# 1 PDU Of The Day Editor’s Choice Pick 2016

DARE: Straight Talk on Confidence,
Courage & Career With Becky Blalock

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I am so happy to announce that we have addied some AMAZING new courses to our catalog including –  DARE: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage & Career – With Becky Blalock !

Becky is passionate about building “Confidence by Reaching Outside of Your Comfort Zone.”

1. Confidence is a learned skill!
2. Confidence is just what you need as a PMP!
3. Confidence will certainly propel project success!

“Take A Risk & Move Outside Your Comfort Zone”

Are You Seeking Greater Success In The Workplace?

This course is designed to help you reach your full potential by becoming more intentional in your career aspirations, being more bold and confident in going after those aspirations and building relationships with the people who can help you achieve these dreams.

It’s time to take charge of your career!

Through a number of different exercises designed to build awareness, learn strategies, skills and techniques, you’ll develop more effective methods to manage your career.

Based on Becky Blalock’s book, DARE: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage and Career, this course focuses on three key areas of the book, with supporting research from corporate career experts.

Course Outline:

1. Begin Within – Get clear about what you want!
   • Only you can define success for you. The exercises in this section will prompt your to think strategically about your career, personal brand, skills, strengths and developmental opportunities. Additionally, you will take a look at your core values, goals and legacy.
2. Be Bold – Build confidence, go after your dreams & make them a reality!
   • A comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.  Take risks to realize your full potential. In this section, you’ll take a confidence quiz and set-up an action place to improve your confidence.
3. Invest in Relationships – No one achieves success in a vacuum!
   • Identify the people who can help you and connect with them.  Define how you can “give back” and help others. You’ll create a networking map to help you reach the goals you defined earlier in the course.
4.  Wrap Up
   • Identify the first step(s) you will take to manage your career.

DARE yourself… learn how to gain confidence, speak up, find mentors, bounce back from failure, build a network or allies, and manage others – and ultimately reach your career goals.

Learning Objectives

1. Gain a better understanding of yourself and your personal brand.
2. Identify your skills, strengths and developmental opportunities.
3. Identify core values to crystalize your decision-making and help in setting priorities.
4. Assess your confidence level and take steps to improve it.
5. Set clear and actionable long and short-term goals for yourself.
6. Explore roles in your relationship network, identify gaps and learn how to fill them.
7. Be able to clearly communicate your career goals.
8. Create a personal development plan to keep you on track to achieve your dreams.

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DARE: Straight Talk on Confidence,
Courage & Career Leadership

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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 – #3

Online Webinar – Recorded August 17th
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: PMI® chapter – Minnesota (REP #C018)
In Cooperation with: ProjectManagement.com (REP #2488)

Different chapters offer different opportunities and benefits for chapter members. We encourage you to take a look at the this wonderful webinar presented by A PMI® chapter. Please Consider joining PMI-MN.

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 presentation Ruffin Veal 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.

Choose the PMI Chapter (s) That are Right For You.

Project Managers can join any number of chapters that may suit their needs (not just their local chapter). Different chapters offer different opportunities – We encourage you to find the chapters that meet your specific needs.

Consider joining
PMIMN- Membership is only $30.00!!
OR any other PMI® Chapter that Suits your needs.

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PMO Leadership: Strategies For Organizational Development

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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 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 – #12

Online Webinar  – Recorded April 13th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

A Simple Path To Powerful Leadership

Managers and leaders find themselves stuck in three vicious circles. They’re frustrated by teams who have become overly dependent on them.

They’re overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. And they’re disconnected from their own great work – the work that has impact, the work that has meaning.

Sound familiar?

Breaking out of these vicious circles is simpler than you might think.

Mastering five essential questions can help managers and leaders increase the focus, courage and resilience they need to have more impact in the work they do.

In this practical, interactive and engaging webcast, you will:

• Discover the three vicious circles that keep managers – and their teams – stuck
• Understand how breaking out of these circles can help them work less hard and have more impact
• Learn the five core questions they need so they (and those they lead) can focus on the work that matters
• Hear the best coaching question in the world (and it has just three words)

Participants will not only leave with a plan to do things differently, but will also get access to a special Box of Crayons report: Four Surprising Phrases to Supercharge Your Conversation and Boost Your Manager IQ.

This webcast is based on Michael Bungay Stanier’s acclaimed book
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever.

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.  He is also the author of of the bestseller The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. To view a short animated version of this manifesto, visit his site at DoMoreGreatWork.

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The Five Question Leader:
The Secret To Having More Impact

PDU Of The Day Editor’s Choice Pick #6

Online Webinar  – Recorded April 14th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
By: 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.

Many projects do not fail due to technical reasons.

When project outputs get transitioned to operations and the resultant changes go live, there is a huge resistance from the impacted functional organizations (especially for projects such as system integration, process improvement, and enterprise transformation).

In this presentation  S. Ramani (LinkedIn profile) discusses what can be done to make enterprise-wide transformation projects/programs more successful, by addressing the cultural and humanistic issues concerning change.

Best change management practices including those of John Kotter (LinkedIn profile) and William Bridges are illustrated in the background of speaker’s practical experience.

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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Change Management:
A Key Facilitator For Project Success

PDU Of The Day Editor’s Choice Pick #7

Online Webinar  – Recorded June 15th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour 1 PDU
By: 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.

This might sound like an exaggeration, but EVERYONE dreads
“Performance Appraisal Time”! 

Why is this process so painful?

Well, if you’re an Agile team then this is even MORE painful because the role of your manager has changed so much that they couldn’t possibly have all the information needed to solely judge your performance.

Through this session, Sally will dig deeper into this subject and share new modern and Agile ways for thinking about performance management for organizations scaling Agile adoption.

She will talk about the new role of HR departments, new role of Agile Managers, how 360 role based assessments can help and introduce a multi-layered ‘earned’ reward system you can pilot for rewarding teams for meeting team goals not just individual behavior.

Come in with an open mind!

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.  Sally also publishes several short learning videos on AgileVideos.com.

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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Performance Management Stinks!
Here’s An Agile Way To Do It!

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