Live Webinar – September 10th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Member Only Event

Quantitative Project Manager (QPM®) is a series of 15 educational challenges (stripes that can be earned) for those who want to understand the mathematical detail of how to plan, execute, and control reliable projects that consistently meet their goals. QPM® is about the science of project management.

This webinar will discuss a Microsoft Project Template that will perform the calculations necessary to build a Quantitative Project Manager’s planfor “Snow White’s Castle Renovation Project”.

The talk will begin with how to make less-biased work estimates and progress to cost and schedule targets that are “98% reliable.” While QPM® originally used a simple spreadsheet to illustrate its tools, Snow White’s Microsoft Project Template adds several handy tools to the user’s ability to plan and manage a project.

This presentation will detail how a project manager can use Snow White’s MS Project Template to get the best out of both sets of tools.

A white paper that summarizes the webinar will be available on the New Leaf web site after the presentation and two MS Project templates will be available for downloading.

The session will also include some interactive exercises, so bring a pencil and come prepared to participate!

Learning Objectives:

During this event, students will become familiar with the fundamental ideas behind the QPM™ tools and techniques and how they can be used in MS Project.

Presenter: Jack Nevison PMP, (LinkedIn profile) is President of New Leaf Project Management, and author of books and articles on project management.  He has served on the editorial board of the PMNetwork for ten years. Most recently, he chaired the 5th edition revision of the PMBOK Guide’s Chapter on Cost.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for “Snow White’s Castle Renovation Project” – an MS Project Template for Quantitative Project Manager (QPM®) Ideas

Live Webinar Sept 15th 2014, 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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Live Webinar Sept 10th, 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.

The Four Counterintuitive Truths About Effective Coaching

Coaching is an essential tool for managers and leaders to increase the impact and engagement of their teams. Your organization flourishes when people are self-sufficient and focused on the stuff that matters.

Coaching helps make that happen.

Getting managers to properly coach their employees is more easily said than done. No one has time for long “touchy feely” conversations. But wouldn’t it be good if coaching could be practical and to the point, as well as useful and empowering?

Join Michael for this provocative webinar that shares insights and tools to help you make coaching a daily tool all your managers can use.

What You Will Learn:

• How coaching drives engagement and increases employee impact
• Tips for providing focused, results-based coaching in ten minutes or less
• 3 key coaching moments that are doable by all managers, even those who are less people-oriented

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

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.

Stop the busy work

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 Coaching for the Time-Crunched Manager

Live Webinar – September 9th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

Companies have for years tried to create the processes and organizational culture to drive operational excellence throughout the business and enhance customer satisfaction. However, there was one essential ingredient missing: data.

Having the right information to hand at the right time is essential to allow your frontline staff to make the best possible decisions about what to do next. Moreover, data can give you important insight into what you need to improve in order to drive operational excellence.

For that, data not only has to be embedded within your processes but in also a form that is easily interpreted by your staff. In this webinar, join experts Jim Sinur and Jarrod Poynton to explore a revolutionary new approach to data analysis and process excellence that will allow you to bring real-time insight to your front-line decision makers to drive effective decision making and high performance.

Join this webinar to:

1. Learn how you can bring the power of analytics and process together to drive business performance
2. Understand what it really means to move to more intelligent processes
3. Explore a new technique called compound analytics and how it can help you deliver improvement to end-to-end processes

Presenters:

Jim Sinur  CEO of Flueresque (LinkedIn profile) is a BPM expert who researches areas  business process innovation, business modeling, business process management technology (iBPMS), process collaboration for knowledge workers, process intelligence/optimization, business policy/rule management (BRMS), and leveraging business applications in processes. Mr. Sinur was critical in creating the first Hype Cycle and Maturity Model, which have become a hallmark of Gartner analysis, along with the Magic Quadrant.

Jarrod Poynton (LinkedIn profile) is Head of Solutions for DST Business Process Solutions in EMEA and specialises in solving customer engagement and operational control problems by blending business process, application data, the customer journey and organisational design.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.4 Create WBS
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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 From Insight to Action: Bring Data & Process Together For Powerful Business Performance