Live Webinar April 22nd, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Concrete Principles For Planning & Controlling Projects

Projects fail to meet goals for a variety of reasons, and even the most experienced project managers can be caught off guard.

This webcast introduces the five immutable principles that will help you increase the probability of project success and shows you how to apply them to a broad range of projects.

Your schedule is set, the budget determined, talent deployed, best practices adhered to every step of the way—and still the project fails.

Often missing are these five principles:

• Communicating your project’s success factors (or ultimately being “Done”) in meaningful units of measure to your decision maker
• Planning to reach “Done” at the needed time for the required budget
• Planning for all the resources that must be in place to reach “Done”
• Identifying what impediments you will encounter along the way to “Done” and how you are going to handle them
• Knowing how you will measure progress to your plan, to ensure that you are “Done” on or before estimated completion date, at or below your planned budget, and that project outcomes meet the needs of your customer

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

Presenter: Glenn Alleman (LinkedIn profile) is an active SlideShare, sharing over 70 decks. He is the author of the ‘Herding Cats‘ blog and of a favorite article ‘Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects‘.  Glen leads the Program Planning and Controls practice for Niwot Ridge, LLC. With 30 + years of experience in 30 years of experience in program and project management, systems engineering, software development, and general management to bear on the problems of performance-based management, Glen’s expertise led him to author Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success.

Learn about the Integration of Earned Value and Risk Management by viewing a SlideShare deck entitled Integrating Risk with Earned Value.  This was developed for the Pikes Peak Regional chapter of PMI by Glenn.

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Live Webinar – April 23rd, 2015 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

DCG offers a range of solutions to help our clients measure, optimize and deliver their software development.

Sometimes, rather than recruit internal specialists – or while building up their specialist resources – our clients ask us to serve as their specialists, becoming part of their operational process for a range of time (sometimes indefinitely!).

To serve this function we:

• Build client-specific Centers of Excellence (CoE) in software sizing, estimation and other metrics programs.
• And then operate the CoE until the client is ready to make the transition to run it internally.

In this webinar, we will discuss the different applications of CoEs in use today and how they have helped other companies establish best practices and improve their software development process.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 22nd, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Traditional dimensions of project management such as cost, schedule and performance are necessary but insufficient.

The world is changing at a rapid pace, and the need for leaders is greater than ever before.

We need leaders who can deal with ambiguity, take ownership of the vision, foster collaboration, gain buy-in and motivate the team to achieve the expected outcomes.

Susanne believes that a great project manager is first and foremost able to manage his or her own state of mind and that project management success is as much about managing people as it is about managing tasks, plans and resources.

As a result she helps people to look inwards and become a better leader; someone who sets a great personal example, who is excellent at inspiring and focusing the team and who also understands how to liaise with the client and senior stakeholders to deliver that which they really need.

Join Susanne as she provides you with the  7 Keys to Transformation that you will need to LEAD PROJECTS not just manage them!

Presenter:  Susanne Madsen  (LinkedIn Profile @SusanneMadsen) Program Director, Project Leadership Coach, author of Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential And her latest book The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader.

Susanne has over 15 years experience in managing and rolling out large change programs.Susanne’s big passion is helping project managers get to the next level – and to help organisations set-up coaching and mentoring programmes to enable that.The majority of her experience stems from working with investment banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Standard Bank.Susanne is a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner and a qualified Corporate and Executive coach. She is also a member of the Association for Project Management (APM).

Click to register for 7 Keys to Transformation From Project Manager To Project Leader

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Live Webinar – April 22nd, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

In nearly every organization, leaders are being held accountable to do something they cannot do-motivate others. Leaders can’t motivate people, because people are already motivated.

The question is not if a person is motivated but why.

This realization always leads to an epiphany for training and human resource practitioners. HR’s dependence on carrots and sticks to motivate people had become common practice because we didn’t understand the true nature of human motivation.

Now we do, thanks to thought leaders like Dan Pink and his blockbuster book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

Letting go of carrots and sticks has been a challenge.

HR leaders know:

1. All about Dan Pink’s work,
2. They know what they’ve been doing doesn’t work, and …
3. They know managers aren’t successful at motivating people. But they haven’t understood what their alternatives are.

Understand viable alternatives to “Carrots & Sticks” on three levels:

1. Individual (employees).
   • At this level, motivation is a skill. HR can teach employees the skills of motivation so they can thrive in any environment, even if the organization’s systems haven’t changed yet.
2. Interpersonal (leaders).
   • HR can help leaders adjust their interpersonal interactions with employees – the way they set goals, have conversations, etc. – in ways that prime the pump for optimal motivation.
3. Organization.
   • At some point, our systems are going to need to change – the systems around reward and recognition, compensation, job design, etc. What’s exciting is that until those systems change, we can still work at the individual and interpersonal, 1-to-1 level.

Join Susan in this dynamic presentation and learn what motivation is really all about!

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.

A Little Bit more about Dan Pink:

Daniel Pink, author of the bestselling books  A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,  is known for his visionary flare. Dan convincingly argues that business and everyday life will soon be dominated by right-brain thinkers.

Daniel Pink’s other best sellers include Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself the follow up book The 7 Dirty Words of the Free Agent Workforce and his most popular book The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media.

Click to register for Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work… And What Does

Live Webinar April 22nd, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar April 22nd, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations are considering moving to a cloud office system like Microsoft Office 365 or Google Apps for Work.

Such a move raises many issues for IT, procurement, LOB managers and executive management.

This webinar provides the answers to the questions they are raising.

Discussion Topics:

• Why so many organizations are considering cloud office systems for their core messaging and collaboration functions
• The crucial differences between the offerings of Microsoft, Google and the rest
• What items and topics need to be considered when planning such a move

Presenter: JeffreyMann, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 How To Plan A Move To Microsoft Office 365 Or Google Apps For Work

Live Webinar April 21st, 2015 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

See how a combination of best practice templates; reporting dashboards; and a proven deployment approach can you can get started fast with a fully working SharePoint 2013 project office in as little as 3 weeks!

Brightwork will demonstrate how you can deploy SharePoint to:

1. Manage and control all (on-going) projects and work
2. Report across portfolios and resources
3. Collaborate and connect with team members
4. Increase your overall project success rate
5. Continuously improve your project management practices

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 How To Successfully Deploy A Project Office On SharePoint 2013