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Live Webinar – July 29th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

In the business world, we hear a lot about technology and disruption, and their many challenges. But we’re also starting to hear more about pitfalls related to the human side of business…gaps in the “soft skills” that are equally critical to successful people and companies.

Although many of these skills gaps are nothing new, they are more relevant than ever, and in some cases have been made worse by disruption.

Without core professional skills like communication, initiative, leadership, and etiquette, no team can be truly great and no professional can be truly successful.

You probably deal with the consequences of “soft skill” deficits every day: communication breakdown, misunderstanding, conflict, and damaged morale – just to name a few.

These are productivity killers, and the root causes are broad. There are rising cross-generational differences, a growing lack of interpersonal skills, differences in personality and culture, and erosion in consensus about what constitutes professional behavior.

The good news is that there are teachable skills to address these challenges, and accessible techniques to overcome them. In this free one-hour presentation, we’ll take a look at some of the most common “People Problems” in the mainstream business world, and how we can start dealing with them.

Key topics include:

  • How to communicate effectively
  • Overcoming generational and cultural barriers
  • Leveraging emotional intelligence in the business environment
  • Encouraging self-awareness while building a team mentality
  • Keeping action and culture tied to productivity

Although these needs aren’t new in the business world, even seasoned veterans are beginning to see the need for a “reloaded” approach to developing these skills. This will be a high-level conversation about how to navigate these soft skills as we face continuing changes in business landscapes and a rising new generation of professionals.

Presenter: Chris Knotts PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director

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 Core Professional Skills: A 60 minute Primer

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Live Webinar July 29th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Want To Get The Most Out Of Your Usability Testing?

Start with the question: What are you trying to learn about your design and your audience?

Each question suggests the right usability testing method. It’s more than just remote vs. in-person. Are you trying to find out what happens or why it happens?

Trying to dig into what makes a design work best, or understand what people really need and want.

Those usability goals all suggest different ways to run the test.

Lou and Whitney will put the goals together with a recipe for planning a usability test, so you can mix your own.

This session will leave you  thinking about:

  • Location and context: formal to informal
  • Recruiting: defined to opportunistic
  • Activities: instructed tasks to free tasks
  • Questions: structured to unstructured
  • Data collection: observation to task/data only
  • Results: quantitative to qualitative

You can look beyond a single test, and think about how to use the right tool at the right time, with a balance of methods, and a ‘cadence’ that fits into your design and development schedule.

In the end, you’ll be able to match your questions to the right usability test method to get those answers.

Presenter:  Whitney Quesenbery (LinkedIn profile, @whitneyq) is the author of written three books  Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design and Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World to help practitioners keep users in mind throughout the creative process. Her latest book, A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences is a collaboration with Sarah Horton. Look for Whitney’s next event on Lanyrd.

Presenter: Lou Rosenfeld (bio) is the author of the best-selling Books Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites and Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers ), Lou is also founder of Rosenfeld Media, co-founder of the annual Information Architecture Summit, and the Information Architecture Institute

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

  • 5.2 Collect Requirements
  • 5.3 Define Scope
  • 8.1 Plan Quality
  • 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 What You Can Learn From A Usability Test

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Presented by: PDUs2go (Rep 1637)
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3 Little Words You Should Never Forget as a PMP Project Manager

No, we’re not talking about “I Love You”, but there are 3 little words that will help propel your career to new places. Find out what they are by downloading this course today!

Remember When Project Management was New And You Felt Energized?

Well – You can have that again!

If you’ve been a Project Manager for some time then you know what it means to have “been there, done that.” You’ve seen it all and have the battle scars to show for your experience!

The downside of this experience is that it can zap you of some of the energy and zeal you had in the early days of your project manager career. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what you know now and have the energy that you had when you first started?

Jenifer Bridges newest 1 PDU Course is entitled “4 Ways to Stay Energized as a PMP Project Manager ” and includes such insights as:

  • 4 Ways to Stay Energized as a Project Manager – Find out how you can get out of your project management rut
  • 3 Words You Should Never Forget as a PMP Project Manager – Keep these 3 little words in mind and propel your career forward
  • 4 Steps to Optimize Your Team’s Performance – This includes a helpful matrix of making the most of your team member’s thinking styles, and
  • The Spirit of Being a PMP Project Manager – Never lose sight of the big picture!

This Category A PDUs will get you feeling energized about your career and help you create happier teams and better project successes!

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Live Webinar July 29th, 2014 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)

Lean Coffee:
A Stylized Framework For Meeting Facilitation.

As professional project managers we must have solutions for every situation.

Teams look to us as leaders to help them through troubled times, disagreement, heated discussions, and to put organization to their chaos.

One of the most valuable skills that a project manager can master is the art of facilitation.

This powerful tool is an asset to any project managers collection. In this session, you will learn the origin of Lean Coffee and how to understand the practice. You will also participate in an actual Lean Coffee session.

Presenter: Elaine Law (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for What is Lean Coffee And How Can I Work it in as a Project Manager

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Live Webinar July 30th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Ethics CoP (REP #S050)

Join Dr. Maulik Baxi (LinkedIn profile) as he presents this very informative webinar on Health Ethics in the context of Project Management.

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

Click to register for Public Health Ethics In The Context Of Project Management

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Live Webinar July 29th, 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

No One Enjoys Heartburn!

Good decision-making is critical for achieving–and sustaining–organizational excellence. Yet leaders and managers faced with daily decisions are often on auto-pilot, using instinct and intuition to just get the job done.

As any flight crew will tell you, there are times when auto-pilot has to be over-ridden and critical thinking applied.

The same is true of organizational decisions.

If asked to break down “how we decide,” most of us struggle to put our approach into words. From “whoever says it the loudest wins” to “let’s vote on it,” many organizations fail to make the best choices. And they miss an important opportunity to empower and elevate the performance of their people through decision-making.

In this webcast, Rebecca will explore the critical role that decision-making plays in organizations.

You will learn about:

  1. The psychology of decision-making
  2. How to identify and manage conflict through the process of decision-making
  3. How the path to the best-balanced choice is a springboard to better employee engagement, empowerment and satisfaction.

Presented by: Rebecca George (LinkedIn profile) Client Relationship Manager / Consultant Kepner-Tregoe, Inc.

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 Going with Your Gut Can be a Recipe for Heartburn: Optimize Your Organization’s Decision Making Process