Live Webinar – December 10th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

Do you ever wonder why people are constantly getting in the way of project success?

In many cases, the politics and personalities of our stakeholders will cause our projects to fail… unless we learn to improvise.

Every personality is different, and every stakeholder has an agenda.

In this webinar Scott Bailey (LinkedIn profile) will present standard practices to manage stakeholders and outline a strategy to manage politics and personalities throughout the lifetime of a project.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholders

• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 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 Managing Project Politics & Personalities

Live Webinar December 9th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Tired of the command and control style of management?

So, stop managing and start coaching! Coaching is the ability to bring out the best in people.

It is the ability to work with a diverse set of team members to help them be creative, empowered and motivated. Coaching is not “command and control”, it is not acting as the benevolent dictator (haven’t we all worked for someone like that?).

Rather, it is the art of asking powerful questions and using powerful language so that the person being coached will come up with answers for him or herself.

The focus is on helping your team members to be resourceful and accountable while getting the job done. Join us for an engaging and interactive presentation.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Discover the difference between traditional management and coaching
• Find out how and why coaching works
• Learn how to develop powerful questions and how to hold people accountable
• Building rapport, a key to developing strong relationships
• Tips on how to develop a group into a team

Presenter:  John Kaman PMP, is a management coach, mentor and educator.  John has 22 years of experience in Research and Development Management with both 3M Company and Imation Corp and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota. He holds a Masters degree in Psychology/Human Development, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a certificate in Professional Personal Coaching.

Click to register for Stop Managing, Start Coaching

Live Webinar December 9th, 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

Anyone who has supervised someone knows that the work they do may not be the most important thing to the person responsible for delivering the work.

There are so many distractions today, especially when you consider that we are connected to technology nearly 24/7.

Studies have shown that if we put the cell phones down and focus on one thing, the quality of work and the speed for which we can deliver quality work will increase.

• Why is it that it is so hard for people to stay focused today?
• Is it because of the way technology can “ping” us at any time?
• Could it be the fact that we now are interacting more and more with a global workforce?

You can probably say that it is a little bit of everything listed here and more.

As a project manager, you may want to ask people to shut everything off and stay focused on your project for things to be done successfully, but is that really realistic?

What we have to do is to understand more deeply the motivations of our team and make sure that we are planning correctly for reality – sometimes that means having to tell management what that reality is.

This month PROJECTinsight is  exploring what motivates people and how that relates to team performance.

They will discuss ideas and strategies for specific scenarios that can help you better manage expectations and increase the probability of timely performance by all team members.

Benefits:

• Understand what motivates your team to increase productivity
• Learn how to manage team member expectations
• Increase team performance and profitability
• 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 Get People To Do What You Want Them To Do

Live Webinar December 9th, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar December 9th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Mobile work styles are emerging as a dominant force in the enterprise.

Facilitating a safe environment that encourages experimentation leverages employee creativity to the benefit of the organization.

Discussion Topics:

• How the accelerating pace of mobile evolution will forever alter IT
• How mobilization will alter the behavior of the extended enterprise
• How the need for innovation will force changes in the architecture of mobile apps

Presenter: Van L. Baker (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Leveraging Your Digital Workforce: Using Mobile To Create Innovation