Live Webinar – February 12th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

In today’s business world, it is necessary to have entrepreneurial zeal, leadership vision, and operational excellence.

Knowledge workers face extraordinary pressures to innovate, manage, and control processes.

Rates of change, industry consolidation, and growth requirements all contribute to the increased demands tied to day-to-day performance. Ambiguity has increased around when to use certain skills.

These pressures have us looking at reassessing the Leader-Manager mode for knowledge workers.

In this web seminar David will look at how to create a balance between using leadership and management skills as a practitioner in any workplace.

The reality is that you, during any given business day, will have to use both regardless of your role.

Understanding what leaders do, why they do it, and when they do it is important.

It is valuable to know what management is and when and where it is appropriate. The worst thing you can do is mix your uses and manage when you should be leading or leading when you should be managing.

This session will:

• Establish the distinction between leading and managing
• Identify the skills and competencies needed to be effective as both a leader and manager
• Demonstrate how to develop management and leadership action plans for individuals and groups
• Discuss how to successfully switch back and forth between leadership and management to drive business objectives

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

Click to register for Managers vs Leaders: When to be Which & Why?

Live Webinar – February 12th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

NOTE: Eclipse will provide a Certificate for attendance upon request.

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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  Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar February 12th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

For a great introduction to “Mindfulness”,  how it works, and its application to the workplace: read Professor David J Lee’s article, Mindfulness In The Workplace sponsored by Miami Miller School of Medicine & NIOSH.

Are You & Your Team Mindful At Work?

Employees in the workplaces of today face multiple stress-inducing demands and pressures as well as constant connectivity through smart phones, social media, and tablet computers.

Employees are continuously managing numerous fluctuating priorities, working with increased expectations, balancing competing demands for their personal and professional goals, and handling ongoing conflict and ambiguity in complex environments.

Using recent research from the Human Capital Institute as well as the expertise of UNC Executive Development’s Program Director, Kimberly Schaufenbuel (LinkedIn profile), this webcast will demonstrate the steps you can take to incorporate meaningful mindfulness practices into the workplace and beyond.

Attend this webcast to:

1. Learn precisely what mindfulness is, and how it can increase employee wellness, performance, productivity, and in turn, a business’s bottom line
2. Explore the relationship between mindfulness techniques and improved leadership skills
3. Review some of the studies that offer insight into the science behind mindfulness
4. Discover examples of organizations that have offered mindfulness courses and see how it has impacted their workplaces

HCI members that register for this webcast will receive a copy of the white paper, Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace and HCI’s Talent Pulse, The Mindful Employee: Finding Focus in the Age of Distractions.

Live Webinar February 11th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Critical Steps for More Accurate Business Forecasting

In this webcast, Chia-Li Chien will explain how business forecasts differ from budgets and why forecasting is critical in business — whether you are in a start-up or a mature global organization. This program focuses on the importance of accurate forecasting in business, the difference between budgeting and forecasting, and how to build a budget and a forecast to serve your organizational goals.

For a full hour, the webcast explores the following questions:

• What is a forecast?
• What are the differences between a budget and forecast?
• How do you build a budget?
• What are the various types of forecasts?
• How do you build a forecast?

Whether you are a seasoned line of business manager or new to forecasting, this webcast offers you specific, practical, applicable tips to tackle the concepts and building blocks of value-adding, on-target forecasts.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter:  Chia-Li Chien, CFP®, CRPC, PMP (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Strategist of Value Growth Institute and an award-winning author of the books such as Show Me the Money: Run Your Business Like a Prosperous Investor and Work toward Reward: Building Business Value Today for a Well-Deserved Future.  She is also on the faculty of the American Management Association. Her blog and newsletter was named a Top Small Business Resource by the New York Times.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 7 – Cost

• 7.1 Plan Cost Management
• 7.2 Estimate Costs
• 7.3 Determine Budget
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 Four Financial Forecasting Secrets!