Live Webinar October 28th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1298a

What makes you great as an individual contributor doesn’t always translate to being a great manager or team leader.

There is a vast difference between getting the work done on your own and getting it done through other people.

A management role calls for new ways of thinking and a new set of skills. While some managers do receive initial training, others are given little or no support, and despite the best of intentions, mistakes are made.

But what if you had your own group of advisors who could help you avoid some of the pitfalls of managing people?

In this webinar you will learn 10 valuable pieces of advice from managers who have already gone through their own “trial by fire.”

These are the 10 things they wished they knew when they first became a manager and what they want you to know now. Consider this webinar your own personal advisory board!

About the Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc.   Casey’s primary focus is on management learning and development and working with new managers who want to make a successful transition into move into leadership roles. Prior to founding Waybridge Associates, Casey was human resource development manager at Marshalls Department Stores.

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Live Webinar – October 29th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

IT Organizations have been using Agile methodologies for years to deliver more value to their customers in less time.

While frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming enable frequent communication from individual teams to their customers, we often find organizations will still rely on Waterfall relics such as Status Reports, Change Control Boards and multiple meetings to enable this communication beyond the scope of the team and those local goals.

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), developed by Dean Leffingwell (LinkedIn profile), outlines an approach to help organizations harness the power of Agile throughout the enterprise and then provides a framework to ensure a consistent cadence and alignment between teams, projects, portfolios and programs moving the entire organization in a shared, positive direction.

SAFe seeks to keep everyone informed, engaged and involved while focusing on delivering the maximum amount of enterprise value.

In this session Jenny Tarwater (LinkedIn profile) defines what SAFe is, how it is being used by today’s leading development innovators and how to useSAFe to lead the adoption of Lean and Agile methods across your enterprise.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 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 October 28th, 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.

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Live Webinar October 28th, 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.

The Inside Story of How to Drive Strategic Initiatives

It’s sometimes said that there is no constant but change.

With smart phones, apps for everything, and self-driving cars on the horizon, the business world seems to be changing faster than ever.

For most organizations, this is a scary time. It seems certain that your industry will be disrupted, although it’s hard to know how or when.

With all this change on the outside, however, change from the inside seems harder than ever.

People cling to habits and routines, and even when the wolf is at the door, it seems that people resist change, even when everyone knows it’s necessary.

It’s hard enough to instigate change from the top, but what if you’re not the CEO? What if you’re somewhere in the middle? What can you do?

It turns out there’s a lot you can do. Dave Gray will show you how to navigate the complex underlying social dynamics in organizations, so you can find the doorways that will lead to truly meaningful change.

Learn:

• Why people argue about things that seem obvious
• Four illusions that keep people stuck in their current mindset
• Why you can never be objective about your role in change
• Why behavior is the last thing you should focus on changing
• How to find the doorways that will lead to real, meaningful chang

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

Presenter: Dave Gray (LinkedIn profile) SVP Strategy, Dachis Group, is a management consultant, focused on innovation and change, and is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers. He is coauthor of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, and The Connected Company. For more information, follow Daves Blog.

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Live Webinar – October 28th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Microsoft Project is the world’s leading desktop scheduling and planning solution.

When it comes time to unify data across 5, 10, 100 or even a thousand Microsoft Project files, the options are complex, expensive, time consuming and in many cases still not capable enough to answer the questions of leading businesses.

In this one hour webcast, Sean Pales (LinkedIn profile) will show you how individual Microsoft Project files can be unified and leveraged for enterprise resource forecasting, scenario planning and what-if analysis.

As part of this demonstration, we will leverage widely available tools and also cite real world examples of cost savings and measurable business outputs.

Focus will be placed on answering critical PMO-related questions:

1. When can I start a new project?
2. Where should I schedule a project?
3. What do I need to complete a project?
4. What happens if I cancel, move, split, expand or contract a project?
5. What happens if I hire or fire resources?
6. Where do I have capability gaps?
7. Where do I have excess capacity?

Business Value:

• Leverage widely available tools to enterprise enable your local Microsoft Project files.
• Answer critical business focused questions around project timing and resource allocation.
• Identify critical resource bottlenecks in your organization.
• Remove the need for complex one-off analyses or high priced consultants.

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!

Presenter: Sean Pales founder of  ProSymmetry, an enterprise Project and Portfolio Management consulting company. Sean saw the need to provide a robust software solution to solve the challenges of resource portfolio management & planning. This led to the development of Tempus Resource – the industry leading resource portfolio management solution.  Sean frequently speaks at a wide range of industry events including the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summits.

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Live Webinar – October 30th 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 Process Automation is essential to increasing efficiency in the workplace. SharePoint is a flexible and extensible platform for solving business needs and meeting the challenges faced by today’s business users.

SharePoint 2013 offers Microsoft’s most robust set of tools yet for automation.

In this session, Andy Huneycutt (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to maximize your organization’s return on investment by examining the many automated process available out of the box in SharePoint 2013.

By combining the features of Enterprise Content Management, Form Services, and Workflows, SharePoint 2013 provides a rich feature set and no code solution that can help promote efficacy in the workplace, provide transparency, and increase accountability.

Expect to learn:

• How to deliver an enterprise-wide content management experience
• How to deliver customized web based forms without a single line of code
• Apply advanced techniques for creating custom rules based workflows
• Discover how to combine these features to implement a robust, extensible, reliable, and easy to use experience

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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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