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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Live Webinar May 27th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

We’ve all heard that setting priorities in our personal lives is key to achieving our goals.

Some of us hire personal coaches to get our lives in order, but when it comes to what we do within the office, all that planning goes out the window.

Organizations today are running at a much faster pace than ever before. We have technology glued to us at all times so that we can quickly respond to things.

But should we really?

This month Core Performance Concepts will talk about the benefits of prioritizing our days both at home and at work.

They understand that you don’t always have control over the priorities that may be set for you in the office, but will discuss some strategies and approaches to gaining clarity of purpose when your supervisor says something is urgent or if you are feeling like you have too many projects on your plate.

At the end of this session, they will ask for attendees to submit a scenario they would like to have discussed in their May 27th panel. They will share experiences and strategies for helping you get your time in control.

Benefits

• Learn how to prioritize both at home and work
• Identify key strategies to gain clarity
• Plan your projects accordingly
• Submit your scenarios to discuss next session
• Earn 1 PDU

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar May 26th, 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

Project Managers Deal With Complexity Every Day!

The latest business surveys show that critical thinking now ranks as the most desired leadership attribute for businesses (see the EDA Trends in Executive Development Report).

While critical thinking works well for complicated environments where answers can be found by concertedly applying good processes, additional skills are needed to survive under “Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous” (VUCA) conditions.

For VUCA environments, where causes and effects are unclear and creative solutions often trump tried-and-true processes, leaders and organizations need an expanded set of “cognitive readiness” competencies.

The U.S. Armed Forces originally developed the concept of cognitive readiness.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, service-members have found themselves thrust into VUCA, high-scrutiny, and high-tempo conflicts.

Each situation must be approached with reflection and creativity, the adaptability to notice and react quickly to evolving conditions, and a strategic understanding of the larger system and far-reaching effects of actions taken within it.

Although business leaders (hopefully) don’t face the same threats as military personnel, corporations encounter their own sets of challenges and often operate under commiserate levels of complexity, scrutiny, and time pressure.

What You’ll Learn:

1. How to distinguish different levels of complexity
2. How the brain works—not just decision-making but also the critical processes that support it
3. Differences between the concepts of “cognitive readiness” and “critical thinking”
4. Seven core competencies leaders need to excel under VUCA conditions

Presenters:

• Sae Schatz (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., Senior Consultant, Executive Development Associates
• Lynn Pollard (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consultant and Master Facilitator, Executive Development Associates

PDU Category C documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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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