May Peace & Love Surround You
At Christmas Time & All The Whole Year Through!

Its been another amazing year …

As we Start our 6th year – I recognize how very blessed I have been to meet and chat with so many of our INCREDIBLE READERS all over the world.

This year I focused my energies on sharing lessons learned with our readers on influence, engagement and how culture change can turn around projects as well as organizations.

Read in over 185 countries, I have experienced so many stories of creativity, engagement, culture change and diversity by our readers.

I am constantly learning from all of you and for that
I Thank You!

Since we began we have suggested over 5000 PDU learning opportunities and connected with educational professionals to make a positive and inspiring difference to our profession.

It is connecting with our incredible community and learning so much about all of you and your practice of the profession that is the reason that this venture is such a joy for me.

I genuinely want to thank all of our readers and our volunteers
who make this site possible!

Thank you So Much – I have learned so much from you all!

– Martin Chernenkoff Editor PDU Of The Day

Our readers are of many diverse backgrounds and faiths and I wanted to find a way to best express my thanks and best wishes.

The lyrics of this song express my thoughts and my prayers to all of you so much better than I can express.

YOU ALL make this possible! Blessings to you all!

My Christmas Card To You

Written by Tony Romeo Sung by: David Cassidy Discography

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

I’m looking out my window at the softly falling snow
that dances in the early morning light
I got my guitar right before me, strummin’ a beautiful sound
watching it a-comin’ down, all around
on the fields and the farms and the road to town

And I’m thinkin’ up a letter that I’m writin’ in my head
a Christmas card to all the folks I love
Instead of lettin’ the postman bring it, I decided I’d rather sing it
especially for you, for you

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

May your life be filled with sunshine, may your every wish come true
May you find the sweet fulfillment in everything you do
May your days be blessed with the very very best
both now and the whole year through
it says so in my Christmas card to …

You and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

Online Webinar – Recorded October 8th, 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.

Inspiring Lessons For Leaders Everywhere

When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded — not to a captain of industry — but to the new pontiff.

• How did a man who spent his life laboring in slums far from the Vatican manage to do this and so quickly?

The answer lies in his humility
And the simple principles that spring from it.

Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis in March of 2012, he has shown the world a new way to lead. Not with bluster or bravado, but with humility and humanity.

Pope Francis has, without a doubt, been the most humble leader on the world stage of the modern era.  There isn’t even a close second.

As someone who has studied leaders and the topic of leadership for more than three decades, Jeffrey Krames has long believed that humility is the most under-rated of all leadership qualities.

In his newest book Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis Jeffrey Krames explores how the incredible power of humility has healing powers for a fractured organization.

The webcast  digs deep to reveal the key business tenets that Pope Francis has exercised to create his own brand of  leadership and Pope Francis’s ability to inspire the world is unprecedented in modern times.

Examples include:

• Guard against insularity:
  • Many heads of corporations and states fall prey to the “bubble” phenomenon, meaning that they feel imprisoned by the trappings of their positions.
  • To make sure that Pope Francis did not lose his broad perspective, he put together a makeshift “board of directors.” Dubbed the Vatican-8, or V-8, these eight Archbishops from all over the globe serve as his consulting body.
  • None of Francis’s 265 predecessors ever amassed such a consultative body.
• Live on the frontier:
  • To “live on the frontier” is to push the envelope and live outside of your comfort zone.
• Run your organization like a field hospital:
  • Francis feels very strongly that members of the clergy must go anywhere and everywhere, no matter the risk, to tend to their flocks.
  • The same tenet works well in business. Instead of a reliance on email, Twitter, etc., what is needed are more face-to-face meetings.

Explore how Francis has combined humility with power to become the most fascinating pontiff in modern memory.

Join Jeffrey as he explores the power of his methods and how anyone can take these lessons to lead with grace and greater authenticity.

Presenter: Jeffrey A. Krames (LinkedIn profile) has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times and been interviewed by Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, A&E’s Biography, the BBC, and  the bestselling author of:

• What the Best CEOs Know: 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business,
• The Unforced Error: Why Some Managers Get Promoted While Others Get Eliminated
• The Rumsfeld Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick ,
• The Welch Way: 24 Lessons From The Worlds Greatest CEO ,
• Jack Welch and the 4 E’s of Leadership, Formula to Work in Your Organization
• Inside Drucker’s Brain
• and other popular business books including his latest – Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis

Click to view Lead with Humility: Lessons from Pope Francis

Online Webinar – Recorded  March 22nd 2011
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Let’s reduce the too often “fire-fighting” method of risk management.

We’ll focus on the 10 empirical, simple rules of risk management.

What’s a discussion of risk without recognizing that a great team is vital in the success of every project? Yet the challenge of creating and maintaining a high functioning team is getting progressively more difficult. We are tasked with different work styles, different cultures, and even different generations.

We’ll review myth of management verses secrets of leadership.

Presenter: Dolores Thomas, PMP, is an accomplished Seminar Leader with n 30 + years of experience in IT and training. Dolores served in various capacities managing projects from initiation to acceptance. She’s been recognized for her achievements in managing technical projects. She assisted countless organizations build their success and has developed & delivered Project Management seminars to business leaders. Delores also holds certifications in CompTIA, IT Project Management Microsoft Project Expert, and certified ScrumMaster.

Click to register for  Success vs Folklore in Project Management