Live Webinar – January 22nd, 2015 – 10:00 am to 12:00 am EST
Presented by:  The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the “magic” of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist!  Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamability:
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always “team” well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict “teaming” behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their “Role”).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course.   In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

Live Webinar January 20th, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

Actuation Consulting recently completed their 3rd annual global study of product team’s. This year 2,200 organizations participated in their study.

The survey results were provided to a professional statistician for regression analysis.

This year’s results sheds light on how product teams perceive they are performing, the types of product development processes that are currently in use and key factors that are shown to statistically optimize product team performance.

Gain a deep insight into:

• The effectiveness of product teams through the eyes of product team members themselves
• Trend data illustrating how various product development methodologies are evolving and the implications for the future
• Survey respondents perceptions about which product development methodologies lead to increased product profitability
• Key statistical factors that drive high performance on product teams
• How the role of a project manager is changing in accord with evolving product development methodologies and practices

During this webinar you will also take a closer look at how the role of a project manager continues to evolve and the value that product teams currently place upon project managers.

Presenters:

Greg Geracie, (LinkedIn profile) is the President of Actuation Consulting, providing product management training and advisory services to organizations nationwide. Greg is the author of the global best seller Take Charge of Your Product Management Development; Tips, Tactics, and Tools to Increase Your Effectiveness as a Product Manager and was selected by the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) to lead the industry effort to develop The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge© (ProdBOK©). Greg is an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media where he teaches a course on high-tech product management.

Matt Jackson  PMP President of Jackson Consulting, a specialty provider of turnaround and operational improvement consulting services to some of the nation’s most well-known software companies.  Matt was the project management expert reviewer of The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge © (ProdBOK).

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

Click to register for Product Team Performance Study Findings

Live Webinar January 21st, 2015 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Synerzip

Life today is crazy.
The pace is frenetic.
The competition is fierce.

We have to move fast but flawlessly. We swim in a sea of uncertainty and long-range planning might mean sorting out next week or next month.

In an environment like this, it is possible to go from “Good to Great to Gone!”

Through all of this, the one proven path to success is leadership. But not the traditional, accepted leadership model. Rather a leadership model that recognizes that the primary role of today’s leader is to create a culture of trust and ownership.

Based on his book The Agile Culture: Leading through Trust and Ownership in this session, Niel Nickolaisen (LinkedIn profile) talks about the power of this leadership model and provides specific methods for creating a culture of trust and ownership.

Niel covers::

• How to create a culture of trust including trust first, metrics, and the role of agile in building trust.
• How to create a culture of ownership including knowing what to own, decision-making success, and the concept of a cultural “container.”

Presenter: Niel Nickolaisen is the Chief Technology Officer at OC Tanner. He co-authored the bestelling books The Agile Culture: Leading through Trust and Ownership  and  Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility which gives you the agile leadership tools you’ll need to achieve breakthrough levels of performance.

Click to register for Agile Leadership: Want To Change Your Results? Change How You Lead

Live Webinar January 21st, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294) Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Are You Overworked & Overwhelmed?

With everything you’re trying to accomplish in the week — clearing out an overflowing inbox, juggling a calendar that’s racked and stacked, deadlines, bosses, employees, customers, family commitments, personal care, running your household, the list goes on — it’s no wonder you feel overwhelmed.

Because of the demands of a do-more-with-less environment and a hyper-connected way of life, more and more leaders find themselves in a chronic state of fight or flight.

The effects of that can be devastating — for your effectiveness at work and personal relationships — as well as your overall health, well-being, and satisfaction with life.

So, what’s the alternative?

Author and executive coach Scott Eblin offers one in this vital AMA webcast, based on the research behind his new, best-selling book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.

In this session you’ll learn:

• What happens when you’re overworked and overwhelmed
• How simple, easy-to-do mindful routines can help you feel less stress and show up at your best
• How to create a Life GPS® that will guide you in showing up at your best and creating the outcomes you want at work, at home, and in your community

Scott has found that you don’t have to meditate like a monk to benefit from what science is clearly concluding: mindfulness works.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing. We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

NOTE:  Download Scotts 17 min recording Scott Eblin on Executive Success on amazon – NOW Only .95 Cents USD – It’s Packed with information and learn the “Dirty Little Secret” of the C-Suite! This recording is worth .25 of a Cat C PDU !

Presenter: Scott Eblin is an executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition & Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. Featured on ABC News and in Investor’s Business Daily, the Washington Post and Harvard Management Update, Scott is a former Fortune 500 executive, with leadership development experience that runs the gamut from Astra Zeneca to the U.S. Navy. He is a faculty member of Georgetown University’s leadership coaching program. Check out Scott’s blog on Leadership & Life.

Click to register for Mindful Leadership: Staying On Course When You Feel Overworked & Overwhelmed