Archive for May 19th, 2016

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Live Webinar May 25th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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This session is based on the book:
Project Management, Denial, and the Death Zone: Lessons from Everest and Antarctica
by Grant Michael Avery

  1. Project success rates haven’t changed in 20 years
  2. Learn why, and what you can do to improve them in your organization

Using examples and lessons learned from the failures and achievements of Antarctic explorers Robert Scott (Terra Nova expedition) and Ernest Shackleton, and Mount Everest expedition leader John Hunt and others, this captivating guide provides powerful insights into the causes of project and program failure and how to manage them to significantly improve project success rates.

Join the author, Grant Michael Avery (LinkedIn profile) and host, Tolitha Lewis (LinkedIn profile) for a live Q&A session.

Questions can be submitted ahead of time in the book club discussion and will also be taken live during the webinar.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

Registration for this session is close to being full. If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 24 hours of the live session.

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Project Management, Denial, & The Death Zone:
Lessons From Everest & Antarctica – March Book Club

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Live Webinar – May 27th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE/Techtown is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Power BI dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business, and monitor key metrics in a single place.

Join  Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile) in this webinar to learn about best practice tips and tricks visualizing your data in Power BI dashboards.

Bryon will show you some of the most exciting ways to build great looking reports and dashboards that communicate information very effectively.

The Microsoft BI stack today can be a bit confusing — attend this webinar and you’ll make sense of it all!

Bonus:
Webinar Attendees Receive
A FREE Guide to the NEW Power BI Desktop!

Click to register for:
Visualize Your Data
With Microsoft’s Power BI & Power View Tools

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 2016
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex Online

Join, best-selling author of Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest: The Coaching Secrets Top Executives Depend On and consultant Scott Blanchard (LinkedIn profile), co-author of The Ken Blanchard Companies new First-Time Manager program, as he shares the skills and techniques new managers need to master. Drawing from the design of the new program,

Scott will share:

  • The three challenges all new managers face—managing self vs. managing others, moving from peer to manager, and developing soft skills in addition to hard skills
  • The four conversations all new managers need to master—goal setting, praising, redirecting, and wrapping up
  • The four communication skills all new managers need to develop—listening, inquiring, truth-telling, and endorsing

Making the jump from individual contributor to manager is exciting and challenging.

Make sure your people get off to a great start in their first managerial role.

Explore the essential education components that give your new managers their best chance for success.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.1 Plan Human Resource 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’

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First-Time Manager:
Performance Management Essentials

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Surviving A Software Audit

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Live Webinar May 25th, 2016, 8:00 am – 9:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 25th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Gartner clients continue to report increasingly frequent software license audits, resulting in undefended, unbudgeted and unmanaged costs.

This webinar takes attendees through the audit process, helping them to understand how to respond to an audit letter and manage the audit effectively, both internally and externally, to mitigate risk.

Discussion Topics:

  • Why you need to plan for software audits
  • How to respond when a software audit letter arrives on your desk
  • How to manage the software audit to minimize business risk

Presenter: Victoria Barber (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
  • 5.3 Define 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 register for:
Surviving A Software Audit

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