Live Webinar October 1st, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

You will have to register for either the live or recorded session

Click to register for the Live Presentation of Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

Live Webinar – October 2nd, 2014 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – October 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

How can Programmes and Projects take back control in a world that is full of uncertainty and change?

Programme and Project managers are walking the tightrope of success – Demands to deliver more for less, delivering faster and to higher quality levels, means that it is sometimes difficult to make progress when external factors change around you, altering the goalposts making the path ahead seem very unclear.

During this webinar, Carolyn will explore this complex landscape of programmes and projects and focus in on potential strategies to manage this ever changing environment.

Utilising Carolyn’s planning and controls knowledge, we will look at prioritization techniques which can help to create a strong and flexible planning and controls framework which can help manage change and uncertainty.

Finally, Carolyn will look at “Making Progress” – How can we remove the subjectivity from judging programme and project progress? What can teams do to engender an open collaborative planning environment?

Presenter:  Carolyn Limbert (LinkedIn profile) works across multiple industries, focusing on Planning and Project Control systems within the P3 environment as a Principal Planner with Harmonic Ltd.  Carolyn has experience multiple organizations  and focuses on fully logic-linked, resource-driven Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) which supports the effective use of Earned Value Management (EVM).  Carolyn is a committee member of the Planning Monitoring and Control Special Interest Group (PMC SIG) and is currently working on a Planning Guide which will be published by the SIG late this year / early 2015.

Click to register for Making Progress In An Uncertain World

Live Webinar October 1st, 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.

Aligning Your Work with What Makes You Happy

After analyzing the results of interviews with 850,000 people, researchers Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton found the key difference between those who are happiest and most energized at work is whether their work aligns with what motivates them.

But knowing what most motivates us isn’t easy. It’s often not what our culture tends to emphasize, things like status or money or even using our strengths.

The authors’ research shows that if people understand better what their motivators really are, they can make some relatively moderate changes within their careers that will make them much more engaged and happier.

Join the New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance and All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results unveil their exciting new work, and offer an extensively-tested method to identify anyone’s unique blend of core motivators and then help them align more of their work with what drives them.

Attend and you’ll learn:

• How to identify your core set of motivators (they are different for each person)
• How to enhance your value and accomplish more in your career with simple but powerful job-sculpting strategies
• How to avoid blind spots and potential conflicts

Whether listeners are managers who are trying to get their people to be more productive and engaged or individuals looking to reignite their passion in their current job, this program will help you align the work you do every day with what truly motivates.

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

Presenters:

Adrian Gostick (LinkedIn profile) is coauthor of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestsellers The Carrot Principle and All In. Translated into thirty languages & selling more than a million copies, Adrian has appeared on numerous hogh profile programs and is an accomplished Keynote speaker.  Adrian is a founding partner of The Culture Works, a global consultancy which helps organizations build high-performance work cultures.

Chester Elton (LinkedIn profile) has been called the “apostle of appreciation,” by the Globe and Mail, and “creative and refreshing” by the New York Times. Elton is an accomplished keynote speaker and is coauthor of several successful leadership books, including All In, The Carrot Principle, and The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization . Chester serves as a leadership consultant to firms such as AT&T, Proctor & Gamble, American Express, Avis Budget Group, and Cigna.

PDU Category C 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 What Motivates Me: How to Take Control of Your Career

Live Webinar October 1st, 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

Coaching Is Useful For All Employees

Once a luxury strictly for executives, coaching is now being extended to all employees in the organization for developmental purposes.

Coaching continues to become an increasingly popular focus in business settings, underscoring the importance of exploring how organizations are cultivating a coaching culture.

This signature research, conducted in partnership between the Human Capital Institute and the International Coach Federation, examines the ways in which companies and leaders establish and support a strong coaching culture, and further identify the motivation, application and outcomes of coaching practices today.

Join  Shawna Corden, (LinkedIn profile) Executive Coach with Hewlett-Packard & Mark Ruth, (LinkedIn profile) Director, Research & Education, International Coach Federation (ICF) in this research webcast as we reveal results from the study and take questions from the audience.

Registrants will receive a copy of the final research report.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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 Building a Coaching Culture

Live Webinar October 2nd, 2014, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar October 2nd, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

HTML5 is not one thing, in the sense of a single cohesive platform, but rather a collection of dozens of different specifications and standards.

Along with CSS3 and JavaScript, this collection represents the evolution of the Web platform.

The pieces are evolving in parallel, each with its own trajectory and timeline of maturity. As browser platforms mature, integrated tooling remains the greatest challenge.

Discussion Topics:

• The future of the Web, and common myths and misconceptions about HTML5
• The major constituent pieces of the HTML5 family and their maturity level
• How organizations and development teams should respond to the challenges of HTML5

Presenter: David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (Gartner bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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 HTML5 & The Journey To The Modern, Mobile Web

Live Webinar October 3rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Human Resource CoP (REP #S045)

Join Darryl Allen (LinkedIn profile) in this interesting session by PMIs Human Resource CoP  helping Project Managers to use Risk Management as a method to evaluate the mentoring process in their profesional practice.

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

Click to register for Risk Management As A Vehicle To Evaluate Professional Mentoring Process