profile), Ph.D, has more than 25 years of experience helping clients improve organizational communication in today’s hectic workplace where communicating more effectively and in less time is paramount.

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Live Webinar Sept 17th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Strategic change initiatives are profiling in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture to help assess and plan them.

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability. Some would argue that it is already there considering 50% of the world’s top performing enterprises have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator.

The tools and techniques of business architecture should be foundational to strategy development, deployment and executive planning. This webinar intends to demonstrate the business architecture framework, describe the what, why, how and uses of some architectural blueprints.

Learning Objectives:

1. Purpose and benefits of Business Architecture to scope, planning and delivery.
2. Applicability of Business Architecture in the context of the rapid Change Agenda
3. Business Architecture framework and a variety of approaches to know when to use model types.
4. Different views of a business architecture framework and how analysis techniques will expose risk.
5. To think architecturally in the decomposition of the organization as a technique for defining organizational impact, scope and for Process Modeling & Requirements analysis methods.

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Live Webinar – September 17th, 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 (PMBOK 5) 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’

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Live Webinar Sept 17th, 2013, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

Unit testing is all the rage and more and more teams are beginning to unit test, especially with agile methodologies coming into play in many organizations.

True, it’s not always easy to change methods and work habits, but in order to maintain code quality by minimizing bugs and releasing clean working code to market, you need to incorporate developer testing into your daily routine, including unit testing.

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Difference between QA & developer testing
2. Pains of manual testing
3. Benefits of automated testing
4. Why unit test
5. xUnit frameworks
6. Difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

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Live IIL Webinar – Sept 16th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: LI0005

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.

Explore how the complexity of working virtually can fuel conflict, and how best to prevent and resolve conflict if it arises.

In this webinar, we will examine the components of the communication model that get taxed when teams work virtually. You will also gain an understanding of how ground rules, relationship deposits and mindshare serve as preventative measures to conflict.

If a conflict occurs when working virtually, understand what steps to take to resolve the issue and learn from the incident to prevent it from happening again.

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

• Define the various parts of the Communication Model, and explore the level of complexity added by working virtually
• Describe the impact of working virtually on managing conflict
• Understand various conflict resolution strategies
• Discuss some best practices for managing conflict virtually

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

Live Webinar September 17th, 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)

All too often companies apply standards and models (such as CMMI, ISO) by first training a core team, then creating and implementing “best practices” oriented processes.

In this webinar ITMPI will describe a more Zen-like approach to achieving lasting improvements.

Click to register for Zen Maturity: A Natural Multi-Model Approach

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