Online Webinar  – Recorded April 27th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

What Can Children Teach Us about Project Management?

As surprising as it may seem, the art of raising children leverages many of the same skills as managing a project team.

Fostering the growth of a child’s mind requires the creation of a positive atmosphere comprised of love, trust and enablement. Similarly, in working with teams, we strive to create an atmosphere of open communication, collaboration and trust.

This webinar will highlight and examine 7 things you can learn from kids that apply to project management:

1. Play group dynamics are a lot like team dynamics
   • no one should be left out
   • we should respect the will of the group
2. To gain cooperation, timing is everything
   • never seek it on empty stomachs or after a long day
   • understanding what motivates others is the key to maintaining collaboration
3. Learning moments need to be seized and capitalized on
   • capitalize on the sense of urgency for maximum effect
4. How to combat peer pressure
   • being unique doesn’t mean you don’t fit in
5. Working through conflict means learning to work it out
   • bullying hurts everyone, especially the bullier
6. Value everyone’s talents and approach
   • not everyone learns the same or thinks the same
7. Be consistent when applying support, rewards, corrections and routines
   • it will reduce anxiety and set a pace

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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7 Things You Can Learn from Children About Project Management

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Online Webinar  – Recorded September 25 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Project Managers will continue to play a vital role in the new Agile world. At the Enterprise Level there will always be a need for Governance and the larger the organisation, the more focus there will be in managing risks.

Project Managers are also the link between the business initiatives, implemented as projects, and the development team, in most cases using the widely adopted Scrum Framework to deliver technology components that will support the implementation of the business initiatives.

The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management is a useful framework for Project managers to implement good practices at the project level that can minimize the negative impacts of threats to its projects and maximize the upside impact of opportunities.

By becoming Agile the risk profile changes and it is obvious that the Scrum Team must be involved in the Risk Management activities.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile) analyzes the role of the Project Manager in bridging the gap between the (Scrum) team approach to Risk Management and the structured approach at the enterprise level.

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Managing Risk In Agile Environments:
Bridging The Gap Between ERM & Scrum

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Live Webinar July 26th, 2018 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
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The topic of the webinar, close to the border of psychology, includes those ethical aspects that are tremendously influencing our projects and social life as well.

The presenters, Simona Bonghez (LinkedIn profile), & Leah Brophy (LinkedIn profile) are members of the PMI Ethics Member Advisory Group.

Simona & Leah will talk about the psychological distance between our actions and their impact, about how this distance explains some of our temptations (especially when we fell pray to them) and about the broken window concept applied in ethics (something that we encounter more and more nowadays).

Ethics tools available for practitioners are presented and their possible practical results shortly described.

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Cheating Just A Little Bit…

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Live Webinar November 9th, 2023 – 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
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The impact of Digital Transformation on Leadership is a hot topic, driven by innovations and disruptions in technology and largely shaped by the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

According to a 2019 study by Oracle and the research firm Future Workplace, 64% of workers would put their trust in a robot rather than their manager.

This startling statistic emphasizes the rising mistrust that workers feel for their managers and emphasizes how important it is for managers to develop into true leaders, capable of navigating the opportunities and challenges that AI presents.

Hence, it is critical for leaders to adapt and change as Artificial Intelligence permeates the modern workplace if they want to stay relevant.

Technology can transform many things including leadership, as history shows.

Historically, three distinct periods emerge when the study technological breakthroughs. At these junctures, interplay between technology and leadership mandated different leadership styles and attributes. These transitions did not replace leadership, but played a strong role in re-shaping leadership.

Even though it is tempting to assume that Artificial Intelligence can improve everything from productivity to brand loyalty, leadership requires conscious introspection on topics ranging from individual leader’s mindset (mental models) to organizational constructs (strategy, design, etc.).

Often, we fail to attribute due credit to leadership and the role it plays in technological breakthroughs. Retrospective into technological revolutions demonstrates that technology is a byproduct of leadership.

Today’s era of Artificial Intelligence requires new leadership thinking, life-long learning and regenerative models. Leaders who want to succeed in this age should consciously balance the delicate interplay between their “artistic side” comprising of the entire battery of human emotions and the “architect side” comprising of the range of Artificial Intelligence tools to compensate, complement, and conquer our finite nature.

Leaders need a framework to consider how they can deploy technology to practice the art of leading, whilst considering the inhibitors that prevent them from leading.

This framework will also provide a toolbox to appraise our reliance on Artificial Intelligence to execute such difficult tasks as exercising independent judgment and decision—making – the very activities that impart meaning and raison d’être to the leader’s existence.

Join Mithun Aiyswaryan Sridharan (LinkedIn profile) in this informative AI session.

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Leadership In The Era Of Artificial Intelligence

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Live Webinar November 2nd, 2023 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
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On June 15, 2023, a PMI Webinar was conducted where Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) and David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) discussed “Empathy when Eliciting User Knowledge” (original webinar 1 PDU).   The discussion / interaction was tremendous and there were more comments and questions than the leaders could answer.

Well, they listened to you and have now prepared a second webinar to answer most of those questions and continue the dialog.

Extracting knowledge from various workers is a key competency required for the current project professional.

Whether it involves product requirements, user acceptance criteria, creating the definition of done, determining value of stories in a backlog, or obtaining executive critical success factors, the project professional delivers many artifacts that depend on input from various knowledge workers scattered throughout the organization.

This session will focus on the approach the project professional must take to have effective elicitation sessions.

You must approach it from the knowledge worker perspective and be able to establish an environment of trust and psychological safety.

1. They will discuss the importance of humility and that you are eliciting information.
2. They will discuss the importance of seeing that environment to facilitate active listening and interactive engagement.
3. They will take a holistic approach to the elicitation including setting expectations, eliciting information, and providing feedback.
4. Finally, we will explore the impact that cultural intelligence is a factor in the overall elicitation and feedback.

Learning Objectives:

1. The importance of utilizing several components of human relationships including humility, empathy, respect, and gratitude.
2. Articulate the entire cycle of eliciting information from initial contact to knowledge exchange engagement, to paraphrase understanding, to follow-up.
3. Use Cultural Intelligence techniques to understand how knowledge extraction techniques must align with the culture of the knowledge workers.

Presenters:

Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) Author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Project Management: Simple, Effective Techniques That Deliver Business Value

David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) is a self-proclaimed practitioner of WOW!  Dave Davis has enough credentials that all the associated acronyms would make a full bowl of vegetable soup.  A proven dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic leader.   Dave has the unique ability to share his experience in a light hearted effective style that educates and motivates.  He has shared his message in many web publications and presentations throughout Europe and North America. Few people can combine business intelligence with strong leadership and a sense for using structured Program Management to further a company’s strategy like he can. He stays on top of emerging technologies and its associated social impact, and knows what can benefit an organization.

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Empathy When Eliciting User Knowledge

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Live Webinar October 31st, 2023 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
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When writing Acceptance Tests, we respond to requirements and essentially turn them into scenarios that can be specified, tested, and then implemented. However, sometimes requirements are stated in a way that make the scenarios too large for effective testing and development.

In this webinar Scott Bain (LinkedIn profile) will investigate why this is, suggest techniques that can be used to decompose them into smaller scenarios, and demonstrate this using a real-world example of a complex business rule.

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Breaking Down Large Scenarios For Acceptance Testing

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