Live Webinar – Jan 21st 2014, 9:30 am – 10:30 pm EST
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat A – Free PDU

Professional and Persuasive Presentations is the third module in the Leadership and Business Skills for IT Professionals series.

During this session Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) will talk about common presentation challenges, and provide tips on how to effectively structure and deliver a professional and persuasive presentation.

The webinar will include the following elements:

• The challenges of presenting
• What makes an effective speaker
• Structuring your message
• Presenting with confidence – managing your nerves

Click to register for Delivering Persuasive Presentations

Live Webinar Jan 21st, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category A – Free
Presenter: Versatile Project Management (REP 1524)

Successful projects begin with achievable goals!

Accurate estimates play a critical role in every project. They are used to justify the project, to coordinate activity, and to evaluate the success. Consistently accurate estimates are a sign of mature project management practices.

In this webinar you’ll learn:

• The factors that make estimates accurate – and where to focus your attention to improve your accuracy.
• How phase gates can calibrate your confidence.
• The most important success factor for accurate estimating.

A Webinar Preview

Click to register for Seven Estimating Success Factors – How To Create Better Estimates

Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

How Do You Build Your Scorecard?

Although using metrics is common, what is not common to most organizations is the implementation of a continuous improvement and an auditing process to ensure that the scorecards have the right kind of metrics.

In order to track overall business performance, most organizations have some form of business scorecard or balanced scorecard in place.

Whether using a simple spread sheet or a comprehensive scorecard software technology, scorecards are driven by the development and leveraging of specific, tactical measures commonly known as metrics.

When done correctly, metrics allow leaders to know both the expected results (goals), the actual results (outcomes) and give leaders an opportunity to focus future efforts on continually improving performance.

The first step in improving your scorecards is to have the ability to identify and eliminate the metrics that you simply don’t need.

Learn about the 3 Kinds of Business Metrics:

1. The Meaningful
2. The Nice-to-Know
3. The Stuff filling up my screen

Join this webinar to learn some great tips on how to develop effective scorecards.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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’

Click to register for How to Leverage your KPIs to Elevate Employee Engagement

Live Webinar Jan 22nd, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Better Manage Your Multigenerational Employees

With four generations in the workforce today, tensions are inevitable but problems are avoidable.

These generations think differently, vote differently, buy differently, and dress differently. Work ethic, respect, turnover, dress code, communication tools, fun at work can create real problems for managers and organizations, or they can provide opportunities to bring the generations together.

The bottom line is that what worked in the past doesn’t work now.

Members of one generation will often grumble about another generation using stereotypes that mire a team in needless sticking points. This webcast will show you a practical approach to get the four generations working together.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

• The most important stereotype-busting “ghost stories” that explain why each generation thinks the way they do
• The 12 most frequent generational tensions and what organizations are doing about them
• A proven 5-step process that gets the generations figuring out for themselves how to work through sticking points and get more done together.

This proven 5-step process gets the generations working through perceived difficulties and getting more done.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: Haydn Shaw (LinkedIn profile) has researched and helped clients regarding generational differences for over 20 years. TIME called him “an expert on cultural differences at the office.” He is author of Sticking Points: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart, and his research formed the basis of FranklinCovey’s bestselling workshops and Working Across Generations. Haydn also blogs for the Huffington Post.

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 How to Get the Generations Working Together

Live Webinar Jan 21st, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Never Miss Your Goals Again

Have you ever experienced hit-and-miss results despite doing all the right things?

It makes you wonder if a sure-fire roadmap to achieving professional and personal targets even exists.

Discover the biggest mistake people make with goal achievement and how to ensure you hit your sales and marketing targets every time.

Attend this live webinar to learn:

• What the latest neuroscience research reveals about decision making
• The fundamental reason why people and businesses fail to achieve targets
• Goal-setting strategies that can give you the edge in sales and marketing
• How GoToWebinar helped Manj hit his own global goal overnight

Presenter : Manj Weerasekera (LinkedIn profile) Lotus Coaching

Click to register for How to Absolutely Nail Your Goals