Online Webinar  – Recorded June 24th, 2015
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
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Having It All, But Not at the Same Time

Women who have a “Be the Perfect Driver” outlook are bound to be disappointed. In our busy lives, if we see ourselves as having and doing it all at the same time to be perfection, failure is all that we will get.

Superman is a fictional character and so is Superwoman.

If we strive for excellence in certain domains at different times, such as happiness, achievement, and significance, we can leave a legacy of a life well lived.

For a full hour, this program will explore:

1. An assessment of what “having it all” is NOT
2. Techniques of creating your day with gratitude and acknowledgement
3. Looking at the power of language to change a problem into a challenge
4. Having the ability to view your life as reasonably content with moments of ecstasy
5. Devices of modeling, mentoring, and monitoring to move you toward excellent

Presenter: Rikki Klieman  is a Legal Analyst/Contributor for CBS News. She was an Anchor at the Courtroom Television Network and a Contributor for  numerous TV shows and served on the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Supreme Court on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  Rikki inspires the lives of others with her bestselling autobiography, Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny, and as a writer for The Daily Beast.

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 22nd, 2013
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

1. You slave away at designing your training programs.
2. You struggle to get people excited, enrolled, and in the ‘seats.’
3. The program commences and everyone gives you awesome feedback.
4. You feel successful.

Then the momentum dies. How do you keep training excitement alive?

How can you boost pre-training anticipation and post-training involvement?

Enterprise Social Networks, in combination with your training efforts, can provide the solution you need. Instituting an ESN can not only help you be more successful as a trainer, but can make your trainees more successful at their given jobs. Everyone wins. Harness the Force in this webinar.

This webinar will answer these questions:

• What is an ESN?
• Why do companies use ESN?
• How can they integrate with training?
• How can they help post training efforts?
• What statistical/data benefits can training programs enjoy?
• What should a trainer look for in an ESN?

Speakers:

Heidi Farris (LinkedIn profile) VP of Marketing at Idera Software. Previously Heidi was Bloomfire’s Vice President of Marketing led successful marketing teams at TV Guide and SolarWinds. Crediting much of this success to open communication, team collaboration, and ongoing adaption. Heidi is a champion of social networks that enhance the already ongoing efforts of all departments within an organization.

Kim Carlson (LinkedIn profile) Manager Customer Success at BlackLocus.  Kim  is dedicated to the success of integrating social technologies throughout your organization. With a background in corporate training departments at Bloomfire, United Airlines and LifeSize, a division of Logitech, Kim has been working with cross-functional teams for over 10 years to ensure that organizations are well armed with information to do their jobs.

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’

Note: You may have to bring down the “Blackboard” viewer in order to watch this presentation if it is not already installed in your computer. Simply hit the view recording button and then the projector link and it will prompt you to install the viewer.

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 27th 2012
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

One of the most significant differences between Agile and Waterfall is the manner is which requirements are documented.

As the Agile equivalent of requirements, user stories are brief requirements statements captured from an end-user’s perspective.

They are not meant to capture all of the detail that is required to actually develop a feature, instead they are merely placeholders for a future conversation where the necessary details are documented right before the feature is built.

Although very simple in format, it can take time and practice to write well formed user stories that serve their intended purpose.

This hour long web seminar will provide guidance on how to write more effective user stories that can be used on your Agile project.

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 17th 2012
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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This session considers why the effective management of change at a strategic level is a key business issue.

The webinar reviews your options to address Organizational change.

The session  also explores why it is better to build change capability from within, sharing “war stories” from organizations who have done this successfully

Presenter: David Miller, (LinkedIn profile) Chairman and founder of Changefirst  David’s 25+ years of Change Management experience is across a wide range of major changes including; strategy implementation, technology roll-out, business process changes, restructuring and quality management. David passionately believes that people are key to the successful delivery of change and that organisations can build sustainable competitive advantage by building internal change capabilities.

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Online Webinar  -Recorded 4th Quarter 2014
Presenter:   ChangeFirst
Duration: 46 Minutes – .75 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Change First  specializes in training organisations to Make Change Stick. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes and training,  ChangeFirst produces informative presentations and leads change with an effective mix of face-to-face workshops, webinars, web-based applications and e-learning options.

Are Your Change Management Plans Viable?

In this presentation Audra covers many of these change management topics and more:

• A Vision – What will change look like?
• Visibility – Issues regarding the Visibility of the change management effort.
• Influence – A Plan for Inclusion
• Involvement – Ensuring / Encompassing All Levels Of Management and staff in the organisation.
• A Plan to deal with Engagement / Avoidance
• Recognition and Reward Plans
• Role Modeling Opportunities – Highly Engaged Teams
• An Acceptance plan – Is it possible?

This 45 minute presentation is “Jam-Packed” with information that allows you to reflect on the qualities of a “Great Change Management Program” and what you need to be a great change manager and succeed!

Presenter:  Audra Proctor (LinkedIn profile) Director & Head of Learning at ChangeFirst Ltd., helps leaders in global organisations develop their change capabilities and performance to execute business critical initiatives. With over 20 years  international change management experience, her work involves managing global relationships with clients looking to build their change internal maturity.  Audra also leads the on-going research and development of the ChangeFirst Intellectual Property and proprietary change methodology – PCI® (People Centred Implementation).

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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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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 Third in a 3 part series series on Requirements Definition by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails to define the “real” business need for a project and solutions are often defined before knowing what they need to satisfy.

On some projects, solutions may have already been defined and the team is just looking for “the right” project to implement them on.

Only Project Solutions with clear ties to documented business requirements are in scope for a project.

Project failure increases when teams spend resources on developing and implementing solutions that are out of scope for a project or address the project needs in unexpected or undesired ways.

Solutions Cube Group’s Defining Technical Requirements webinar will enable participants to learn techniques for creating traceable project solutions to meet the true business needs of the project..

Attendees will learn how to define the architectural framework for the project solution first and then use this knowledge to draw out detail technical statements.

Participants will also learn how to ensure the solutions they intend to build are clear and understood by both business and technical stakeholders and are not just “great ideas” that may be out of scope for the project.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Techniques for defining Technical Approaches at the beginning of the solutions activity
• Assessment techniques to select the appropriate Technical Approach for the project
• How to create traceability between technical requirement statements and business requirements
• How to use a Systems list to ensure important technical requirements are documented for the project
• How to ensure the business project stakeholders are aligned on the solution being proposed prior to starting lower level detail design work
• Specific techniques that can be immediately applied in their work environment

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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