Live Webinar October 1st, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

How can leaders and Human Resources professionals use effective, simple and research-based talent management practices to contribute to their organization’s success? Too many leadership development theories provide complex and confusing answers.

Join Jocelyn Bérard as he shares the core practices introduced in his new book, Accelerating Leadership Development, which reflects his extensive research and years of experience in making leadership development uncomplicated and practical.

This free, one-hour webinar that will uncover:

• Six High Potential Leadership factors: What they are and how you can observe them.
• Critical steps and actions to accelerate the development of leaders: How to leverage assessment, self‐awareness and a “learning while working / working while learning” approach.
• Practical ways to improve your communication, influence others and create alignment of resources to business strategy.
• The tactical and the strategic utilization of delegation and feedback

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Live Webinar – October 1st, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

This webinar serves as both an introduction to design patterns as well as why they are important in the Agile world.

It also presents a more powerful way of looking at patterns than mere solutions to recurring problems in a context.

Patterns have long been thought of as a means of handling variation, which they are. But this variation can be more than just two ways of doing things at a current time.

It can be how we do it now and how we’ll need to do it in the future. This insight enables patterns to be a great approach to drive emergent design.

Patterns can be understood at three levels:

• Patterns as solutions to recurring problems in a context
• Patterns as solutions to recurring problems in a context
• Patterns as a conceptual approach to solving particular problems
• Patterns as a way of resolving forces in your problem domain

Most folks think of patterns as one of the first two types. However, the real power of patterns start when one considers them as a way to better understand one’s problem domain and then craft solutions geared toward the challenge to be solved.

This webinar discusses:

• The thinking underneath design patterns
• How they can be used to help understand one’s problem domain
• How this approach is essential in in Agile development

Outline:

• The thought process of design patterns
• Looking at 2 common patterns conceptually – Strategy, The Template Method
• Patterns as a way of encapsulating variation

Attendees will:

• Understand the thought process behind design patterns
• Deepen their understanding of design patterns
• See why patterns are so useful in in Agile development

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Live Webinar October 1st, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

The real challenge of programming isn’t learning a language’s syntax—it’s learning to creatively solve problems so you can build something great. In this one-of-a-kind webcast, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down some of the ways that programmers solve problems and teaches you how to Think Like a Programmer.

In this webcast we answer the questions:

• What is “problem solving” for programmers, and why is it so important?
• Can it be learned, or do some people just “get it”?
• How can someone develop his or her problem-solving ability?
• What are some of the basic techniques of problem-solving for programmers?

Presenter: V. Anton Spraul (LinkedIn profile) has over fifteen years of experience teaching introductory programming and other topics in computer science. His latest book, Think Like a Programmer, is a distillation of the techniques he has honed over many one-on-one sessions with struggling programmers. He is also the author of Computer Science Made Simple.

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’

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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

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

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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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