Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Project managers and sponsors who demonstrate leadership skills are able ensure their project’s success within the organization ecosystem.

Boleman and Deal’s Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, a classic leadership text, is about seeing an organization from four distinct frames of reference: structural, human resources, political, and symbolic.

Each frame has a distinct set of concepts and challenges that impact a leader’s effectiveness.

This webinar is for project managers or sponsors who want to sharpen their leadership skills and learn how to build projects and teams to thrive in their organizations.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the four distinct ways to view experiences in an organization which impacts project leadership
• Examine the appropriate project management or sponsorship tactics to deliver in each context
• Share project case studies

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Reframing Your Project: A Leadership Primer

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Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Solutions for Optimizing Performance Management

For the past few years, performance management has surprisingly dominated the discussion in the Human Resources community.

Punctuated by stories in the popular and HR media about companies making radical changes, the current dialogue has left HR and business leaders confused about what might need to change and why.

Two strong voices in this debate have been The Talent Strategy Group’s Marc Effron and the NeuroLeadership Institute’s David Rock.

Both bring a research-based, informed and experienced voice to this debate but propose different solutions for how to optimize performance management.

Join these two industry leaders debate and discuss how, and if, companies should change their approach to managing performance.

Learn the facts about the current trends, including what companies are really doing and whether there might be a fit for your firm.

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

Presenters:

Dr. David Rock (LinkedIn profile, Amazon bio) is one of the thought leaders in the human-performance coaching field. Rock coined the term “NeuroLeadership” and is the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global initiative bringing together neuroscientists and leadership experts to build a new science for leadership development and is the author of a number of books, including Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work, and Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long .

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The Secrets & Science
Of Great Performance Management

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Live Webinar November 15th, 2016 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Do the best individual contributors …
Become the best managers?

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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The New Manager Lifeline:
Six Tips to Develop First-time Leaders

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Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Is available to PMI® members.

Organizations are becoming more complex. Gone are the days of simple Org Charts where things flow in an orderly fashion.

Complex matrix organizations are now the norm. Projects are pulling resources from different parts of the organization and, many times, from entirely different organizations.

In this presentation Michael Perdunn (LinkedIn profile) will explain how can Project Managers be successful in matrix organizations.

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Registration for this session is close to being full. If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Managing Projects In A Matrix Organization

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Live Webinar – November 17th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Are You Lean?

Regardless of what industry you’re in, today’s large companies share some remarkably similar characteristics. We live and die by these common denominators:

•  Heavy reliance on technology, IT teams, and software
• Complex, unpredictable organizational dynamics
• Siloed departments that suffer from lack of communication
• Difficulty understanding or predicting what customers and users want
• Constantly changing and uncertain marketing conditions

In the middle of this daunting mix, we are called upon to constantly innovate or fall behind.

But how?

Is it even possible to repeatedly and methodically achieve this mythical “innovation” that everyone talks about?

Chris contends that it is.

Chris will introduce you to the following:

• Lean: what is it?
• A brief history of lean management principles
• Lean thinking
• Lean applied in today’s professions
  • IT,
  • Development,
  • DevOps,
  • Project Management
• Lean as a vehicle for value creation

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) for a brief primer on Lean Innovation.

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The Lean Enterprise:
Intro To Massively Disruptive Innovation

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Live Webinar November 15th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Gartner has advised hundreds of organizations on IT cost optimization during the past several years.

Use the top 10 recommended ideas as a checklist to ensure that you have tried or at least considered some of the more conventional cost optimization ideas before embarking on more advanced techniques.

Discussion Topics:

• The most popular ideas today to optimize IT costs
• The techniques that maximize the savings for each idea
• Pitfalls to avoid to ensure to create a sustainable cost optimization strategy

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The Gartner Top 10 Recommended IT Cost Optimization Ideas

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