Live IIL Webinar – 3 offerings
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. Sign up for one of these times.

April 5 2011 – 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST or….
April 14 2011 – 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST or….
April 15 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Many times our managers and executives ask us to think outside the box. This webinar will address what the “box” is and various individual and group techniques for moving outside the box.

Benefits
In tough economic times like we are experiencing now, it is extremely important to be able to come up with ideas to improve our businesses and generate greater revenues. Knowing how to think outside the box and to come up with the next great idea are imperative to surviving in the current atmosphere. Benefits of this webinar include:

• Learning several individual methods of idea generation
• Learning several group methods of idea generation
• Understanding various ways to force your mind to be creative
• Examining examples of idea generation in various industries

What Your Will Learn
Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will learn:

• What is the “box” and what’s in it?
• Mind Mapping, attribute transformation, and changing the environmental factors
• Which idea generation techniques can be used in virtual teams as well as in collocated teams
• How these techniques have been used in the past to create great ideas

Our Presenters
The outstanding quality of our faculty serves as the hallmark of IIL, distinguishing us in our profession. Our webinar presenters are elite in terms of their extensive industry backgrounds as well as practical classroom experience. Your presenter will communicate real-world knowledge that imparts a sense of fun and discovery – preparing and motivating you to apply your new skills in the workplace.

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Live Webinar April 12, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Cat A PDU Free Course ID: MDW1263

Whether your team is an ongoing work group, or a special, project-based team of limited duration, you will rapidly increase its effectiveness with the use of specific teamwork tools and skills.

This course covers:

• Seven factors that teams need to be high performing
• Best practices for a team leader
• The importance of clear goals, roles, processes and interactions to promote collaboration
• Team building stages and the tasks needed to move through each stage
• Tools that are used to align individuals to be as effective as team members
• Communication techniques that develop positive interactions amongst team members
• The five dysfunctions of a team and how to overcome them

This webinar provides you strategies that will facilitate the development of a new team or the revitalization of an existing team.

Presenter: Crystell Anthony, M.Ed., MBTI®, CAGS from Northeastern University, and a certified State Trainer for Massachusetts, is a Lead Consultant for Corporate Education Group and Principal and founder of her own consulting company, The Focus Group.

Crystell has successfully designed and facilitated training programs in the public and corporate sectors for executive, managerial, and administrative professionals since 1979. Crystell’s training programs are known for containing simplified best practices for easy on-the-job applications and have been successfully installed in organizations across the globe.

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Live Webinar – April 11, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 )
Registration ENDS April 10th Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

This session introduces the user to formatting the plan, changing the text and bars, filtering and grouping tasks, and then finally printing the plan so that the user has full control over how and what they communicate to their peers, customers and stakeholders.

Content Guide:

• Text, bar, gridline formatting
• Automatic formatting
• Custom fields in order to filters and group tasks
• Printing and copy to picture wizard
• Saving to other formats

Products Used for Demo:

• Microsoft Project 2007
• Microsoft Project 2010 (Will beshown at end to highlight any impovements)

Speaker:

Bill McQueen

PLEASE NOTE: When registering for this event ensure you answer the question “Are you requesting a PMI PDU for this event?”

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Live Webinar April 11th, 2011 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
Presenter: Linkage Inc. and Sheppard Moscow 1 Category C PDU

NOTE: Registration will close 24 hours before live webinar.

Employee engagement programs are designed to ensure that employees are committed to their organization. Goals, values and motivation can all contribute to an organization’s success. However, it can’t be emphasized enough, that employee engagement also helps to enhance employees’ own sense of well-being.

In this webinar, we will explore the implicit importance of employee engagement in taking individuals, teams and organizations to the next level of success.

“An organization where people are inspired to go the extra mile is inevitably more likely to succeed…That’s no fad, it’s a no-brainer.” – Andrew Lambert, Corporate Research Forum

Key webinar themes:

• What engagement really means
• How engagement drives organizational success
• What creates true engagement?
• How to move from measurement to engaging action
• Identify a strategic approach to engagement
• First practical steps to engaging with engagement

Presenters:

Johnny Kelleher is a partner and organizational consultant at Sheppard Moscow and leads the recently opened Chicago office. His current work consists of culture change and leadership development assignments with large corporations and inter-governmental organizations.

Steve Bridge is a director and partner at Sheppard Moscow and works with national, international and global clients in the fields of leadership, organization culture, team effectiveness, organizational engagement and executive coaching.

Lucy Hatchell is a partner at Sheppard Moscow and has recently joined Johnny in the US office in Chicago. Lucy has been working in the field of people and organizational development for over 17 years with clients in the public and private sectors and third-tier organizations.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

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Live Webinar – April 12, 11:00 AM EST
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453) 1 Category A PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

Successful project leaders need more than great technical skills. They need to have A Sixth Sense for Project Management ® – the “interpersonal/people skills” that help you successfully navigate through your initiatives.

There is a science to people skills.

In this one hour presentation, Tres Roeder will help you shed light on managing the human side of change. From this unique, interactive webinar, you will:

• Gain take-away skills that can be applied immediately towards your project success
• Hear the latest insights from new research on human behavior and how this impacts you
• Learn what you can do today for better project results

Seating for this opportunity is limited and may reach capacity.

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A Sixth Sense For Project Management® – Book

In this book, Tres Roeder lays out a system to help Project Managers succeed not only in their projects, but in any interpersonal relationship that requires a change in behavior. Tres lays out how his successful methods using a balanced approach of technical project management skills, business acumen and sixth sense people skills.

This book is 148 pages. Reading this book would qualify for up to 6 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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Online Webinar
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Cat 3 /1 Cat A Free

Your outsourcing contract is terminated. A software development contract is over budget and behind schedule. The vendor fires the client.

These are common real-world events in business today – and are likely to become even more common in the future. The number of sourcing relationships is growing every year as organizations redefine their core competencies and invent new paradigms for doing business.

Mr. Foreman and Mr. Perone will illustrate how fundamental competencies are the foundation for ensuring sourcing success. Specific examples from a variety of organizations will highlight the power of this comprehensive approach.

This contract management webinar will give you a flexible frame of reference for improving performance in the sourcing domain and will discuss the three Cs of vendor management success – competence, collaboration and communication.

Participants will learn:

• How to effectively and successfully manage the performance of service contracts through contract management
• How to identify and organize fundamental competencies in an integrated sourcing process
• How to foster a collaborative organizational approach
• A proven technique for both internal and external communication

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