Live Webinar October 20th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Listening is one of the critical competencies of leadership.

We as project leaders often presume ourselves as good listeners, and equipped enough to deal with listening requirements that every situation demands.

Most of the time, this is not the case, with our weak listening skills we as project leaders often expose ourselves and overall project success to the risk of failure.

In this webinar, Syed Moiz (LinkedIn profile) will demonstrate the importance of listening by focusing on what it is, why we need it, existing barriers that prevent us from being a good listener and how we can improve the listening skills.

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Importance Of Listening

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Live Webinar – October 19th, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

• Are your Project team resources working on more than one project?
• Is their workload being managed?
• Are they over allocated?

For a project to be successful (and to keep resources happy) the team’s workload should be managed so individuals are not “over allocated” or assigned more work than they can perform in a given period of time.

In this webcast Ray Lathem will share the top 5 ways in creating and maintaining this balance.

Ray will show you how this is done in Microsoft Project Online/Project Server and how the tool can enable you to better manage your resources.

Learn How To:

• Request resources be available for the expected timeframes of your project
• Gather information on resource availability and what other projects resources may conflict with yours
• Ensure all project managers are scheduling work with allocation in mind not just the duration of tasks. Gather hour or % of effort per task when planning.
• “Level” resources so they are evenly distributed across your project as well as other projects
• Communicate effectively!

Presenter:  Ray Lathem has over 20 years of IT experience and has worked with Project Server since 2003. With a background as a developer, Ray has a passion for SSRS reporting. Ray holds several certifications in Project Server 2010 and 2013 and is an MCP.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Resource Management:
Maintain a Balanced Team

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Live Webinar – October 19th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – October 19th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

This webinar provides an overview of the
Crossrail Performance Assurance framework.

This topic area is relevant to any project developing supply-chain performance measurement/management models, as well as innovation or knowledge sharing initiatives.

The sixth webinar in the Crossrail Programme Controls series covers the key challenges Crossrail and its stakeholders faced in creating a mechanism for assuring that Tier 1 contractors were collectively performing at a level that would enable the programme’s objectives to be met.

The Objectives:

• Safely delivering a world-class railway on time,
  • Within funding,
  • Setting new standards for major project delivery and
  • Leaving a legacy of improved supply-chain performance within the UK infrastructure sector

There was a desire to operate a lean client team and also a recognition that Crossrail had to enable the supply-chain to perform if they were to be successful in achieving the programme’s desired outcomes.

Turner & Townsend led the collaborative development and implementation of the Crossrail Performance Assurance Framework.

Based on six core areas aligned to corporate objectives:

1. Commercial;
2. Health & Safety;
3. Quality (including technical compliance);
4. Environment;
5. Community Relations; and
6. Social Sustainability.

The approach enabled the targeted sharing of knowledge and innovation to support supply-chain capability improvement and drove a 54% increase in performance levels over a three year period, and resulted in 14 out of 17 assessed contracts operating over-and-above the requirements of the contract as of August 2015.

Eight critical success factors were identified which will be discussed in this webinar.

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Crossrail Performance Assurance

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 20th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

More than half a century after the invention of the tape drive, backup seems to be getting more complex and more costly.

Learn how to design and maintain better backup/recovery systems and what technologies, providers and best practices are available to enhance or even revamp your data protection practices.

Discussion Topics:

• The current state of the backup/recovery market and vendors
• What emerging solutions and techniques to use to improve backup, and whether they are real and safe
• The future of backup and best practices for aligning with the future

Join Dave Russell (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, in this informative and useful webinar!

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Building Better Backup

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