Online Webinar – Recorded October 15th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: This presentation is 1 hour and 49 minutes long but was only registered with PMI for 1 PDU – Please only record 1 PDU

It’s a perennial problem for everybody:

• Over time, data quality degrades.
• Human error gradually accumulates,
• Weird duplicates pop up,
• Wrong data intentionally places in the system
• Corruption happens – the list goes on.

How can we do better with our data hygiene and keep our quality standard high when it comes to our information?

Data can be our most valuable resource, if it’s a current, well-maintained repository of useful information. Taking small steps now – every day – can yield big payoffs in the future if those steps gradually amass a high-fidelity treasure trove of information that can be mined and modeled.

Presenter: Damian Herrick (LinkedIn profile) Triangle data guru Damian Herrick. Damian is a consulting partner on analytics and enterprise data analysis, and he will answer questions about how to maintain high quality standards when we work with our data.

Click to register for Data Quality: Keeping Your Data Clean – Q & A Session

Online Webinar – Recorded August 22nd 2007
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
By: The 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.

Even if you are well-versed in project risk management, you may be unaware of the complexities of managing these risks across a suite of projects.

Done properly, management of risk at the project portfolio level can deliver significant value to your organization. It’s your job to ensure that you have an adequate balance of low-, medium- and high-risk projects in the pipeline at any given time—to maximize your resources and avoid portfolio meltdown.

How do you assess the impact of a specific risk? For example, how do schedule risks affect not just one project, but your entire portfolio?

What You Will Learn:

In this one-hour Webcast, you’ll discover the basics of:

• Identifying the three critical aspects of project risk
• Assessing and managing project risk to avoid portfolio meltdown
• How to differentiate between portfolio risk and single-project risk
• Taking overall portfolio risk into account when selecting new projects
• Recognizing when projects are going off track.properly diagnosing problems and preventing other stumbling blocks from impacting the portfolio

This Webcast is ideal for executives and project managers who are charged with initiating and managing multiple projects in a portfolio, managers working as part of a project team, or anyone interested in learning more about managing projects as part of a portfolio.

Presenter:

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 The Art of Managing Risk in Your Project Portfolio

Online Webinar  – Recorded April 8th, 2015
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Fierce Conversations Are Hard!

Managing difficult people is simply a fact of business life that is all too often ignored.

The effect of toxic employees on organizations is immense including poor morale among talent, added stress, lost productivity, and a negatively affected bottom line.

Fierce survey results show that 78 percent of respondents claim their organizations are extremely to somewhat tolerant of colleagues with negative attitudes.

Employees and management are frequently at odds on how to best handle and confront toxic employees.

Thus, toxic employees are a leadership problem. Join Halley Bock, President & CEO, Fierce, Inc. to gain a new perspective on managing toxic employees and navigating difficult conversations.

You will learn:

1. Explore the usual suspects and toxic employees who fly under the radar
2. Learn how to hold oneself and others able to have the conversations
3. Get practical tools for giving and receiving feedback and what you should do when confrontation is needed

Fierce conversations are hard …. let Aimee Windmiller-Wood help you to understand the dynamics and give you the confidence to address the issues!

Read the two books that started it all:

• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
• Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today by Susan Scott

Based on the work of Halley Bock (LinkedIn profile) is the President & CEO of Fierce, Inc. Her company helps clients worldwide develop leaders, transform cultures, and create authentic, energizing and rewarding connections with colleagues and customers through skillful conversations.

Presenter: Aimee Windmiller-Wood, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Vice President, Learning and Development, Fierce, Inc.

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 Fierce Conversations: How To Address Toxic Employees

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 Second 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.

Business Requirements that are defined are often unclear leaving ample room for guess work and misinterpretation by the team members responsible for providing the project solution.

The Business Requirements document must be clear and complete and specific to the underlying business needs of the project without regard for solutions.

Solutions Cube Group’s Defining Clear and Complete Business Requirements webinar teaches participants how to differentiate between types of requirements and levels of requirement definition.

Our instructors describe and demonstrate the use of collaborative JAD techniques to lead the project stakeholders through activities to fully document the project needs.

Participants learn techniques to steer stakeholders away from describing their needs as solutions which are premature to discuss and often out of line or limiting for the project.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to clearly differentiate between “What” and “How” when creating project requirements
• How ensure their requirements document encompasses all types of requirements including functional, supporting and interface needs
• Techniques for documenting high level business requirement statements
• Techniques for drilling requirements down to detail level statements without stating solutions
• Questioning techniques to uncover true business need

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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 August 21st, 2012
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to view this opportunity. There is also a temp problem with the audio in the session but you must listen the whole way through to recieve the PDU.

Based on the work of Barry Posner (LinkedIn profile) and James Kouzes (LinkedIn profile): Award-winning writers, and highly sought-after teachers in the field of leadership, they authored several books including The Leadership Challenge , Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It , The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know, and Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others . This presentation is based on the 24 page white paper The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. They also developed the highly acclaimed The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) , a 360-degree assessment tool and The Leadership Challenge Workshop , both based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership model.

Projects and organizations demand more and more from team members and project managers today. Project managers who have good leadership and team building skills are more successful in developing high performance teams and meeting demanding project objectives.

James Kouzes and Barry Posner researched best examples of leadership, interviewing and surveying several thousand individuals for “keys” to each person’s “best” example of exemplary leadership.

From that research they identified five key leadership practices that they have validated and re-validated over the years through additional research and assessments.

Leadership is “common sense, but not common practice”. In this presentation, Jesse will examine what makes a great leader “GREAT”, looking at a common sense approach as well as Kouzes and Posner’s five key leadership practices.

Jesse will also look at what you can do to improve your leadership capability.

Whether you’re a project manager or project contributor, you will benefit from and enjoy this interactive presentation.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

Presenter: Jesse Freese PMP (Linkedin profile) is well known for his interactive presentations on the topics of project management, leadership and change management at the Project Management Institute (PMI) national symposium, and other PMI events. Many of Jesse’s presentations deal not only with the “hard” side of project management, but also with the “soft” side. All of his presentations include “real-life” stories that are relevant and entertaining.

Click to register for The Five Key Leadership Practices

Online Webinar – Recorded August 19th, 2015
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Leadership Is The Key

The key to making extraordinary things happen in organizations is great leadership! It contributes more to positive outcomes than any other single factor.

Great products, great strategy, great systems, and great people are absolutely critical, but with poor leadership they produce only a third to a half of their potential.

It takes great leadership to create great workplaces that create great results.

Or, as the late management guru Peter Drucker put it: “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

So, if you want better results, join Barry Posner in this informative session  to ensure that you are fostering great leadership within your organization!

Based on the work of Barry Posner (LinkedIn profile) and James Kouzes (LinkedIn profile): Award-winning writers, and highly sought-after teachers in the field of leadership, they authored several books including The Leadership Challenge , Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It , The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know, and Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others . This presentation is based on the 24 page white paper The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. They also developed the highly acclaimed The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) , a 360-degree assessment tool and The Leadership Challenge Workshop , both based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership model.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 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: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

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