Live Webinar – July 11th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

*This is an MPUG Vendor Session. Ira Brown will discuss Microsoft Project add-ons and how they can streamline the integration of various applications and Microsoft Project in a no pressure, stress-free environment. These add-ons are not out-of-the-box functionality and require product trial or purchase.

Project Widgets is pleased to showcase several tools that extend the value of Microsoft Project by successfully addressing several common program and project management challenges.

These solutions focus on real world issues faced by many industries, including those with complex and lengthy product development lifecycles. They hold special value for those using iterative project management methodologies, including technology-focused projects.

These  add-on solutions provide the following capabilities:

• Automate the project initiation process, ensuring project managers adhere to established standards and best practices when initiating new projects
• Initiate all projects within a program at once, including the establishment of interproject dependencies
• Incorporate process and methodology content within Microsoft Project, ensuring project managers have at their fingertips all documents, templates, and other tools they need for success.
• Provide people throughout the organization with the ability to view key project tasks and milestones directly from their Outlook calendar.

This presentation will focus on introducing several tools that make working with Microsoft Project much more efficient and effective, and will include some time for Q&A.

Presenter: Ira Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the President and CEO of Project Widgets, a Microsoft Project Partner specializing in add-on products, implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He is a is a recognized Microsoft Project expert with over twenty years of experience.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for:
Project Management Challenges & Solutions:
Tools, Process, & A Little Magic

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar July 10th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Gartner has predicted that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a net job creator in 2020. AI is a scale accelerator – it leverages people.

While some jobs may be replaced, many more will be augmented and added. There is little doubt that AI will transform business and IT, but to what extent is its real impact likely to be.

This 2Q webinar focuses on the many aspects of AI.

Join John-David Lovelock, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP & Ranjit Atwal, (LinkedIn profile, Garnter bio) Gartner Research Director, for a look at the current state of IT spending around the world, and to dive into the many areas and means by which AI will transform the world.

Discussion Topics:

• How AI will transform traditional business application software
• Ways AI will impact consumer devices
• AI’s effect on delivery of IT consulting services

Click to register for:
The Many Forms Of AI Transformation

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar July 11th, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Steps To Developing A Strategic Mindset

Many organizations have the tendency to lose their grasp on long-term plans in order to get immediate results. That’s why strategic thinking skills are essential for employees at all levels.

Everyone needs to be able to evaluate ideas, devise alternatives, make hard choices and align tactics to reach business objectives.

This program offers you a powerful introduction to the expanded course AMA’s Strategic Thinking seminar, explaining the combination of concepts around the skills needed to think strategically, and the practices that allow participants to develop and hone their skills in a classroom environment.

This course is designed for people who want to be able to move beyond day-to-day, reactionary thinking to gain a more long-term and future-focused perspective.

In This Session Learn:

• Traits that determine the ability to think strategically
• An introduction to AMA’s 9-part model for strategic thinking
• Tips for putting the model into practice in your daily life

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter:  Johannah [Jody] Jones, Ph.D., (LinkedIn profile) is president of Strategic Transformations, a consulting firm focused on developing growth in organizations through adaptive strategy development that manages the elements of chaos and control necessary to grow. She has more than 25 years of hands-on and analytical experience in the areas of strategic planning and strategy. She provides coaching and consulting services and teaches Strategic Management in the Elon University MBA program.

Click to register for:
Strategic Thinking

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar July 12th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this Ian Brown (LinkedIn profile) webinar discusses key factors that need to be considered, assessed, and planned before moving to the Cloud.

Click to register for:
We’re Migrating To The Cloud, Where Do We Start?

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

The Live Session Is Free But…

Get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available!
Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar July 11th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

With so much focus on leveraging innovation and disruption as strategies to move to digital business, a lot of attention gets placed on high-profile companies who have succeeded in this manner.

While there is much to be gleaned from possible emulation of their efforts, many organizations rightly recognize that “they aren’t Google” and don’t have the same resources.

Join this webinar with David Yockelson (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP to understand these disruptors’ intents and methods and identify what you can leverage from the strategies of well-known disruptors.

Discussion Topics:

• Why digital disruption should be a strategic imperative
• How you can create a willful intent strategy for digital disruption
• Disruptions that will affect you that you might not see coming

Click to register for:
Willful Disruption & 7 Disruptions
You Might Not See Coming

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar July 10th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

Click to register for:
Combining Personality Type & Emotional Intelligence For A V.U.C.A. World

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.