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Live Webinar December 15th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate
When budgets are tight, it’s more important than ever to get the best performance from the people who deliver, support and deploy technology. But over the past decade, managers have fallen into the trap of believing that motivation requires ever larger bags of money.
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’
Live Webinar December 14th, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
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)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA 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?â€
Stop them, bring in a new team, throw money at them,and so on,are some of the answers that float around the room and keep you up at night.
What if you could avoid them almost entirely?
In this webcast, you’ll learn the two crucial steps that ensure successful projects. Without a solid foundation, projects are doomed from the start. Most problems can be traced to the earliest points of project inception—long before that delivery team is involved.
To combat this, you need to introduce the concept of a guidance 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 a baseline intent for the project.
This team is present to guide the conversation back to what is needed when the project starts to creep get off track or lose focus.
Second, include project staff with the customer during their 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.â€
By including project staff during inception, the delivery and customer teams will be aligned and the project charter will be much more realistic, comprehensive, and include the correct scope, features, functions, and risk.
By making sure you have a guidance team and involving project staff during inception, you will eliminate many problems before they have a chance to derail your project.
What You Will Learn
How to provide more accurate information when a project starts
Creating a team of people that can work with your customer to set expectations and align stakeholders.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
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’
Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Control
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications
10.2 Plan Communications
10.3 Distribute Information
10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations
10.5 Report Performance
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’
Live Webinar December 7, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free Course ID: MDW1250
Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.
In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.
By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.
Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.
Key learning points from this webinar include:
How to identify project stakeholders
How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
How to manage different types of stakeholders
About the presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.
Live Webinar – December 6, 11:00 AM EST
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453) 1 Category A PDU
Duration: 1 hour Attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participation – Free PDU &
Earn Up to 6 Category C PDUs for Reading the Book A Sixth Sense for Project Management
Earlier this year, Roeder Consulting explored ‘Sixth Sense Intuition‘, an interactive webinar that focused on experienced intuition and touched on spontaneous intuition.
Now, in this first-of-a-kind webinar, Trish Bishop (LinkedIn profile), owner of Meet Your Intuition, will share her experience with spontaneous intuition and practical tools to help us discover our intuition.
How can you develop a stronger sense of intuition on topics and subjects that may be new to you and not part of your formal training?
With over 20 years of experience as a Senior Project Manager, Trish has lived project management and contributes her success to her well-honed intuition.
Join Roeder for the webinar and learn practical tools on how to:
Dig beneath the surface to find hidden information
Read people, places, projects and more
Incorporate kinaesthetic intelligence into your repertoire
Increase your intuitive awareness and capabilities
Note: Seating is limited – Register Today
In the book A Sixth Sense for Project Management Tres Roeder (LinkedIn profile) lays out a system to help you succeed not only in your projects, but in any interpersonal relationship that requires a change in behavior. In this book, Mr. Roeder lays out how he succeeds by using a balanced approach of technical project management skills, business acumen and sixth sense people skills. Sixth sense people skills are unlike any people skills guidance you have ever received. Read this book and forever change the way to manage people and projects.
This book is 148 pages. Reading this book would qualify for up to 6 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).
PDU Category C 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’
Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays December 2 & 9, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST Presented by: The Gabriel Institute Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions/2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU – 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. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, 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’
. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike.
Tres Roeder (