Live Webinar – September 2nd, 2014 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 2nd, 2014 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM

This is a thought provoking webinar on project leadership that will help you to lead yourself and others more effectively in a project context.

Susanne will discuss the differences between management and leadership and how it relates to you as a project manager. Through powerful strategies, she shows you how you can increase your performance, become a project leader, and differentiate yourself from the competition.

No matter your role or your level of experience there will be powerful lessons to be learned from this webinar. It will help you to:

• Understand the differences between management and leadership
• Apply the strategies that will make you a project leader
• Build effective relationships with your team and stakeholders
• Ask for feedback
• Focus on the 20% of activities that add to 80% of your results

Susanne believes that a great project manager is first and foremost able to manage his or her own state of mind and that project management success is as much about managing people as it is about managing tasks, plans and resources.

As a result she helps people to look inwards and become a better leader; someone who sets a great personal example, who is excellent at inspiring and focusing the team and who also understands how to liaise with the client and senior stakeholders to deliver that which they really need.

Susanne Madsen is a project leadership coach, trainer and consultant and the author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook – Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential. Her new book The Power of Project Leadership – 7 Keys to Help you Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader will be published in January 2015.

Susanne has over 17 years’ experience in managing and rolling out large change programmes of up to $30 million for organizations such as Standard Bank, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. She is a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner and a qualified corporate and executive coach. She is also a Member of the Association for Project Management (APM).

Susanne specializes in helping project managers improve their leadership skills so that they can gain control of their projects and fast-track their career. She does this through a combination of training, coaching, mentoring and consulting.

Visit Susanne’s website at www.susannemadsen.com

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Live Webinar – September 2nd 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

For decades, application developers and IT operations people have been set up in armed camps, often at odds with each other and unable to trace sources of frustration to their root cause.

The business suffers while non-technical people wonder
“what everyone in IT is doing.”

DevOps is a grassroots movement sweeping IT and project shops across the western world.

Like any buzzword, there’s no exact definition and lots of misconception. However, the underlying forces and reasons behind the DevOps movement are clear.

It’s an exciting and heady brew of corporate culture shifts, IT worker empowerment, amazing new tools, cloud computing capabilities, and movement towards a new vision of enterprise IT capability which is unified, agile, and oriented around the needs of the business.

Properly understood, this movement reveals a world where it’s possible to deploy code faster and more effectively than ever – continuously, with an ethic of non-stop quality improvement and value for the business.

In this one-hour presentation, we will take you on a tour of the DevOps movement and explain the massive potential that lies behind it.

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

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

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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Live Webinar – September 2nd, 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

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”

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Live Webinar – September 3rd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: HR.com

Millennials are infiltrating the workforce while managers and older generations are scrambling to understand and work with this fascinating group.

The phrase “What’s up with the kids these days?” is not a new one, but with millennials, there seems to be an entirely new set of challenges and opportunities. By 2015, Millennials will outnumber Boomers in the workforce – Are you ready?

• How are you training your millennial employees to meet the demands of a global economy?

Studies show that regardless of nationality, millennials want meaningful jobs, flexibility, a strong connection to their supervisors and teams, and recognition/appreciation.

• How can you adapt and meet the needs of this changing workforce when it comes to training, learning, and development?

In this engaging webinar, participants learn everything they need to know about millennials around the world.

Learn:

1. What makes this generation tick?
   • Understand the societal shifts that have made Millennials unique.
   • Build relationships by connecting on a personal level
2. What are their assets, liabilities, communication preferences, and top motivators?
   • Use public recognition to encourage desired behavior
   • Empower Millennials to take initiative and have a sense of ownership
   • Enhance skills with training, coaching and mentoring
3. Discover the significant differences in millennials from country to country.
   • How are Millennials from India impacted by their emerging middle class?
   • How have Millennials in China been affected by family planning laws?
4. Manage the entitled expectations of the “trophy” generation
5. Give appropriate structure, explanation and direction

Brad Karsh provides a plan of attack on how to manage, train, and motivate millennials across the world by providing a “SPECIAL” framework of international managerial techniques.

Speakers: Brad Karsh, (LinkedIn profile) President, JB Training Solutions is a accomplished public speaker and author of a number of boos including:

• Manager 3.0: A Millennial’s Guide to Rewriting the Rules of Management
• Confessions of a Recruiting Director: The Insider’s Guide to Landing Your First Job
• How to Say It on Your Resume: A Top Recruiting Director’s Guide to Writing the Perfect Resume for Every Job

NOTE:  Jeff Hiller Training director of JB Training Solutions may be the speaker for this event.

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 DUDE, WHAT’S MY JOB? Developing and Training Millennials in Today’s Global Workforce