Live Webinar May 5th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Projectmanager.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Design thinking has emerged as a major trend for how innovative organizations are approaching problem-solving.

Design thinking encourages innovative solutions by drawing on approaches from engineering and design, and combining them with ideas from the arts, social sciences, and the business world.

Design is “old news.”  As Project Managers, we are late to this party.

This is a call to action to my fellow Project Managers: “The future of Project Management is deeply linked with Design.”

In this webinar  Bruce Gay (LinkedIn profile) will demonstrate the benefits of incorporating design on projects while providing a high-level overview of methods and tools.

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Design Thinking & Project Management

Live Webinar May 4th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Everyone agrees that good communication is important for project success, yet how many of us really practice good communication?

Successful projects require good communication between all the people on the project, including but not limited to: project managers, team members, stakeholders, vendors and support people.

However, project communication involves more than just who we communicate with, it also involves the what, how and when we communicate.

Unless you are a one person project, communication is important to your project success and this webinar will help you improve your project communication.

Join Sandy Haydon, PMP (LinkedIn profile) to explore the complexities of project communication. We will cover:

• Who to communicate to?
• What to communicate?
• When and how often to communicate?
• How to select the best media (in person, phone, email, etc.)

As well as other considerations, such as location (the next office, across the country, or around the world), cultures, and generational differences.

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Project Communication

Live Webinar May 4th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Emotional Intelligence can be defined as our ability to distinguish, understand, and have a greater awareness of how our thoughts and feelings connect with our outward displays and behaviors, as well as the ability to manage and express appropriate emotions and help others do the same.

This session will guide you through the best tools to gain emotional intelligence to improve your performance and reduce stress.

Benefits:

• Gain tools to raise your emotional intelligence
• Learn ways to control your emotions and reduce stress
• Reveal hidden blocks and obstacles that stand in your way of success
• Earn 1 PDU

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Emotional Intelligence:
Understand Yourself Then Understand Others

Live Webinar – May 3rd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

With exploding data volumes, leveraging the distributed computing power of Hadoop is more necessary than ever.

Join Robert Smith, (LinkedIn profile) Enterprise Sales Engineer, Pentaho & Patrick Bayne, (LinkedIn profile) Data Quality Analyst and Software Engineer, Melissa Data; and learn how Pentaho Data Integration can quickly and effectively take full advantage of the architecture to deliver powerful data integration and business analytics, all while using Melissa Data’s Data Quality tools to deliver clean, verified and trusted assets and analytics.

Learn how to:

• Make quick and easy integration and analysis of large data sets, leveraging Pentaho Data Integration
• Leverage the power of Hadoop with your data quality initiatives
• Transform your data into clean, reliable assets

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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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Turn Big Data Into Smart, Trusted Assets

Live Webinar May 3rd, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Project estimation can be a game where opportunity, risks, rules, probabilities, skill, and even luck determines success. In fact, it almost sounds like poker!

Presenter: Carol Dekkers PMP P.Eng. CMC (LinkedIn profile @caroldekkers) author of The IT Measurement Compendium is a Project Manager, Management Consultant  and a Professional Engineer who bridges the gap between technology experts (engineers, scientists, computer specialists, etc) and the non-technical personel. Carol is a highly sought after international expert whose keynote presentations are engaged by international project management and quality conferences throughout the world. Carol effectively demonstrates how to use communication effectively to bring the true value of technology to life through articulate presentations, effective collaboration, and team processes that increase the success of high tech projects.

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Estimation Poker:
Bluffing (And Winning) With Metrics

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Live Webinar – April 26th, 2016 – 10:00 am to 11:30 am EDT
Presented by:  The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 1.5 Hours -1.5 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the “magic” of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist!  Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamability:
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always “team” well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict “teaming” behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their “Role”).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

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An Introduction To Teamability:
Understanding The Natural Roles That Your Team Members Best Fit
With A Role Based Approach