Live Webinar September 15th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Thanks to major outages, websites like Target, Southwest Airlines, Best Buy, and others have experienced firsthand the importance of mobile app performance testing.

Even if a mobile app functions perfectly, no one will use it if it takes twenty seconds to launch.

When performance is bad, it’s all that matters to customers. If performance testing is not part of your test plan, include it—whether it’s a requirement or not.

Learn:

1. Performance testing strategies for the real world
2. Approaches for finding bottlenecks and improving mobile app responsiveness
3. How to build performance testing into the mobile application lifecycle
4. How mobile performance influences user behavior

Join this web seminar to learn how to set performance targets for mobile applications and discover what types of testing will ensure you release high-quality applications that work—and work fast—every time.

Presenter: Aaron Rudger (LinkedIn profile, @arudger) Senior Product Marketing Manager Keynote, Aaron leads the product vision, strategy and evangelization for industry leading web and mobile monitoring solutions. Prior to Keynote Systems, Aaron held key marketing positions at Right90, BMC Software, Remedy Corporation and iPrint.com. Aaron is also a frequent speaker at industry events.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Mobile App Performance: The Critical Testing You’re Not Doing

Live Webinar – September 15th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Business Culture Is Important!

As technology advances, software and connectivity grow, and open-source tools become de rigeur, it’s becoming easier to find tools that can fill tricky-yet-crucial roles in our processes.

We’re tapping new gold mines of scalability, automation, and compute.
But with every step forward in the world of tools – and processes – and management – there’s something that continues to stay exactly the same: the human nature of the tool users.

The team of people on the mission, and the workplace environment they create, are foundational to everything else that’s used to do our work. Culture is the primary factor.

With a strong, positive, motivated culture, more work is done.

More quality is delivered.

And more money can be made.

• But can it be improved?
• Can it be influenced?
• Can it be changed?

Those are million-dollar questions!

ASPE’s Chris Knotts PMP  (LinkedIn profile) spend the hour  helping you understand the ins and outs of Business Culture.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 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”

Click to register for Workplace Culture: Can You Really Change It?

Live Webinar Sept 22nd, 2015 – 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by:  The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the “magic” of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist!  Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamability:
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always “team” well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict “teaming” behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their “Role”).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

Live Webinar September 16th, 2015 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Being Busy Isn’t The Exception Anymore
It Is The Norm

In this webinar Erin Owen (LinkedIn profile) Transformational Life Coach for Leaders and author of Refuel, Recharge, and Re-energize: Your Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Time & Energy will help you understand how you can go from feeling Fractured to being  a whole productive force in your organization!

After this webcast, you will be able to:

1. More effectively organize and allocate your work activities to be more mentally focused, productive, and creative, while reducing the total amount of time needed to work each day
2. View time as a flexible, expandable asset that is your ally in achieving results rather than view time as a frustratingly finite scarcity that limits your potential impact
3. Enroll key stakeholders in supporting changes you want to make to your schedule
4. Create anchor in your schedule that reduce your stress level, increase your focus and follow-through, and leverage your natural energy highs and lows.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 From Fractured To Whole: Time Management Strategies to Reduce Distraction, Increase Productivity & Creativity, And Reduce Being Overwhelmed

Live Webinar – September 16th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Ever find yourself asking:

• How to grow your company to the next level?
• How to radically change the culture of your organization?
• How to lead in a way that leverages diversity?

It starts with self-awareness. Gone are the days when 20 potential leaders are whisked into a classroom or off-site for a week of intense leadership training.

Today’s world of work requires intentional, repeatable and small “Bytes Of Learning”.

In this one-hour webinar we’ll share some of the best leadership development tools, tips and tricks we’ve found.

You’ll be immersed into activities to see how the learning exercises affect your attitude as a participant.

You’ll be immersed into activities to:

• Create a safe place to discuss self assessment and how to see real learning occur
• Build resiliency among learners
• Practice coaching in a safe environment
• Illustrate the power of a shared vision

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

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

• 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 More Than A Game: Leadership Experiences That Drive Self-Awareness

Live Webinar – September 15th 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.

Leadership is evolving beyond the traditional leadership skills
AND it has never been so important!

In an era of constant change, digital disruption, increased employee expectations and rising business complexity today’s leaders require more than the fundamentals.

In year’s past, leadership development focused on helping leader’s set performance expectations, communicate effectively, provide feedback, coach and motivate their employees.

While these skills remain important, they are no longer sufficient to meet the business requirements of the 21st century.

Leaders now require skills and competencies to ensure they also build highly productive teams, accelerate organizational results and transform customer experiences in a fast-paced, highly competitive global working environment.

In this hour-long webinar Michelle Moore will discuss the new high demand skills and competencies require to lead effectively in the 21st century.

Michelle will cover the following elements:

• Leading in complex times.
• Leading high performance teams.
• Building your business IQ.
• Strategic thinking and decision making in a digital world.
• Leading innovation.
• Leading continuous change.

Michelle Moore LinkedIn profile) is a learning and development professional with in-depth knowledge and experience in Sales, Leadership and Communication Skills. Michelle facilitates Global Knowledge Leadership and Business workshops on a world-wide basis and is responsible for development and promotion of the Global Knowledge EMEA Leadership and Business Skills portfolio.

Click to register for High Impact Leadership: Delivering Results In The 21st Century