Live Webinar October 14th, 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

Emotional Intelligence can be defined as our ability to distinguish, understand, and have a greater awareness of how our thoughts and feelings connect with our outward displays and behaviors, as well as the ability to manage and express appropriate emotions and help others do the same.

This session will guide you through the best tools to gain emotional intelligence to improve your performance and reduce stress.

Benefits:

• Gain tools to raise your emotional intelligence
• Learn ways to control your emotions and reduce stress
• Reveal hidden blocks and obstacles that stand in your way of success
• 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.

Click to register for Emotional Intelligence: Understand Yourself Then Understand Others

Live Webinar – October 13th 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 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.

Having developed the insight in to the customer’s organisation and environment,  in the previous session – Uncovering Customers Business Needs; the next step is to engage with the key stakeholders

These stakeholders are likely to be more senior than in previous engagements and this can present challenges such as understanding who they are and how to gain access to them, as well as how to engage with them to ensure the best results.

This webinar focuses on the steps required to first identify, then target the ap-propriate stakeholders and how to elicit requirements from them.

The key techniques and tools covered are:

• Stakeholder Power Grid
• Actions to be taken with stakeholders
• Level of interest and power
• Strategic Question Asking Framework
• Structured approach to meetings
• Process driven meeting approach to reach a specific goal

This  webinar is in GK’s new Weekly series:
“The Sales Excellence Webinar Series for Business Outcomes.”

Watch for these webinars on PDU Of The Day:

• Changing The Sales Engagement
• Uncovering Customers Business Needs
• Engaging with Customer Stakeholders
• Translating Requirements to Capabilities
• Managing Customer Business Requirements
• Modelling the Customers Business
• Developing Business Acumen
• Creating the Solution Business Case
• Delivering Benefits Realisation to the Customer
• Additional Development Support and Tools

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

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.3 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’

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Live Webinar October 13th, 2015 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This session is based on the book eers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism  by Robin Chase

Before Uber and Airbnb, there was Zipcar. Robin Chase, the founder of Zipcar; has been studying the peer economy ever since.

If you want to understand the fundamental drivers of success that connect Uber, AirBnb, and other on demand companies to social media platforms, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding.

Robin calls it Peers Inc. where she has developed a general theory of how peer production platforms succeed.

In this webcast Robin will cover how to build a Peers Inc company, from inception through maturity, sharing power according to developmental phase in order to maximize the likelihood of success and produce a long-lasting and sustainable company.

Presenter: Robin Chase (LinkedIn profile, @rmchase  robinchase.org) is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar; Buzzcar, (now merged with Drivy) an online ridesharing community. Author of Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism,  and is also co-founder and Executive Chairman of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the IoMT. She has served on several boards including Governmental & Systems Program Advisory Committees and she lectures widely.  She has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT’s, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 Peers Inc: How To Think About, Build, & Scale A Collaborative Platform Organization