Live Webinar Jan 16th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Tired of dreading your inbox?
TAME Your Inbox Once & For All

Did You Know?

• The average U.S. worker spends 41% of their work day in their inbox.” – Rescue Time
• Each day a typical office employee checks email 50 times and uses IM 77 times. – Rescue Time
• Email volume is growing at a rate of 66% per year. – E-Policy Research Institute

41% of your day spent processing emails is probably NOT the best use of your time

It is a new year and it is time for you to retake control and halt the incessant interruption assault.

Email is not going away and other forms of communication are only compounding your information overload. Your productivity, your team’s productivity and your organization’s productivity are at stake. Tame your inbox once and for all.

Join presenter Carson Tate, (LinkedIn profile) Principal at Working Simply, for an interactive webcast that will show you how to tame your inbox, leverage the technology tools to streamline and automate email processing and write more effective emails.

During the webcast you will have an opportunity to try and apply the strategies so that at the end of the webinar you will have taken the necessary steps to tame your inbox.

In this webcast you will learn:

1. How to more quickly and efficiently read and respond to email
2. How to reduce the volume of email
3. How to automatically prioritize incoming messages
4. How to automatically track follow up emails
5. How to minimize the time spend on routine emails
6. Organize file folders for faster retrieval
7. Write effective emails

If you’re tired of dreading your inbox and want to start the new year off in control, you won’t want to miss this webinar! Tame your inbox once and for all!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control Communications

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 Tame My Inbox: Strategies and Techniques to Take Back Control Of Your Inbox and Your Day

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Live Webinar – January 27th, 2014 2:00 pm EST
Live Webinar – January 16th, 2014 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Project Portfolio Management Simplified

Live Webinar – January 14th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

While our world is now fully global, most educational institutions are failing us drastically when it comes to preparing employees to work across cultures.

While most jobs nowadays require some type of across the border interaction, too few employees are appropriately prepared to avoid the cross-cultural land mines that lay within the international arena.

Through this session, participants will learn how to:

• Discover the different cultural dimensions at play when interacting across cultures
• Position themselves within cultures
• Learn about culturally different leadership styles
• Tweak their communication style to bond across cultures
• Adjust their culturally rooted expectations

Training for international success is indeed required today.

Integrating cultural intelligence and developing a global mindset are effective ways to reduce frustration and failure for those who are part of a global organization.

This session will be useful to anyone who is part of a multicultural distributed team, in charge of either purchasing or selling abroad–or simply interacting with people located in different time zones.

Speaker: Valérie Berset-Price (LinkedIn profile) As a dual citizenValérie is an experienced international troubleshooter, cross-cultural communication expert, trainer and coach. She has lectured at the University of San Diego School of Business Administration’s Master of Sciences in Global Leadership. been the Guest of Honor at the Fall’s Lectureship of Oklahoma State University and a guest speaker at the World Customs Organization, the U.S. Embassy of Santiago.

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 Cultural Intelligence: Effective Tools for the Global Workforce

Live Webinar Jan 14th, 2014 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Organizational Project Management CoP (REP #S043)

This presentation explores how organizational project managers can leverage involvement in the Business Development (BD) life cycle to create reduced risk for program delivery.

In particular, the presentation will introduce OPM Community members to Version 2.0 of the Capability Maturity Model® for Business Development (BD-CMM) and show how it can be used to establish continuity with practices advocated in PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).

In exploring the connections between BD-CMM and OPM3, the discussion will explore industry experience in improving BD performance and how this positions programs for reduced risk and greater success during delivery.

Participants will take away an enhanced strategy for building, deploying, and leveraging an end-to-end approach to managing their organization’s overall business life cycle.

Presenter: Howard Nutt (LinkedIn profile) has been a BD professional for more than 30 years and is currently Executive Director of the Business Development Institute International. He was one of the organizers and a long-time board member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). Howard has worked both within industry and as an executive consultant with both large and small corporations in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, India, and the Asia Pacific.

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

Click to register for Reducing Program Risk by Better Business Development

Live Webinar January 15th, 2013 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Join the QuantumPM experts as they take you through their top five tips to keep your project server environment in excellent health.

They will share some of the good, bad, and ugly issues we have seen and let you in on some of our secrets for preventing and eliminating these problems. Tips include both Project Server and Project Professional best practices.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for PMO Best Practices: Top Five Tips for Keeping Your Project Server Environment Healthy

Live Webinar – January 14th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
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’

Click to register for Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!