PDU Of The Day has published almost 7000 Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

pduOTD.com published over 1000 opportunities in 2016 and we’ve made a list of the 20 most popular sessions.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2016, we’re re-publishing the top 20 articles and some of our favorite editor’s choice articles.

Each of these webinars is available online!

Top 20 2016 pduOTD Reader Favorites – #6

Online Webinar – Recorded December 6th 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

The Enabling Change SIG’s mission is to ‘improve the change capability of organisations, teams and individuals. CMI’s competency framework could be one tool to support this.

In this webinar Melanie Franklin enables viewers to find out about the CMI’s competency framework, and assess if and how this is something that could help them, their teams and their organisations develop their change capability.

She does this through a combination of presentations and a couple of polls during the webinar. Melanie will also allow some time for Q&A.

N.B. The SIG is ‘method neutral’, so that we invite speakers from a range of external change-related organisations to speak at our events.

The webinar also provides a quick update on the SIG’s work in developing the resources available to members, including its plans for an introductory publication on managing change.

Presenters: 

Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

Elisabeth Goodman (LinkedIn profile) Bsc Msc Founder and Principal Consultant of RiverRhee Consulting, which specialises in workshop-style training for enhancing team effectiveness. Prior  to 2007 Elisabeth spent 25 +years in Pharmaceutical R&D.  Elisabeth is accredited in Change Management, in Lean Sigma, in MBTI and Belbin Team Roles and is an NLP  Practitioner. She also leads the Membership, Communications and Events theme of the Enabling Change SIG.

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How Capable Are You At Managing Change?
The Change Management Institute’s Competency Framework

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PDU Of The Day has published almost 7000 Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

pduOTD.com published over 1000 opportunities in 2016 and we’ve made a list of the 20 most popular sessions.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2016, we’re re-publishing the top 20 articles and some of our favorite editor’s choice articles.

Each of these webinars is available online!

Top 20 2016 pduOTD Reader Favorites – #5

Online Webinar – Recorded November 24th 2016
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

In this information session, Melanie Franklin, Co-Chair of the Change Management Institute UK and Richard Smith, Chief Examiner, Change Practitioner Qualification, APMG-International will describe the growing professionalism of business change and transformation roles.

From being either a project management afterthought, or an Organizational Development specialism, change management has matured into a recognised management discipline.

This discipline is now sought after by those organisations who realise that the increasing pace of change means that their need to change in line with their marketplace cannot be left to chance.

Melanie will outline the objectives of the Change Management Institute, give a flavour of its members and explain the skills and behaviours of excellent change and transformation professionals, using the Competency Model from the Change Management Institute.

Learn how the Change Management Institute’s competence model connects with their change management body of knowledge, and how APMG’s Change Management practitioner qualification reflects this professional development.

APMG will also describe the growing number of applicants and the skills that candidates learn on their route to practitioner success.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) Change Management Institute UK, has been responsible for the successful delivery of effective change and for creating environments that support transformational change for 20+ years. She is the co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK and is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner. Melanie is the author of many books on change & project management including,  Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

Check out the wonderful resources on Melaine’s site,
You will be glad you did!

Click to register for:
Finding Effective Change Managers

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PDU Of The Day Editor’s Choice Pick #3

Online Webinar – Recorded January 16th, 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Listening, Engagement, Commitment:
The Path to Win-Win Outcomes

In this post-pushing, post-selling world, influence can no longer be viewed as something you do to someone to get what you want. People today are more aware than ever before about self-serving tricks and tactics being used on them.

In fact, gaining real influence isn’t even about what you want. Based on the presenters’ decades of experience and extensive interviews with high-level influencers “people in business, government, nonprofits, sports, the arts, and more”  Goulston and Ullmen share what they’ve learned about the remarkable power of real influence and offer insights for tapping into it.

What You Will Learn:

• The simple four-step model that will help you connect with people you thought were unreachable
• How to get past the “blind spot“ in our brains that makes connecting and influencing impossible
• How to avoid bad influence habits that can disconnect you from your team, your clients, your family, and others
• How listening with a real motive to learn and understand will change a relationship instantly
• Ways to repair a reputation damaged by trying to influence via manipulation
• Why one of the biggest factors in becoming a power influencer is gratitude

Presenter:

Mark Goulston, M.D., is an executive coach, team building consultant trained as a clinical, psychiatrist. He has been a UCLA professor of psychiatry for more than 25 years. He is the bestselling author of four books, including his latest, Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone. In addition, he writes the Tribune Media syndicated career advice column, “Solve Anything with Dr. Mark,” blogs for Fast Company and the Huffington Post and is a contributor to Harvard Business online.

Click to register and view:
Real Influence:
Persuade Without Pushing & Gain Without Giving In

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PDU Of The Day has published almost 7000 Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

pduOTD.com published over 1000 opportunities in 2016 and we’ve made a list of the 20 most popular sessions.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2016, we’re re-publishing the top 20 articles and some of our favorite editor’s choice articles.

Each of these webinars is available online!

Top 20 2016 pduOTD Reader Favorites – #8

Online Webinar – Recorded May 10th 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Now 25 years since the emergence of Benefits Management, it has had a limited impact on project management and even less on general management practices.

This is despite a  body of evidence that a focus on benefits improves the success rates of projects and programmes and helps organisations to achieve their objectives.

This event is suitable for professionals with an intermediate level of experience.

The webinar explores the development of Benefits Management over the 25 years and debate the barriers to its adoption and embedding in organisational practices.

While Benefits Management has spread globally, the available evidence suggests that relatively few organisations embrace it wholeheartedly.

There are many reasons why this might be the case, ranging from the connotations of the term ‘benefits’ to discomfort amongst senior decision-makers at the increased accountability, transparency and formality which Benefits Management brings to the evaluation of investment decisions.

The webinar will use interactive methods to see what participants think are the main barriers to the adoption of Benefits Management, and what can be done to address them.

For anyone who is an enthusiast for Benefits Management and wishes to promote its uptake, the webinar will provide vital intelligence on others’ experiences, and hence suggest some of the pitfalls to avoid and the avenues to pursue.

This will often mean striking a balance between, on the one hand, being willing to adapt benefits management so it fits into existing organisational practices and ways of thinking while, on the other hand, not compromising on the key principles.

While the focus of the webinar is on Benefits Management, much of the discussion will be transferable to other management ideas as well. Hence anyone with an interest in the spread of management tools and techniques will find it relevant.

The presenters draw upon a paper they co-authored with Stephen Jenner (LinkedIn profile)  and Carlos Serra (LinkedIn profile)  on the adoption and embedding of Benefits Management, entitled, ‘Benefits Management: lost or found in translation’, which has recently been published in the International Journal of Project Management, and which will also be the subject of a practitioner-orientated article in the Summer 2016 edition of ‘Project’ magazine.

Presenters:

Dr Richard Breese, (LinkedIn profile) DBA, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University After a career in town planning and regeneration programme management, Richard joined Sheffield in 2009. In this work Richard was concerned with achieving benefits for disadvantaged communities, and reflections on this experience led to his current  research in Benefits Management and organisational change. Richard is the Higher Education representative on the APM Benefits Management SIG committee. Richard also leads the SIG on research interests, which include an annual survey of members and the promotion of benefits management in management research and education.

John Thorp, (LinkedIn profile) President, The Thorp Network Internationally recognized leader in the field of value and benefits management, with 50+ years experience as a management consultant in the information management field; John is the author of ” The Information Paradox: Realizing the Business Benefits of Information Technology”, one of the first books to set out a comprehensive approach to benefits management. John led the development of ISACA’s Val IT™ Enterprise Value Framework, is a member of ISO’s subcommittee on IT Service Management and IT Governance, the APM Benefits Management SIG committee, a Fellow of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), and a member of IVI’s Business Value Management (BVM) workgroup.

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Benefits Management:
It Works, So Why Isn’t Everybody Doing It?

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PDU Of The Day has published almost 7000 Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

pduOTD.com published over 1000 opportunities in 2016 and we’ve made a list of the 20 most popular sessions.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2016, we’re re-publishing the top 20 articles and some of our favorite editor’s choice articles.

Each of these webinars is available online!

Top 20 2016 pduOTD Reader Favorites – #7

Online Webinar  – Recorded October 26th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

In today’s PMO environments, a clear understanding of PMO management’s leadership role and responsibility is absolutely essential for a successful evolution, from project management to program management to portfolio management organization.

In this webcast learn: 

1. Are you ready for a position of PMO leadership?
   1. What’s necessary to ensure the success and growth of your PMO organization as well as your own?
2. What is the true role of PMO management?
   1. Hint: It’s not simply to establish and/or maintain a Project Management Office.
3. As a project management professional, what’s your leadership role in PMO development and organizational strategy?
   1. Where is your influence absolutely essential?
      1. Here’s a hint, it’s not at your current level.

This presentation will focus on the expanding role and vision of PMO management while exploring the corresponding project/program/portfolio management essentials and dynamics necessary for collaboration and organizational success.

Presenter: Ruffin Veal III PMP (LinkedIn profile)  Principal Ruffin Veal and Associates, Inc, is an IT & PM professional whose career spans multiple industries including manufacturing, banking, retail and government. An author, speaker and trainer whose industry related articles can be seen in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Virtual Library as well as in national and international publications. Ruffin holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an M.S. degree in Project Management. Make sure to check out Ruffin’s ProjectTalk blog.

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

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Leadership Strategies For
Organizational Development & Success

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PDU Of The Day Editor’s Choice Pick #4

Online Webinar  – Recorded May 4th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

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.

Click to register for:
Emotional Intelligence:
Understand Yourself Then Understand Others

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