Live Webinar October 29th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

There are people who are “born leaders”, others who stumble into leadership but all are leaders because people follow them, share theirs ideas and values and commit to their vision, their projects, and their decisions.

The presentation explores the connection between leadership trust and ethics in the project “moments of truth”.

Presenter: Giusi Meloni (LinkedIn profile) currently has responsibility for coordinating all soft-skill project management coaching and training programs, covering such areas as  leadership, communication, teamwork, negotiation and cross-cultural awareness.  She has published various articles in Italian publications and websites, she is lecturer on International Project Management and a popular international speaker on project management competencies.

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

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Live Webinar October 31st, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Human Resource CoP (REP #S045)

Organizations throughout the world increasingly make use of contingent workers in a variety of projects (including, for example, product development engineering, marketing campaigns, field service and many others).

The talents of these contingent workers often play vital roles in contributing to the success of projects, but the human resources implications are important to consider.

In this webinar, Joe will discuss a variety of issues affecting the use of contingent workers in project teams, including worker selection, co-employment, liability/risk, intellectual property, motivation/leadership and optimizing performance when a project team involves a mix of regular employees and contingent workers.

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

Presenter: Joe Lampinen PMP CMfg LEED AP (LinkedIn profile) Joe is a Director in the Engineering Services Group at Kelly Services Inc. He holds an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University, a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Law and Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently completing a Master of Science degree in Technology at Purdue University.

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Live Webinar – October 29th 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

It helps to know what your competitors are doing. In this one-hour info session, Chris Knotts (LinkedIn profile) and Damian Herrickwill  (LinkedIn profile) of Lake Hill Analytics will take your take your enterprise data questions.

Chris will ask Damian questions about the most common – and most valuable – ways we can harness the information available to us for useful analytics.

He will talk forecasting, probability, market basket analysis, and basic statistical analysis.

Damian will walk you through examples of how each can be applied to the business, and what sort of useful decisions we can tie to these applications.

Presenter: Damian Herrickwill  is the founder of Lake Hill Analytics, and an expert data analysis instructor for ASPE. Damian consults with all types of business on modeling, mining, and analyzing data.

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
• 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.’

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Live Webinar October 29th, 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

In order to perform at a high level in today’s knowledge economy and adapt to an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment, an organization must enable innovation!

A seemingly reasonable principle but one that requires more people to be more innovative more often.

In today’s organizations, and even in some of the more innovative ones, executives are asking, “Why aren’t we better at innovation?”

There are no easy answers. In reality, a thoughtful approach is needed that allows for the purposeful development of an organization’s capabilities including its ability to learn.

The change that must take place to enable learning is not limited to those leading the front lines of innovation – it involves their leaders too.

All too often innovation is a top-down mandate; however, operationalizing it can be a complex task that is made more difficult as pressures mount to operate the core business.

Those who are leading the front lines of innovation have two roles that focus on learning: being students of innovation and teaching their leaders how to operate in innovation.

Together, these two groups of individuals can make change happen by purposefully developing innovation skillsets and mindsets both of which lead to execution and in sustaining a high performance organization.

In this webcast, you will learn:

1. Why it is important to build leadership engagement to enable innovation
2. How you can help your leaders learn
3. How you can help your leaders learn
4. The areas where learning is needed and
5. Why the mindset (i.e., the soft stuff) is the greater challenge (i.e., “the hard stuff”)

Presented by: Marla Hetzel (LinkedIn profile) Director of Innovation for AARP

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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”

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