Webinar And Book
Live Webinar September 16, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Linkage
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free
Book – Earn Up to 7 PDUs for reading Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, & Get Results 284 pages

Courage Goes To Work gives the conviction that ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary results. – Joe Forehand, retired Chairman and CEO of Accenture

Please NOTE: The Video shows Bill High Diving while on fire.

Webinar Information

Though long overdue, women are increasingly moving into leadership roles. Consequently, women have more opportunities to shape the workplace in a meaningful way.

Making the most of those opportunities will take persistence, persuasiveness, and leadership. It will also take courage.

This webinar will highlight courage as the most important leadership virtue, and provide strategies that women can apply in workplace settings to broaden their leadership influence. Specific examples about courageous women leaders will be used to illustrate the concepts.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why courage is essential to career and organizational success
• Current data about the debilitating impacts of fear on performance
• Examples of courageous women at work
• The differences between two different leadership dispositions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers (discouragement)
• Tips on how women can be more courageous at work, and how they can inspire more courageous behavior among those they lead

PDU Category C documentation details (for the Webinar or the Book):

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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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Courageous Leadership for Women

Book Information

Earn Up To 7 Category C PDUs for Reading:
Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, & Get Results

• How can you fill people with enough confidence that they’ll set aside their fears and do extraordinary things?
• What can you do to put courage to work for you and the people you lead?

Courage Goes to Work focuses on building workforce courage. Why? Because when courage goes to work, workers they take on more challenging or complex projects. When courage goes to work people actively seek out tasks that stretched their skills and capabilities. When courage goes to work speak up more frequently, forcefully, and truthfully. When courage goes to work people say “yes” to company changes with more enthusiasm. When courage goes to work people are less risk-averse, less self-conscious, and less apathetic.

Courage Goes to Work categorizes courageous acts into three large “buckets.” These courage buckets are:

1. TRY Courage:TRY Courage is the courage of initiative and action. It’s what you’re talking about when you say you want people to “step up to the plate”. TRY Courage can be seen in “first attempts”—for example, whenever you attempt a new, skill-stretching, or pioneering tasks. Volunteering to lead a tough or risky project is a demonstration of TRY Courage.
2. TRUST Courage:TRUST Courage is the courage that it takes to relinquish control and rely on others. When you talk of wanting employees to embrace company changes more enthusiastically, it is TRUST Courage that you want people to have. When you have TRUST Courage, you give people the benefit of the doubt, instead of questioning the motives and intentions of those around you.
3. TELL Courage:TELL Courage is the courage of “voice,” and involves speaking with candor and conviction, especially when the opinions expressed run counter to the group’s. When your TELL Courage is activated, you assert yourself more willingly and confidently. Your TELL Courage is at work when you tactfully but truthfully provide tough feedback to others, or when you raise your hand and ask for help, or when you fess up about mistakes you’ve made before others find out.

About Bill Treasurer- Bill Treasurer is founder of Giant Leap Consulting, and the author of Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results, an internationally bestselling book about how to build workforce courage. Bill is widely recognized as pioneer in the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” Bill is also a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team, and performed over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet. His insights about workplace courage have been featured in over 100 national newspapers and magazines.

Bill has worked with many renowned organization including, Accenture, NASA, Spanx, the US Forest Service, CDC, PNC Bank, Highmark, American Family Insurance, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Live Webinar July 19, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

We highly recommend this webinar with Shawn Kent Hayashi – pduOTD.com has always valued your professional development but Shawn offers more. The information in this session can be applied to your projects and stakeholders. Creating better lines of communication will increase the success of any project. Sign up for this session today! – EdmontonPM

• Do you wonder how to make the most of your career?
• Would you like to experience momentum in your ability to create meaningful conversations with mentors, role models and people in your network?
• Are you ready to Own Your Own Career Development?

In this webinar, Shawn Kent Hayashi (LinkedIn profile) – Executive Coach with The Professional Development Group – will offer tips for building relationships that will be immediately applicable in your career.

, Shawn discusses her book Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say it Right When It Matters Most Earn Up To 10 Category C PDUs for reading her book. (235 pages) 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’

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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’

Click to register for Mentors, Networks & Role Models: Owning Your Career Development

Live Webinar – June 28th , 2011 12:00 PM EST
Offered by: Go to Meeting Corporate 1 Category C PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees can claim 1 PDU for participating.
Earn Up To 7 Category C PDUs for Reading – Enchantment (See Below)

Hear Guy Kawasaki (LinkedIn profile), co-founder of Alltop.com and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, explain how enchantment enables you to influence people’s hearts, minds and actions to bring about voluntary, enduring and delightful change.

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist(@GuyKawasaki), and was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. Guy is a Co-founder of Alltop (@Alltop) former chief evangelist of Apple and author of 10 books including his latest Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Know when enchantment is necessary.
• Achieve likability and trustworthiness.
• Overcome resistance.
• Enchant your boss and people who work for you.

*Bonus! 125 lucky webinar attendees will receive Guy Kawasaki’s new book Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.

Click here to register for How to Change Hearts, Minds and Actions.

Earn Up To 7 Category C PDUs for Reading – Enchantment

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions is Guy’s tenth book. In it, he explains how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics.

The book explains when and why enchantment is necessary and then the pillars of enchantment: likability, trustworthiness, and a great cause.

The next topics are launching, overcoming resistance, making enchantment endure, and using technology. There are even special chapters dedicated to enchanting your employees and your boss.

Finally, because there are times you may want to resist enchantment, there’s even a chapter about how to do this too.

If you want to change the world — or even part of the world, this book is for you.

For an extensive list of reviews of the book click here.

This Book Covers: PMBOK Reference

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communication

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholders Expectations

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’

Live Webinar June 29, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the The Agilista PM
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU Free
Certificate Provided Upon Request

Highly effective leaders have discovered the secret is to manage commitments rather than people. Do YOU know the difference?

• Do you frequently hear excuses from under-performing team members or contractors instead of getting results?
• Are you frustrated because people say one thing, but do another?
• Do you feel powerless when people make promises and don’t follow through?
• Would you like others to take responsibility and get things done in a timely manner?

Experience real-time coaching on issues that matter to you most. This is a unique opportunity to not just talk about accountability and integrity but to experience it on a deeper level. You will see how language, mood and mindful action are the essential tools. How to deal with the “real life” part of project management. Get instantly actionable tools that can make your life easier the moment you hear them.

Real Project Management – Involves Real People

Project management looks sooo easy… on paper. You’ve studied endless flow charts and checklists that on how to manage projects. Whenfootball coaches design a play on paper, they make sure every defensive player is blocked or accounted for. So why doesn’t every play go for a touchdown?

Because in real life the play isn’t run by X’s and O’s… its run by real people!

People don’t come to your project as blank slates ready to eagerly do your bidding. They come fully loaded with biases, grudges, bad (and good) past experiences, trust issues, anger issues, resentment, fatigue, foolishness, duplicity, and countless selfish motives.

(Newsflash: you come in that way too!)

Put this System to Work for You and You’ll Discover in this Webinar …

• How to manage commitments instead of people (this little ninja move puts the power in YOUR hands)
• The secret language of requests (hey, it’s a secret if you don’t know and use it!)
• How to identify the person you must get on board for your project to succeed (hint: it’s not the highest ranking or most outspoken person on the team)
• The 3 step system for restoring integrity when someone (or you) drops the ball
• How to hold people accountable gracefully (that is, so that they don’t hate you)
• Secrets to managing resistance and other negative emotions like fear, anger, and frustration that put the brakes on your project
• How to have difficult conversations and coach people into action

SPEAKERS: Best-selling authors of Who Will Do What By When? How to Improve Performance, Accountability and Trust with Integrity, Birgit Zacher-Hanson, MCC and Tom Hanson, PhD will lead the discussion on how project managers can double the efficiency and effectiveness of their projects.

*** all who register will get a link to the recording ***

In order to claim a Category B PDU certificate after watching the recorded version of this webinar please contact donna@AgilistaPM.com and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Get Projects Done with Half the Effort & Hassle:
Knowing What to Say & How to Say It

Donna (@AgilistaPM) happily promotes these agile user groups:

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Get Projects Done with Half the Effort & Hassle:
Knowing What to Say & How to Say It

Live Webinar June 22 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

If you haven’t discovered the concept of Servant Leadership you are not alone. The modern servant leadership movement was launched by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader”, and although this management style has been around for years the concepts and underlying philosophies were often practiced in ‘Faith Based’ businesses and organizations. But this is now changing ……

Companies that have adopted the principles of Servant Leadership (sometimes known as the New Golden Rule). Companies are quickly discovering that the philosophies, if honestly adopted:

• Create intensely positive supportive relationships,
• Fiercely loyal employee employer relationships,
• Intensified productivity,
• Sustainable growth and
• Higher profits.

Join Ken and Colleen for this informative session on a new way to create success in your organization!

Discover a Different Way to Create Success

Servant leadership requires acknowledging people, backing people up and treating people as business partners—in short, “leading with love.” It is not soft management; it’s smart management.

When leaders focus on positive relationships in addition to profits, they end up with an abundance of both.

Join business guru Ken Blanchard and Southwest Airlines president emeritus Colleen Barrett as they explore the keys to creating an organizational culture that achieves and sustains high performance.

During this program you’ll hear about the leadership secrets that have propelled Southwest Airlines and other great companies to unparalleled success.

What You Will Learn:

Drawing from their new book, Lead with LUV, these two legendary leaders will explain what this all means, why it works and how it can help you achieve unprecedented business performance:

• What “leading with love” looks like within an organizational context
• How to build the right vision and help your people succeed in the long term

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

The Presenters:
Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager® , coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Colleen Barrett is president emeritus of Southwest Airlines Company.She was a member of the company’s Executive Planning Committee andchaired numerous special teams, task forces, and committees relating to internal and external Southwest customers. She now serves on theBoard of Trusteesof theKen Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University, the Becker College Board of Trustees, and the JC Penney Company, board of Directors.Barret is coauthor of Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (192 pages Earn up to 7 PDUs)

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Servant Leadership: Creating Culture and Sustaining Performance

Earn More Category C PDUs
(Professional Development Units)
by Reading these great Books

The Documentation details above for Category C PDUs apply.

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert K. Greenleaf the developer of the Servant Leader Concept – 370 Pages Earn up to 15 PDUs

Servant Leader by Ken Blanchard – 128 Pages Earn up to 5 PDUs

The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader by James C. Hunter – 224 Pages Earn up to 9 PDUs

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter – 187 Pages Earn up to 7 PDUs

Ken Blanchards – The One Minute Manager Book Series 16 different titles including The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: New and Revised Edition – 128 Pages Earn up to 5 PDUs

Recorded Webcast & Ebook
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: Up to 1.5 Category C Free (30 Min Webcast 1 hour EBook)

The Webcast: Recorded: February 24 2011

Project management is a discipline, and as such can be quite difficult without the proper training. Some project managers have had formal training (for example PMI’s PMBOK or PRINCE2) and some lucky project managers instinctively know how to initiate, manage and close projects to success. Many project managers however, are thrown into the deep end with little or no training.

At BrightWork we believe we can assist such project managers with a step-by-step, how-to guide. Our Collaborative Project Management Guide is simple and easy to follow, and describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project.

The EBook:

BrightWork has authored an easy to follow and simple to use eBook for Project Managers who are not yet formally trained in Collaborative Project Management or who may not have the time or budget to get trained.

The eBook describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project. The eBook also has a section on Project Management Leadership style.

Note, whilst experienced project managers may find the eBook to be introductory in nature, they may learn something from it and might find it an especially useful starting point for creating internal training for their new project managers.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 4.6 Close Project or Phase

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’

Click here to download the Collaborative Project Management EBOOK

Click to download the Presentation Ebook and Webcast

Click here to view the Collaborative Project Management webcast.

Note: In the webcast Brightwork has specifically requested feedback on their Ebook & Webcast. If you would like to provide feedback email cpm@brightwork.com.