Live Webinar January 23rd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
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:

1. What they are being asked to do—their areas of accountability—and ….
2. 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

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

PDU Category C documentation details:

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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Live Webinar – January 24th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

• Is “doing more with less,” resulting in burned out employees?
• Are you finding it difficult to keep employees engaged?

Even before the economic downturn less than 30% of employees were fully engaged – so the problem is growing every day. In 2010, companies with highly engaged employees performed 22% better than the total stock index, while those with disengaged employees performed 28% worse.

Thus, the ability to create and maintain an engaged workforce is a powerful tool in retaining top talent, improving productivity, and increasing customer loyalty.

This presentation will:

1. Make the business case for engagement,
2. Discuss drivers of workplace change,
3. Connect workplace change and engagement,
4. Discuss what really motivates employees and how to use this to build engagement, and
5. Clarify who owns responsibility to take action.

This presentation will also give you practical tools to assess the engagement of your workforce and create strategies for increasing engagement.

This webinar will help you:

1. Increase morale
2. Get your people more engaged in the work that you are doing
3. Identify incentives that actually have the impact you want
4. Create loyalty among your top performers

Speaker: Dr Michelle Clark is a business psychologist who applies the rigor and methods of psychology to issues of critical relevance to business, including leadership development, coaching, assessment, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and work-life balance. Michelle is adept at identifying the most salient people and organizational dynamics and using this information to help the organization increase its effectiveness. Michelle specializes in use of leadership assessments (knowledge, skills, and ability testing, personality assessment, and assessment center); leadership development and coaching; organizational culture/climate; and family-owned businesses.

PDU Category C documentation details:

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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Live Webinar January 18th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

As much as 68% of projects fail either outright or because their success is compromised in some manner – over budget, behind schedule or failing to deliver expected outcomes. Project teams may find a lack of clarity in the project management processes they are expected to follow or a lack of support from the Project Management team.

In order to set the stage for project success, it is critical for the best projects to be selected. Projects should clearly address the objectives of the organization, offer skills to be available to the project team for gathering and clarifying customer expectations, and identify, assess and appropriately manage all risks.

Solutions Cube Group’s webinars address many relevant project issues and close the gap between project theory and practical application. View this presentation to learn insight for both the Project Management team and project team stakeholders regarding key tools and techniques they can employ immediately to increase the success of their project outcomes.

In this overview level recorded Webinar participants will:

• Understand how to ensure each project fits with and supports the corporate strategy
• Recognize when requirements fit within in the scope of the project effort and clearly recognize the needs of the project stakeholders
• Understand the success factors for effective Risk Management.

EARN 1 PDU by attending this webinar

Click to register for Increase Your Project Success Series: What Project Teams Should Be Doing NOW!

Live Webinar January 16th 20123- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
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. Quantify the impact of requirements quality on project time and cost
2. Learn an assessment tool for identifying high risk projects
3. Understand proactive strategies for driving success when faced with odds stacked against you

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
January 9th & 16th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

When work requires close collaboration, even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of Teamability will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

The Gabriel Institute has created technology that reveals how people will perform when working with others to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve common goals. In short, it measures 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. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

There are many ways to measure skills, talents, and traits, but teaming metrics are unique. It took 25 years of research and testing – including 9 years of software development – to produce TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ reports, which are the foundation of TGI’s Role-Based Approach to selecting, structuring, managing and motivating teams.

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ makes 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’).

TGI Teamability was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

TGI Teamability can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team. It is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of Teamability and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of TGI Teamabilityâ„¢, and to apply for an optional Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Teamability Report at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications (optional to complete)

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

Online Webinar Recorded – December 14th 2011
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Todd C Williams (LinkedIn profile)
NOTE: This session may qualify as a Category B PDU from Todd Williams Company – Contact ECameron Inc for further information.

Todd C. Williams, PMP is a terrific audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike. Project failure is prevalent all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog. I highly recommend following his work – EdmontonPM

Doing it right the first time

A question that plagues executives and project managers alike is “What do we do about problem projects?”

What if you could avoid them almost entirely?

In this webcast, you’ll learn the two crucial steps that ensure successful projects.

Todd C. Williams details the concept of a guidance team, a team that stays with the project from customer’s first inception through deployment. The advantages of a guidance team are numerous. They provide continuity and guidance to the project, maintain alignment of expectations on the deliverables, and guide the conversation back when the project starts to get off track or lose focus.

The second step is to include project staff with the customer during the initial planning process. This provides clarity to the roadmap, makes sure what is promised is delivered, and assists the customer in identifying the “what” and “when” and the “what after that.”

Following these two steps – having a guidance team and involving project staff during inception – you can eliminate many problems before they have a chance to derail your project.

What You Will Learn

1. How to provide more accurate information when a project starts
2. Creating a team of people that can work with your customer to set expectations and align stakeholders.

To Read Reviews of Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure go to http://ecaminc.com/index.php/articles/rrprvw

Martin Chernenkoff, Senior Editor at PDU Of The Day (pduOTD.com) has written a companion book to Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure, the #1 book on Project Recovery. “A Learning Guide For Rescue The Problem Project” is available from Amazon and is part of the pduOTD Primer series for Project Management.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs

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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