Live Webinar November 12th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Online Webinar – Recorded – January 23, 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex Online

All good performance starts with clear goals. Clarifying goals involves making sure that people understand two things: first, what they are being asked to do—their areas of accountability—and second, what good performance looks like—the performance standards by which they will be evaluated.

Yet few managers invest the time necessary to connect the dots between an individual’s work and the overall goals of the team or department. As a result, countless hours of effort are spent reviewing tasks and redoing work.

In this webinar, performance expert and Senior Consulting Partner John Hester (LinkedIn profile) will show you how to avoid the common managerial pitfalls that drain team performance, create accountability issues, and lead to stress and rework throughout the year.

You’ll learn how to:

• Set clear goals for each of your employees. This is the foundation that has to be in place. Clear goals create performance expectations. They also set the stage for future discussions about progress, autonomy, and necessary resources.
• Become more aware of your goal-setting habits. Have you optimized the challenge inherent in each person’s goals or tasks, or have you fallen into the habit of overusing and under-challenging your best people? Many managers develop lazy goal setting habits that don’t really challenge their best people.
• Connect the dots. Everyone needs to know that their work is meaningful with clear alignment between what they do and what the organization is trying to accomplish. If you can’t point to a key departmental objective and how an employee’s work is impacting it, you do not have the alignment that should be in place.
• Build in some variety. A well defined job includes some routine, and some challenging, tasks. If a job is structured properly, some tasks will be very achievable with present skills while others will be more of a stretch that cannot be accomplished with an employee’s current skill set and resources. This mix is an essential component of a satisfying job that also encourages career growth.
• Properly diagnose development level. For tasks where an employee is self sufficient, autonomy is deserved and should be established. For tasks that are beyond an employee’s current skill level and immediate resources, an agreement for direction and support is needed. Determining an employee’s development level is the key managerial skill

Using a combination of proven performance management techniques combined with the latest advancements in motivation research, you’ll discover how to get everyone on your team moving in the same direction, with clear, engaging priorities.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to set your people up for success.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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 Performance Planning: 5 Ways To Set Your People Up For Success

Live Webinar Oct 20th 2014, 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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Live Webinar October 17th, 2014 – 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Quality CoP® (REP #S019)

Book Review Webinar with the Author Adil Dalal!

PMI® Quality Community of Practice: Our mission is to increase members understanding of Project Management Quality by exploring the Quality Processes as defined in the PMBOK and encouraging members to network by sharing experiences, knowledge and tools.

Adil Dalal (LinkedIn profile) was recently awarded the 2014 Global Award for Outstanding Contribution to Quality & Leadership by the World Quality Congress. Adil’s book, The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence:™ A Lean Approach to Improving Project Results, winner of the 2014 Shingo Research & Professional Publication Award, has been  accepted by organizations as a scientific formula to achieve breakthrough culture transformations.

Asking tough questions about the current state of project management, The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence:™ provides groundbreaking techniques to achieve excellence in project leadership that can result in six sigma type results or failure-free projects.

It unveils novel solutions and breakthrough concepts—including project culture analysis, the five powers of project leadership, the power of visualization™, the science of simplicity™, dynamic risk leadership, and dynamic project failures analysis—to help you chart the most efficient path to the pinnacle of project leadership.

Come and meet Adil and learn about The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence:™ A Lean Approach to Improving Project Results.

Presenter: Adil Dalal is the CEO of Pinnacle Process Solutions International LLC. and an award-winning author, a distinguished global keynote speaker and a lean and project sensei, developing leaders at all levels of global organizations. Adil has also authored A Legacy Driven Life: Live a Legacy to Leave a Legacy , and co-authored The Lean Handbook. Adil holds two maste’s degrees and multiple certifications and is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Psychology from Grand Canyon University.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity. The book is available to read online FREE for PMI members (be sure to login)

Click to register for The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence: A Lean Approach to Improving Project Results

Live Webinar September 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)
Note: This presentation does not require any technical knowledge and will be easy to follow.

Did you know that Transition management practitioners have suggested that over two thirds of failed outsourcing relationships are due to transition-related challenges?

  – Beulen, Tiwari, van Heck, 2011

The lack of specific literature on this subject, has led to many misconceptions, starting with vocabulary, which can sometimes lead to misunderstandings when discussing transition with non-experts.

An IT Outsourcing relationship always starts with a Transition, which is typically a complex program composed of several interrelated projects which can affect nearly every key aspect of the client business.

The goal of this webinar is to give you a high level understanding of transitions challenges in the context of an IT Outsourcing relationship.

Stephane will first describe the key phases of an IT Outsourcing and the associated vocabulary. We will then focus on the Transition, looking at what makes it different from many IT projects.

Presenter: Stephane Chalvin (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a French citizen that lived in the USA and UK. He has over 20 years of international IT experience. He has been leading IT Outsourcing Transitions and Transformations for large global accounts since 2006, most recently as a Transition Director for a global IT service provider.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for Introduction to IT Outsourcing Transitions

Live Webinar Sept 15th 2014, 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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