Live Webinar March 4th 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar explores and explains different interpersonal communication styles.

You will learn how to leverage your strengths, read other people and adapt situationally to optimize individual and organizational performance.

Presenter: Deborah Herting (LinkedIn profile)  MPA, MSOD, PMP, CPVA, CPBA Founder and CEO at The Deborah Group is the author of The Power of Interpersonal Skills in Project Management.

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Live Webinar March 6th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

A Wall Street Journal article postulates that innovation comes from inside a company through networks—not lone individuals.

The authors offers strategies to cultivate innovation, such as making efforts to break down the walls between company departments, rapidly testing and refining ideas, and figure out whether there are people in the chain of command who are hard to work with.

But for most large organizations, this “formula” for innovation is difficult to implement.

Change, especially innovative change, is often is met with organizational resistance. Conversely, the culture of the organization often expresses collective frustrations with the limitations of business processes and underlying technologies to support business needs.

Doug Jackson, (LinkedIn profile) senior director of the Business Analysis Practice for Robbins Gioia , and Paula Pierce, (Peridona Strategies bio, LinkedIn profile) CEO and principal transformation strategist, Peridona Strategies LLC, conduct an interactive session on integrating business analysis and organizational change management to create an environment for innovation and successful change.

They will examine problems that prevent establishing successful innovation networks and provide an approach using best practices from both disciplines to help organizations harvest and test innovative ideas.

Upon Completion, You will:

1. Identify the root of change resistance in our organizations
2. Identify and capitalize on existing networks
3. Apply BA and OCM best practices to create an environment for innovation.

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Live March 6th, 2014 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EST
Presented by : Power Seminars
Duration: 2 Hours Credits: 2 Category B PDUs – $39/$79 2 PDUs

NOTE: Early Bird savings 2 PDUs only $39.00 before February 28th $79.00 after that.

Are you frustrated and tired at the end of your International Development project and don’t know what to do about it? Are you having challenges with your sponsors and funders and their requirements with their metrics?

Then International Development Projects – Challenges and Opportunities webinar is for you.

Why you should attend

• Do you know how to improve the effectivness of International Development Projects?
• Did you know that the success rate of projects has been measured to go up from 15% to 50% using Project Management methodology?

Course Summary

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is widely recognized all around the world, with PMI members numbering around 500,000. After following the PMI´s methodologies, the success rate of projects has been measured to go up from 15% to 50%. PMBOK is generally better known in the private sector and lacks a strong recognition in the world of international development projects and programs.

The PMBOK is an important conceptual framework for developing projects and presents an opportunity and a way forward to reform international development management practices. Nevertheless it is underutilized and PMI certification is not yet seen as a real asset for donor institutions and host countries.

So how can we effectively show the advantages of Project Management to attract multilateral, bilateral donor agencies and project managers that work in International development projects?

From social development to infrastructure, international development projects face their unique challenges. Problems that cause many project failures are attributed to institutional rather than technical issues. In order to transform the challenges to opportunities, International Development projects should be managed using proven tools and techniques, the same way as standard projects.

The objective of this two hour Webinar is to grow awareness of how organizations would benefit a great deal if they were to adopt the effective project management and project management skills that PMBOK has to offer.

Benefits:

• Appreciate the possibilities and the range of tools and techniques that project management has to offer the International Development world
• Understand how donor organizations would benefit by adopting Project Management methodology for International Development Projects
• Comprehend that it’s a proven technique that allows both donor institutions and host countries to speak a common language.
• Learn how Project Management methodology can provide a common structured environment with standards and measurable techniques.
• Realize how Project Management can offer basic tools that improve performance and save time

Presenter: Esen Akter Tekinel, PMP (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar – March 4th, 2014 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

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

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

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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’

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