Archive for April, 2014

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Live Webinar April 16th, 2014 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

At the heart of every great leader is a great coach

Leaders who understand how to effectively coach their teams see greater employee engagement, retention, and business results – and employees reap the benefits too.

In today’s complex and rapidly changing environment, employees need more than just performance-based feedback.

By leading through coaching, managers can engage employees in longer-term development discussions, and change the game for the entire organization.

Join Judah Kurtz (LinkedIn profile) & Geri Richmond (LinkedIn profile) for this webcast to learn how to develop your own coaching capability, and create a more collaborative and productive working environment for your team.

You’ll learn:

  1. Why great leaders coach
  2. How to adopt the right mindset for effective coaching conversations
  3. An easy-to-use coaching framework
  4. The four key coaching skills necessary for day-to-day coaching conversations

PDU Category C 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 Leaders Who Coach Can Change the Game: A Guide to Developing Your Coaching Skills

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Live Webinar April 16th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:  1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Category A – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: The Versatile Project Management Company (REP 1524)

Many organizations have implemented SharePoint – but few understand how to leverage SharePoint to manage project.

Join this webinar to learn:

  • The most important factor to drive project mangement maturity.
  • Why SharePont is easier to use than Excel for managing tasks.
  • How to reduce the time spent preparing status reports while you increase you Sponsors engagement.
  • And much more!

Eric Verzuh has merged his Fast Forward MBA in Project Management into SharePoint to make a powerful, practical way to manage projects.

Speaker : Eric Verzuh founder and President, of The versatile Management Company is recognized around the world as an authority on practical project leadership. Eric has written the best seller The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management.

Click to register for Managing Projects with Sharepoint & MS Project

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Live Webinar April 16th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
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.

Do your Team Members Feel Valued?

With the growing trend of distraction and dysfunction in the workplace, more people are seeking to be the valued team members they feel they should be.

Consultants and authors Mark Thompson and Bonita Buell-Thompson, along with researcher Clifford Nass, have assembled new, clear strategies for anyone wanting to become a truly valued contributor both at work and in their personal lives.

This webcast will present recent study data and lay out the tactical, practical steps required for this type of change.

Sir Richard Branson will be a special guest on this program, answering questions program registrants have submitted in advance.

Topics to be covered include:

  • The myth of multitasking
  • The power of reciprocity
  • Removing the distractions

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.3 Develop 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”

Presenters:

Mark Thompson is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of  Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters and  Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market . His latest book, with coauthor Bonita Buell-Thompson, is Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value.

Bonita Buell-Thompson is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University and is research director for Success Built to Last and Now, Build a Great Business. She spent 25 years in corporate human resources and created the first corporate intranet at such companies as Levi Strauss, Bank of America, Genentech, Pacific Telesis and others.

Sir Richard Branson (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Virgin Group, which consists of more than 400 companies around the world, including the airlines Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America, wireless company Virgin Mobile. Branson started his first business when he was 16 and in 1972 he opened a chain of record stores that kick-started his Virgin brand.

Sir Richard Branson is the author of numerous books including:

Click to register for Becoming a Valued Player: A Toolkit for Personal and Professional Success

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Live Webinar – April 17th, 2014 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical? These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

  • Poor resource utilization
  • Frustrated resources
  • Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
  • Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

  • Decreased risk
  • Higher ROI
  • Optimized resource utilization
  • Maximum aggregate value of projects

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: 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 Tr

Click to register for How to Prioritize Projects When Each One is Critical

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Live Webinar April 17th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

What’s Wrong With The Way We Think?

Consider the decisions that led to the Lehman’s Brothers collapse and the financial crisis that resulted. Or Kodak’s decision to hold off on marketing the digital camera they first invented in 1975 for fear it would hurt their lucrative film business.

These are just two examples of decisions by leaders that had devastating results.

They are not alone.
Poor thinking is endemic across all organizations.

In this webcast Rebecca George (LinkedIn profile) will delve into the different approaches to thinking and how they can determine and define organizational effectiveness.

Rebecca will explore:

  1. Identifying styles of thinking
  2. Influences on our thinking processes
  3. Behaviors that encourage quality thinking
  4. Curiosity as a pillar of the thinking culture

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 Slow Down So You Can Speed Up: How Critical Thinking Drives Quality Outputs

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Project Manager Success Summit

Live 3 day Free Conference – April 25th, 26th & 27th, 2014
Presented by: Michael Charles, PMP / PM Leadership Coach
EARN Up to 19 PDUs Credits: Category B 19 PDU – Free PDUs

Below are the session and speaker information for:
April 26th Day 2 of the Summit
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PDU Of The Day  Featured Day 1 – April 25th, speaker presentations on our site Monday April 7th
The information for Day 3  April 27th will be on Friday April 11th on PDU Of The Day

The summit is a 3-day VALUE-PACKED event where the world’s top project management and leadership experts, trainers, coaches and thought leaders are brought together to share insights, practical tips and strategies to help you become a more effective and successful leader in order to achieve better, quality results through your team.

Sixteen (16) interviews/presentations spread out over 3 consecutive days all meant to empower you to lead effectively.  There will also be THREE(3) ADDITIONAL BONUS PRESENTATIONS for your growth and enjoyment.

That’s a total of 19 interviews /presentations.

Click Project Manger Success Summit

Once you register, you will be given access to the session schedule and speaker’s swag.

NOTE:  Sessions are available during a 24 hour period free – Recordings can be purchased after the event.

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Day 2 – Saturday, April 26th

Speakers and Presentations

Susanne Madsen

Susanne Madsen PMP APM

Susanne Madsen – (LinkedIn Profile @SusanneMadsen) Program Director, Project Leadership Coach, author of Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential Susanne’s newest book will be released later this year – and some of her articles have been translated into Spanish and Russian. 

Susan’s years of experience in managing and rolling out large change programs brought out her passion for helping project managers get to the next level. Her experience working with investment banks enhanced her passion to help organizations set-up corporate coaching and mentoring programmes. Susanne is also a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner as well as a qualified Corporate and Executive coach.

Susanne is a Keynote Speaker and has facilitated many webinars and sessions for a number of PDU Providers.  In March 2013 Susanne was the guest on #pmchat The topic Coaching for Project Managers was archived on Storify. Visit Susanne’s website at www.susannemadsen.com

Project Leadership: The World Needs your Genius and it Needs your Leadership

In this thought-provoking talk about project leadership Susanne Madsen will show you how you can differentiate yourself from the competition and improve your performance without spending long hours in the office. You will learn to avoid fire fighting, unhappy clients and project failure and instead use the project you are currently working on to propel yourself to the next level.

No matter your level of experience there are powerful lessons to be learnt from this talk:

  • Understand the differences between management and leadership
  • Learn to apply the most powerful project leadership strategies
  • Focus on the 20% of activities that add to 80% of your results
  • Build a high performing team
  • Avoid failure and redundancy
  • Become a more inspirational and appealing leader
  • Win the trust of sceptical stakeholders

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Peter De Jager

Peter de Jager (LinkedIn profile  @pdejager)  is a very highly respected keynote speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to managing change of all shapes and sizes in all types of organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on Problem Solving, Creativity and Change Management – to the impact of technology on areas such as Privacy, Security and Business Issues appearing in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.

Peter is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – For which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies.  He has also written several regular columns and presented sessions to world class organizations.

Peter has spoken in over 35 countries recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker.

Peter’s Kindle publications include A Pocket Full Of Change about Organizational ChangeSo? You’re a Manager… Now What?, and Truth Picks Vol I. A Truth Pick is a short, pointed commentary on a popular quote – For Peter these “Truth Picks” was a personal morning meditation he was publishing – which  blossomed until several thousand people were reading them on a daily basis.

Peters presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively – provocative. He entices the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated beliefs and behaviors, to think differently about what they thought they knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com and view his videos at Vimeo.com/technobility.

The Seven Key Questions of Change Management

What must we do to bring about a Change initiative as smoothly as possible? Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

This isn’t exactly news. We sort of get this. I can ask any audience to tell me the ‘secret’ to good Change and they repeat back “Communicate, Communicate and Communicate some more!” as if its been forcefully injected into their cerebellum. The problem arises when the questioning becomes a bit more detailed, “What exactly should we Communicate?”

The response to that question is usually either a blank stare or the reasonable recitation of the reporter’s standby; Who, What, Where, When, How and Why. Not a bad start. If you’re writing a news article, then these are good solid questions. The Change Management problem requires all of those, and a few others. It’s not that the reporter’s questions are a poor tool, it’s just that they don’t address the peculiar psychology of the Change challenge.

In this presentation, Peter will present a “Pareto Spanning Set” of questions. These questions will cover the bulk of the key concerns of those facing any change.

For “More Great Learning Opportunities”
View Over 60 Hours of Webinar Sessions by Peter deJager

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Traci Duez

Traci Duez (LinkedIn profile)  is an accomplished and sought-after speaker. She has spoken at over 100 events in the last 4 years including international locations such as Trinidad, Canada, and Amsterdam. Traci is the CEO Axiogenics a Certified Coach, and a member of the John Maxwell Team as well as the author of Breaking Free: Leading the Way: Learning First to Lead Yourself  Traci Has an excellent grasp of “Breaking Free” though her  20+ years experiencing various roles from medical technologist to laboratory informatics specialist; from project manager to director of an IT consulting firm.

5 Steps to Grow Your Influence, Lead Effectively, and Deliver Better Results

  • Every choice that you make comes down to a judgment in value.
  • Do you know the principles of Value Dynamics?
  • Did you know that there is a mathematically based science (axiology) that can teach you how to make better choices?

Your influence is a matter of your ability to judge value. Your effectiveness as a leader and your ability to prioritize and deliver quality results are dependent upon your ability to judge value. In this presentation and interview, you will learn the basics of Axiology’s Hierarchy of Value (HOV). You will also discover how to measure your own Personal HOV and how to use your best perspectives to make better choices and take better actions. We will discuss how your VQs (value judgment quotients) are far more important than your IQ or EQ. Finally you will learn how to focus on generating value from your strengths and how to strengthen your strengths to achieve more success.

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Christian Bisson

Christian Bisson PMP

Christian Bisson (LinkedIn profile) has been a team leader, a production director, and eventually chosen the path of project management where he obtained his PMP certification. He loves to manage, organize, lead, find solutions, but mostly, I love to improve everything – causing “Continuous Improvement Initiatives” where ever he goes!

Share Christian focus on the impacts that real teams can have on productivity with this terrific session and make sure not to miss reading his blog.

Making the Most of Continuous Improvement in Project Management

“Continuous improvement”: an ongoing effort to improve what we do, how we work, who we are. It’s important since if our tools, our processes, our team, and we evolve, then all of our projects evolve. Isn’t it obvious we must consider improvement in our everyday lives?

Yet continuous improvement persists to stay secondary in our filled schedules. Why? How can we change that? In this presentation, Christian will explain the challenges of continuous improvement and give strategies and tips to help tackle them and get you on your way to improving every aspect of your projects and your career.

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Michael Charles

Michael Charles

Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development.  Michael did a great webinar for the PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004) called Communicating to Connect (which is worth 1 Category A PDU).  Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti.  Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.

Project Management at the Speed of Trust

When you have to quickly develop a team and get them working together to achieve a common goal, trust become a very important factor. Trust is the foundation on influence and without influence we cannot do our jobs well as project managers.

Trust could be the difference between the success and the failure of the project. Join us and learn

  1. The economics of trust
  2. Behaviors that helps build trust quickly
  3. Techniques you can use to genuinely build trust  with your team members and stakeholders to achieve more with your team

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Click Project Manger Success Summit

Once you register, you will be given access to the session schedule and speaker’s swag.