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Live Webinar April 19st, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

  1. Are you asking the right questions when you conduct an interview? How do you know that a job applicant is the right person for the job?
  2. If you decide to make that job offer, do you understand what the hiring and on-boarding processes are?
  3. What do you need to do to ensure your new employee immediately feels valued and part of the team?

Solutions Cube Group’s Interviewing and Hiring webinar is the first webinar in a 5 part series on Managing People: Real World Tips and Techniques.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn tried and true tips for interviewing candidates, hiring the right people, and establishing that first good impression.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

  • Why a good job description is important
  • Tips for reviewing resumes and finding the right candidate.
  • The right questions to ask the candidate at the interview.
  • How to make an offer the candidate can’t refuse.
  • How to prepare for your new employee’s first day.

Who Should Attend This Course:

  • Prospective and New Managers
  • Business, Account and Product Line Managers
  • Executives and Technical Managers
  • Human Resource Professionals

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase People Management Series 1 of 5: Interviewing and Hiring

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Live Webinar – April 11th, 2011 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Presented by: Instantis
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU Free

Staying the course, even with consistently strong operational performance, is no longer enough to compete and survive in a world characterized by rapid change. Organizations and their leaders must adapt to intensifying competition, business climate change, and customers that are constantly demanding more for less. As a result, executives won’t sleep well at night until they are more comfortable with their organization’s speed and agility with respect to business strategy course adjustment and execution capabilities.

Strategic projects, programs and initiatives are the agents of change within an organization. As a result, business-driven PMOs charged with enabling or delivering successful transformational projects and programs can make the difference between thriving organizations and those that fail to survive.

The problem is that PPM initiatives and PMOs don’t have a consistent track record of success. Their failures can be traced to their inability to identify and address six critical “business alignment” success factors.This Webinar will define and contrast business-driven PMOs with traditional PMOs, describe the six critical alignment success factors and offer some suggestions on how to get started with business-driven PMO systems.

PDU info as detailed by Instantis:
Category B PDU
Title is Ultimate Guide to Business-Driven PMO
Number of hours: 1
Company Name: Instantis
Company Address: 3005 Bunker Hill Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone Number: 1 (408) 986-8800
Website: http://www.instantis.com/

Click to register for The Ultimate Guide to Business-Driven PMO Success

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
April 18th & 25th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C 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)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 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 What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

The PMO’s Role in Becoming Agile

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Live Webinar – April 5th 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Pillar Technology Group

I am passionate about Agile because I believe it solves many
(not all) of the problems we have been facing in IT for years.
– Daryl Kulak

Daryl will discuss:

  • The Ideal Role of the PMO
  • The Ideal Role of the Project Office
  • The Current Reality – Agile really doesn’t address either at the Enterprise level
  • Why Agile Practices Don’t Address PMO
  • The PMO’s Role in Becoming Agile
  • How the PMO can Benefit from agile Practices

Presenter: Daryl Kulak (LinkedIn profile) author of Use Cases: Requirements in Context (2nd Edition). After a brief introduction to use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), it explains how use cases reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements, and how they facilitate the documentation process and communication among stakeholders. The book also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and Daryl’s own “hierarchy killer.”

Pillar Technology Group cares about the community. Individual training costs are “VERY Reasonable” and the proceeds of the training go to charity inspired by the “Agile Manifesto” and many other foundational works in the industry. Check out their training page.

As Angelo Mazzocco, President of Pillar explains “We live in an economy where access to “free” or not for profit is becoming a part of our every day lives. It is in this spirit that we would like to launch the Pillar Training Series. It is our passion that we should not profit from the distribution of knowledge. So our courses will be unique. All proceeds generated from a course will be donated to charity. All work done in the course will be for a charity.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 The PMO’s Role in Becoming Agile

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
April 6th & 13th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C 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 when it was offered in August 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 Fridays – 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

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ 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 RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

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 Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) 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’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA 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.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment 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

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 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 Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

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Live Webinar – April 2nd, 2011 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: The Advisory Council & Ouellette and Associates
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Get an overview of what Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban are about and how they have been used to transform teams and organizations towards high performance

Learn:

  • How you can ensure a successful agile adoption
  • What are the most common challenges when transforming to agile
  • what the key business value drivers are for the agile movement

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 6.5 Develop Schedule
  • 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 Success Factors When Transforming to Agile