Live Webinar – August 12th 2014, 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Bart Vandermosten (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the competencies needed to minimise or eliminate project failures and provide you with a practical model to deliver influential messages.

The webinar will include the following elements:

• Top reasons why projects fail
• The successful Project Manager competency model
• Interpersonal skills for Project Managers
• Practical model to deliver influential messages

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
• 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 Maximizing Project Success: Personal Effectiveness for Project Managers

Live Webinar August 13th, 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.

Are You Ready To Take On The Role Of “Questioner-in-Chief?”

In this webcast, Warren Berger, author of the new bestselling book A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, explains why today’s business executives must be more comfortable asking questions, and encouraging those around them to question more.

In this 60-minute program, Berger will walk you through:

• How dynamic change in today’s marketplace creates the need for more and better questioning by leaders
• Research showing that the most successful CEOs are usually expert questioners
• How to create a “Culture of Inquiry” in your company
• Why some leaders don’t feel comfortable asking questions (and how they can overcome that)
• How to get better at asking “actionable questions” that lead to tangible results

Most Importantly, Warren will also share some of the most important questions that every business leader today should be asking themselves.

He will also explain why you might want to consider replacing your company’s “mission statement” with something more engaging and compelling—namely, a “mission question.”

For more information, visit: AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the 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’

 Presenter: Warren Berger is an author and expert on design thinking and innovation. He has analyzed how asking game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. His  bestselling books include: Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life and A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. He has appeared on numerous television programs and spoken as an expert on NPR’s All Things Considered and TEDx Portland.  

Click to register for The Curious Leader: Harnessing the Power of Inquiry

Live Webinar August 7th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Discover how to reshape, re-imagine and reinvent the way your organization comes together.

Join this live webinar to learn:

• 7 Principles of modern meetings
• Which meetings you can eliminate today
• How to fine-tune your meeting strategy
• And more…

Presenters : Michael Parrish DuDell (LinkedIn profile) author of Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash & Al Pittampalli (bio) author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 13 – Stakeholder

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

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 Meet The Modern Meeting!

Online Webinar  –  Recorded May 23th 2014
Duration: 1 Horur – 1 Category A PDU / CDU – Free PDU / CDU
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) CourseID: WS032814

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that  experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

In This session you will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Presenter: Darrel Raynor PMP CBAP (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director, Data Analysis & Results Darrel is a veteran project consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise

Click to register for Critical Thinking Skills: A Practical Guide to Structured Analytics Techniques

Live Webinar – August 8th 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

The Content Organizer is a SharePoint feature that can automatically manage some important library tasks.

• This saves organizations time and effort but is also a useful tool in Business Process Automation.
• It takes much of the “need to know” away from end users so they can focus on their jobs while SharePoint handles categorization and classification of information.

Content Organizer offers the following features:

• Routing documents to different libraries or folders,
• Drop Off Library, folder size management
• Automatic folder creation,
• Duplicate item resolution, and
• Auditing.

Content Organizer is another of the powerful tools offered in SharePoint 2013. This tool allows organizations to manage information automatically.

The topics that will be covered in this webinar:

• What is Content Organizer?
• How does Content Organizer help an organization manage information?
• Using Content Organizer to route documents
• Using Content Organizer to build a Drop Off library
• Managing folder size and duplicate submission using Content Organizer
• Auditing stored information

While much of classification and categorization requires thought and intention, many users don’t understand the big picture of an organization information management. Tools like Content Organizer help an Information Management professional to facilitate the automation of the process in order to help reduce human error.

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 Using Content Organizer To Automatically Manage Documents Assets In SharePoint 2013

Live Webinar August 7th, 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

Are You an Inspiration To Your Team?

Leaders that have an ability to inspire are often those that possess qualities that generate an emotional connection with those under his or her charge.

This skill is often underutilized, particularly in instances of new leaders. Sometimes through inadequate training, or hasty promotion, leaders are not equipped to chart a course which resonates with others.

It falls to the organization to be better able to identify and prepare potential leaders so that they are better set up for success through training, development, coaching and mentorship. Leaders that are more mindful, more familiar with the organization’s mission, vision and values are more likely to inspire and instill a sense of ownership and purpose in their direct reports.

Presented by: Val Jon Farris (LinkedIn profile) Leadership Development Expert Keystone Consulting

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 Enabling Leaders to Create an Emotional Connection