Online Webinar – Recorded May 7th, 2015
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.

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 July 10th, 2015 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hr Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Strategic plans are typically created annually for many organizations, often times as a result of management or their staff scrambling to pull together budget numbers and a quick list of projects to justify spending the budget dollars. The Strategic Plan then sits on a shelf and becomes stale or outdated rather than influencing future work.

Join us for this free 1 hour webinar and learn about 4 cored components that will allow your Strategic Plans to become flexible vehicles for change.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Creating and leveraging a current state organizational assessment
• Why its important to differentiate the corporation’s mission from its vision
• Creating action plans for achieving realistic objectives
• Keeping the Strategic Plan relevant and current

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 13th 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

When a software development professional first hears about Agile, they are often initially incredulous that this type of approach can work due to a misperception that Agile simply means “no planning.”

This belief could not be further from the truth.

Agile teams tend to plan more throughout the course of a project than a traditional approach, albeit in a different fashion than they may be accustomed to. Rather than planning once at the beginning of a project, Agile teams practice continuous planning throughout the project.

This web seminar will explore the five Levels of Agile planning, and how they help teams ensure that teams are able to benefit from what they learn over the course of their development and delivery efforts.

Click to register for The 5 Levels of Agile Planning

Live Webinar July 9th, 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

The On-boarding Process Is Broken!

The statistics surrounding onboarding and employee engagement are staggering. Various reports tell us that something about the onboarding process is broken.

While the preferred tenure of most new hires is 2-3 years, almost 50% of Millennials plan to look for a new job this year.

In fact, Millennials rank cementing relationships and learning the corporate culture as the greatest challenge when transitioning into a company, and 28% report quitting a job because they didn’t feel connected to the organization.

What’s going on here?

Employers are spending more and more on finding the right candidate, only to drop the ball when it comes to integrating the new hire into the company and setting them up for success.

Join this webcast to explore:

• How to identify the best candidates for your company culture
• Ways to engage candidates in the company culture and brand during the application and interview process
• Strategies for transition from successful hire to successful onboarding
• How to increase engagement during the first 90 days and put your new hires on a path to succeed

Presented by: Amy Hirsh Robinson (LinkedIn profile) Principal Interchange Group

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

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 First 90 Days Will Make Or Break Your New Hire