Live Webinar – Sept 12th 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 an ever increasing litigious world, it is more important than ever for organizations to have clear policies for managing information.

It’s not an option any longer in your information management system to avoid having clear policies and procedures for how information is regulated.

Policies that govern who can access your information, what they can do with the information, the retention periods of records, and the auditability of information must be in place. Regulators and examiners have very specific guidelines about how retention and auditing must be implemented.

SharePoint 2013 provides very specific tools for regulating the creation, interaction, and disposition of content using Information Management Policies.  These Information Management Policies are a set of rules that are assigned to content within SharePoint.

These rules will define the retention schedule, auditability, and bar codes and labels. These policies can be defined for multiple content types within a site collection, a list, a library, or folder (location-based retention policy). Policies can be deployed across site collections for enterprise-wide policy deployment.

The topics that will be covered in this one hour webinar:

• What is Information Management Policy in SharePoint 2013?
• Why is it critical to have these policies in place?
• Creating policies for retention, auditing, and markings (bar codes and labels)
• Applying policy across site collections
• Exporting and importing policies

This web seminar will introduce you to the Information Management Policies feature in SharePoint 2013 for managing your enterprise content to guarantee you are compliant with business, industry, state, and government regulatory requirements.

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 Information Management Policies to Manage Information Lifecycle in SharePoint

Live Webinar – September 9th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

The path to a better bottom line is paved by large numbers of operational decisions made by people, by processes and by software applications.

Systematically improving each operational decision – at scale – is at the core of Decision Management. Business Architects and Analysts identify, describe and model operational decisions in Decision Discovery.

In this webinar, James Taylor,(LinkedIn profile)  CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and Dr. Juergen Pitschke, (DMS interview) Founder and Managing Director at BCS, will show you how to get started with Decision Management on your next application development or business process improvement project with Decision Discovery.

Learn how to:

• Identify decisions, sub-decisions and information and knowledge resources (including rules and analytics)
• Describe decisions in detail (Decision Tables and other Metaphors)
• Model decisions in a DMN-conformant decision modeling tool for communication and documentation
• Link to execution environments

This webinar is targeted to Business Architects and Business Analysts familiar with the current OMG standards – from DMN, BPMN, CMMN to BMM, SBVR and more.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 Getting Started with Decision Discovery

Live Webinar – September 11th, 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

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?

COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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 Resource Capacity Management

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