Online Webinar – Recorded
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Cat A PDU – $12.95 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the first in a 2 part series on Critical Role Of Change Agents by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Projects create unique products, services, or results. Thus, the inevitability of change is an inescapable factor resulting from every project.

Every project creates opportunities that must be seized or forever lost. Without attention to organizational change, these products, services, and results may never be used.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to increase your awareness and start to acquire the skills to manage resistance to organizational change resulting from your projects.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Concepts of organizational change management and the differences in change versus transition
• Typical responsibilities of change agents
• How change disrupts expectations
• Reasons for and causes of resistance and how to manage resistance
• The importance of respecting differing frames of reference
• Emotional responses to change

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EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar January 6th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Futuring, or “foresight” as it is becoming known, is the disciplined study of the future. It utilizes some techniques that are different from those used in normal business forecasting and strategy development and planning.

In this session Stephen will describe a few of the unique foresight methodologies and tools, and discuss how the techniques are used in practice.

Leave with knowledge that you can apply!

Presenter: Stephen Troutman (LinkedIn profile) is a Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, and Community Volunteer.

• As a Futurist, since 1999, he is on regular speaker and member of both the Minnesota Futurists and the World Future Society.
• At IBM for 33 years, Steve held a number of management and professional positions in transformation consulting, organization change, process leadership, and sales.
• As a US Naval Reservist for 23 years, he was the Commanding Officer of four units, and attained the rank of Captain.
• As a keynote speaker and facilitator he shares his depth of knowledgeable in consulting methodologies, change management, process improvement, team facilitation, and managing remote teams.
• As a community volunteer he serves on the Boards of Director of four organizations, including his current role as President of the Board of the Rochester Art Center, a world class, a contemporary art museum.

Steve is the co-author of the book: Remote Control: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Virtual Teams and has a BS in Management and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Venture Management both from the University of Southern California

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Live Webinar January 6th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar January 6th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the heart of the digital business.

It is the marriage of operational and information technology necessary to create a business advantage.

Discussion Topics:

• What IoT is, and which are the major vendors
• Practical advice on how to build IoT solutions
• What an IoT reference architecture looks like

Presenter: Drue Reeves (LinkedIn profile) Managing VP

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

• 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”

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Online Webinar – Recorded
Offered by: Solutions Cube Group (Rep 2451)  $12.95 USD
Attendees will be awarded 1 Cat A PDU for participating.

This webinar is the third in a 3 part series series on Collaboration by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

The PMBOK® refers to the concept of progressive elaboration as a recommended method for defining the project’s scope and producing project outcomes.

Many teams struggle with applying progressive elaboration or lack the knowledge to apply these techniques in manner which allows for continual clarification of the project scope versus expanding the boundaries of the project scope.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn how to:

• Apply progressive elaboration concepts on the creation of project deliverables
• Use the Wave Concept to develop project deliverables in a collaborative meeting setting
• Keep stakeholders focused on the deliverable or task at hand during meetings
• Structure a progress elaboration meeting activity expand the depth of knowledge for a deliverable without expanding the scope of the project effort

Join Solutions Cube for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to avoid allowing progressive elaboration to become an uncontrolled scope creep dilemma on their projects. This is part 3 of a three part series presented by Solutions Cube.

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Live Webinar – January 6th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

You’ve completed your performance assessments, now what do you do with the results? How do you pull together all that data into a comprehensive, professional plan for the execs? Easy – you put some PEP in your step!

In this session, we’ll be examining the components and benefits of crafting a Performance Enhancement Plan (PEP) and how that differs from the traditional training plans we have done in the past.

During our time together you will:

• Discover the differences between a PEP and a traditional training plan
• Decide when it’s appropriate to use a PEP
• Examine the components of a PEP and identify a tool to help you develop each component
• Identify key elements of an effective training plan
• Discuss the steps to take in a feedback meeting with your client/stakeholder
• Receive a sample template for YOUR client/stakeholder services agreement

Be the performance consultant that your organization needs by putting some PEP in your step and sign up for our FREE webinar today. See you soon!

Speakers: Maria Chilcote (LinkedIn profile) is Managing Partner of The Training Clinic (TTC) Since 1977, TTC has trained over 200,000 people on 5 continents in train-the-trainer techniques and other topics including  management development, communication, and administrative skills and workshops. With 30+ years of experience, Maria specializes in performance consulting, and has conducted hundreds of workshops for a wide variety of industries. Maria is  author of many papers and articles on L&D  best practices and is a very engaging trainer in the classroom; blending examples from her breadth of corporate experience with just the right amount of humor!

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 January 5th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Terraform is an infrastructure as code management tool developed by HashiCorp and released in 2014.

It provides a standard configuration language for declaring infrastructure resources from a variety of services including AWS, Google, Openstack, and DigitalOcean.

This standard configuration allows for declaring service agnostic infrastructure that is deployed across multiple providers.

Once declared, Terraform tracks the state of resources and manages the actions necessary to maintain the declared configuration.

John will:

• Introduce you toTerraform and it’s underlying provider
  • It’s resource models
  • It’s configuration language,
  • And discuss it’s reusable modules,
• Demonstrate shared infrastructure using remote state.
• And discuss extending Terraform’s capabilities through it’s provider plugin API.

Presenter:  John Engelman (LinkedIn profile) is a sought after industry speaker and ObjectPartner’s Chief Technologist for DevOps. John is the author of the Shadow plugin for Gradle, one of the most widely used community plugins.  Consulting on continuous integration and deployment pipelines, cloud architecture, automation builds, application monitoring, John is also a regular open source contributor including projects such as Ratpack, Gradle, and Terraform.

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

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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