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Online Webinar – Recorded September 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : TenStep Inc. (Rep 1774)
Note: Although TenStepis an REP and this session qualified as a PDU for people listening to the Live version of the presentation – TenStephas stated that if you are listening to this presentation as a recorded online presentation you will need to record this webinar as a Category C opportunity.
Project management methodology refers to the processes, templates, techniques, roles and other aspects of the model you use for managing projects.
The processes used to manage a project are well known – planning, scheduling, budgeting, estimating, communicating, etc. However, different organizations build different models for how they think about and implement project management.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide insights into many of the ways that different companies establish their models for project management.
Tom Mochal Pmp PgMP TSPM ITBMC will also give you a look at a specific project management model called MPMM to see how that product activates the various aspects of project management methodology.
PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration
4.1 Develop Project Charter
4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
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’
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.
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.
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!
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”.
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’
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’
If you are in a new strategic role …
You will appreciate the ROI
Of taking this course!
This course packs into one hour “The Best” of what you need to know
to understand the challenges, and directions required
for your first 100 days in your new strategic role!
Few Resources Exist To Help You
With Your 1st 100 Days As PM!
Although this course is focused towards the Strategic role of the CFO, the information provided within this course is EXTREMELY VALUABLE for anyone taking a strategic/leadership role within an organization!
Project Managers & Change Managers will strongly benefit from this course! Much of the focus of the CFO Role that Blair describes is project driven and change management focused.
The aim of this course is to be able to align organizational vision to strategic initiatives – similar to the roles that PMs are in especially where the initiatives are PMO driven.
Throughout this course Blair Cook discusses all of the topics as “projects” to be undertaken – by the CFO function.
The concepts of this course are applicable to the CFO function (his expertise) and are applicable to Project Managers, Change Managers and PMOs in the “First 100 Days” of their new undertakings!
Advanced preparation, education or prerequisites are NOT REQUIRED.
In this course Blair will help you understand how to best get started in a new “Professionally Strategic Role”.
Whether this is your first appointment or perhaps you are transitioning to a new role at another organization, Blair will look at different approaches for your first 100 days.
Beginning with a profile of the modern CFO as the example, he will help you understand the leadership and direction you need to bring to the organization.
From there, Blair looks at team building principles and uses the examples of the finance function to help you understand how you can use proven tools to help assess the existing functions against best practices.
Blair will use a strategic approach to developing an overarching mission and value statement using the finance example, to bring context to specific action plans.
Again using the finance example, Blair shows how to structure the functions within the organization context to optimize and balance responsiveness to stakeholders with the need for control.
Finally, and most importantly Blair will look at change management principles to help you initiate your first major project in your new role.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
Describe the competencies of the Strategic functions
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to many of the strategic organizational functions that Project Managers & Change Managers perform.
Assess the level of maturity of your organization
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to assessing the level of maturity of your team.
Learn what you need to build a high performance team
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a high performance productive project or change management team.
Build a strategic plan & learn how to create the “Right Conversations” to implement the plan.
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a strategic plan aligned with organizational goals and the vision statement.
This is very suitable for project or change management professionals especially as part of PMO functions.
Build a structure that works
How to balance off structure and control while getting closer to the operational activities.
Understand basic Change Management Principles
Excellent information on transitioning the organization for new growth.
Presenter: Blair CookCA, CPA, MBA (LinkedIn profile@BlairCookCACPA) is a many-time CFO, corporate director, a sought after keynote speaker on business financials, and a passionate educator working with dozens of public/private companies; and professional bodies/post-secondary institutions across Canada. His career is divided between academic endeavors, such as developing the new certification program for CPA Canada, and supporting the corporate world at the highest levels.
Blair is a life-long learner who encourages continuing professional development. He observes and experiments with various financial and management theories in real world contexts and shares lessons learned to others who share a passion for developing financial leadership competency. If you can take the opportunity to hear Blair – Take it!
PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details Process Groups: Executing Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources
7.1 Plan Cost Management
7.3 Determine Budget
7.4 Control Costs
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’
