Online Webinar – Recorded October 4th, 2012
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)

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Business Analysts and Project Managers spend too much time in long, inefficient, ineffective meetings.

Worse yet, oftentimes they are leading them!

We all know that meetings are a “necessary evil” in the world of business analysis and project management, but the question is – How can we do it more efficiently?

Most people don’t realize that there are specific techniques that anyone can employ to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in their meetings. This webinar is filled with tips and techniques to help you make your meetings much more efficient.

This two hour webinar reveals 5 key secrets you can use to reduce the length of your next project meeting (live or conference call).

Learn how to manage lengthy discussion, develop agendas to encourage brevity, artfully manage difficult meeting personalities like the “dominator”, “the rambler”, “the multitasker”, and get team members to come prepared and actually get involved in the meeting facilitation.

You will learn facilitation techniques that balance the leader’s focus on task with a desire to build/maintain relationship.

These techniques will not just reduce your meeting time but also enhance your credibility as a leader and improve the morale of the team. The session is filled with tips and techniques that you can begin implementing immediately.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to establish a PAL for your meeting to provide necessary structure
• How to artfully and tactfully manage difficult personalities like the dominator, the multitasker, and the rambler
• How to keep the meeting focused and on track

With the Course You Will Receive:

• White Paper – Managing the Meeting from Hell
• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Dana Brownlee (LinkedIn profile) a speaker and trainer garnered critical team leadership and management consulting experience through her years with AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM Consulting, and EMC Corporation. She possesses an impressive array of credentials including an MBA (Emory University), BIE (Georgia Tech), BS (Spelman College), IBM Business Transformation Consulting Certification, Project Management Professional, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator Qualification.

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5 Secrets To Virtually Cut Your Meeting Time in Half!

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 7th 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

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Manufacturers have known for decades the importance of continually improving processes to improve quality and reduce costs and Lean has been a powerful management tool to achieve these goals.

But Lean, which focuses on delivering value in the eyes of customer, is also an effective way of improving overall business performance when applied to processes outside of the manufacturing arena.

The question is, how can you wield it most effectively in non-traditional areas?

Learn to:

• Recognize the common gaps in the manufacturing process and how you can fill them in
• Understand new and more effective ways that Lean tools can be applied outside of manufacturing all the way to your customer and everything in between (service, distribution, etc.)
• Explore ways that you can apply these concepts to your organization

Presenters:

Bill Waddell (LinkedIn profile, website) is a global supply chain expert regarded as a leading expert in lean manufacturing. Through his consulting practice he has worked with manufacturers of all sizes throughout many continents. He is the author of Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation and Rebirth of American Industry, and many other materials. Bill is also one of the most widely read manufacturing bloggers on the Internet.

Nick Sampson (LinkedIn profile) is a Sales Engineer at iDatix Corporation. Armed with his CDIA+Nick wanted to help organizations become more efficient and streamlined so he came on board at iDatix. When he did, he began a deep dive into Process Automation and has helped companies like Lockheed Martin, Goodwill and ClosetMaid improve their processes and increase their profitability.

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Secrets Of Applying Lean & Process Excellence
To Manufacturing & Beyond

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Online Webinar – Recorded – August 17th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: APMG International

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Management is the collection of activities and techniques that minimize the risk of failure to realize benefits. Change Management is an essential partner to Agile approaches, enabling the early and frequent realization of benefits and return on investment.

In this webinar Melanie explains how to integrate change management and Agile approaches and the implications this has for the roles of Scrum Masters and Project Managers.

Melanie will also explore which change activities to include in the Product Backlog and how to incorporate this work into each Sprint.

This session is relevant to you if you are working as part of an Agile team or you are managing projects or programmes which use Agile approaches. Change Managers will also find this useful, as the webinar explains how important close working relationships with Agile practitioners are for effective change management.

Join APMG & renowned agile expert Melanie Franklin, co- chair of the Change Management Institute UK and author of Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative; in this webinar to increase your knowledge and pick up some valuable tips to make your work easier.

Presenter: 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; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.

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Change Management
For Scrum Masters & Project Managers

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

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Most projects involve contracts with external providers or suppliers of good and services. Those taking on the role of project managers therefore need to know and understand the basics of contract law in order to be effective and avoid risks being ‘gotchas’!

Most projects involve buying something from an external provider. This can range from ‘off the shelf’ widgets to complex contracts for multi-million packages.

Regardless, if you don’t know the basics of contract law, both in the procurement and ‘in-contract’ management phase, you can inadvertently put your organisation at significant commercial risk. On the other hand, if both parties clearly articulate and understand their legal and contractual obligations, then the project is far more likely to be a success.

What does this mean? Having a basic knowledge of contract law is an essential pre-requisite for an effective project manager!

This is the second webinar in this series:
Click Here to view the first session

It covered the components of a contract; ‘boiler plate’ & negotiated clauses; risk allocation; who should be involved and project managing a contract’s development.

The slides have been listed on Slideshare and the webinar recording on YouTube are available in our APM resources and also below for reference.

Presenter: Sarah Schütte (LinkedIn profile) is a UK-qualified solicitor-advocate for Schutte Consulting Limited. With 16+ years’ experience, with a wide variety of industry clients to support their projects, disputes, corporate and project risk management and insurance strategies and training programmes, both in the UK and abroad. Sarah has developed a niche practice in planning, programing and project management (PPM and P3M), project controls and the law. She advocates confident and competent contract and commercial management, and focuses on putting law into practice so that project management practitioners develop essential knowledge and skills.

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Basic Contract Law For Project Managers Part 2:
Building A Contract

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Online Webinar – Recorded  August 23rd 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

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Powerful relationships are based on great conversations. When great conversations occur you connect and engage with others in a way that instills trust, loyalty, respect and commitment.

In Part I of the session, we discussed the importance and effects of powerful conversations – now learn how to put those conversation in practice to build lasting and powerful relationships that will help you succeed both personally and professionally.

Join renowned coach leader, Brenda Williams to learn significant skills that will teach you how to build bridges and connect with anyone – directly relating to delivering projects on time and within budget.

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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Powerful Relationships

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Online Webinar – Recorded – Mar 6th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  TidalShift (Rep 1051) PDU Code: 1051NRLOWL

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Whether you are developing your project schedule or preparing for your PMP Exam, the Critical Path Method is an integral part of your PM tool box.

Like any tool, proper understanding of its application, characteristics and limitations is key to effective application for best results.

In this interactive webinar David Donaldson (LinkedIn profile) PMP CTDP MCATD will take a look at the Critical Path Method (CPM), how it is calculated and some of the cautions to keep in mind when developing a schedule.

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Critical Path: Basics & Bear Traps

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