Live Webinar November 24th, 2014 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

Are You A Team?
Or Just A Group Of People Working Together?

A founder’s spirit is often lost over time and growth through M&A can result in a fragmented “Frankenstein” of stitched together organizations.

How can a group of people become a real team?

How can organizations with thousands of people in dozens of countries maintain a strong sense of a shared identity and commitment to shared goals?

By leveraging the roots of their greatness, their organization’s DNA and shared organizational culture – as invisible as the air we breathe, as inescapable as gravity, and more powerful than any Gantt chart.

Leverage the power of your culture in your next project team!

Participants will:

• Understand the power of an organization’s past to shape its future.
• Appreciate the influence that organization culture has on behavior and results.
• Have access to 3 ways of exploring and deepening a team’s shared sense of history and organizational culture.
• Realize that an organization’s culture can be made visible through sharing stories and other practical exercises.
• Be equipped to install the foundation of a shared organizational cultural required to turn a globally dispersed group of people into a real team, with a shared identity and commitment to a future that is bigger than their differences.

Kimberly helps organizations achieve what SEEMS impossible, but is merely difficult. How? By turning managers into leaders and groups into teams. and you can too!  Come and join Kimberly in this energetic and highly engaging presentation!

Presenter:  Kimberly Wiefling (LinkedIn profile) is the Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, a global leadership and business management consulting firm. She is also Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, and is a globally recognized author and business leadership consultant specializing in helping people achieve what seems impossible.

Kimberly currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably. One of the keys to her success is a focus on not only a winning strategy, but a winning culture. Business culture transformation lies at the heart of all of her work. Kimberly’s book, Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, was published in 2007 and is the focus of this webinar.

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

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Live Webinar November 24th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Ethics CoP (REP #S050)

• What does daily project life look like for a GM?
• What are the key challenges a GM faces in this role? What are key decisions?
• What are the principles of leadership behind this?

This session is intended to provide the field perspective of a GM and will be supported by many use cases

Presenter: Michael van den Brand (LinkedIn profile) MBA General Manager, ADP Streamline, has held various marketing and operations positions in different business units. He was formerly the Director of Managed Services in the Netherlands

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Live Webinar – November 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating  & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1  Plan Risk Management
• 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”

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.

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