Live Webinar – April 1st, 2014 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – April 2nd, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM AEDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

After years of working as a change manager and teaching others how to do it, Dan Skelsey (LinkedIn profile) has boiled it down into a few simple Golden Rules.

These are simple, easy to understand, and practical to do. Dan was one of the contributing authors to the recently published Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) from the Change Management Institute.

“This is not a substitute for learning the full spectrum of change management thinking and practice, but these few simple rules will help any company improve their change management”.

There are many reasons to improve your change management approach, but two of them are to maximize your return on investment and minimize the impact on everyday, business-as-usual operations.

This webinar will focus on the golden rules, explain what they mean, and the practicalities of using them.

Click to register for The Golden Rules of Change Management

Live Webinar – April 1st, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Effective PPM Change Management

Live Webinar – April 1st, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an REP this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Knowing when to stop your car in traffic keeps you and everyone around you safe.

Knowing when to stop your measurement program is another matter because corporate programs tend to have an inertia all their own.

Most organizations over-measure and measure what does not matter. STOP!

This web briefing, by DCG Measurement expert Tom Cagley, reviews the Measurement Roadmap Process that helps organizations dialog on what is important, trim their metric palette to the essentials and connect the dots from business goals to real data.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled “Software Process and Measurement Cast”. The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope

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 view Software Analytics Survey: Knowing when to Stop your Measurement Program

Live Webinar – April 2nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Many companies have spent millions of dollars on training hundreds – if not thousands – of their employees in Lean and Six Sigma tools, approaches, and culture in order to make process improvement (PI) the way everyone works in the organization.

For most, the training need continues … employees new to PI, refreshers for previously trained belts, case studies and just-in-time tool training for staff, PI strategy training, communications to everyone, and more.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can establish, support, and sustain a process excellence capacity building program … powered by advanced blended learning technology … that develops skills, changes culture, and fosters engagement so that you can make continuous process improvement an on-going and ever present reality.

You will also learn 10-steps to evaluate the new learning models, implement them, and more effectively address your process excellence training and communications challenges.

Join this webinar to:

• Learn from experts with over 2 decades experience helping organizations do blended learning (an approach combining self-paced e-Learning with facilitator-led learning)
• Understand how your process improvement training can WOW your employees … and reduce costs and training time
• Discover the “flipped classroom”, also known as “blended learning” – what it is and why it is being adopted to accelerate learning ROI, increase instructor impact, and automate manual training processes
• Look inside the blended learning system to see how you might set up your own, blended learning institute

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart (TQG bio, A Peek at the Future of Lean, Six Sigma & Project Management), co-founded The Quality Group in 1992, and became CEO in 1999. He is an expert in e-Learning, blended learning, process improvement, and learning systems. Rob is passionate about TQG’s ability to deliver elegant, scalable learning products and services that improve lives, organizations, and communities.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 9.1 Plan Human Resources Management
• 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’

Click to register for Transform Your Process Excellence Training: Skill-building, Culture Change and Employee Engagement

Live Event April 4th, 2014 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT

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Live Event Virtual & On Location
Broadcasting Live April 4th, 2014 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT
Duration: 8 hours Credits: 8 Category A PDUs
Fee– $150 before March 31, $200 after March 31
Presented by: PDUs2Go (Rep 1637)

Whether you’re searching internal or external to your organization for the next exciting project to work on, or perhaps exploring the next job as a project management professional, pushing resumes is dead!

There is so much noise in the project management space that you and your brand are simply getting lost in the noise!

What you do and how you do it matters LESS, and the RESULTS you’re able to produce matters “MORE than ever”.

Executive sponsors of projects care less about your educational background or professional pedigree and more about your ability to engage, influence, and get key tasks completed, often earlier than estimated and below budget!

David Nour, (LinkedIn profile) senior management advisor, international speaker, best-selling author ofRelationship Economics and Return on Impact, andPDUs2Go a leading content provider, have developed the #NewNorm framework for project management professionals to help you think and lead differently – your education, your branding, packaging and marketing your story, adding value to each interaction. In short, elevating you above the market noise.

David Nour will help you:

• Become an Object of Interest, within and external to your organization;
• Develop a broad base of market relationships;
• Understand how to impactfully engage and influence Economic Buyers;
• Gain conceptual agreement on Objectives, Measures, and Value (OMV); and
• Provide Value-Based Options in every interaction.

This webinar is presented by
PDUs2Go & hosted by the PMI® PiedmontTriad Chapter.

Different chapters offer different opportunities and benefits for chapter members. We encourage you to take a look at the this wonderful sessionpresented by PDUs2Go andPMI® Piedmont .

Bobbie Shrivastav (Linkedin profile) says – We offer our members reduced rate for chapter events and provide networking opp. We are a great community and encourage all to join!

Please Consider joining this vibrant chapter
Membership is only $25.00 USD!

Click to register for The #NewNorm for Project Managers

Live Webinar March 31st, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Agile CoP (REP #S042)

For years now, agile methods have become the standard for software projects, helping companies deliver more product, faster, with higher quality.

But what about the rest of us?

• What if I work in public utilities?
• What if I work in manufacturing,
• Or in the automotive field, or marketing campaigns?

This cutting-edge webinar will reveal several case studies of unconventional uses of agile methods, along with some overarching principles and patterns to help you apply them to your own work, whether it be book publishing or personal fitness.

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).

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

Click to register for Get it Done! Applying Agile Methods to Life or Business