Live Webinar – July 28th, 2015 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

New employees offer promise & potential
For their employers.

In order to be successful, new employees must acclimate quickly to their new organization’s culture, structure, policies, procedures, and job expectations.

If this does not occur, the promise of a new employee can quickly become a liability.

Further, employees who are new to an organization, generally consume more resources then the value of their productivity (Rollag, Parise, & Cross, 2005).

It is critical for organizations to experience a return on their investment by means of increased productivity over time.

This will not happen if new employees fail to reach full productivity or leave the organization before they have an opportunity to contribute in a way that affects the organization’s performance outcomes and bottom line (Chang, Ehrlich, & Millen, 2004).

After the first three months, most new employees can perform functionally, understanding rules, regulations, processes, and governance.

However, if they do not develop personal connections both intellectually and socially, they will not experience continued growth in the organization (Chang, Ehrlich, & Millen, 2004).

Organizational socialization has a profound influence on new employee adjustment.

Onboarding is an acclimation process focused on integrating new employees into a company’s culture (Dai & De Meuse, 2007) both functionally and socially.

This presentation will explain the impact of utilizing a comprehensive onboarding program to improve new employee’s success.

Speakers:  Dr. Gia Suggs, MPH, MA, EdD (LinkedIn profile) is an Organization Development Consultant, Author of Onboarding: A Flightplan for Taking Your Workforce to New Heights, and an instructor for the Master of Organizational Leadership & Business Administration programs at Olivet Nazarene University. She is an organization development professional, adult learner expert, skilled instructional designer, and Author. With  over 20 years of organization development, human performance, and training experience, she has a track record of assessing organizational needs, developing and implementing recommendations for improved outcomes, and evaluating organizational results.

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
• 9.4  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 Reduce Turnover, Increase Productivity & Maximize The Success Of Your New Employees

Live Webinar July 29th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar Clinton Ages (LinkedIn profile) walks through:

• A Kanban process of refining the Product Backlog,
• He details story estimation techniques, and …
• He illustrates best practices for forecasting stories and mapping to Sprints.

Click to register for Be Agile: Coordinating The Product Backlog

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Live Webinar – July 29th 2015, 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Organisations are spending vast sums protecting their digital assets, still hardly a week goes by without news of a major security breach. Attacks are larger, more complex and targeted.

Sought-after digital assets include intellectual property (IP), and customer and financial data. The average financial impact of each breach is increasing and it’s becoming harder to keep these attacks out of the news.

The bottom line is the consequences for organisations can be devastating in terms of loss of revenue and reputation.

This webinar will introduce the latest weapon in the fight back – Resilia – the newly released global best practice framework for cyber resilience published by Axelos, the people that brought you ITIL and PRINCE2.

This webinar will include the following elements:

• The need for cyber resilience – the cyber story so far
• Benefits of the Resilia approach
• How Resilia is structured
• What education is available

Click to register for Resilia: Spearheading The Best Practice Crusade For Cyber Resilience

Online Webinar – Recorded September 4th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

On the surface Scrum and agile practices seem simple — don’t they?
At heart, they are. In fact, “doing Agile” is relatively straightforward.

So why are so many organizations struggling to
Effectively Implement Agility?

There are several culprits. During this hour, ASPE expert and Certified Scrum Coach Bob Galen will address some of these impediments, and take your Q and A in a free one-hour coaching clinic.

Come ready to listen to discussion and learn about:

• Estimation
• Release Planning
• Agile at Scale
• Done-ness
• Investing in Technical Debt
• Engaging Leadership
• Enhancing Transparency
• Effective User Stories
• Team Buy-in
• MVPs
• Distributed Teams

If you’re struggling with various aspects of agility, getting the return on your agile investment or stuck “going it alone,” with no guide you through tough Scrum challenges, this free, one-hour coaching session with a pragmatic and highly experienced agile practitioner is for you!

YOU create the Product Backlog for this workshop, so bring your questions and challenges and let’s see what “being Agile” looks like in the wild.

Presenter: Robert “Bob” Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership – Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations.  He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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 Achieving Scrum Mastery: 1-Hour Coaching Clinic

Live Webinar July 29th, 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.

The Essence Of Sales Is
Creating Success For Your Clients!

This webcast isn’t a quick-fix, but introduces you to a playbook that you can master over time to help your clients succeed.

The more passionately and skillfully you focus on their needs, the more successful you will be.

There are 3 main keys to effective sales:

• Filling Your Pipeline: Teaches you to use an approach we call Value Calling and communicate with a targeted prospect with the intent to explore whether or not mutual value can be created.
• Qualifying Your Opportunities: Allows you to better enable the decisions you make with the client.  You are able to win fast or lose fast rather than holding your pipeline hostage for a long period of time.
• Closing the Sale: Helps you understand your role and how you influence decisions to achieve win-win outcomes. You are better able to resolve objections and prepare the conditions for good decision making.

Each of these three keys must be followed to give the best possible opportunity for your clients to succeed with your solution.

What You Will Learn

• Rethinking the funnel
• Identify opportunities to communicate with your client
• Enable decisions
• Move off the solution
• Handle objections
• Discover your role and how to achieve win-win outcomes

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

Presenter: Sean Frontz (LinkedIn profile) a Senior Delivery Consultant with FranklinCovey, Sean has coached thousands of sales leaders worldwide, helping them take their teams to new levels of success. Sean has elevated the ho-hum webinar into interactive virtual presentations that WOW his clients.

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
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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 3 Keys To Increasing Sales Effectiveness

Live Webinar – July 29th, 2015 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 Category A PDU / 1 CDU Free PDU
Mpug Member Free – Guests Free – Free To All

 This presentation offers a no-pressure, stress-free virtual environment to learn about add-ins for Microsoft Project. The products featured in this free vendor presentation address gaps in out-of-the-box functionality thus would require product trial or purchase to use.

Deploying any Project Management solution can be a challenge to organizations and individuals.

See how Sensei works with clients to align their Microsoft PPM solution with industry standards from PMI and recommendations from Gartner and improve adoption through documented procedures, e-learning and apps on mobile devices.

Presenter: Kenneth Steiness, (LinkedIn profile) PMP/PMI-SP MCP MCT is the author of Proactive PPM with Microsoft Project 2013 for Project Server and Project Online has worked in the project management and scheduling field for over 19 years, and in over 13 countries worldwide. His focus is on process and the discipline of PPM and scheduling whenever he engages with clients to deploy Microsoft Project and Project Server or teaches classes on the subject. Kenneth has presented at world-wide conferences for Microsoft and PMI; and to many Microsoft Project User Groups over the years.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more ….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for Improving Adoption of Microsoft Project with e-learning and Apps