Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
February 3 & 10 , 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EST
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. 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

Live Webinar February 1st, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 ) Course Id: MDW1256
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Many new managers find the transition from individual contributor to manager to be exhilarating and yet challenging. Sometimes promoted without formal training, they must learn how to manage people by trial and error. More experienced managers seek ways to further develop their skills so they can stay on track now and prepare for leadership roles in the future.

This webinar covers the basics of what new managers need to succeed in their transition and what existing managers need to expand their skill set.

This session will help you:

• Understand and make the most of the various personality styles on your team
• Examine three core communications skills needed to manage successfully: speaking assertively, listening effectively, and asking great questions
• Discover strategies for managing group conflict and resolving interpersonal conflict
• Explore the essentials of performance management: goal setting, analyzing performance problems, providing effective feedback
• Identify what it takes to motivate people to do their best work

About the presenter:
Casey Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), is founder and principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc., a consulting practice devoted to helping people achieve peak performance. Her primary focus is on management learning and development. She works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, and with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

Click to register for Newly Appointed Managers: Realities and Resources

Live Webinar February 1st, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Training Magazine Network
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Program managers of coaching initiatives report an 18% increase in the number of coaching programs evaluated to ROI over the past five years – and the numbers are growing.

No longer is it acceptable to spend vast amounts of money of coaching programs and initiatives. Executives at all levels want to see results – including the financial ROI.

This webinar will describe how you can evaluate coaching using the ROI Methodology. During the webinar you will learn the five levels of evaluation, six types of data generated by the ROI Methodology, ten steps in the ROI process, and the 12 guiding principles. You will also be presented a case study describing the application of the ROI Methodology.

About the presenters:

Click to register for Measuring the ROI of Coaching

Live Webinar February 2, 2012 -12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Cisco Webex Hosted By: Jim Atwood, Ken Blanchard Companies

There is no one best leadership style. It all depends on the task and the developmental level of the employee. In this webinar you will learn how taking a situational approach to leadership yields the best results.

Jim Atwood, The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Director for Government Solutions will show you how Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) one of the world’s most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical methods improves your ability to effectively manage and develop your people.

You’ll learn how increasing the frequency and quality of conversations between leaders and the people they work with increases competence, commitment, and retention of your most talented individuals.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create a communication model for all levels of an agency that supports cultural change and a move toward a high performance organization
• Increase individual and organizational accountability by linking goals and planned intentions to agency objectives and by creating action plans to accomplish those goals
• Increase the frequency and quality of conversations about performance and development between leaders and their direct reports
• Diagnose specifically what an individual needs to succeed on any given task (Development level)
• Recognize and be able to apply the pattern of behaviors (Leadership Style) that meets the needs of any given development level to help individuals succeed on tasks and goals

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how a situational approach to leadership can improve overall performance, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Click to register for A Situational Approach to Leadership in the Public Sector