Live Webinar May 27th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1289
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

How do we motivate people?

While someone may possess the knowledge, skills, and desire to do great work, he or she needs the opportunity –and the proper environment and support — to do so.

This webinar explores the nature of motivation as a means of unleashing potential and driving organizational success. Casey will discuss external and internal motivation and how each impacts performance.

You will learn how to identify what drives an individual to want to do their best work and acquire tools and strategies to create and sustain an environment that fosters highly motivated and engaged employees.

This webinar will help you:

• Discover approaches to motivation that support the complex nature of work today
• Explore the nature of external rewards and their effect on performance.
• Identify key motivation factors; the internal drivers that move people to action
• Create the conditions necessary for people to use their full potential.

Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc. with her primary focus being on management learning and development. Casey works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, and with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

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Live Webinar May 27th, 2015, 8:00 am – 9:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 27th, 2015, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Centers of excellence (CoEs) accelerate the uptake of new technologies and optimize core capabilities with higher efficiency and lower costs.

Technical professionals who staff these CoEs must embrace non-technical skills and cross-discipline collaboration in addition to their core technical expertise to operate at peak efficiency and deliver optimal value to the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• When a CoE makes sense, and how to keep it vital
• What role(s) IT professionals fill, and how they may change over time
• How the CoE is typically organized and who manages it at different stages of its life cycle

Presenter: John Hagerty (LinkedIn profile), VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop 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 May 27th, 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)

Note: Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

All managers get things done through people, the question is how!

Traditional managers expect compliance. Coaching-managers expect engagement, creativity, responsibility, and ownership.

Coaching is not an isolated practice―it’s a management discipline that can boost both employee development and performance. But many managers are of the opinion that they simply do not have the time to coach each and every one of their employees on a regular basis.

However, ask yourself, “What will it cost in time or money if my employees don’t have a clear view of goals, lack critical skills, or are encountering problems that impede progress?”

Join Dan Rockwell as he explains the differences between coaching-managers and traditional managers and offers advice on how to use a coaching approach to energize and engage your staff.

To motivate their employees, effective managers realize that they must form a partnership with them.

This webcast explores the steps to evolving from a boss into a coach, including:

• Differences between top-down management and coaching management
• The importance of short interactions vs. big, long meetings
• Behaviors which are important for coaching-managers
• How effective feedback is different from “giving instructions”

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: Dan Rockwell   (LinkedIn profile, @Leadershipfreak) Dan is the original Leadership Freak (Amazon Publication)  and is author of the popular Leadership Freak Blog. He has 35 years’ experience as a public speaker and teacher, and over 15 years’ experience as a workforce development consultant. American Management Association named Dan one of the Top 30 Leaders in Business of 2014. Currently, he coaches leaders, consults with organizations, and delivers corporate and community presentations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 May 28th, 2015 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Join Edwin for this webcast and discover …
how you can make better, more profitable operational decisions.

Optimizing your workforce means allocating the right resources to tasks based on employees’ skills, availability and preferences while respecting regulations and labor agreements. These operational challenges get very complex, very quickly.

Edwin Lohmann (LinkedIn profile) PhD, Director of Business Unit Workforce, North America at Quintiq will present an engaging discussion on how you can overcome the complexities of workforce planning and scheduling to gain full visibility and control over your entire workforce processes – from long-range capacity planning and recruitment to daily task scheduling and real-time rescheduling.

Learn how overcoming these complexities can help drive the successful completion of projects, improved performance, and increased employee satisfaction in your workforce.

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”

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