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SUMMARY:Fixing Project Pain Points
DESCRIPTION:CHUCK STAKSTON\nAUGUST 1\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\nThe lessons learned from project teams over the past few years have shown there are common pain points that exist. These pain points show up on all types of projects and inflict pain for both the Project Manager and the team members. This data shows the pain points cluster around communications\, scope\, time and resources. If we dig into the root causes we can find that there are opportunities for us to fix these pain points and transform our teams into the high performance teams we desire. Learning Objectives: • Explore the primary sources of pain for Project Managers and Team Members • Discover how the PMI 10 Knowledge Areas provide context for Root Cause Analysis • Identify pain-point fixes using the available processes\, tools\, techniques or approaches that will address root cause \n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nChuck Stakston has worked for 3M for 39 years. He has lead projects for 35 of those years.\n9 Years – Project Management Consulting Services – LSSO\n17 years – R&D\, NPI Manager – Medical Division\n13 years – Manufacturing – Medical Division\nCertifications / Licenses\nProject Management Professional (PMP®) through PMI®\nLicensed Professional Engineer – Chemical Engineering (Minnesota)\nEducation:\nBS Chemical Engineering\, University of North Dakota\, Grand Forks\, ND\nMBA\, University of St. Thomas\, St. Paul\, MN
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/fixing-project-pain-points-3/
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SUMMARY:Dancing To Better Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Past webinar – Dancing To Better Leadership\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuly 18\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDid you know that dancers use the same soft skills that are required to be an effective leader? \nThese skills include: \n\nConnecting through good communications\, being both an effective leader and follower\nMaintaining keen situational awareness and adaptability\nBuilding a high performance team.\n\nJoin us to explore how enjoying a social activity can be a fun way to experience and build leadership skills. \n\n\n\nSandy Haydon\, PMP\, is a teaching associate of SPL (Simulation Powered Learning) and an active member of PMI MN.\nShe has 40 years of experience with IBM (in Rochester\, MN) in operating system development projects and working with companies providing software for IBM systems. Since IBM\, she has been a team coach with Whitewater Coaching and Consulting\, the presenter for a video learning series “Preparing for Project Management Certification”\, and an instructor for PMI MN’s PMP Certification class.\nAfter retirement\, Sandy decided to take a few ballroom dance lessons. One thing led to another and now she owns a dance studio. She has learned there are many personal benefits to dancing\, plus skills used in dancing are like those skills used in business. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/agile-beyond-scrum-2-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180711T130000
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SUMMARY:NEGOTIATIONS IN A PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
DESCRIPTION:BILL JOHNSON\nJULY 11\, 2017\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER \n\nIs sitting down at the negotiating table scary? Not sure how to strike the best deal? Let’s take the mystery out of negotiations and develop the confidence to achieve the best possible agreement. This webinar will look at the various tools and techniques that will help ensure success at the negotiating table. It will begin with a look at the theory behind negotiating and its various strategies. Followed by a look at the three styles of negotiators along with tactics that they employee. It concludes with a look at how culture impacts negotiations\, and how this all is incorporated into project management. Join us for a highly informative and engaging look at removing the mystery around negotiating. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nExploring the theory behind negotiations and its various strategies.\nFinding out the various styles of negotiators and their tactics.\nLooking at how the culture of various countries impact negotiations.\nDiscovering how and when various strategies\, styles and tactics should be used in project management.\n\n\n\n\nBill Johnson\, PMP\, MSPM\, is a project management consultant and educator. He is an Adjunct Professor and Teaching Fellow at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in the Project Management Masters Degree program. \nHe has 15 years as an independent project manager and consultant where he has worked for clients including American Rhodes Trust and The State of Minnesota. As a contractor\, Bill has extensive experience negotiating with fellow contractors and clients alike. \n\nREGISTER
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/negotiations-project-environment-2/
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SUMMARY:AGILE BEYOND SCRUM
DESCRIPTION:June 5\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we all know\, agile adoption is on the rise and scrum is a very popular flavor of agile. As agile teams and organizations adopt scrum\, they commonly run into: \n\nGotchas/challenges that many teams/organizations encounter\nUnique gotchas due to a team’s specific situation\nSituations where teams create a new rigid process\, that in an often subtle sense\, breaks a fundamental concept of agile\n\n\n\n\nHowever they get there\, in long run\, teams learn and find their way to function as an effective scrum team. At that point\, they may wonder\, what’s next? How can we get better? \nIn this session\, we will cover some of those common gotchas and brainstorm how to identify them and how to deal with them. This will lead us to — What is next? In the second half of the webinar we will explore ideas and mindset that can make a scrum team awesome. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/agile-beyond-scrum-4/
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SUMMARY:PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE FOR PROJECT MANAGERS
DESCRIPTION:KAY QUINN\nMAY 11\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccording to the Project Management Institute\, “When your organization is good at change\, twice as many of your strategic initiatives are successful.” Every project introduces some degree of change. For you as the project manager\, the secret is acknowledging that change and preparing to address it both proactively and reactively. In this webinar\, we will introduce successful strategies for tackling change using basic psychology\, proven tools and real life stories. \nWe will focus primarily on stakeholder and communication management\, with considerations around risk and team makeup. Topics include: \n\nAll projects are not created equal\nWhat causes resistance?\nWorking with those affected by the change\nWho are your change agents?\nYour communication plan “on steroids”\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\nKay Quinn\, PMP\, MBA has over thirty years of leadership experience in all facets of project management\, as well as strategic planning and organizational change. Kay has been a career Project Manager; highlights include managing multi-million dollar projects\, leading Senior Project Managers\, establishing corporate project management offices (PMOs)\, and performing quality assessments of strategic\, high risk initiatives. \nKay has extensive experience in teaching\, facilitation\, and public speaking in global corporate settings\, conferences\, and in the university classroom. She has served as adjunct professor for the University of St Thomas Executive Education Program teaching the Mini Masters of Project Management. \nKay is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) through the internationally-recognized Project Management Institute (PMI®) and served on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Chapter. She received both her Undergraduate and Executive MBA degrees from the University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Business.
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/psychology-change-project-managers-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T130000
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SUMMARY:AGILE ORGANIZATIONAL RUBS & ANTI PATTERNS
DESCRIPTION:GEOF LORY\nAPRIL 19\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now \n\nChange means giving up old behaviors and adopting new ones. When organization or teams start on a journey to adopt agile\, both practices and mindset\, these new behaviors can create some friction with established and comfortable behaviors. Recognizing where these “rubs” will occur and the all too common anti-patterns typically adopted to address them can prepare managers and teams for this change. If you’ve ever been in a discussion and found yourself saying\, “But we can’t do that here.” or Yeah\, we tried that too; didn’t work for us\, either!”\, then you have experienced either a rub or an anti-patterns. \nTeams and organizations that are new to Agile often face some common challenges. Through trial and error they attempt to adjust and resolve these issues. Agile will challenge existing policies and processes that are comfortable but may not be getting the desired results. Often\, what seem to be logical and prudent responses actually produce a result that is the opposite of the desired outcome creating more problems than it solves. These solutions that seem to make sense but in practice don’t work are called anti-patterns. In this session we will examine numerous Agile Organizational Rubs and Anti-patterns that are commonly encountered\, why they would seem to work and why they don’t\, along with suggestions for solutions that truly do work. \n\n\nGeof Lory is a SPL instructor and Board member. He is a project manager\, consultant\, trainer and writer. With more than 30 years of practical experience in the Information Technology field\, Geof integrates the unique aspects of software development and infrastructure deployment projects into both Agile and traditional project management disciplines. \nGeof is an engaging speaker and trainer with more than 30 years of practical project management consulting experience. He is the Product Owner for the SPL PM and Agile/Scrum Simulations and is certified to deliver various other team\, leadership and project management curricula. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and an Agile Certified Professional (ACP) from PMI as well as a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance.
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/agile-organizational-rubs-anti-patterns-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T130000
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SUMMARY:AN INTRODUCTION TO KANBAN
DESCRIPTION:JIM BROWN\nMARCH 7\, 2018\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe concepts Kanban\, originally developed in Japan as a scheduling and inventory control system in the Toyota Production System\, can transform management of modern knowledge work. But what does Kanban really mean for knowledge work? In this webinar we will introduce some of the key concepts of Kanban as an lean/agile work management and process improvement tool for your organization. \nWe will discuss the basics of: \n\nGetting started\nSetting up a Kanban board\nVisualizing your work\nEstablishing work in process limits\nManaging flow in a pull system\nUsing Kanban as a tool for process improvement\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nJim Brown\, CSPO\, CSM\, PMI-ACP\, PMP is a SPL instructor and brings over 20 years of experience in software development and information technology leadership to his agile training and coaching. Jim has provided technical leadership\, strategy\, process design\, and detailed technical services to clients in a wide variety of industries including Finance\, Banking\, Insurance\, Government\, Transportation\, Health Care\, and Educational Software. \nJim is certified to deliver all the SPL Agile training in addition to various other project management curricula. Jim holds the Certified Scrum Master (CSM)\, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)\, Certified Scrum Practitioner/professional (CSP)\, Scaled Agile Process Consultant (SPC4)\, Project Management Professional (PMP)\, and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certifications.
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/an-introduction-to-kanban-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171220T130000
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SUMMARY:STOP MANAGING START COACHING!
DESCRIPTION:JOHN KAMAN\nDECEMBER 20\, 2017\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCREATE A TEAM TO WHICH PEOPLE WANT TO BELONG! Stop managing and start coaching! Coaching is the ability to bring out the best in people. It is the ability to work with a diverse set of team members to help them be creative\, empowered and motivated. Coaching is the art of asking powerful questions and using powerful language so that the person being coached will come up with answers for him or herself. The focus is on helping your team members to be resourceful and accountable while getting the job done. Join us for an engaging and interactive presentation \nKey Learning Objectives: \n\nDiscover the difference between traditional management and coaching\nFind out how and why coaching works\nLearn how to develop powerful questions and how to hold people accountable\nBuilding rapport\, a key to developing strong relationships\nTips on how to develop a group into a team\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nJohn Kaman PMP\, is a management coach\, mentor and educator. He the president of Whitewater Coaching & Consulting\, also teaches at the University of Minnesota and is an associate at SPL. John has 22 years of experience in Research and Development Management with both 3M Company and Imation. He holds a Masters degree in Psychology/Human Development\, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a certificate in Professional Personal Coaching.
URL:https://simulationpl.com/webinar/stop-managing-start-coaching-3-2/
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SUMMARY:PROJECT COMMUNICATION
DESCRIPTION:SANDY HAYDON\nNOVEMBER 15\, 2017\n1:00-2:00 PM CT\n1 PDU \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEveryone agrees that good communication is important for project success. Yet\, how many of us actually plan for communication in our projects? Or\, do we just “let it happen”? \nSuccessful projects require a documented plan for communicating with all people on the project\, including but not limited to: project managers\, team members\, stakeholders\, vendors and support people. Once the individuals are identified\, it’s important to identify what type of information needs to be shared\, how it will be shared\, and when we communicate. \nJoin us to explore the components and complexities of building a project communication plan. \nWe will cover: \n\nWho to communicate to?\nWhat to communicate?\nWhen and how often to communicate?\nHow to select the best media (in person\, phone\, email\, etc.)\nAs well as other considerations\, such as location (the next office\, across the country\, or around the world)\, cultures\, and generational differences.\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nSandy Haydon is is a SPL instructor and a team coach with Whitewater Coaching and Consulting. She is an active member of PMI MN and was the project manager for the PMI MN project to update their PMP Certification course for the PMBOK Guide 5th Edition.. \nShe has 40 years of experience with IBM (in Rochester\, MN) in operating system development projects and working with companies providing software for IBM systems. Since IBM\, she has been a team coach with Whitewater Coaching and Consulting. \nSandy holds a BA in Mathematics and a MA in Management became a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) in 1998\, an IBM Senior Certified Project Manager in 2004\, and an Authorized Facilitator of Team Coaching International’s Team Diagnostic TM assessment tool in 2010.
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