Live Webinar March 4th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Organizations are becoming increasingly aware that no matter how well they manage projects, they won’t succeed if they don’t get the requirements right.

But what does it mean to have good requirements?

Is it creating a mountain of unnecessary paperwork? Is it a rejection of techniques that have served requirements practitioners well over the years? Where is the business analysis industry going?

Specifically, this presentation:

• Describes seven trends in the field of business analysis and why some of these trends are replacing time-honored traditions while others are not
• Describes four competencies that are needed to take advantage of these trends
• Discusses what this means for practitioners who do or manage business analysis work

Attendees will be able to discuss:

•  The latest trends in business analysis
• Which trends are apt to last and which will fade
• What is needed to take advantage of these trends

This presentation addresses these hot topics in business analysis.

Presenter: Elizabeth Larson , (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP CEO of Watermark Learning, Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. She is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and co-author of the Practitioners’ Guide to Requirements Management, The Influencing Formula, and the  CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). Elizabeth is on the team that is developing the PMI-PBA Practice Guide, was a lead contributor to the BABOK® Guide Version 2.0, Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition (Collect Requirements), and is the content lead for Scope Management for the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition.  Elizabeth has been cited in CIO and PM Network and regularly contributes articles to BA times, Project Times, and Modern Analyst.

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

Click to register for What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in Business Analysis

Live Webinar – March 6th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

You may be familiar with IQ, which measures your cognitive intelligence. But has anyone ask you about EQ or Emotional quotient?

What is EQ?

Simply put EQ, driven by your emotional intelligence, is your awareness regarding your actions and feelings, including how they affect the people around you.

Being emotionally intelligent means you understand the cause and effect of your actions and words.

You understand what the impact of “being you” has on individuals and groups and you understand how to read others emotions and actions to work with their emotional limits.

The key is that you can never change someone, but you can change and adjust yourself.

Emotional Intelligences is about how you change and adjust yourself in the following ways:

• Respecting others
• Listening to others
• Empathizing with others
• Identifying with others

Knowledge workers do their work in teams. Teams are filled with “others”. Your ability to work with those “others” determines what you get done and how fast you get it done.

If you have a high EQ, you get things done fast with minimal negative impact on the organization.

In this session we will cover:

• The meaning of emotional intelligence
• Distinguishing the differences between EQ and IQ
•  How to identify emotional hot buttons
• Determining which emotional intelligence competencies to improve when working with others
• Detecting the signs of emotional outburst in others

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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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Online Webinar
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)
Duration:1 hour 12 minutes –  1 Category C PDU –  Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

What Does It Mean To Do
Change Management Well?

This webinar will tell you!  There are seven critical project success factors.

This webinar explores the seven critical factors to project success that lead to adoption and usage, as found in the latest benchmarking report:

1. Sponsorship
2. Communications
3. Middle Management Engagement
4. Employee Engagement
5. Change Management Approach
6. Change Management Resources
7. Integrating with PM

How aligned is your project with them?

Each of these factors plays a role in adoption and usage. Is there an easy way to put a handle on these factors for repeatable use and success in my projects?

Absolutely, using the eBest Practices Audit.

• The Webinar Slides – Diagnosing Alignment
• The Webinar Handout – Diagnosing Alignment

Note: You will have to sign in to the Prosci Portal to take this opportunity You may have to register first (free).

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 enter the Prosci Portal and view Managing The People Side Of Change: Diagnosing Alignment with Critical Success Factors

Online Webinar  -Recorded 4th Quarter 2014
Presenter:   ChangeFirst
Duration: 46 Minutes – .75 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Change First  specializes in training organisations to Make Change Stick. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes and training,  ChangeFirst produces informative presentations and leads change with an effective mix of face-to-face workshops, webinars, web-based applications and e-learning options.

Are Your Change Management Plans Viable?

In this presentation Audra covers many of these change management topics and more:

• A Vision – What will change look like?
• Visibility – Issues regarding the Visibility of the change management effort.
• Influence – A Plan for Inclusion
• Involvement – Ensuring / Encompassing All Levels Of Management and staff in the organisation.
• A Plan to deal with Engagement / Avoidance
• Recognition and Reward Plans
• Role Modeling Opportunities – Highly Engaged Teams
• An Acceptance plan – Is it possible?

This 45 minute presentation is “Jam-Packed” with information that allows you to reflect on the qualities of a “Great Change Management Program” and what you need to be a great change manager and succeed!

Presenter:  Audra Proctor (LinkedIn profile) Director & Head of Learning at ChangeFirst Ltd., helps leaders in global organisations develop their change capabilities and performance to execute business critical initiatives. With over 20 years  international change management experience, her work involves managing global relationships with clients looking to build their change internal maturity.  Audra also leads the on-going research and development of the ChangeFirst Intellectual Property and proprietary change methodology – PCI® (People Centred Implementation).

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 View Are You A Great Change Manager?