Live Webinars

The Great IT Professional offers these free live webinars throughout the year. All one hour webinars are worth 1.0 PDU credits. Webinars less than one hour in length are worth .25 PDU credits for each 15 minutes of instruction.

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28
MAR
Tooting Your Own Horn: 5 Ways to Do So Without Being a Pompous Jerk
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
We’ve often heard that you shouldn’t toot your own horn. We shouldn’t be too self-promoting. It’s annoying after all.  And yet it’s YOUR horn!! Why shouldn’t you toot it? We will look at what might happen in your life if you stopped being humble and started being human.
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29
MAR
The Strategic Project Leader: Consultative Skills for Organizational Agility
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Project Management Skills for Value Delivery, a study recently released by PM Solutions Research, details how the project manager role is evolving from tactical, project process-focused to higher-order business, leadership and communications. In this webinar, we will share data to help individuals develop an aspirational plan.
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30
MAR
Current Developments in Blockchain Technology
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
This webinar is designed for everybody interested to find out more about what is new in blockchain technology. We will cover significant developments, adoption, and future trends.
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4
APR
Avoiding a Project Death March
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST
A death march is when project staff members believe the project is destined for failure, or that it requires a stretch of unsustainable effort to achieve any success. This session will cover the common causes of death marches, how to develop data and options used in negotiation, and a simple negotiation approach to address the concerns of customers and managers
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5
APR
Define Right Requirements for Acquiring COTS
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Buying Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software is a common way to achieve computer processing capabilities quicker, cheaper, and with less risk than building it.  However, acquiring COTS and other software still has a high rate of failure.  This important interactive presentation reveals the differences and gives guidance on defining requirements that make COTS acquisitions succeed.
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6
APR
Servant Leadership in the Risk Management Environment
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this presentation, the concept of servant leadership is introduced, and then discussed in the context of risk management.  Since servant leaders are those whose primary leadership role is support and coaching, this workshop delves into the notion of how servant leaders can follow through on the basic principles of team-driven solutions, obstacle removal, and cheerleading in a risk management context.
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11
APR
Let’s Connect!  The Human Factor in a Technological World
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In a world awash in new technological powers, the human element is becoming more important than ever in project work. In this webinar you will learn how to play to your strengths in an integrated world where both people and tech must co-exist.
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12
APR
Portfolio Benefit Delivery
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Components of portfolios typically provide status on the deliverables of their work. Portfolio managers must show the value of their organization by translating project and program deliverable status into portfolio benefit delivery status. Attendees will learn how to translate project and program deliverable status into the benefit delivery information that stakeholders really want to see.
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13
APR
Stakeholders: Teams, Owners, Bosses, Directors- It’s All About People
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
This presentation focuses on the project manager's activities interacting with project stakeholders - it's all about people. A positive and open project manager's behavior significantly contributes to project success.
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18
APR
The Importance Of Measuring Your Teamwork
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Invariably, project teams measure Key Performance Indicators, often related to cost, quality and time.  All of these are impacted by how effective and efficient your teamwork is, which very few teams measure.  In this webinar, find out about the 16 areas of teamwork that need to be working well, if you and your team are to achieve the success you deserve.
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19
APR
Change Management
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Good enough is no longer good enough because Decision Latency – that is, delays in making decisions – drive huge, negative impacts into program outcomes. Reversing it will supercharge program results, but it demands change leadership to invert analysis paralysis using Lean principles and Agile best practices... proactively!
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25
APR
Estimation Lab
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.
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26
APR
Understanding your Stakeholders
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this session we are going to look at some diverse ways to analyze our stakeholders. We will look at journey maps and empathy maps to help us understand how we can build and use them as part of stakeholder analysis. We will also look at how we can use these tools to help us write better requirements and deliver better products.
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27
APR
Navigating the JEDI Journey
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Navigating the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) characterizing the business world in the 21st century requires a new paradigm, the JEDI North Star Vision, focused on an integrated bottom line – planet, people, and profit. Join us to learn about creating a JEDI North Star Vision for your organization to initiate transformative change.
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2
MAY
Project Management Trends in an Agile World
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
This webinar is a discussion to identify challenges and trends that project managers must leverage for successful project outcomes in an agile world.
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3
MAY
Business Acumen for Aspiring Project Leaders
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
New research on Project Management Skills for Value Delivery identifies the business-side skills that project managers must develop to become leaders in their organizations. This presentation will discuss twelve key areas of professional development, from understanding market conditions to researching competitors, and how you can improve your skills in each.
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4
MAY
Delivering Successful Digital Transformations
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Join us to learn how to make your technology selection, implementation, or optimization project a success. Learn why so many digital transformation projects fail to reach their goals and what to do to avoid the many pitfalls to success.
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10
MAY
Why Am I So Calm?
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this webinar we look at the swirl of activity and crises and examines how to remain calm and resolute in the face of mayhem.  Carl shares the calming influence of effective planning, established alliances and yes, even doomsday planning.
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12
MAY
How to Create a Highly Effective and Innovative Team
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this webinar you will learn about the science of high performing teams as well as the practices that stimulate innovation.
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16
MAY
Is Your Team Self Functioning, High Performing  and Adding Value?
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this webinar, you will learn how to build teams in which all members are having their intrinsic and extrinsic needs met; and, where organizationally they are able to add value consistently.
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17
MAY
Emotional Agility for Project Managers
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
This webinar is a discussion to understand how to build emotional agility to make clear decisions, support inclusivity, enhance collaboration, and strengthen innovation.
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18
MAY
Making Project Governance Easier and a Bit More Fun via Checklists, Tools and Lessons Learned
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST
Organizations want to know if their projects are performing company expected practices and usually adopt governance steps to see how projects are performing. Governance can lead to a lot of extra work and be intimidating. This talk will describe how checklists, tools and lessons learned can make things easier.
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23
MAY
Benefits Realization and Portfolio Value Management
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Projects have inherent value, and benefits realization is part of the accountability framework to increase the likelihood that organizations receive the intended benefits from completed projects. Attendees will learn how to look for project alignment with strategy and ways to seek out additional value for the organization.
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24
MAY
How to Land Your Next Product Dream Job in 90 Days
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
In this webinar we will guide you through the steps you need to take to design a successful 90-day job-seeking roadmap, communicate your unique value proposition, and make a lasting impression on potential employers. Join this to gain valuable insights to jumpstart your job search.
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6
JUN
Essential Requirements Practices
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Every project should perform 20 core requirements activities. In this webinar you will understand how to apply these practices and enable you to begin a self-assessment of how to improve your team’s requirements practices.
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