Online Webinar  – Recorded Nov 20, 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media o.5 PDU – Free
Provider: Media Mogul  &  Pat Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni discusses his bestelling management book:   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.

Stay tuned to Fridays post (August 18th,2017)  for a 3.75 PDU opportunity the complete audio book by Patrick Lencioni: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w42Sfbh91vU

This now-famous 2002 book has become an iconic leadership fable, and a foundational text in the world of Agile coaching and project management.

Any professional who is part of a team, leads a team, or relies on teams for results should consider this book required reading.

The five dysfunctions may seem obvious, but when you read Lencioni chances are you’ll realize how much they have cost your own organization.

Learn how to deal with the five dysfunctions of a team:

1. Absence of trust
2. Fear of conflict
3. Lack of commitment
4. Avoidance of accountability
5. Inattention to results

Presenter: Pat Lencioni (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. Named in Fortune magazine as one of the ‘ten new gurus you should know,’ Pat and his work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

Make sure you check out Patrick Lencioni’s Best Selling Books:

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
• Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty (J-B Lencioni Series)
• The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
• The Five Temptations of a CEO, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (J-B Lencioni Series)
• Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors (J-B Lencioni Series)
• The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) (J-B Lencioni Series)
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
• AND … The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life (J-B Lencioni Series)

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Patrick Lencioni Discussese
The 5 Dysfunctions Of Teams

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Live Webinar – August 23rd, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Delivering engaging, personalized learning experiences across devices is what learners and company-wide users are seeking.

Join Bhim Kaul for this overview of Adobe’s Learning Management System, Adobe Captivate Prime, where you will:

• Learn techniques on how to align your online and offline enterprise-wide learning initiatives to skill, upskill and reskill your team and the organization.
• Boost enrolment, engagement, and effectiveness with gamification elements and consistent playback across varied content types.
• And discover how a powerful creation and distribution system helps you stay informed about employee progress and the effectiveness of training programs.

Presenter: Bhim Kaul (LinkedIn profile) began his career in 2008 an analyst with a leading bank and moved onto Adobe Systems as a Product Consultant enabling and supporting the worldwide sales and consulting endeavors for Elearning and Technical Communication. For the last 3 years I he built & managed a learning and development unit within Amazon.in, called Seller University. Bhom is an in demand speaker at various learning and design conferences.  He enjoys the concept of video in learning and monitors the direction it is  moving in.

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Align, Enhance, Engage!
Unforgettable Learning Experiences

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Live Webinar August 17th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

A Must See Presentation Register Today!

In this presentation Karl  describes numerous techniques for writing software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and effective communication.

You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional requirements and you’ll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid.

The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer.

Karl will also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements.

Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

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Elements Of Requirements Style

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Live Webinar August 17th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The Product Owner is the key stakeholder within an Agile project. Success or failure of Agile projects can hinge on having a good product owner.

For organizations, developing Product Owners can be the most difficult part of the move to a more agile mindset.

A Product Owner can not be a far off Executive Sponsor of days past, they have to be integrated into the team and have the authority to act quickly.

In this presentation Michael Perdunn (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the role and responsibilities of a Product Owner, identity ways a PM/SM can coach a Product Owner, and how to manage conflict when dealing with Product Owners.

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

Registration for these sessions fill quickly! 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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How To Manage Conflict With Product Owners

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Online Webinar – Recorded  May 19, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

A Must see if you are an Agile practitioner, project manager, business or operational manager, software developer, software tester, member of a PMO, member of a governance panel, quality assurance team member, or anyone in the IT department

This webinar supports both the existing and aspiring agile coaches and the recipients of agile coaching.

In this discussion the topics will include the following elements of the agile coach’s continual cycle of learning :

1. Inquire
2. Discover
3. Influence
4. Deliver

The goal of this webinar is to offer a few simple and yet effective ways to coaching agile leaders as an organization associate or to lead a consulting engagement with customers.

The coaching agile leaders’ webinar provides guidance to facilitate individuals to be active participants in the agile transformation journey.

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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Coaching Agile Leaders

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 16th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic planning is at the heart of any enterprise, and alignment with the corporate strategic plan is often a key concern of CIOs.

There is a science to developing an IT strategy, and there is an art.

This session explores the art of strategic planning, helping attendees articulate IT’s contribution to business success.

Discussion Topics:

• The components of an IT strategy when using “science” to develop it
• Techniques for developing an ‘artful’ one-page strategy
• How to effectively use the one-page strategy

Join  Heather Colella, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Research VP and learn to build your 1-Page Strategy.

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The Art Of The 1-Page Strategy

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