Live Webinar December 11th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Leadership in PM CoP (REP #S051)
Presented by: Todd C Williams  & ECameron Inc

Todd C. Williams, PMP  is a terrific audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike. Project failure is prevalent all projects. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog. I highly recommend following his work – EdmontonPM

Leaders define vision. A business turns vision into value. Project Managers drive the projects that build the capabilities transforming businesses. Ergo, Project Managers are enablers for turning vision into value.

To achieve this, project Mangers, like you, must build value-driven organizations that are seasoned yet adaptive, structured yet agile, pragmatic yet innovative.

It is not a simple feat. Sticking to four core principles, however, allow you to build and lead a powerful organization that provides value, accelerates business growth, and is a strategic component of your company.

To Read Reviews of Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure go to http://ecaminc.com/index.php/articles/rrprvw

Martin Chernenkoff, Senior Editor at PDU Of The Day (pduOTD.com) has written a companion book to Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure, the #1 book on Project Recovery. “Learning Guide For Rescue The Problem Project” is available from Amazon and is part of the pduOTD Primer series for Project Management.

Todd Williams PMP

Todd C. Williams, PMP (LinkedIn profile @BackFromRed) is a highly sought after professional audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing, and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure.

Project failure is prevalent in all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure.

There is a A Learning Guide For “Rescue The Problem Project“  that builds the WBS for rescuing your problem projects.

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

Click to register for Vision to Value With Todd C Williams

Live Webinar December 8th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1258
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Meetings are an opportunity to bring out the best in people in a collaborative, safe environment.

Meetings can also be an incredible waste of time and resources if they’re not managed effectively. Creating an effective meeting involves making a series of conscious choices, and also preparing, conducting, and following through.

This webinar concentrates on how to use meeting effectiveness tools and best practices to promote energizing, focused meetings that produce results; it also provides opportunities to discuss specific meeting challenges and how to successfully facilitate your way to resolution.

What You Will Learn:

• Foundation tools to set the stage for meeting effectiveness
• Steps and actions to successfully manage the 3 phases of a meeting: Before, During, and After
• How to prepare an action agenda
• Strategies to keep participants engaged and focused
• Facilitation skills and techniques to guide meeting interactions
• Guidelines and tips for managing difficult behaviors and situations

Presenter: Crystell Anthony, (LinkedIn profile) M.Ed., MBTI®, CAGS from Northeastern University, and a certified State Trainer for Massachusetts, is a Lead Consultant for Corporate Education Group and Principal and founder of her own consulting company, The Focus Group. Since 1979, Crystell’s training programs are known for containing simplified best practices for easy on-the-job applications and have been successfully installed in organizations across the globe.

Click to register for Less Pain, More Gain: Best Practices for More Effective Meetings

Live Webinar – December 9th 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

For decades, application developers and IT operations people have been set up in armed camps, often at odds with each other and unable to trace sources of frustration to their root cause.

The business suffers while non-technical people wonder “what everyone in IT is doing.”

DevOps is a grassroots movement sweeping
IT & project shops across the world.

Like any buzzword, there’s no exact definition and lots of misconception. However, the underlying forces and reasons behind the DevOps movement are clear.

It’s an exciting and heady brew of corporate culture shifts, IT worker empowerment, amazing new tools, cloud computing capabilities, and movement towards a new vision of enterprise IT capability which is unified, agile, and oriented around the needs of the business.

Properly understood, this movement reveals a world where it’s possible to deploy code faster and more effectively than ever – continuously, with an ethic of non-stop quality improvement and value for the business.

In this one-hour presentation, Chris will take you on a tour of the DevOps movement and explain the massive potential that lies behind it.

Presenter: Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director

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 What is DevOps? A Colorful Introduction

Live Webinar – December 9th, 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

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Effective PPM Change Management

Live Webinar – December 9th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Effective, positive communication is the single biggest driver of success for business teams.

New research in the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology is showing the incredible ripple effect positive communication can have on employee engagement, productivity, and happiness at work.

After spending years as a national CBS News anchor broadcasting to millions and receiving an advanced degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Positive Psychology, Michelle developed simple, yet proven techniques for positive communication that drive individual and team success for quantifiable results.

She trains professionals on ways to inoculate their brain against stress and negativity, praise effectively, and shift the culture to create a talent-enhancing environment.

Attend this session to learn:

• The latest research on how to train the brain to be more successful
• Top behaviors of charismatic leaders and how that predicts their success
• Communication strategies that have been shown to decrease stress by 23%, increase productivity by 31% and boost sales by 37%
• Case studies from Fortune 500 companies on ways to create a positive culture at work
• The top scientifically-proven way to deal with a chronically negative person at the office

Speakers:  Michelle Gielan, (LinkedIn profile, Wikipedia) is an expert on the science of positive communication and how to use  employee engagement, productivity and happiness to raise productivity work. Michelle is a Partner at GoodThink, a positive psychology consulting firm, and she holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle is also an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” on PBS and formerly served as the anchor of two national newscasts at CBS News.

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 Broadcasting Happiness: Fueling Success Through Positive Engagement