Live Webinar April 17th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1313
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Well-run requirements workshops are considered one of the most effective ways for delivering high-quality requirements quickly and accurately. They can also promote trust, mutual understanding, and strong communications amongst the project stakeholders and project teams, and increase the probability of producing the desired deliverables to the end-users.

In this webinar, you will learn useful guidelines for planning and conducting an effective requirements workshop; additionally, you will also get familiar with some of the most common processes and techniques used to overcome the challenges of requirements elicitation.

About the Presenter: Scott Kastner, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), manages the IT Systems Operations at jetBlue Airways, and is also a business analysis and project management instructor and consultant. Scott’s strong technical background coupled with his practical business understanding has made him highly regarded in both the business analysis and project management communities.

Click to register for Better, Faster, Stronger: Plan and Conduct More Effective Requirements Workshops

Live Webinar April 16th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

You’re a project manager and are managing people that don’t report to you directly.

You’re having some difficulties getting the people on your project to do the tasks required to meet the project’s objectives.

Are there any tools and techniques available to help you overcome the challenges you’re having with matrix managing project team members?

This webinar will introduce techniques for resolving the challenges that we all face when we’re matrix managing team members ensuring team buy-in, ownership, and accountability, responsiveness to requests for action, and appropriate and effective escalation processes.

Participants will learn about:

• Setting up the project kick-off meeting.
• Making a contract with functional managers.
• Obtaining buy-in and ownership.
• Resource planning and the Responsibility Matrix.
• Communication planning.

Learn how to set the stage through your project kick-off meeting, negotiate a suitable matrix management contract with functional managers, and understand how to engage team members and executives through effective communication and escalation planning.

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 1st, 2015
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex Online

Susan Fowler  (dubbed “Motivation Expert Extraordinaire” by PDU Of The Day)  will share the three skills for creating a highly productive and actively engaged workplace.

Susan will examine the building blocks of motivation and what leaders intentionally or accidentally do that increases or decreases intentions to perform and work effectively with others.

Drawing from the design of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ new Optimal Motivation training program, Susan will explore what leaders can do to enhance and develop every individual’s natural inclination to grow and excel.

You’ll learn about three skills that help facilitate people’s optimal motivation

• Identifying an individual’s current motivation by exploring the characteristics of six possible motivational outlooks.
  Shifting motivational outlooks through “why” questions, promoting mindfulness, aligning with values, and connecting with purpose.
• Reflecting and maintaining higher levels of motivation by examining well-being, considering key reasons for shifting or not shifting, and developing the skills to reframe any goal or task.
• Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what leaders can do to create a work environment where people are self-motivated to perform at high levels, go above and beyond job descriptions, and work collaboratively toward common goals.

Presenter : Susan Fowler (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consulting Partner The Ken Blanchard Companies is co author with Ken Blanchard of Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership. In this captivating business parable, Susan tells the story of a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician he comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge learned from the One Minute Manager, the magician teaches the three skills of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job but show him what he needs to know in order to keep growing, learning, and achieving.

Susan’s other bestselling books are:

• Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work … and What DoesThe New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging
• Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
• Good Leaders, Good Shepherds
• The Team Leader’s Idea-A-Day Guide: 250 Ways to Make Your Team More Effective and Productive-Every Working Day of the Year (Dartnell Idea-a-day Guides)
• Leadership Genius

BE SURE TO :  Check out Susan Fowlers website  it has great resources including the ability to Download a free  chapter of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work.  Reading chapter is worth up to 1 Category C PDU.

ALSO:  The Ken Blanchard Companies offers training associated with the content of the webinar and the book.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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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Live Webinar April 16th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are Your Team’s Skills Lagging?

While new technologies have the potential to transform productivity in the workplace, inadequate digital skills are causing rapid and deceptable declines.

This is costing the US economy $1.3 trillion per year.

HR professionals and trainers at organizations are finding that in today’s workforce, their employees simply do not have the critical digital skills they need to catch up, keep up and thrive in today’s digital economy.

Businesses must work harder to scale-up on their digital skills, or risk losing competitiveness in the global marketplace.

By laying out a competency model made up of 8 core technology skills in the workplace, you can identify the capabilities of a more skilled and digitally fluent workforce.

In this webcast you’ll learn:

1. What the skills gap looks like and how to develop an action plan to address it
2. The 8 core digital competencies that every worker needs and how you can train on them
3. The proven, science-backed methodologies that can help train millennials and the modern workforce

Presenter:   Alex Khurgin (LinkedIn profile) is the Creative Director at Grovo, a cloud-based training platform that identifies digital skills gaps within an organization, and provides development plans to close those gaps with highly engaging, 60-second videos.  Alex works with the Product and Content teams to help implement Grovo’s learner-first training method, which combines elements of holistic learning, competency-based learning, and microlearning to drive quick, meaningful, and lasting performance improvements.

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”

Click to register for The Digital Skills Gap: Why Skills Expire In 2.5 Years & How To Keep Up

For Another Great 1 Cat C Presentation From Alex check out:

How the Digital Skills Gap is Killing Your Team’s Productivity:
And What You Can Do About It

Online Webinar – Recorded August 19th, 2014
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Click To Learn More About & Register For  How the Digital Skills Gap is Killing Your Team’s Productivity: And What You Can Do About It