Take Charge Of Your Success!

Did you know you can unlock greater potential Within yourself & others
By examining the way you think?

To Celebrate 10 Years Of Optimize Your Thinking®
Jennifer Is Offering It For Just 1/2 Price!
Till Feb 15th 2015!

• You know that understanding your team is the key driver in creating a successful project.

• Over the years you have heard talk about “Optimize Your Thinking®” and how it helps you develop the soft skills you need to succeed.

You May Have Even Taken The 2.5 PDU Introduction to Optimize Your Thinking® …

The Optimize Your Thinking® is the renowned seminar series for Project Managers (25 PDUs) is presented by:
PDUs2go (Rep 1637)

BUT Now is the time to Sign Up For
The 25 PDU Course!

Jennifer Bridges signature portable course uses innovative learning experiences to tackle the most complex element of project management:

The Human Element.

Through revealing self-assessments, you’ll examine your effectiveness as a thinker, team member, and leader while learning to adjust your approach for each personality and situation you encounter.  Along the way, you’ll meet 8 colorful characters who embody the 8 Ways of Thinking^®.

Course Description:

Like most people, you might not realize that your potential is directly related to the way you think. But how you process the world helps determine your place in it.

This means that by “optimizing” your thinking, you’re taking charge of your success. When you’re armed with a keen understanding of the way you and those around you think and process information, you can better achieve your goals, influence others, and lead a team to victory.

By adjusting your thinking style to each person and situation you encounter, you can enhance your performance in all areas of life!

By deciding to Optimize Your Thinking, you’re embarking on an uncommon journey to explore and expand the very nature of your thinking.

Along the way, you’ll get to know a memorable cast of characters who embody the strengths and weaknesses of the 8 Ways of Thinking.

Throughout your journey, you’ll discover the success keys held by the top achievers of the world. And, finally, you will cultivate a flexible, multifaceted thinking style that allows you to flourish as a thinker, team leader and a leader.

To Celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Course – (normally $597 USD) – Jennifer is offering the course for just $250 USD Till Feb 15th 2015!

This course is so valuable that Jennifer has always offered a 2 1/2 PDU introduction for Just $1 USD so project Managers could try the course.

You may have even taken the  valuable sample course  – but the sample course only includes 10% of the information in this course!.

With this portable course, you’ll receive:

• Introduction Chapter of Optimize Your Thinking: How to Unlock Your Performance Potential, which details the8 Ways of Thinking^® performance model with engaging stories and lessons learned.

• Introduction Chapter of the Thinking Journal^TM featuring Self-Assessments, Guided Journal Entries, Scenario-based Exercises, Self-scoring Quizzes, Reflective Questionnaires, Thought-provoking Quotes, Proven Performance Tools and much more!

Jennifer Bridges introduces 8 characters who represent 8 different ways of thinking. This course includes a workbook, which contributed significantly to my learning and helped me understand personalities and recognize them on my teams. This course was definitely time well spent! – EdmontonPM

This powerful paradigm is taught in seminars around the US
Now unlock your performance potential while on the go!

Click here to purchase Optimize Your Thinking® – A Very Special Offer $250 USD for 25 PDUs That’s only $10 per PDU: Offer good till Feb 15th.

Live Webinar February 10th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

Consulting relationships with our clients are considered Lateral Relationships. A lateral relationship in management is a link between people working with the same organization without a direct level of authority over each other.

The power balance in lateral relationships is always open to ambiguity – and to negotiation!

So What is Flawless Consulting?

When a consultant gets resistance from a client, sometimes we aren’t sure whether to push the client harder or to let the issue go.

• Flawless Consulting is about addressing and managing this kind of ambiguity.
• Flawless Consulting is about methods and techniques, but the consistent message is that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow.
• And    Flawless Consulting Teaches us that Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Join Peter Block (LinkedIn profile for Designed Learning) as he gives a high level overview of his best selling book Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (3rd Edition) and learn how your consulting process can be Flawless.

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

Click to register for Flawless Consulting

Live Webinar – February 10th, 2015 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar – February 10th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by APMG a division of  APMG International

The perennial challenge over the years for service providers of any persuasion has always been that of alignment, often referred to as the ‘Alignment challenge’.

This webinar looks at Business Relationship Management and the benefits BRM certification and training brings to an organisation and the individual.

Business Relationship Manager (BRM) as a role or function has been around since the 90’s and has been further legitimised through the introduction of ISO20k and has slowly but ever increasingly gained momentum as a critical Function/Role and Process certainly in ITIL terms over the last few years.

The intent of a service provider has always been to maximise service benefit (both Value on Investment and Financial).

But why has value realisation been typically elusive?

A BRM can provide many avenues for service provider improvements both Strategic and Tactical. Typically improvements occur across a number of disciplines; Relationship management, Shaping customer demand, improvements in Strategic partnering, Business Transition Management and the ‘Provider domain’ generally.

A BRM plays many roles, a ‘Navigator’, ‘Connector’ and ‘Orchestrator’ and this webinar is presented to introduce you to the objectives of the role, introduce some of the core competencies required and the types of personal and organisation benefits gained through BRM adoption.

How BRM benefits you:

• Career development and certification
• Increased business awareness of your capability through the BRM role
• Build upon the existing skill sets you own
• Widened sphere of influence
• Perceived as the connector and facilitator

BRM benefits for your employer:

• Increased organisational capability
• Improved alignment of IT services to business objectives
• Reductions in value leakage
• Improved bottom line.

Click to register for A Healthy Professional Life Starts With Healthy Relationships: Welcome To BRM

Live Webinar –  February 10th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

NOTE: Eclipse will provide a Certificate for attendance upon request.

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 February 10th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, you will learn which three interpersonal skills are the most critical to a project manager’s success.

You will understand how being socially aware will help you manage stakeholder relationships and also help to realize where you have the ability to influence, no matter your position within organizational hierarchy.

Deborah will also discuss how behavioral science is important in understanding communication styles and workplace values, motivators and behaviors and why the art of project management contributes to 80% of project and organizational success.

Presenter: Deborah Herting (LinkedIn profile)  MPA, MSOD, PMP, CPVA, CPBA Founder and CEO at The Deborah Group is the author of The Power of Interpersonal Skills in Project Management.

Click to register for The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes And Using Them to Achieve Success

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

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Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar – February 10th 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

This session will have a lot of information but covered in an introductory and compare and contrast way to allow you to get an objective picture based on your experience.

Agile is not a panacea or a methodology. At its foundation it is a way of working that permeates everything you do at work. David will discuss how that is and what that means.

Over 250,000 people have become certified in some form of Agile practice or flavor.

The industry standard body for Project Management, PMI, has introduced a certification for Agile (PMI-ACP introduced officially in Jan 2013).

Steven Denning (LinkedIn profile) has written a book about his development of a new flavor of Agile for management and leaders called The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. IC Agile, a world-wide standards organization for Agile, is even working on a designation for using Agile in marketing and product management.

This thing called Agile is here to stay!

The reality thought is the vast number of SDLC and business professionals might have heard of it but really don’t know what it is. Or they were given a small snap shot picture of an element of how it works.

In this fast paced one hour web seminar, David will take a very methodical approach to provide a full picture of what Agile is, how it works, who is using it and how you can use it.  He will try to leave time for questions and will keep the session open an extra 10 mins to cover questions.

David will cover the following topics:

• What is driving the need to use Agile
• How management and workers need to change to utilize Agile successfully
• Break down of what Agile is
• The two fundamental concepts of Agile: Self-organization and Iterating
• High level overview of the Agile Practices and Organization
  • Work vs Role
  • Development unit / Business unit
  • ScrumMaster
  • Product Owner
  • User Story / task board / burndown
  • Five levels of planning in Agile
  • Estimating in Agile
  • Sprint aka Iteration
  • Definition of Done
  • Retrospective
  • Rolling to the next iteration
• A quick look at Agile Flavors
• A look at who is using Agile and How
• Roadblocks and Challenges
• Certification options

If you can’t stay, the full answers to questions will be provided on our blog and Aspe will provide that link with the slides a few days after the presentation.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of 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 documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 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 Agile Primer: A 360 Degree Look at What It Is & How it Is Used