Online Webinar – Recorded May 23rd 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

PLEASE NOTE: In spite of what the ASPE page states this Session Is ONLY 1 hour and 1 minute long the session IS NOT 3 h.ours 1 minute long and does qualify for only 1 PDU.

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Yet experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that so-called experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

You will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Dave Caccamo PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has three decades of experience in engineering, economics and project management. With a BSc from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Economics from North Carolina State University, Dave has demonstrated time and again his ability to make complex business and engineering concepts understandable to executives, managers and technicians through his fundamental modeling of subject matter.

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

This webinar is fourth in a 4 part series series on “Risk Management” by Solutions Cube. Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Successful project teams understand the importance
Of incorporating ongoing Risk Management and Monitoring activities
Through out the life of a project.

Treating risk management as a one time identification and assessment activity leaves the project effort exposed to many avoidable and manageable project risks.

Developing and utilizing a Risk Communication Plan further enhances the Project Manager’s ability to engage the right level of stakeholder involvement throughout the risk management effort.

The Risk Management Series of in depth webinars will introduce participants to techniques for defining a Risk Management Process and using this process to progressively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with quantitative techniques, understanding the 8 risk responses and selecting the appropriate Risk Response for the project risks and monitoring risks throughout the project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Monitoring and Managing the Successful Risk Plan webinar will help your project teams understand the characteristics that lead to effective project risk management.

They will learn how to evaluate the success of risk responses and what to do with Secondary Project Risks as they occur. The will learn the difference between managing risk and responding to problems and issues resulting from risks that occur.

In the Monitoring and Managing the Successful Risk Plan webinar, participants learn:

• How to recognize the organization’s Risk Maturity level and use this knowledge to manage risk appropriately on projects.
• How to develop a Risk Communication Plan that identifies the unique needs of each project stakeholder
• How to engage the right stakeholders in risk management activities
• Which Critical Success Factor has the most impact on successful risk management actions
• How to identify and respond to Secondary Risks as they occur throughout the project

PLEASE NOTE:  If you are on the Solutions Group Site and receive a message that your cart is empty when you go to check out – this is because you are not yet signed in to your account on their site – or you have not registered for a free account on their site.

To resolve this issue simply click the “person” icon on the top of the course description page and either sign in or register.  You can then return to the course Description page and add the course to your cart.

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Online Webinar – Recorded  May 28th, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Secrets That Only Top Negotiators Know

Negotiation is a different form of influence.
There is a time to influence and a time to negotiate.

Have you ever LOST a negotiation?

• Most people have and don’t even know it!
• What underhanded tactics are other negotiators using on you?
• How can you counteract them?

The worst time to learn a negotiation skill is when you need it.

Negotiation must be mastered before it is needed, or the opportunity is lost forever.

For example, are you tired of:

• Losing business deals
• Not closing sales
• People not listening
• Being told no
• Losing negotiations
• Not getting your way

There are 7 negotiation blunders you are making right now that cause people to resist you and your offer.

This webcast will get down in the trenches and reveal the secrets that only top negotiators know.

Each blunder is like driving around town with your emergency brake on. All the time, you are wondering why your car (or negotiation) never has much power.

These problems are simple to fix, but expensive to have. Negotiation has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. And ironically, some of these negotiation blunders are still being taught in expensive courses as the techniques to use!

This webinar is certain to open your eyes to the NEW world of negotiation and influence.

What does it take to negotiate with power in any encounter?
  ….  Think about it    ….

• When was the last time you didn’t get something you wanted?
• What happened?
• Did you fail to get your point across?
• Were they influenced by someone else?

Here’s a sampling of what you will discover:

1. Dirty deeds unscrupulous negotiators will use against you
2. Discover negotiation secrets only known to seasoned negotiation professionals
3. Top blunders average negotiators frequently make
4. How following your natural instinct will cost you millions
5. How to establish instant credibility (even when you don’t have any)

You will find this webinar TRANSFORMATIONAL!

Kurt will help you to internalize these techniques and start using them as soon as possible.

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

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: Kurt W. Mortensen (LinkedIn profile) is one of America’s leading authorities on persuasion, negotiation, and influence.  He has spent 15 years researching persuasion, negotiation, and motivational psychology, and e teaches on the university level.  Kurt is the author of Persuasion IQ: The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want and the best-selling book, Maximum Influence: The 12 Universal Laws of Power Persuasion.  His latest book is The Laws of Charisma: How to Captivate, Inspire, and Influence for Maximum Success.  You can  check out Kurt’s site here.

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
• 12.2 Conduct Procurements
• 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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Online Webinar – Recorded February 12th, 2015
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

For a great introduction to “Mindfulness”,  how it works, and its application to the workplace: read Professor David J Lee’s article, Mindfulness In The Workplace sponsored by Miami Miller School of Medicine & NIOSH.

Are You & Your Team Mindful At Work?

Employees in the workplaces of today face multiple stress-inducing demands and pressures as well as constant connectivity through smart phones, social media, and tablet computers.

Employees are continuously managing numerous fluctuating priorities, working with increased expectations, balancing competing demands for their personal and professional goals, and handling ongoing conflict and ambiguity in complex environments.

Using recent research from the Human Capital Institute as well as the expertise of UNC Executive Development’s Program Director, Kimberly Schaufenbuel (LinkedIn profile), this webcast will demonstrate the steps you can take to incorporate meaningful mindfulness practices into the workplace and beyond.

Attend this webcast to:

1. Learn precisely what mindfulness is, and how it can increase employee wellness, performance, productivity, and in turn, a business’s bottom line
2. Explore the relationship between mindfulness techniques and improved leadership skills
3. Review some of the studies that offer insight into the science behind mindfulness
4. Discover examples of organizations that have offered mindfulness courses and see how it has impacted their workplaces

HCI members that register for this webcast will receive a copy of the white paper, Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace and HCI’s Talent Pulse, The Mindful Employee: Finding Focus in the Age of Distractions.