Live Webinar July 15th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Both individual and team success depend upon clear and effective interpersonal communication.

Whether face to face or virtual, every interaction with another person influences how you are perceived and provides an opportunity to develop trust and build a positive relationship.

Whether presenting one-on-one or in front of an audience of 1,000, conveying information to a project team or delivering a difficult message, communicating effectively is one of the most powerful skills for achieving your objectives.

This webinar will teach you how to focus on your outcome, tune in to your audience, and develop your messages for clarity and impact.

Your ability to create an environment for open discussion and ongoing dialogue is crucial for communication success.

The communications skills covered can increase your ability to exercise choice and control for every type of conversation, influence without authority, and improve the quality of relationships and productivity.

Learning Objectives Include:

• A blueprint for designing any important communication
• Six principles to guide your interactions
• Emotional intelligence to manage challenging conversations
• Alignment of the four key components of communication to achieve your outcome

Presenter: Crystell Anthony, (LinkedIn profile) 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. 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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Recorded Webinar – 4 – 1 Hour Sessions
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (4 events of 1 hr each)
4 Category B PDUs – Free PDU
Note: All four hours must be taken to receive PDUs

Learn the Technology Of Teaming

Earn 4 HCRI Credits / Earn 4 Category B PDUs

If you are doing new product development and setting up a team then this recorded course is for you!

The “Great Folks” at the Gabriel Institute have recorded their Wonderful 4 hour “Teamability Course” for your convenience!

With the archived version (now available) HRCI/PMI credits still apply! This course has been approved for four HRCI recertification credits (4 General). and PMPs can earn 4 ‘Category B’ credits, also. Just contact them after viewing all four modules to request credit! A short questionnaire will be sent to you to confirm completion.

When Building a New Product Team Learn – The Metrics Of Teaming:

• ROLE – Who can handle what role – and why they are best fit for that role.
• COHERENCE – How does an individual fit into a specific role – How do you structure a team for the best value for everyone.
• TEAMING – Characteristics – Learn why the team may experience organizational problems and how to remedy them.

Here are the topics for the presentations. It is highly recommended to view them in order.

• Module 1: Measuring Quality of Hire
• Module 2: Understanding Your Role in the Organization
• Module 3: Measuring Coherence and Teaming Characteristics in the Organization
• Module 4: Reading Reports, The Strategic Business Value of Teamability in Your Organization

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

NOTE: You must complete all 4 modules to receive credit for this course.

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Gabriel Institute’s Recorded Teamability Courseâ„¢

Live Webinar July 17th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

You Cannot Hire Your Way Out Of A Talent Crisis

Presented by:Sunita Navile, (LinkedIn profile) Director, Kenexa

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’

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Live Webinar July 11th, 2012 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Complex projects carry significant risk of failure. Recently, iterative (and agile) project execution methodologies have been developed to mitigate project risks and increase the chances that the final solution meets the stakeholder’s expectations and the overall business needs.

In this webinar, you will learn how iterative methods differ from tradition waterfall methods and how specific iterative practices are used to reduce the chances for project failure.

Upon completion of this webinar, you will understand how to break a project into iterations, how to pick an iteration length, how to manage iteration and project scope, and how to introduce risk mitigation practices.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Understand the difference between sequential (waterfall) and iterative methods
• Learn how to define iterations, milestones, and releases
• Increase the chances for project success and reduce risk factors
• Contrast iterative and agile methods
• Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution

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, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Live Webinar July 11th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

This Discussion Takes Scope To Another Level

The Panelists

• Julian Sammy EBA, IIBA (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba )
• Deb Oliver, IIBA (BA Connection interview)
  
• Ronald G. Ross, (LinkedIn profile) Business Rule Solutions LLC profile

This Session:

The panelists will provide their views on what is relevant to change – context, and how context and the change itself represent the situation. They will discuss how the environment is analyzed to determine what is in context.This one-hour informative session will give you another perspective what a business analyst needs to consider for any change initiative.

The Series:

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Environment, Situation, Context, Change – Episode 7

Live Webinar – July 11th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Chances are, your CEO’s get the numbers – things like EBITDA, ROI, net and gross revenue, income statements, balance sheets, and related ‘hard’ data.

But perhaps they don’t put the same focus on your firm’s ‘soft’ business needs like Employee Engagement.

If the above sounds like your CEO or C-suite, it is not surprising as the vast majority of C-suite executives are left brain types who are more comfortable using logic, detail, numbers, objectivity, and facts (this is why your CEO probably likes to hang around with the CFO).

Many of us learning, communications, OD, and HR folks are right brain types more reliant on soft skills, feelings, visuals, and intuition and thus have difficulty convincing executives to make Employee Engagement part of your company’s strategic plan.

Invite your C-Suite to join youfor an entertaining and fast paced hour by global employee engagement and leadership expert, author, and speaker Bob Kelleher (a former CHRO, EVP of OD,ANDCOO – who had a seat at the table), as he shares with attendees how to get the C-Suite to embrace employee engagement.

This session will include:

• Latest research to share with your C-Suite that employee engagement DRIVESbusinessresults
• Ways the C-Suite can’walk the talk’ to build trust (the number one engagement driver!)
• Specific tools to help the Training / OD / and HR professional boost company performance via engaged employees
• How the C-suite can build acommunicationprotocol that will engage employees AND build a line of sight between the Company’s goals and everyone’s job
• Why money is not an engagement driver but achievement, recognition, and purpose are
• How to connect youremploymentbrand to your product / service brand to drive both employee and customer engagement

Speaker: Bob Kelleher (LinkedIn profile) is best-selling author, thought leader, keynote speaker and consultant, and travels the globe sharing his insights on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the best seller, Louder Than Words: Ten Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results and the just released Creativeship: A Novel For Evolving Leaders.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manager Project Work
• 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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