Online Webinar – Recorded September 24, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex Online

1. What makes an organization a great place to work?
2. What is the process that individual employees go through in determining that?

Those are the questions that researchers at The Ken Blanchard Companies® set out to discover over the course of a seven-year research project to identify the organizational, job, and relationship factors that lead to Employee Work Passion.

In this webinar, Dr. Drea Zigarmi, (kenblanchard.com bio) Founding Associate and Director of Research for The Ken Blanchard Companies will present the research that sheds light on the process that individual employees go through in determining whether critical factors are present in a specific work environment.

He will use the Employee Work Passion model to show how an individual appraisal of organizational and job characteristics leads to positive or negative intentions, behaviors, and subsequent organizational or unit results.

Participants will explore:

• Why Leadership Matters—how strategic and operational leadership behaviors impact Employee Work Passion
• The Employee Appraisal Process—how perceptions of the work environment lead to positive or negative employee intentions in five key areas
• The Employee Work Passion Model—12 work environment factors all leaders need to know, evaluate, and plan for
• Four Critical Implications—and how to get started

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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Live Webinar – May 12th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

here is a whole classification of eLearning development tools that install themselves as new ribbons in PowerPoint.

They include some very popular tools:

• Adobe Presenter
• Articulate Studio
• iSpring Studio Suite
• Microsoft Mix
• Trivantis Snap!
• Zenler Studio

Are there any real differences between these tools?
Do any of those differences lead to a clear-cut winner in the mix?
Which tool will best serve your needs?

PowerPoint add-in development tools do not address every eLearning need but in many cases can be the perfect solution to designing and developing an eLearning course, especially when time is of the essence and budgets are very tight.

It’s important to know what each of these tools offers you, especially where the differences lie, because the differences can make all the difference between delivering really good eLearning or boring, bad eLearning.

If you’re going to use a PowerPoint add-in tool, are you sure you’re using the correct one for your particular needs? Come and find out.

Objectives:

• When to use PowerPoint eLearning development tools
• How these tools work in PowerPoint
• What the differences are between these tools
• How to determine which is the best tool for you

Speakers:  Joe Ganci  (LinkedIn profile) is widely considered a guru for his expertise in eLearning development  whose personal and hands-on style to consulting has his services constantly in demand. Joe’s design approaches and his innovative use of tools, such as Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Presenter and Articulate Studio, ZebraZapps, Interact and others.   Regularly keynote Speaker, Joe  is on a mission to improve the quality of eLearning with practical approaches that work.

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Online Webinar  –  Recorded May 23th 2014
Duration: 1 Horur – 1 Category A PDU / CDU – Free PDU / CDU
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161)

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that  experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

In This session you will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Presenter: Darrel Raynor PMP CBAP (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director, Data Analysis & Results Darrel is a veteran project consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise

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Live Webinar May 7th, 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)

In his linked in post an “Executive Guide to Application Modernization” Don Suggests:

At the end of the day, it comes down primarily to needing to predict and control four aspects of the modernization:

• resources (financial and personnel)
• time (schedule)
• risk (likelihood and impact)
• value to the organization

Pick any two to minimize, and the other two will vary according to the details of that project.

Based on the treatise Business Rule Extraction in Application Modernization Projects  Don Estes (LinkedIn profile)  will recommend a methodology for successfully achieving a full and accurate set of functional requirements in legacy modernization.

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 1, 2011
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453) 1 Category A PDU
Duration: 1 hour 1 Category A PDU – $20 USD – 1 PDU

There is an acknowledged shift within PM away from the traditional ‘plan-then execute’ paradigm, towards an understanding that project-based work in today’s turbulent environments is intimately concerned with resolving ambiguity and complexity, often using a greater degree of ‘soft’ skills.

One result of this shift is a move towards a more ‘improvisational’ style of project-based work, where creativity and an intuitive ‘gut feel’ for what will work in a particular scenario are valued as important contributors to project success.

In this one hour session, Dr. Stephen Leybourne (LinkedIn profile) will offer a number of suggestions relating to how improvised work can contribute to project success, and will:

• Unpick and explain the theoretical underpinnings of organizational improvisation,
• Explain how to use it, and how to control it,
• Give examples of how it can be effective,
• Suggest why today’s project managers need to be aware of it, and
• Supply a ‘route map’ to assist in successful improvisation.

This presentation and the discussion that will follow it, is based on over ten years of research into organizational improvisation within the project domain, and a significant amount of published research by the presenter

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Live Webinar May 7th, 2015 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Is Your Team Resilient?

Managing resilience in today’s fast paced world of high expectations is tough for individuals and even harder for teams.

The busier teams get, the more likely they are to focus on tasks instead of relationships and that’s expensive!

It costs in lost resources, lost creativity and impairs the ability to build and maintain trust.

When teams build their resilience they expand the ability to share emotions and resources, to stand up for one another, and to take innovative risks.

This webcast will review what team resilience is and why it’s so essential.

Marcia & James will discuss the vital role emotional intelligence skills play in developing team resilience. Strategies that can be used now to build team resilience will be presented.

What you will learn:

1. How to define team resilience so you can keep tabs on your teams’ resilience.
2. The key emotional intelligence skills that support team positivity and trust, which leads to sustainable resilience.
3. Powerful, yet simple, strategies your teams can follow to measure and build their resilience.

Presenters: James Terrell Vice President, Collaborative Growth & Marcia Hughes President, Collaborative Growth

Marcia & James have authored a number of terrific leadership books including:

• Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence In Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers
• Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Best Practices, Case Studies, and Strategies
• The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success
• A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Developing Successful Leaders
• Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders, Managers, and Teams
• Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short) Participant Workbook  and Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short), Facilitator’s Guide Set
• Life’s 2% Solution: Simple Steps to Achieve Happiness and Balance

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 Build Team Resiliency: Your Team’s Guide To Positivity, Productivity & Well-Being