Archive for February 4th, 2011

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Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love present:
Finding Your Passion at Work: How to build a deeper connection between what we’re paid to do and what we love to do.
Downloadable Podcast

This 16 minute Podcast is presented by American Management Association (REP 1294) .

Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about so employees will care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system to determine what drives employees passions.

The most successful project managers have passion, exhibit purpose and use their emotional intelligence to create highly engaged project teams. This presentation helps you understand the Passion Profile of your team members so that you more effectively motivate each individual. As Alaina Loves says, “The PM who utilizes these skills will deliver a significant competitive advantage to their company.” EdmontonPM

Click here to go to the podcast opportunity (MP3 download).

The podcast references Alaina Love’s article You Can Lead. But Can You Inspire? – Ten Attributes Senior Managers Need to Lead Organizations Through the Recession and its Demoralizing Consequences on Their Workforce

Published in Bloomberg Business Week Magazine December 22 2009.

Click here to go to the article. (PDF).

The podcast is based on the book of the same name, The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results

Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level. How many can you recognize? And where do you fit in?

The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business

The Connector: Born communicators, adept at negotiation and relationship-building

The Conceiver: These “intellectual acrobats” think outside the box, imagine new possibilities, and contribute to innovation

The Altruist: On the lookout to raise your organization’s profile while benefiting the world at large

Leadership development experts Alaina Love and Marc Cugnon have identified ten such “Passion Profile Archetypes,” and in The Purpose Linked Organization, you’ll learn the strengths, vulnerabilities, and proper care and feeding of them all.

Authors Love and Cugnon offer easily implementable ways to channel the power of each individual’s passions in a positive, purposeful direction. You’ll understand how to link skills, values, and passions to performance—and how doing so will bring the results your organization can’t afford to be without.

Just as important, you’ll be able to confidently assess your own purpose and passions so that your own organizational role will be as engaging, fulfilling, and productive as possible. Most employees spend more than 84,000 hours of their lives at work. When that time is personally meaningful, great things can happen, which will enrich your organization, the customers it serves, and even society as a whole.

FREE WITH YOUR PURCHASE: Exclusive access to “The Passion Profiler,” an online tool for identifying your Passion Archetypes—your individual strengths, vulnerabilities, and capacity for achievement, as well as those of every member of your organization.

This book is 233 pages. As a combined activity – reading this book, listening to the podcast, and reading the article would qualify for up to 10 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).

The NEW Category C increases the limit of PDUs allowed in a recertification cycle to 30 from the previous level of 15. Category C PDUs are an excellent way to Increase your Knowledge and Skills as a PM in your time frame.

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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Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar – Wednesday February 9, 2:00-3:00 PM EST
Offered by IAG (REP 2858) Consulting
1 PDU or 1 CDU for recertification – Free

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success. This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

Learning Objectives:
1. Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
2. Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
3. Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

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Live Webinar – Thursday February 11, 2011 11:00 AM EST
Presenter: James Brawner, Director, Journyx Inc.
Duration: 30 minute 0.5 CAT 4 FREE

According to a Gartner report, 1 in 3 technology projects failed. Why such a dismal success rate?

In this webinar, we’ll explore ways to improve your odds of successfully completing projects on time and on budget through:

  • Precise management of resources. Who is working on what?
  • Accurate project tracking. How do I get this project back on schedule?
  • Effective decision-making. What’s wrong and what do I need to address?

This webinar is 30 minutes long and attendees are eligible for 1/2 PDU credit.

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The Live Session Is Free But…

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Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
Live Webinar 1 PDU
Presented by Computer Aid IT Metrics and Productivity Institute (REP 2733)

“Best in class” software teams are at least 2-3x more productive than “worst in class”. In this webinar, Gary Gack will show how to gauge where you are using an “agile assessment” and how to lay out an improvement plan.

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Gary Gack has more than 40 years of diverse experience in the software and IT industry, including more than 20 years focused on process improvement. He is current President of Process-Fusion.net, a consulting firm that provides assessment, strategy advice, training, and coaching related to the integration and deployment of software and IT industry best practices.

Mr. Gack holds an MBA from the Wharton School and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He also holds ITIL Foundation Certification, is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), and is a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). At the SEI, Mr. Gack has co-authored and instructed the “Measuring for Performance Driven Improvement 1” course.

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