Live Webinar – September 23rd 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 Banking Industry has been in turmoil for five years because of the financial crisis and has suffered a historic loss of confidence from the American public. The industry is at a crossroads. Who will survive and how?

Adapt or die. Bankers have been talking about regulatory burdens, new technology, and non-bank competitors for years. Now it is clear that there must be a change in banking’s most significant investments: the branch and its retail sales force.

This web seminar will explore the physical attributes of branches along with the people issues.

Grant Yarber (LinkedIn profile) will explore what changes you can make to not only lower costs, but improve customer service within your branches.

This will include some time spent on the use of Universal Bankers, when it is useful and when the traditional banking model still works. Lastly, we will share our vision of what it is going to take to be successful in retail banking over the next decade.

We will discuss:

• Branch/Retail Workflow
• Branch Architecture: new options and reconfiguring existing stores
• Staffing Models: leveraging technology and architecture
• Successfully Transitioning to New Models
• New Skill Requirements and Training

Learn what your bank can do to position itself to not just survive, but to thrive the next decade.

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

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Evolution of Banking: What Banks Must Do to Survive the Next Ten Years

Live Webinar September 18th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

This engaging and interactive webinar will inspire project managers to understand the most important components of communication that will allow them to be most effective and successful.

This webinar discusses the three most important contexts in which a project manager will find 90-95% of their communication needs, identify specific components within each context that cause the biggest problems and offer insights with strategies to overcome these communication challenges that are practical and immediately applicable.

Specific learning objectives include::

• The 3 different levels of communication project managers face daily and must learn to master.
• The 2-3 critical communication components necessary to master each level of leadership communication.
• Insights and strategies to breakthrough those multi-level communication challenges.
• The primary communication skill that project leaders must master before anything else.
• An opportunity for self-assessment of each level of each leadership communication level.
• A personal comfort zone self-assessment for all audience members to identify the level at which they struggle most.
• A challenge to apply the 1% solution to accelerate growth in the one level they need to grow most.

Presenter: Skip Weisman, (LinkedIn profile) spent the first 20-years of his career serving as CEO for five different professional baseball franchises, during which time he and his team’s were honored with one “Executive of the Year Award,“ “Organization of the Year Award” and one league championship. Since 2001 Skip has been working with organizational leaders, and their teams, to create high-performance results by transforming interpersonal communication skills with programs

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

Click to register for Mastering the 3 Levels of High-Performance Project Management Communication

Live Webinar September 18th, 2014 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category C  PDU Free
Sponsored by: Simplilearn.com (Rep #3147)

NOTE:  Although SimpliLearn is a Category A Provider – This course may have to be recorded as a Category B or C PDU. Please confirm the category at the time of the presentation.

The  Value Stream Map
Is An Important Concept In Six Sigma

This webinar will help you understand the concept of value stream map and process map.

In this session, you will be able to see the entire value stream for a particular product family and map the value stream to identify and eliminate waste.

Get a chance to clarify your doubts with a Simplilearn expert during this webinar.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 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 Learning Six Sigma Concepts: The Value Stream Map

Live Webinar – September 19th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Learn about PART 1  of this presentation & view the recording see the PDU Of The Day article:

• Part 1 – Custom Workflow Solutions In SharePoint Server 2013 (Recorded)

Part III – Variables in Workflows

A key component of SharePoint Server 2013 is Business Process Automation, taking the repetitive daily tasks business users are presented with and configuring SharePoint to handle them.

SharePoint workflows use variables to store and retrieve data from a data source during run time. A variable contains data associated with the workflow, such as Comments in a a Feedback Workflow, or Assigned To in an Approval Workflow.

These variables can be used in actions and conditions when manually starting a workflow or when creating custom workflows.

In this webinar Andy will examine:

• Retrieve data from a data source during run time.
• What Initiation parameters and Workflow local variables are.
• Data types used in workflow variables.
• How to view current workflow variables.
• Which Workflow actions are used to return data?
• Best practices for working with workflow variables

Join Andy in this series of lectures as he explores the process of creating custom SharePoint 2013 workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013 as we work to build custom solutions to solve real-world problems.

Presenter: Andy Huneycutt

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
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate 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  (and view the recording of) Custom Workflow Solutions in SharePoint Server 2013:Part 3 Variables in Workflows

Live Webinar September 18th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast  – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Why does UX Matter?

Bob Duncan (LinkedIn profile) is a User Experience (UX) Architect for Imaginet and has over 10 years experience in User Experience Design within Enterprise organizations.

Bob is passionate about making challenging problems simple and strives to develop user experiences that delight and inspire.

In this session Bob will show you:

• The fundamentals of User Design and why it matters to you and your end users.
• Why User Experience (UX) Design is the most important process that your development practice needs to adopt now!
• How to succeed with your user experience design in your next project.
• … and much, much more!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for Enterprise UX: Project Success with User Experience Design

CANCELLED – Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2014 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

The summer of 1940 saw the German blitzkrieg or lightning war, conquer France in six weeks and usher in a new era of mechanized warfare.

The United States Army was woefully unprepared for this new type of conflict due to demobilization after World War I and budget shortfalls caused by the Great Depression.

Faced with the need to quickly develop a vehicle to replace the mule to transport troops and small payloads the Army develops a set of impossible requirements and sends it to 135 businesses to compete to build a prototype in just forty-nine days.

This session tells the story of the only company who dared to meet the challenge, an insignificant bankrupt firm in a small town in western, Pennsylvania.

A tale of daring and perseverance, their story holds timeless lessons for today’s project managers in how to get projects done as well as for those trying to meet the challenges of the rapidly changing and challenging environment of the 21st century.

Presenter:  Mark Kozak-Holland (LinkedIn profile) has written several “Historical Lessons in Project Management” type books including:

• Titanic Lessons for IT Projects (Lessons from History)
• Churchill’s Adaptive Enterprise: Lessons for Business Today (Lessons from History)
• Agile Leadership and the Management of Change: Project Lessons from Winston Churchill and the Battle of Britain

These books are also available on the Lessons From History website – Titanic Lessons for IT Projects (the first and second chapters are available for download), 160 pages and Avoiding Project Disaster: Titanic Lessons for IT Executives (Lessons from History), 312 pages. You can view a 20 minute video called Titanic – Project Management Blunders on YouTube. An interview with Mark Kozak-Holland is available online, also on YouTube.

For An Interesting Category C Learning Opportunity see:
The Sinking of the Titanic Project Management Lessons: On the 100th Anniversary Of Its Maiden Voyage

Click to register for The First Jeep®: Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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