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.

Online Webinar – Recorded April 28th 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Do you recall how fast the mobile technology growth swept the world?

It seems just yesterday when only a few carried mobile communications technology beginning with the personal digital assistant!

Our mobile technology has completely reshaped how most of us live, communicate, and attain information.

The next similar super-wave phenomenon is happening now with the “Internet of Things”.

With virtually everything connected in our sites, a new paradigm of infrastructure evolves and the savvy Project Manager and DevOps engineers and leaders must understand how to manage the change and leverage the change for benefit.

Introducing NFV, SDN, and VNF terms and they will mean to the PM and DevOps world!

• NFV – Network Functions Virtualization. How do we enable and deploy advanced connectivity effectively?
• SDN – Software Defined Networks. What infrastructure base is necessary to enable NFV?
• VNF – Virtual Network Functions. A few Use Case examples connecting the “Internet of Things”

Facilitated by ASPE’s Chris Knotts PMP  (LinkedIn profile) (Director of New Training Development), Richard Jenny  (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PE, PMI-ACP will share thoughts to help the audience recognize this major trend and begin stepwise Technical “how to” Project planning

Join Richard as he primes Project Management and DevOps leaders to recognize and capitalize on what is about to sweep the backbone of the internet word.

Click to register for PM & DevOps Leader Roles In The Next Technology, NFV

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

This webinar is the third 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.

Many project teams describe their Risk Management effort as a Risk Mitigation activity to overcome negative project risks.

Risk Mitigation is only one of the 8 different responses considered by project teams who are successful in their risk management effort. Teams who consider all 8 risk responses when creating their risk register are more effective in exploiting risk opportunities as well as minimizing or preventing risk threats.

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 Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses webinar will help your project teams understand the differences between the 8 risk response types and when it is appropriate to use each response.

This session will help you Select the Appropriate Risk responses.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to complete the risk register with appropriate risk responses
• Why relying on risk mitigation as the only response to risk creates more risk exposure
• How to differentiate between the Risk Response types available for managing project risk
• Techniques for creating contingency plans as part of the response effort
• When to use each response type when planning the risk management effort

Learn how to increase the likelihood of positive risk opportunities occurring and how to reduce or avoid the impact of negative project risks.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – Recorded
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Is Your Team Resilient?

Managing resilience in today’s fast paced world of high expectations is tough for individuals and even harder for teams.

The busier teams get, the more likely they are to focus on tasks instead of relationships and that’s expensive!

It costs in lost resources, lost creativity and impairs the ability to build and maintain trust.

When teams build their resilience they expand the ability to share emotions and resources, to stand up for one another, and to take innovative risks.

This webcast will review what team resilience is and why it’s so essential.

Marcia & James will discuss the vital role emotional intelligence skills play in developing team resilience. Strategies that can be used now to build team resilience will be presented.

What you will learn:

1. How to define team resilience so you can keep tabs on your teams’ resilience.
2. The key emotional intelligence skills that support team positivity and trust, which leads to sustainable resilience.
3. Powerful, yet simple, strategies your teams can follow to measure and build their resilience.

Presenters: James Terrell (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Collaborative Growth & Marcia Hughes (LinkedIn profile) President, Collaborative Growth

Marcia & James have authored a number of terrific leadership books including:

• Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence In Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers
• Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Best Practices, Case Studies, and Strategies
• The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success
• A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Developing Successful Leaders
• Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders, Managers, and Teams
• Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short) Participant Workbook  and Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short), Facilitator’s Guide Set
• Life’s 2% Solution: Simple Steps to Achieve Happiness and Balance

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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”

Click to register for Build Team Resiliency: Your Team’s Guide To Positivity, Productivity & Well-Being

Online Webinar  – Recorded November 6th, 2013
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.

When it comes to effective leadership,
“It’s all in your head.”

No one escapes the occasional bad mood, irrational thought, angry outburst, nasty self-righteousness, bad decision or mistrustful reaction: imperfections make us human.

Most often we commit these missteps in private.

But behave that way just once in the glare of the public spotlight, and you earn a reputation as being “that sort of person.” Why?

Because presiding over other people gives celebrity power.

When you take a close look at why good leaders go bad (temporarily versus the chronically horrible leaders that go bad every minute of the day), you usually find three overarching reasons:

• Too busy to win
• Too proud to see
• Too afraid to lose

Think of these root causes, not as cancers that can kill, but as common colds, which anyone can easily and quickly cure with the right medicine.

With insight into the neuroscience, psychology, and group dynamics that often flip the switch from good to temporarily bad leader, this program shines a bright light into the dark corners of these leadership snafus.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

• Gain awareness of the three most commonly ignored leadership derailers
• Learn about and counteract biased thinking and decision making
• Avoid committing common errors in judgment that get in the way of success
• Enhance awareness about leadership psychology and brain functioning contributing to temporary derailment

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

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

Presenter: Nicole Lipkin (LinkedIn profile) is the CEO of Equilibria – Leadership, Organizational, and Psychological Consultation Services. Sand is the author of What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues , about the psychology, brain science, and group dynamics underlying leadership challenges. She is also the co-author of the popular business and management book, Y in the Workplace: Managing the “Me First” Generation.

Click to register for Good Leaders (Sometimes) Go Bad – Three Common and Avoidable Leadership Derailers

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

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

Do You Know All The Risks On Your Project?

Many Risk Management activities stop far too soon defining project risks, focusing only on the obvious 10 – 20 risks that quickly come to mind.

This short sighted approach to identifying project risks leaves the project exposed to many risks that will go unmanaged and result in problems and issues to be resolved later during the project.

To effectively define project risk, the team needs to clearly differentiate between definite causes that exist in the project environment, uncertainties that might occur as a result of these causes and the impacts to project objectives if these uncertainties occur.

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 Identifying All of the Risks On Your Projects will teach your project teams how to identify all of the project risks that may need to be managed throughout the life of a project.

They will learn how to leverage other project deliverables to uncover, describe and ultimate assess and respond to project risks.

In the Creating Clear Project Risk Statements webinar, participants learn:

• What existing project deliverables can be used to uncover project risks
• How to use the Risk Meta-Language to drive out risk statements and fully differentiated between cause, uncertainty and project impact
• Techniques for identifying project risks
• Techniques for assessing which risks need to be managed more aggressively versus those that should be placed on the Risk Watch List

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Click to purchase Uncovering All the Risks on Your Projects: Risk Series 2 of 4