Live Webinar – November 29th, 2012 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
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Are You On A Team With A Slacker?

If you are then this webinar is for YOU! Managers and team leaders are charged with building and fostering a team of highly accountable individuals. Unfortunately, too often they’re saddled with one or two “slackers” on the team who simply don’t follow through on tasks or action items as promised.

In these cases what is sorely needed is a “culture of accountability” that encourages each team member to place a higher priority on following through on tasks, respecting due dates, and ultimately coming through for the team every time!

This two hour webinar explores this issue and provides specific techniques that you can use to foster this culture of accountability within your team.

The webinar begins with a real life case study analyzing how a project manager can best respond to the proverbial “well intentioned team member” who just didn’t get a chance to complete their task because they were unexpectedly swamped with their “real work”.

Dana will explore different options for how to communicate with the slacker team member and provide a recommended approach that insists on accountability while maintaining positive relationships. We will also explore the importance of action items and reveal how to document/assign them the right way as well as how to manage them on an ongoing basis without burdening the BA/PM will all the administrivia!

Learn the importance of establishing a clear team charter and ground rules very early on and how to use the three magic questions of task assignment to ensure communications are crystal clear.

Don’t let slackers drag down the productivity of your team, and don’t ignore them hoping they will improve on their own. Learn some effective techniques to easily address that behavior and begin using them immediately!

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Define a “culture of accountability”
• Explore the importance/role of accountability on the team
• How to assign and manage action items to encourage follow through

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Sample Team Charter
• Sample Ground Rules

Presenter: Dana Brownlee (LinkedIn profile); an energetic and innovative corporate trainer, speaker, and workshop facilitator; garnered her critical team leadership and management consulting experience through her years with AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM Consulting, and EMC Corporation. She possesses an impressive array of credentials including an MBA (Emory University), BIE (Georgia Tech), BS (Spelman College), IBM Business Transformation Consulting Certification, Project Management Professional, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator Qualification.

Click to register for No More Slackers! Building a Culture of Accountability Within Your Team

Live Webinar – November 27th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) – 1 Category C 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

• If only … Borders or Barnes & Noble had the right intrapreneur in their organization, maybe Amazon’s rise wouldn’t have been so impactful to them.
• If only … Yahoo incorporated the position of Intrapreneur into its culture maybe they would be neck and neck with Google instead of on the outside looking in.

In this web seminar we will provide a detailed look at Intrapreneurship. Basically smart organization will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of changes. These individuals will work just like entrepreneurs but will work within the structure of a company, and they are Intrapreneurs.

An intrapreneur is someone who has an entrepreneurial streak in his or her DNA but choose to align his or her talents with an organization in place of creating his or her own. These professional are critical to the success of organizations as corporations have to continuously deal with the speed of disruption and disruptive technologies.

Learn what skills and talents are required to be a successful intrapreneur, understand the techniques an intraprenuer can use to distill ideas and focus their efforts and learn how intraprenuers must maneuver to successfully incorporate the right idea into their organization.

Presenters: Brad Lienhart, Fred Hathaway and Scott Baker

Click to register for Intrapreneurship: The Key to Capturing Value out of Major Disruptions for Companies (Large and Small)

Live Webinar November 28th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Requirements Management
Is The Cornerstone Of Project Success.

According to Forrester Research, poorly defined applications contribute to a 66% project failure rate, costing U.S. Businesses at least $30 billion every year. Organizations with poor requirements management processes have three times as many project failures as successes.

How confident are you that everyone in your organization
working on a strategic project
is in sync on the goals?

Join Karl Wiegers (LinkedIn profile), the renowned author and speaker on requirements management, as he shares his experiences and lessons regarding how to address some of the challenges of handling requirements as the project proceeds over time. Karl will share some best practices you should consider to help manage requirements effectively across your organization, keep all stakeholders aligned, and deliver products that offer real business value. Derwyn Harris, co-founder at Jama Software, will share how you can put these best practices to use in Jama Contour.

Best practices addressed include

1. Baselining
2. Peer Reviews
3. Requirements Reuse

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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’

NOTE:

Click to register for 3 Little Known Requirements Management Best Practices You Shouldn’t Forget

Live Webinar – November 27, 2012 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

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.

Click to register for Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Live Webinar November 27th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToAssist

Join Paul Glen (LinkedIn profile), author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology, as he delves into the key issues and best practices of rolling out new hardware and software to users.

Learn:

1. How to assess what users expect from technology
2. Common missteps and omissions in the QA process
3. What you can do to make users feel more confident
4. And more…

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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 Introducing New Technology to Your Users: A Make-or-Break Moment