Live Webinar September 18th, 2011 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)
Presented by: Jesse Fewell, PMP

What do you need to know to lead a team through a major change -and the associated transition?

Can you become a better change management leader – helping teams through change and transition with less resistance – consistently?

People go through five phases as a result of a major change:

1. Do you know what you can do to facilitate this process?
2. Do you know what leadership techniques to use in each phase?

This presentation defines change and transition and looks closely at each of the five stages of one of the most widely accepted transition models.

After explaining the model Jesse will use an interactive exercise to identify leadership actions to help people move more quickly through each stage. Lastly, we will look at what the “experts” recommend for leadership actions in each stage.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Jesse Fewell, PMP (LinkedIn Profile) is a leader in the advancement of management practices and he is the founder of the PMI Agile Community of Practice, PMI’s component dedicated to Agile Project Management. He helped design the PMI-ACP agile certification program and speaks at Agile, Scrum, and PMI conferences. Currently the Managing Director for offshore agile projects at RippleRock India, he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, a certified PMP, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Innovation Games Qualified Instructor (IGQI).

Click to register for Change Management – Leading People Through the Transition

Live Webinar Sept 20th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category A – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

Are you ready for Business Analysis Maturity?

Have you toyed with the idea of creating a Community of Practice (COP) or a Center of Excellence (COE)? The COP and COE are powerful models to help mature your Business Analysis organization.

• You might be thinking: “Great concept, but will the model be too difficult to implement and sustain?”
• The answer? Not if you don’t want it to be.

Building a COP or COE does NOT have to be complicated or
mean everything to everyone.

Really?
Really!

At this presentation, Bob Prentiss from Watermark Learning will help you explore the goals of maturity, maturity models, and how to measure and manage that maturity—your way.

Attendees will know or have:

• An understanding of COP and COE models in use today
• How to approach building your own COP or COE based on your needs – your way
• How to get started measuring and managing your COP or COE

Speaker : Bob Prentiss, CBAP (LinkedIn profile, @BobtheBA) is the Client Solutions Director of Business Analysis at Watermark Learning. With 20+ years of experience in corporate America; managing BA Centers of Excellence, assessing/managing BA maturity, quality and competency, Bob is the developer of the PMI 2011 Product of the Year: the Project R.E.A.L.â„¢ (Real Experience Applied Learning) class – a hands-on, live project experience. Bob is a founding member and Past President of the IIBA MSP Chapter wearing several hats on the board, currently serving on the board as the VP of Professional Development.

Click to register for From COP to COE: Creating Measurable and Manageable Maturity Your Way!

Live Webinar September 19th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar September 20, 2012, 4:00 am – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Methodologies provide structure and purpose to a discipline. A change management methodology provides an intentional approach for managing the people side of a project or initiative.

This webinar presents Prosci’s Change Management Methodology. In the webinar, learn about the Prosci ADKAR® Model for individual change management and the Prosci 3-Phase Change Management Process for organizational change management.

Agenda:

• Methodology foundation
• Individual change management
• Organizational change management
• Putting the pieces together

Learn how the fusion of individual and organizational change management is necessary to drive project results and outcomes.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications

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 the Sept 19th presentation of the Prosci’s Change Management Methodology The ADKAR® Model

Click to register for the Sept 20th presentation of the Prosci’s Change Management Methodology The ADKAR® Model

Live Webinar September 20th, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar September 20th, 2012, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Your organization is pretty good at delivering on time and on budget, or at least thinks they are on a path to get there. Yet no one seems happier with the results.

• Business sponsors disappear after the project kick-off.
• No one reads your status reports.
• Resistance to painstakingly developed processes is growing.

What is going on here?

In this presentation we provide personal tools – frameworks, models and approaches for managing beyond the mechanics of project execution and PMO compliance.

Discussion Topics:

• Why is business and stakeholder engagement an issue for IT projects?
• How should change management be planned and managed within traditional project environments?
• What are the most effective metrics, reports and dashboards to use when informing executives about project activities?

Presenter: Audrey L. Apfel, (LinkedIn profile) Managing VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 The “Soft” Stuff of Project Success: Sponsors, Change & Reporting

Live Webinar – September 19th, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

In order to reach new levels of performance there must be a link between what the individual employee is passionate about and what the organization needs to grow its business.

One way to insure that linkage is for every manager to be held accountable for having solid development discussions with their employees.

Based on the book Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want by Dr. Beverly Kaye (LinkedIn profile, YouTube) and Julie Winkle Giulioni (designarounds about us, @Julie_WG), this webinar will help you to understand your employees mindset and encourage engagement in the workplace.

Research suggests, over and over, that if an individual is:

1. Challenged in their position,
2. Finds their work to be meaningful, and …
3. Believes that their manager truly cares about their growth,

Their engagement will be high, increasing employee retention!

Organizations have the perfect vehicle for insuring this conversation, The Individual Development Plan (IDP).

Too many managers, however, avoid this conversation because they are not comfortable with its content. In this session Bev and Julie will share the research from her new book to demystify the IDP conversation.

Speakers:

Dr. Beverly Kaye is an international besting author and a recognized authority on career issues and on retention and engagement in the workplace. Her first book, Up Is Not The Only Way: A Guide to Developing Workforce Talent, foresaw the effects that leaner, flatter organizations would have on individual careers and the subsequent need for workers to take charge of their own careers. She also developed learning solutions and systems for managers and employees to work together to help employees achieve their developmental goals. With the fourth edition of a bestseller she coauthored, Love ’em or Lose ’em: Getting Good People to Stay (4th edition), Bev addressed one of the most pressing workplace problems of the 21st century: retaining and engaging employees. In her follow-up companion best seller, Love It, Don’t Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, she shows employees how they can find greater satisfaction in their current work lives.

Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. Julie is well known and well regarded for her creative, one-of-a-kind solutions that consistently deliver bottom-line results. Julie co-authored the book that this presentation is based on with Dr. Beverly Kaye Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want. As co-founder and principal of DesignArounds, Julie leads multidisciplinary teams that create award-winning electronic and instructor- led training. She is an author and respected speaker on a variety of topics, including performance improvement, leadership, sales, and customer service.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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 Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

From Maps to Apps

For Another Great PDU Opportunity with
Dr. Beverly Kaye

Online Webinar – Recorded February 24th, 2011
Presenter: Dr. Beverly Kaye (LinkedIn profile)
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

This was presented at Alliant International University by Dr. Beverly Kaye

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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’

OR …. Click to watch From Maps To Apps on YouTube