Live Webinar October 1st, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Currently so much of agile adoption—coaching, advice, techniques, training and even the empathy revolve around the agile teams.

Leaders are typically either ignored or marginalized at best, and in the worst cases often vilified.

Bob Galen contends that there is a central and important role for managers and effective leadership within agile environments.

In this workshop, we’ll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Especially those that understand Servant Leadership and how to effectively support, grow, coach, and empower their agile teams in ways that increase the teams’ performance, accountability, and engagement.

Bob will explore training and standards for agile adoption, and situations and guidelines for when to trust the team and when to step in and provide guidance and direction. We’ll examine the leader’s role in agile at-scale and with distributed agile teams.

• Good leadership is a central ingredient to sustaining your agile adoption.
• Bad leadership can render it irrelevant or a failure.

Here we’ll walk the path of the good, but also examine the bad patterns in an effort to inspire you and your teams.

Presenter: Robert “Bob” Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership – Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations.  He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

Click to register for Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders

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Live Webinar October 2nd, 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

Staying Productive & Focused At Work Can Be A Struggle!

. Contemporary advances in technology and the accessibility to electronic applications and websites have amplified the prevalence of workplace distractions, both work-related and personal or self- interruptions.

An executive at eBay referred to workplace distractions today as an “epidemic”

In this webcast, you will learn:

1. How to implement effective methods for addressing workplace distractions
   • From Gloria Mark, (UCI profile, Microsoft profile) PhD professor of informatics as she shares research on the myth of multi-tasking and the importance of disconnecting from technology
   • From meditation expert and author of  Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace  and  Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier Sharon Salzberg, (Wikipedia) who shares how mindfulness techniques can be applied to the workplace.

Join HCI as they reveal the results from HCI’s latest Talent Pulse signature research and interview thought leaders on the topic workplace distractions.

Talent Pulse from the Human Capital Institute (HCI) is a quarterly research e-book that explores the latest trends and challenges in managing talent. Talent Pulse is designed to provide practitioners and decision-makers with prescriptive methods to rehabilitate the health and wellness of human capital and empower employees and leaders to effectively address future challenges. Each quarter, a new report is released in conjunction with one of the four HCI disciplines. The third installment of this Talent Pulse concerns important, timely topics in Leadership & Development.

Presented by: Jenna N. Filipkowski, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) Director of HCI Research, David O’Connell, M.A. (LinkedIn profile) HCI Research Analyst, and Andrew Bateman (LinkedIn profile) HCI Analyst Organizational Development & Leadership

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 The Mindful Employee: Finding Focus in the Age of Distractions

Live Webinar – October 2nd, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Nobody likes to deliver bad news, discuss a sensitive subject or talk about a project or meeting that’s gone wrong.

The mere thought of these conversations can fill you with anxiety and distract you from your work.

Because you can’t always avoid these type of topics, you’ve got to be ready. You’ve got to take control and talk through them effectively.

But how?

Join Dr. Mark Goulston, international best-selling author and former FBI hostage negotiation trainer, as he shares practical, hands-on techniques for taking the stress out of toughest employee discussions.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn how to:

• Handle difficult discussions about behavior, performance or pay.
• Keep the conversation calm when emotions run high.
• Decrease your fear of confrontations.
• Respond properly to employee pushback

Speakers:  Mark Goulston, M.D. (bio) is Co- Founder of Heartfelt Leadership, a business advisor, consultant, keynote speaker, trainer and coach.  He  trained as a clinical psychiatrist and honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer.   He is the author of several international lybest selling books including:

• “Just Listen” Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
• REAL INFLUENCE: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In
• Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
• Get Out of Your Own Way at Work…and Help Others Do the Same: Conquering Self-Defeating Behavior on the Job
• The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship

Note: this may appear to be a Citrix session but it is sponsored by the Training Training Magazine Network

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 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 Mastering Difficult Conversations

Live Webinar September 30th, 2014 – 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

Leading a high-performing team is every Project Managers dream. With a high performing team, projects get delivered on time, on budget and to client’s specifications and the project leader and the team members are not stressed out and do not lose much sleep over it. Join us for this FREE pre-conference webinar series and…

1. Understand the barriers to high performance teams
2. Learn the drivers and four dimensions of a high performing team
3. Learn practical tips on how to start developing your own high performance project team

Presenter:  Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development.  Michael did a great webinar for the PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004) called Communicating to Connect (which is worth 1 Category A PDU).  Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti.  Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.

Visit Michael’s site “The PM Leadership Coach” and Read his “Leading With Intent” blog

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

Click to register for The 4 Dimensions of High Performance Teams

Live Webinar – September 30th 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

Each month Chris Knotts (LinkedIn profile) picks a valuable, substantive business book we think will benefit you as a professional.

Some are new; some are classics. Either way, we do the reading, and then use one of our free web seminars to deliver a one-hour “book report.”

This month’s book pick is The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr.

This best-selling novel about IT Operations in a fictional Fortune manufacturing/retail company came out last year, and is a business fable that everyone involved in technology projects or operations should read.

Enterprise tech visionary Gene Kim (LinkedIn profile), along with longtime IT Manager Kevin Behr (LinkedIn profile) and Gartner Research Director George Spafford (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) have written a compelling and illuminating book about the longtime pain points experienced by people in IT and what they can begin to do about it.

Bottlenecks, choke points, legacy systems, cumbersome security policies, overworked SysAdmins, developers who don’t save any testing time for Operations…these are perennial difficulties that will sound familiar to anyone who has ever had to deploy code that hasn’t been managed well across the organization.

Join Chris for this one-hour review of The Phoenix Project to learn how Bill, a frustrated but savvy IT Manager copes with these challenges and more.

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’

Click to register for The Phoenix Project: A Business Book Report About IT, DevOps, & Helping Your Business Win

Live Webinar –  September 30th, 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

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project 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, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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  Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!