Live Webinar April 13th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

For many people, meetings are viewed as a dreaded evil — far too little gets accomplished and a lot of time is wasted. Yet, for some, 50-75% of their work week is spent in meetings that are unproductive, not needed or fail to produce needed results.

The problem isn’t that meetings in general are ineffective for making decisions or completing work. The problem lies with not selecting the right type of meeting, not planning and preparing for the meeting and not having the right skills and tools to effectively run the meetings.

Join us for this free 1 hour webinar to learn 9 tips that will help you plan, prepare and run every meeting effectively and put an end to costly time wasting meetings.

In this webinar participants will learn about:

• Characteristics of successful meetings
• Why you need to plan for every meeting
• How to prepare for an effective meeting
• Techniques for opening, running and closing meetings effectively
• Managing group dynamics
• Understanding how conflict impacts meetings

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

Who Should Attend This Webinar:

• General Managers •Team Members
• Project Managers •Portfolio Managers
• Project Leads •Program Managers
• Business Stakeholders •Business Leads
• Facilitators

Click to register for 9 Tips to Make Every Meeting Effective

Live Webinar April 11th, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1305
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Requirements are at the core of any project, and therefore, must be carefully managed.

In this webinar, you will learn the essential requirements management practices, including the requirements lifecycle from inception to implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management tools.

In addition, you will learn how to write SMART requirements statements that are useful and actionable.

Finally, we will contrast and compare the traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements management.

Learning objectives include:

• Learn how to write good requirements
• Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan
• Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements management approaches

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect.

Click to register for Getting it Right: Best Practices for Requirements Management

Live Webinar – April 11th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Many organizations invest a great deal of effort into greater integration with their customers and suppliers. However, relatively little effort has gone into breaking down internal company “silos,” which can prevent even the most well designed process improvement initiatives from succeeding.

In this webinar, author Mark McGregor discusses the obstacles to successfully implementing and maintaining a continuous improvement culture and recommends steps to achieve improved alignment and collaboration across teams and divisions. He is joined by co-presenter, Thierry Tastet, (LinkedIn profile) BPA Expert at OpenText, who will provide insight into how a software solution like OpenText’s ProVision can help achieve joined up thinking for a more connected enterprise.

In this webinar:

• Understand the types of “Siloed” thinking, and the risks associated with them
• Learn how quickly a holistic view can be used to break down barriers to change
• See how with the right approach, operational managers take centre stage
• Explore the role that software can play in helping to overcome silos

Presenter: Mark McGregor (LinkedIn profile) is author of the bestseller of Thinking of… People-centric Process Management? Ask the Smart Questions and Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer. Mark McGregor speaks, writes and coaches all over the world. He is passionate about continuously finding new ways to help people “Think Differently” to achieve greater success.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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’

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Live Webinar April 10th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

The trend for businesses to create Talent functions is much more than just a name change. It reflects greater integration of people processes and higher expectations of business leaders for Talent functions to deliver value.

Often lost in the dizzying number of IT-generated metrics is insight. Developing insights into how Talent initiatives create value for the business opens doors to align Talent to the business and articulate a value story.

Participants in this webinar will learn how to:

• Draw insights from analytics that improve talent decision-making
• Develop a story for key stakeholders about the value talent and organization development delivers to the business

Presented by: Merrill Anderson (LinkedIn profile)

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’

Click to register for Making Metrics Have Meaning

Live Webinar – April 11th, 2012 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

To ensure that Decision Management Systems are analytic and adaptive you must embed the results of data mining and predictive analytics in them.

In this webinar you will learn what can be discovered using data mining and predictive analytic techniques and how this can be applied to the decision-making embedded in Decision Management Systems.

The role of analytics in predicting risk, fraud and opportunity and the importance of continuous improvement and learning will also be covered.

Presenter: James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) CEO Decision Management Systems is a leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. James is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve decision making and develop smarter and more agile processes and systems. James is the author of :

1. Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics
2. Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions
   
3. Applying Real-World BPM in an SAP Environment
   

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 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’

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