Live Webinar Dec 4th, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar Dec 5th, 2013, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Successful Change Can Be Modeled & Repeated

This webinar presents seven principles that guide successful change and effective change management:

• Senders and receivers;
• Resistance and comfort;
• Authority for change;
• Value systems;
• Incremental vs radical change;
• The right answer is not enough;
• Change is a process.

Learn how an understanding of these principles will make you more successful at leading change.

This webinar will cover:

1. Background
2. 7 principles of effectively managing change
   • What is the principle?
   • Why is it important?
   • Impact on change management practices
3. Next steps

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management

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 – December 5th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

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 December 6th, 2013, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Most, if not all, organizations are going through dramatic change.

Often, they are attempting to manage the changes in many ways, which unfortunately, usually fail.

This webinar will explore various organizational and behavioral methods for ensuring that your change efforts will succeed.

In this free webinar, you will learn:

• How to begin bringing the work of transition management into organization
• How to increase productivity and decrease anxiety during periods of change
• Tools and a new framework to make these changes work and help renew commitment and creativity

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management

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 Three Proven Ways to Manage the Human Side of Change &Transition

Live Webinar December 5th, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Construction CoP (REP #S019)

Schedules are the main Support for Project Management in the Engineering and Construction Industry.

To have a useful schedule, that helps on the decision-making process, it is required to consider concepts on stakeholders and team management, communications, and risk analysis.

Knowing how to manage software is not enough to produce a helpful schedule that eases to achieve the project objectives.

It this webinar the presenter will analyze:

• When is it reasonable and useful to begin with the schedule production?
• Who should be involved in this work? Is the schedule a task for the Project Manager?
• Simple tips to get a useful schedule
• How to make executives to use the schedule, and align their decisions to the schedule information?
• How to obtain Project team cooperation with good advance information, required to update the Schedule
• How to communicate the Schedule?
• Which common mistakes make the Schedule a useless tool in many projects?

The webinar will point ten myths that are frequent on construction schedules. Ana Maria will also offer alternatives for these myths that will help on managing schedules based on her experience of more than 10 years managing schedules for engineering and construction projects in several industries including: cereals, automobile, paper, hotels, hospitals, steel, government, real state.

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

Presenter: Ana Maria Rodriguez (LinkedIn profile) PMP is founder and manager of ERA Project Management, offering training and consulting services in Argentina since 2004. Ms. Rodriguez graduated with a Civil Engineering Degree, and a Masters Degree in Construction Engineering and Project Management (MSE). Shez has implemented best practices in the government sector, and in the private sector.

Click to register for Myths and Truths of Construction Project Schedules

Live Webinar December 4th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar will explore the IT/Business Strategic Alignment objective that many organizations have been pursuing for many decades.

ITMPI will look at traditional and evolving views of strategic alignment and explore the feasibility of alignment in complex organizations.

Click to register for Evolving Views of IT and Business Alignment

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Live Webinar – December 4th 2013, 9:30 am – 10:30 am EST
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

As technology becomes more mission critical, organisations are increasingly looking proactively for ways to leverage new technologies to drive employee productivity and innovation.

The challenge is that in order to truly drive business performance with technology, IT and the business need to be able to work collaboratively to achieve results.

IT needs to be able to develop the right relationships and communicate with different stakeholders from a business, not technical perspective. As a result, the transformation of the IT department has become a top level priority for many leading organisations.

In this webinar Michelle Moore, (LinkedIn profile) Director of Learning and Development will discuss the skills and knowledge required to help IT perform in this new environment, and will share industry best practices for making the transition.

The webinar will include the following elements:

• The Changing Role of IT
• Skills and Competencies of the Modern IT Professional
• Bridging the IT – Business Gap
• A Case Study in IT Transformation

Click to register for Connecting IT and Business