Live Webinar – October 27, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

You’ve been assigned a project. So, where do you start?

With countless project initiation tasks, it can be difficult, especially for a new project manager, to identify which to tackle first and to determine which tasks are essential to successful project management.

In this hour-long webinar, Global Knowledge instructor, course developer, and project management expert Samuel Brown (LinkedIn profile) will break down the ten steps to successful project management planning to increase your odds of project success.

Click to register for Project Start-Up: 10 Steps to Project Success

Live Webinar October 26 2011 – 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 is an advanced webinar for senior project managers.

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
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $5 USD 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 after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Increase Your Project Success Series: What the PM Team Should be Asking for NOW! (This link will place the course in your shopping cart)

Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
October 7th & 14th , 2011 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU Free

If you haven’t already taken this opportunity -take it! 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’

Click to register for Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A $5 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

As with many things in life, all projects are subject to uncertainty, however all uncertainty is not the same as “risk”. Project Risks can be “threats” to be minimized as well as “opportunities” to be exploited. Effective Project Risk Management recognizes both types of risks and is the key contributor to “project success”.

Solutions Cube Group webinars address many relevant project issues. Join them in this 1 hour overview Webinar “Minimizing Project Threats and Exploiting Project Opportunities” as we explore techniques for differentiating between risk and uncertainty and understanding the value of looking at Project Risk from both the Threat perspective and the Opportunity perspective.

Topics presented include techniques on conducting Risk Management activities to collaboratively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with qualitative techniques and understanding the differences between Risk Threat responses and Risk Opportunity responses.

In this 1 hour recorded Webinar, participants learn:

• The difference between Project Risk and Uncertainty
• How to use Risk Meta Language to identify project risk
• How to use Qualitative Techniques to assess project risk
• Techniques to define responses to “minimize” Risk Threats and “exploit” Risk Opportunities

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Minimize Project Threats and Exploit Project Opportunities (This link will place the course in your shopping cart)

Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
September 21 & 28 , 2011 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 9m EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 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 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

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’

Click to register for Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure