Live Webinar March 13th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1263
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Cat A PDU – Free PDU

Whether your team is an ongoing work group, or a special, project-based team of limited duration, you will rapidly increase its effectiveness with the use of specific teamwork tools and skills.

This course covers:

• Seven factors that teams need to be high performing
• Best practices for a team leader
• The importance of clear goals, roles, processes and interactions to promote collaboration
• Team building stages and the tasks needed to move through each stage
• Tools that are used to align individuals to be as effective as team members
• Communication techniques that develop positive interactions amongst team members
• The five dysfunctions of a team and how to overcome them

This webinar provides you strategies that will facilitate the development of a new team or the revitalization of an existing team.

Presenter: Crystell Anthony, (LinkedIn profile) M.Ed., MBTI®, CAGS from Northeastern University, and a certified State Trainer for Massachusetts, is  Principal and founder of her own consulting company, The Focus Group. Crystell has successfully designed and facilitated training programs in the public and corporate sectors for executive, managerial, and administrative professionals 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 Leading and Developing High Performance Project Teams

Live Webinar –  March 17th, 2015 – 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
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 March 10th, 2015 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

It’s All About Risk Vs. Confidence!

The business world constantly worries about risk. And to reassure themselves, business leaders ask for any sort of proof that an idea is going to be a good investment.

Cue the numbers come marching past. Numbers seem to represent “reliable knowledge.”

Business leaders look askance at words, stories, and descriptions—these seem to be open to interpretation. Unreliable. Not worth the time to gather. And thus many organizations go about their business half-informed.

The human half of the picture is missing. Practical empathy helps fill in the missing knowledge. It leads to even greater confidence and clarity of direction!

In this webcast you will learn:

• The valuable way to practice empathy, and it goes far beyond being a hot buzzword
• If your org does not embrace the human side of the picture very well, you’ll learn how to persuade those around you to explore empathetic mindset
• Learn how traditional interviewing for needs, preferences, and opinions don’t go deep enough to build empathy.

Presenters:

Indi Young (LinkedIn profile, @indiyoung)  author of Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior helps teams with person-focused research, design strategy, interaction flow, communications, and information architecture. She was a founder of Adaptive Path, the San Francisco experience design agency and writes articles, conducts workshops and webinars, and speaks about the importance of pushing the boundaries of your perspective. Make sure to check out her “Blog”.

Presenter: Lou Rosenfeld (bio) is the author of the best-selling Books Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites and Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers ), Lou is also founder of Rosenfeld Media, co-founder of the annual Information Architecture Summit, and the Information Architecture Institute

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
• 11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• 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’

Click to register for Risk Vs. Confidence: Balancing Science With Person-Focused Research

Live Webinar March 11th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Want To Learn When To a/b test & When To Usability Test?

In this live training, Laura Klein, author of UX for Lean Startups, explains how to combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in order to build better products.

Join Laura and learn a step-by-step process for using both metrics and interviewing to discover problems with your product and find effective solutions.

Presenter: Laura Klein (LinkedIn profile  @lauraklein)  author of UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design has spent years as an engineer and designer. Laura helps lean startups learn more about their customers so that they can build better products faster. Her popular design blog, Users Know, teaches product owners exactly what they need to know to do just enough research and design. Laura offers consulting and training in Lean UX for startups and large companies.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communication 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• 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’

Click to register for Qualitative vs. Quantitative: Using Better Data to Improve Performance & Design