Each of these hour-long webinars are designed to help you learn more about how Project HEADWAY can get you through crucial parts of your project. You can also earn PDUs for your continuing certification. Live webinars happen once a month, and the recorded versions will be posted here as they become available.
If you would like to claim PDU credit for participating in the live webinars or for viewing the recorded versions, please visit my account and expand the "PDUs awarded" section.
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Nov 16, 2023 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores how to think about project management different in a startup, and how startups can effectively employ project management practices in a way that make sense. If you are involved in or contemplating working for a start-up—or you need a more adaptive approach in your current organization—this is a presentation you will want to attend.
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Oct 19, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
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This webinar demystifies the concept of design thinking, and provides guidance in how to think about it, how to leverage it and where to consider its use in the project management role.
If you are curious about design thinking, its relevance and its role in managing projects, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Sep 21, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Stepping up to manage a project that doesn’t align with your past skills and experience is one of the most interesting challenges that you can face. There are ways to do it well, mindsets that can make you more successful and approaches that will allow you to survive and thrive along the way.
This webinar provides you with the guidance, the insight and the confidence to be able to take on new challenges in new subject areas, even ones you haven’t been exposed to before.
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Aug 31, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar provides a clear and objective assessment of career options and career development strategies for the new project manager. It outlines what avenues are possible, which options and choices are available and the strategies to employ in building the career of your dreams.
If you are a new project manager—and even if you are not—you will want to check out this webinar.
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Jul 27, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Effective communication doesn’t just involve planning what we want to communicate. It requires thinking about who we want to communicate with. There is an essential—but frequently overlooked—consideration of personal preferences, needs and values that goes into communicating with someone else well.
The good news is that there are strategies to employ and ways to think about communication that take personal differences into account. Knowing what to look for, and how personal differences translate into communication preferences, is a skill that can be learned, developed and refined.
If you want to communicate more effectively, and be able to recognize and consider the differences in preference of others, this is a webinar you will want to attend.
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Jun 15, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar provides essential insights into how to explore and evaluate problems, how to identify and explore causal relationships, and how to do the necessary but difficult work of getting to root causes.
If problem solving is essential to your role—and when it isn’t it?—this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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May 18, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what is involved in measuring intangibles successfully. It identifies pitfalls and cautions, provides guidance on what works, and outlines how to successfully define, evaluate and communicate the intangibles that most matter. If you are challenged in how to measure your most important success outcomes, this is a webinar you will want to watch.
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Apr 20, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Being a program manager comes with a completely set of responsibilities, has vastly different accountabilities, and employs very different skills. Recognizing what is needed to be successful as you make the transition into a program management role is essential.
If you are a new program manager—or are contemplating making the transition—this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Mar 16, 2023 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
For the successful project managers, embracing stakeholders and responding to them well is essential. This webinar outlines the strategies to positively engage with your stakeholders in ways that will best position you for continued success. If you struggle with the balancing act of coordinating stakeholder desires (and who doesn’t) this webinar is for you.
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Feb 16, 2023 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to develop, build and sustain a successful relationship with your project sponsor. You will learn how to negotiate expectations up front to position yourself for success. You’ll gain strategies for appropriately guiding, educating and coaching your sponsor in the role in a way that they will accept and value. You will also learn how to course correct and provide constructive feedback in a way that is most likely to ensure that it is heard positively and meaningfully taken on board.
For anyone that wants to improve the relationship with their current project sponsor—or thrive in engaging with their next one—this is a presentation that you won’t want to miss.
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Jan 19, 2023 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
What we know from research is that the organizations that realized the greatest value from their project management practices are those who adopt practices that do fit, that are aligned and that make sense in the context of the types of projects they take on. Doing this takes work. It takes time and effort and support to make happen.
The start of this challenge is often getting the support to make an investment in project management in the first place.
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Dec 15, 2022 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to build up credibility from zero, and build an environment of respect and trust. He explores what is necessary to make a difference when trust is low and the stakes are high, and what leaders and project managers can do to turn that around. He provides insights into why trust gets eroded, and the essential factors for being able to build it up—or restore it when it has been lost.
For anyone leading in a complex and uncertain environment—and today, that is all of us—this is a webinar that you won't want to miss.
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Nov 17, 2022 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly tackles the essential principles of applying lightweight management projects to small and speedy projects. He explores why small projects are their own unique challenge, and why the traditional views of project management just don't fit. He examines what will make a difference, and the adaptations and appropriate techniques that work when projects need to be truly lean.
If you struggle with how to lead in the face of scaled-down projects and rapid response, this is a webinar that you won't want to miss.
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Oct 20, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly dives deep into the process of decision making. He explores the biases and limitations that every one of us works with, and how they influence and at times compromise our ability to decide well. He provides insights into how biases can be manipulated, and what both decision makers and those making decision recommendations need to do to be aware of—and manage the impact—of potential manipulations.
If you want to learn how to make and support better project decisions, this is a presentation that you won't want to miss.
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Sep 15, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly endeavors to take some of the guesswork out of getting started. You'll explore the essentials of what it takes to be an effective project manager, and how to put your best foot forward on your first day in the role. He examines what you need to now about process, practices, people and politics. You'll get experienced advice to apply in a situation where experience is what you most feel is missing.
Whether you are a new project manager, or one that has been around the block a few times, this is a presentation where you are likely to still get a wealth of value and insight.
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Aug 18, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly draws on more than thirty years of being self-employed to pull back the curtain and reveal what it takes to successfully manage as an independent professional. You'll learn the successes, the defeats and what it takes to sustain a successful freelance practice, year in and year out. If you've thought about hanging out your shingle and calling yourself "boss," this is a presentation that you won't want to miss.
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Jul 21, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly takes project management to its bare bones, and builds it up again into an essential framework that you can manage and use just about anywhere.
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Jun 16, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark explores how to take the essential principles of project management and apply them to just about any project, no matter how esoteric or unconventional. Join us and you'll learn practical techniques to adapt project management to virtually any situation that you might encounter. You will learn the techniques that work, where the limits lie in how to apply them, and what to do instead.
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May 19, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark explores the challenge of bad news and why delivering it is so uncomfortable. More importantly, he identifies strategies to craft difficult messages and deliver them confidently and well. If you have to deliver bad news (and what project manager doesn't at some point in their career) you'll want to attend this webinar. The good news is that you'll get insights you can take action on and use right away.
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Mar 17, 2022 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly dives deep into PMOs and the roles that they can and do play in organizations. He looks at the reasons that many feel, and explores the factors that do, occasionally, lead to success. If you work in a PMO, or for one, or are impacted by one in the projects that you manage, this is a presentation that you won't want to miss.
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Feb 23, 2022 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what an expanded view of the potential career paths for project managers might look like. It questions the role that project managers have evolved to play, and where those roles might evolve to in the future. If you are wondering what is next for your career, this is a webinar that you won't want to miss.
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Feb 17, 2022 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what an expanded view of the potential career paths for project managers might look like. It questions the role that project managers have evolved to play, and where those roles might evolve to in the future. If you are wondering what is next for your career, this is a webinar that you won't want to miss.
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Jan 20, 2022 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
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In this webinar, we look to the future of the project management community. In particular, Mark Mullaly explores his wishes for the future of project management. He looks at where project management has come from and where it is, and expresses his aspirations for what it might still become. For anyone that is an enthusiastic practitioner of project management, this is a webinar you won't want to miss.
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Dec 16, 2021 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Mentoring programs can work, but there are some fundamental pre-conditions for success. Where those are met, the outcomes can be extraordinary. Where they are not, the effort can fall flat on its face.
If you are being asked to mentor, are hoping to be mentored or are trying to get a mentoring program to thrive—or at least move forward—in your organization, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Nov 18, 2021 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
If you manage change and struggle with how to get support and traction, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Oct 21, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar tackles the challenge of how to manage effectively where management isn’t appreciated. If you struggle with how to apply process—and how much to apply—then this is the webinar for you.
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Sep 16, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
The domains of waterfall and agile often appear as two solitudes, not overlapping at all. More often they appear to be warring camps, decrying the other and advocating for their preferred way of working.
This gets reinforced by the adherents of one practice or the other (often most influenced by which perspective they learned first). One is considered good, the other bad, and there is very little middle space to explore common ground, let along find a potential way of working together.
And yet, work together they can. Both strategies have a place, both have a role, and both deliver value. They key is in understanding what each provides, how they are similar and in what important ways they are different, and how commonalities can be found.
If you’re stuck in the middle—or you are wondering what all the fuss is about—you won’t want to miss this webinar.
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Aug 19, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Cross-disciplinary projects are particularly challenging in that they require everyone to align and support each other to be successful. When you inhabit different worlds, adopt different perspectives and use very different terminology (although occasionally using theoretically-familiar words).
If you currently manage cross-disciplinary projects and teams, or you fear that you will in the future, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Jul 15, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Soft skills, such as they are, are amongst the hardest things that you will learn to apply as a project manager. Excelling at these skills is the product of a lifetime of learning, and even then you will learn things that surprise you and catch you off guard.
There are still strategies you can employ and insights you can realize to engage with the messy human dimension of projects. They don’t necessarily work the way you think, but they are there. This webinar will provide you with insights on how to learn them and use them.
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Jun 17, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar is a survey of some of the more common (if we can think of them that way) real-world challenges that project managers encounter, and what we might do with them.
Whether you are a new project manager or you already have the scars of real-world experience, you will find content of value and ideas you can use.
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May 20, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar dives into the depths of bad leadership to understand what it is, what it looks like and why it happens. More importantly, it provides concrete strategies to function, operate and be as effective as you can be while working for a bad leader.
If you have a bad leader now—or you fear you might work for one in the future—this will be a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Apr 15, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
The essential question that this webinar asks and answers is, “What about project management makes a difference?” As project managers, as leaders in our organizations and as guides to our teams, what are the actions, the behaviors and the moves that matter most?
If you want to be the best project manager you can be—no matter where you are in your career—you’ll find insights and observations of value in this webinar.
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Mar 18, 2021 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
On the date of this webinar, it will have been just passed a year since the world went over the cliff-edge of Covid-19, and found our reality ever-changed.
Plunged into a disaster that few saw coming (although the threads and warnings were out there), we have struggled to adapt and cope ever since. Employees and whole organizations transitioned from commuting to working at home, virtually overnight. Supply chains were radically overhauled. Our perceptions of “essential workers” were expanded, as was our awareness of the inequities and challenges that many of these workers face.
For project managers, how project work has been coordinated and delivered has been significantly transformed. We have had to innovate on the fly, figuring out strategies to plan, coordinate and engage teams that are not just distant, but facing their own challenges.
There have been successes and victories, and there have been challenges and roadblocks. This webinar serves as a much needed review of lessons observed, that hopefully we can all learn from.
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Feb 18, 2021 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what is possible to automate, and also tries to help identify the limits of automation. It considers whether there are aspects of project management that will wholly be supported by automation, those instances where it might provide decision support and also those dimensions of the role that are likely to stubbornly resist automation for some time to come.
If you are interested in the role that software and automation plays—and can play—in supporting project management, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Jan 21, 2021 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
We start our project management journey as a search for tools to get organized and structured, to get things done, to organize and structure our work. It is a focus outward, looking for answers and solutions to questions and problems.
At some point, we transition to a consuming of project management as defined and practiced. We learn structure and order, sequence and steps. There are boundaries, and within those boundaries there are espoused and recommended (dare we call them “best”?) practices.
Eventually, we hit a point where we need to reconcile these perspectives. We recognize that the universal definition doesn’t suit all situations. We also come to appreciate the value of our own viewpoint and perspectives. We need to reconnect with where we started, and understand how all the pieces fit together for us.
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Dec 17, 2020 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
It is one thing to manage or lead in a professional setting. It is an entirely different thing to lead in a volunteer setting. Volunteers are there of their own free will, and choose whether (and how much) to participate in any given project. Their choice to be involved is wanting to contribute, to be a part of something and to make a difference. They will only be present to the extent that they believe that is true. The experience is also a social one; it is where people look to connect, to find community and to find like minds.
That means that leading in a volunteer situation requires a deft touch. We can't require, expect or demand. And while we often don't have much control at work, no where is that reality more clearly demonstrated than in a voluntary setting. This presentation explores successful strategies for leading volunteers.
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Nov 19, 2020 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
The reality is that change is hard, and good change management is harder. We often describe change management as a process, when in reality is guiding and supporting difficult transitions through painful, messy and awkward emotions. This presentation explores what change management really requires, and how to think about preparing for it effectively.
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Oct 15, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation explores what it really means to be a leader. More importantly, it provides practical guidance on how to become one . Participants will gain appreciation for the key dimensions of leadership, how to exercise them and how to recognize the opportunities when doing so might be appropriate.
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Sep 17, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation takes a deep dive into thinking about how to adapt approaches to our projects. In particular, it considers where and when we might need to adapt approaches that are already billed as being "adaptive."
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Aug 20, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
An essential part of good communication is story. And good story has structure, rules and guidelines. Understanding how story works, and how to tell good stories, is a critical tool in communicating well. In this presentation, you will learn how to understand and apply story telling principles to your communication efforts.
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Jul 16, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
It doesn't need to be this way, and good, well-crafted business cases can be important decision tools to guide and support strategic decision making. This presentation dives in to what makes an exceptional business case, and how to build one.
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Jun 18, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Success in this day and age means that we need to take responsibility for our own careers, and our own development. This presentation explores what it takes to successfully be your own talent manager.
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May 21, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation dives into culture and provides a practical grounding on how to approach, understand and manage successfully in a new organization.
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Apr 16, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar goes back to the beginning. It explores where project management came from, and why. It examines the essential principles on which it was developed. And it asks whether those principles would still be relevant if we were starting it all again.
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Mar 12, 2020 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation casts an eye to the future of project management. It explores life at the outer edges of practice, and examines where innovations are most likely to occur, and what form those innovations are likely to take.
If you're curious about where this is all going, you won't want to miss this presentation.
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Feb 20, 2020 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Rather than carving out five or ten minutes at the end of the session, this month we are pulling out all the stops and devoting a full hour to it. In this hour-long session, we will answer some of the best questions asked by webinar participants over the last year. It will be a far-reaching and comprehensive review of a variety of topics, taking the time to dive in and answer questions more comprehensively than is usually possible in a webinar wrap-up.
And yes, you’ll also get to ask your own questions along the way!
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Jan 23, 2020 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar delves into the depths of project management. It defines what technical mastery looks like, why it is relevant, the reasons we might choose to attain it and the steps to consider following in order to get there. If you aspire to the next level of development in your project management career, you'll want to attend.
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Dec 19, 2019 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores the gift that project management can be, when it's approached in just the right way.
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Nov 21, 2019 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what sustainable, stable PMOs do differently to reach that vaunted status.
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Oct 17, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what social media can do, what we can do in social media and where we might want to think about drawing the line.
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Sep 19, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what organizational agility looks like in theory, and what organizational reality often looks like in practice. It identifies the requirements for agile, and the necessary pre-conditions to having it actually work at scale.
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Aug 15, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores how to think about and approach career development in a way that all of us—accidental and deliberate project managers alike—can respond and relate to.
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Jul 18, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores where these lines blur, how to make sense of them, and how to think about our projects and they can—and should—relate to strategy.
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Jun 20, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores where we've been, what's in play right now and what we should expect—and hope for—from our project management software in the future.
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May 16, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what quality management in a project management context might look like, and how we could go about managing it effectively.
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Apr 18, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
We often think of sustainably externally - on what we need to do to save the planet from the increasing impacts of climate change. There is also the question of our own personal sustainability. How do we sustain ourselves? How do we manage in the face of increased pressure, growing demands and shrinking capacity to respond? This webinar explores how to manage and sustain our own capacity and ability to thrive.
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Mar 28, 2019 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
PMI launched the Talent Triangle with an objective of ensuring that on-going development should be balanced between technical, leadership and strategic and business management expertise. But what does that mean, exactly? And what should we be focusing on inside those overall categories? Most importantly, how can each of us build a development plan that is relevant and makes sense for us?
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Feb 21, 2019 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly tackles the challenge of actually innovating—what it is, what it looks like and how to do it. You’ll learn how to bring innovative approaches into your life and work, and how to manage innovation projects.
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Jan 17, 2019 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores an alternative project management curriculum. Join him to find out what he wished he had learned at project management school—and what we can all benefit from learning as well.
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Dec 20, 2018 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Project management can learn a surprising amount from Charles Dickens. Our practices extend back to the time he was writing, as the industrial revolution took hold. And some of those practices have not shaken off the mantle of that legacy. An exploration of our world through the eyes of a very different one.
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Nov 15, 2018 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly dives into the chasm that still separates the worlds of business analysis and project management. He explores where there are similarities and where there are differences. In particular, he examines where differences are a result of perspective, of practise or just of how we talk about things. Most importantly, he offers constructive and concrete suggestions of how to bridge the divide, and get everyone on the same page and talking the same language.
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Oct 18, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Let’s be honest: disruption is a hot topic. The mantra of Silicon Valley is “move fast and break things.” Disruption is about rethinking and restricting in radical new ways that unlock very different results and very different levels of value. So what happens if we disrupt project management? What would that look like? What would emerge out the other side? And will we recognize it when it does?
Whether you're a fan of project management as it's currently practiced, or you desperately wish it would evolve, you'll want to check out this webinar. You are bound to be challenged. You might even be disrupted. How you think about project management will most assuredly be different.
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Sep 20, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Processes emerge because there is a perception that they work. Sometimes this is shaped by expert opinion. Sometimes it is because of “best practices.” In many instances they respond to executive whims and desires. In a perfect world, processes work reasonably well most of the time. That also means there are times when what is normally prescribed is not just inappropriate, but may actually undermine what needs to be accomplished. Knowing when to deviate from process—and how—is one of the most important skills for project managers to learn.
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Aug 23, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
For all that we know about education, and all of the training providers that exist, the training landscape for project managers is surprisingly uniform. There are introductory courses. There are certification programs. There is the school of hard knocks. And there is… not a whole lot else. But if we’re serious about project management gaining traction, we need to develop beyond the basics. This presentation explores what it takes to develop the whole project manager.
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Jul 19, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation explores the questions to be asked and the approaches to be taken in appropriately keeping culture front and centre in your project management implementation. It identifies the challenges that are typically, the strategies that have been proven to work and the considerations necessary to adapt those strategies to your organization.
If you are trying to implement project management process—or you are being affected by someone else’s process expectations—this is the presentation for you.
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Jun 21, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar dives into the world of project management technology. It explores what works, what doesn’t work and what needs to change if we’re going to use technology effectively. It looks at the barriers that exist within the technology, as well as the barriers that we often create within our organizations.
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May 17, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Executives and managers get excited about transformation. Whether that’s about developing a digital strategy, championing improvements or finding efficiencies, change efforts abound. The promises made are significant, and the investments are large as well. Every change effort succeeds or fails, however, based on the support of people. Explore the strategies that can actually make your transformation successful.
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Apr 19, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Congratulations! You’re the new manager of a PMO. Even as you celebrate your promotion, expectations are being created. Responding to and managing those expectations is going to be critical to your on-going success. This presentation provides the new PMO manager with a guide to setting goals, setting direction and seeing success.
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Mar 15, 2018 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
All of us have an opportunity—and an obligation—to give back. And one of the most significant ways that we can help to do that is to help develop the next generation of project managers. The challenge is that they are a very different generation. They have different values and different priorities. They also face a very different environment organizational and work environment. This webinar explore how to make a difference in developing the next generation of project managers.
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Feb 15, 2018 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly takes us back to the essence of what program management is, and what it means to be a program manager. It explores where program management came from, and what it was intended to address. The webinar explores the challenges that were present when program management was conceived, and the challenges that continue to be present in taking a program approach. Finally, it considers how to practically consider and apply the principles of program management in the real world.
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Jan 18, 2018 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
When we talk about talent management, we often identify the work that organizations take on to develop and ensure availability of the skillsets and capabilities that they need to thrive in the future. That is all well and good in ensuring the organization has the competencies it requires. In this day and age, however, we all need to be responsible for our own talent management. We need to be identifying and building our own talents to ensure we are positioned for the roles we want in order to succeed and thrive. This webinar provides you with the grounding and guidance to manage your own talents, and take charge of your own career.
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Dec 21, 2017 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly tackles the concept of success head-on. He explores why our current perceptions of success came from, and why they are so narrowly defined, and yet so persistent . He opens up and explores other possible interpretations of project success, and the implications of attempting to apply and use them. Finally, and most importantly, he provides practical guidance on redefining and reframing how success can be assessed and evaluated on our projects.
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Nov 16, 2017 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the reality of politics in our projects: where it comes from, what it means and how it is often perceived. More importantly, he reframes politics as a necessary—and even useful—driver in the project management process. Rather than seeing politics as unwelcome interference, there is an opportunity to view politics as a fundamental way of exercising influence, managing expectations and engaging in action. Finally, he provides guidance, structure and a thinking framework in order to engage with, manage and influence the political processes orbiting and shaping your projects.
We all engage in politics. This presentation is an essential guide to reframing how we think about and perceive politics, and what effective political behavior actually looks like. Make sure to join us.
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Oct 19, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Portfolio management has been around for several decades. And while we equate it with strategic decision making and prioritization, that isn’t where it started, and it isn’t its greatest source of value. Our perception of portfolio management has evolved in response to organizational challenges and perceived opportunities, and is arguably still somewhat of a moving target. While that’s a legacy of how it has been historically defined, it raises a fundamental question: if we invented portfolio management today, would it still look the same?
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Aug 17, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what’s desirable, what’s possible and what’s practical in collaborating and information sharing in today’s projects. It not only explores technology, but also process and mindset, to re-think and re-imagine how we might work going forward. You’ll get new perspectives, new ideas and techniques that you can put in practice with your team tomorrow.
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Jul 20, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar is designed to explore the pathways and options available in realizing project management mastery. It explores the development strategies available to us, and outlines their essential role in building effective project management skills. Most importantly, it is designed to provide you with the insights to plan your personal journey towards your career goals.
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Jun 22, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
We all know we are supposed to do a “lessons learned” exercise as part of our projects. Some of us even take the time to go through the motions. The challenge is that lessons learned rarely get paid attention to, and organizational practices rarely change as a result. If we really want to learn from our projects, we need to change how we think about lessons learned.
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May 18, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the underlying causes and challenges of managing in the face of uncertain, complex and difficult situations. He explores where and why complexity emerges and the challenges it presents for our projects. He outlines effective strategies to anticipate, address, plan for and manage complex situations when they emerge. Finally, he addresses the challenges associated with keeping other stakeholders—and particularly our sponsors—on side and supportive when difficult situations arise.
If complexity overshadows your projects, there is a simple and uncomplicated solution: join us for this webinar.
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Apr 20, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly debunks the myths of what it means to be a consultant, and makes that case that all of us play a consulting role. He explores the challenges of consulting effectively. Most importantly, he identifies strategies to become a better consultant, and provides techniques and insights to help become a better consultant to your clients, whoever they may be.
We are all consultants, and consulting is everyone’s job. Join us, and learn how to be awesome at it.
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Mar 16, 2017 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly revisits what we know—and what we should know—about team building. He explores why the dominant team building model doesn’t really work in the way it suggests. He introduces new(er) models that provide relevant and important insights about how teams form, how they develop and how they maintain their functioning (good or bad). And in particular, he explores the strategies that really do make a difference in building effective team performance.
Whether you manage teams, or you are a member of teams, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
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Feb 23, 2017 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
While we can’t manage expectations, however, we can certainly help them along. That is a challenge that project managers face, and it’s one we need to understand and consciously address. In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what is possible and what is practical in engaging with stakeholders, understanding their interests and approaching the project in a way that takes this into account. It identifies what can be done to communicate and guide expectations, and also honestly addresses the limitations that every project manager has to recognize and allow for when it comes to stakeholder perceptions.
If you’ve every struggled with the idea of shaping, influencing or guiding stakeholder expectations, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Jan 26, 2017 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
What is the value of the PMO? And how do you demonstrate the value of yours? If you care about delivering value—or if you aren’t quite sure what value you should be delivering—then this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Dec 15, 2016 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the challenge of creating project management organizations that work well and deliver value. He identifies the key variables that drive value, the questions to ask to determine appropriate strategies and the approaches to take to manage development and implementation. Mark leverages research, organizational examples and several decades of experience to outline what it truly takes to implement effective and value-adding organizational capabilities.
If you are challenged within your organization to build a more effective approach—or you find the approach of your organization challenging—this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Nov 17, 2016 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the similarities and distinctions between the roles of business analyst and project manager. He explores how each role has evolved, and where the blurring and overlaps are perceived to currently exist. He also identifies where the differences exist in role, responsibility, skill set and mind set. Finally, he checks on in on where the roles are likely to evolve into the future.
For those curious about how these roles do and don’t align, this webinar will provide some useful insight. For those who are in one role and find themselves curious about the other, this webinar will be enlightening. For those in the position of hiring or supervising either or both roles, this webinar is essential.
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Oct 20, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation dives into the world of strategy, projects, objectives and implementation. Mark Mullaly explores how strategy is developed and the challenges that are encountered in its implementation. More importantly, he identifies the approaches that can be adopted to better align strategy and execution in organizations. Finally, he identifies what project managers can do to enhance the strategic impact of their projects, even in environments where these two concepts do not intersect as well as they should.
What does it really mean to implement strategy? And how do we do it successfully? If these are important questions in delivering on our goals, then we’re pretty sure this presentation should be a priority.
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Sep 15, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly dives into the role and relevance of consistency in making project management happen in organizations. He explores why consistency is perceived to be important, and the role it is intended to serve. We’ll explore how the principles of consistency translate into real life practices, and the challenges of sustaining consistency on an on-going basis. We’ll test the assumption that consistency matters, explore the ways in which consistency is relevant—and where it isn’t. Most importantly, we’ll provide practical guidance in how to focus organizational practices on those dimensions of consistency that actually make a difference in delivering projects.
If you manage projects in an organizational context, this is a webinar you’ll want to be sure to attend and share.
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Aug 18, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly takes a deep dive into the ocean of risk, exploring the bodies of project risk management and enterprise risk management and whether or not they flow together or diverge. Whether you are a project manager, the PMO leader, an organizational executive or an enterprise risk officer, the probability of realizing value from this webinar is high, and the impact will be significant. Of this, we’re quite certain.
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Jul 21, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly takes a critical look at outsourcing and how to make it work for your organization. He’ll explore why organizations seek to take advantage of outsourcing, and how outsourcers seek to take advantage of organizations. You will learn why outsourcing can be useful, when it can be damaging or unhelpful and how to make an objective assessment of the opportunities, costs and risks associated with outsourcing decisions.
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Jun 16, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the new world of project management software. He looks at what is out there, why it exists and what it means. He explores and speculates on what is coming, and what it will enable. In particular, he explores the functionality and the software solutions that are appearing, and how they can help—and hinder—project management teams from effectively managing their work and getting things done.
Join us to discover what the on-trend project manager needs to know about software technology. Stay to find out whether it’s worth actually being trendy.
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May 19, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
As noble a profession as project management might be, it is still looked on with mistrust by some. It can be seen as overly rigid and bureaucratic. Overly linear and traditional by others. Some value it, some question it and some loathe it. How to navigate managing projects in the real world and ensure success in any environment.
For anyone facing the challenges of how to practically manage projects in a way that works, this webinar will offer some useful suggestions, perspectives and strategies.
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Apr 21, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly takes a critical look at the principles of career development in a project world. He explores what it means to be a project manager in today’s economy and career environment. Most importantly, he identifies the options available within a project career path, what is required to take advantage of them and how you can best position yourself for success.
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Mar 17, 2016 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he explores strategies for building conflict-competent project teams. You’ll leverage recent insights into team development and be exposed to the latest research in how to most effectively manage decision making in groups. The result will be concrete strategies that you can adapt and apply in your organization today.
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Feb 18, 2016 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Behaving ethically is easy to do in theory. It can be awkward in actual practice. In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what the challenges of being ethical and behaving ethically. He critically explores what is defined, what is done and what sometimes gets missed. Or misinterpreted.
Join us on 18 February 2016. In all good conscience, how could you miss it?
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Jan 21, 2016 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the development challenges of project managers, and suggest a roadmap for on-going improvement. He outlines the development possibilities that are available, and how to assess what is most meaningful and relevant. Regardless of where you are in your project management journey, you’ll gain insights on how you can continue to move to the next level.
Resolve to join us to find out how you can be a better project manager. It may be the one resolution you can keep.
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Dec 17, 2015 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the challenge of project management development in an emerging age. He explores the challenges that have shaped how project management has evolved so far. He confronts what has worked and what has failed in developing the skill sets, capabilities and leadership abilities. And he defines the strategies, expectations and commitments that will be required if a future generation of project managers is to succeed and thrive. If you supervise, mentor, coach, train or simply act as a role model that others might look up to, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Nov 19, 2015 3:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly takes a practical look at the practice of risk management. He explores the challenges associated with appropriately assessing and anticipating risk. He also provides guidance in how to practically negotiate expectations regarding project risks, and strategies for identifying, assessing and planning for what might happen. Participants will gain a practical understanding of how to apply the principles of risk management in a structured and streamlined fashion. If you wrestle with how to manage the uncertain and unknown on your projects, and knowing how much effort is enough, then this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.
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Oct 15, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores where and how value fits into managing projects. He explores what the project manager should (and shouldn’t) do in ensuring the realization of value. The presentation includes an exploration of where value fits in the project management process, how it needs to be considered, and what project managers can do to measure and monitor whether realization of project value is likely (or possible).
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Sep 24, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly navigates the world of team building. He provides insights into traditional viewpoints and why they have endured. More importantly, he explores what we know about what works and doesn’t work in team building. You will learn what strategies effectively support team building, how to design an effectively team development approach and what is most effective in terms of sustaining team performance over time. If you lead teams (and who among us doesn’t?) this is a presentation you won’t want to miss.
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Aug 20, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Following up on our well-attended January webinar, this presentation delves further into the world of program management. When programs are a vehicle essential to the effective delivery of value, how do you best structure them to be successful? And what does success look like?
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Jul 16, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to manage in creative and innovative environments. Drawing on insights and experiences in a range of creative professions and environments, he explores the work of creativity and innovation. He shares real-life experiences of individuals in a variety of professions and environments, and uses these experiences to develop broader principles for delivering creative work. Finally, he offers guidance on how to think about planning and managing work in situations where creativity and innovation are essential. Creativity can indeed by managed; join us to find out how.
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Jun 18, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what project managers really need to know about ensuring priority and understanding alignment. He examines what organizations should have in place to make appropriate project decisions. More importantly, he explores what project managers need to ask and understand to confirm the priority of any individual project. If you manage projects in organizations, this presentation will provide insight today into how to better manage alignment tomorrow.
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Jun 4, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Reschedule from May 21, 2015.
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the challenging but important topic of organizational change management. He explores how the discipline of change management has evolved, and what is expected to successfully manage organizational change. Most importantly, he explores the answers to the fundamental questions regarding projects that deliver change: Where does it fit in the process of project management, how does it work, and whose job is it anyway?
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Apr 16, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
What do project managers really need to understand about the businesses they support—and business in general—to be successful? A primer on the essential business skills that every project manager should understand.
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Mar 26, 2015 3:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores in detail the role that mentorship plays in effective career development. Mark Mullaly provides a grounding in effective mentorship, and the roles, expectations and value that mentorship provides. He explores the different kinds of mentor that exist, and provides guidance on the purpose and function of each type of mentorship. Most importantly, he provides guidance on how to effectively plan, negotiate and manage a mentoring relationship, and how to sustain its value on an on-going basis.
If you are seeking to advance your career, enhance your profile and improve your effectiveness, this presentation would be a great place to start.
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Feb 19, 2015 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
If you struggle with how to manage quality, are concerned with how to demonstrate success or are overwhelmed with what is necessary (and what is overkill), then this is the webinar for you. Mark Mullaly introduces a practical, pragmatic approach to managing quality that will provide a lot of value without an entirely reasonable amount of effort.
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Jan 15, 2015 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he delves into the different and distinct world of program management. Whether you are a project manager looking to broaden your understanding, a program manager trying to better navigate your world or an executive trying to more effectively deliver strategic undertakings, this presentation is one you won’t want to miss.
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Dec 18, 2014 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores how project management has evolved to date, and the current state of project management practice. In particular, he examines the forces and influences that are shaping project management, and the uncertainties that the discipline faces. If you are a project manager, an executive responsible for project management, or the leader of a project management office, this presentation is for you. Join us for this in-depth exploration of how the discipline and practice of delivering effective change may continue to evolve in the coming decade.
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Nov 26, 2014 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly delves into the question of what makes a successful project manager. The presentation explores the traditional dimensions of success, and the implications and challenges that they represent. More importantly, it explores additional potential dimensions that may be important, and the impact these have on our organizations, our projects, our teams particularly ourselves. From this foundation, Mark suggests a way of rethinking about our personal scorecards as project managers, and what we may need to be more appropriately keeping front-and-centre as measures of success.
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Oct 16, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the leadership challenges associated with the project management role. He identifies the critical leadership capabilities that are most valued by team members and most sought by executives. Most importantly, Mark identifies strategies and approaches to build, develop and continue to enhance our leadership capabilities. Leadership is what defines success. Join us and define your path to becoming a more successful leader.
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Sep 25, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly reviews the challenges of current approaches to business case development. He provides a candid assessment of how business cases are being used today, where the challenges are, and what needs to change in the future. Most importantly, he offers concrete strategies to better present benefits and make the case for your project, and particularly how to evaluate and present the impact of intangible benefits. Invest in attending this webinar; it could have a tangible impact on your future success.
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Aug 21, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly steps back from the details to explore the essential principles that make project management work, and how to reconsider and reapply them in ways that make project management manageable. The webinar takes a look at what is optimal, and what can be optimized, to make project management the essential and value-added function it was always intended to be. If you're overwhelmed the project management challenge, step back, take a deep breath, and join us.
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Jul 17, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly leverages insight from research and current practice to identify what works in developing the value-added PMO. He explores what works and why it works, and helps to outline a framework and approach that any PMO or project services organization can adopt to ensure that its services effectively deliver value.
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Jun 19, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the forces behind the change process, and how they support—and derail—the ability to create effective change. You will learn to look beyond the processes to the people and perceptions that shape effective change. You will be exposed to strategies and mindsets that can help make the change process more acceptable and adopted. You will build new perspectives that you can apply in helping your next change effort to have a greater impact.
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May 29, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to deliver project information effectively in the boardroom. He discusses common challenges and pitfalls, and explores why project information often falls short of expectations. He identifies the information that executives are most often looking for, and how to think about, structure and present information in a way that is meaningful and relevant. The webinar will provide strategies to plan your next presentation, and to ensure to the greatest degree possible that it hits the mark.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
For those who find this concept a little discomforting, this webinar is for you. Mark Mullaly explores what it means to develop and reinforce your abilities as a project manager. Rather than looking on career development as a honing and refining of technical skills and abilities, he takes on the necessary challenge of developing our career as one of ensuring visibility, reinforcing reputation and cementing perceptions of competence. It's not enough to be a great project manager; it is also necessary to be seen as a great project manager. Stand up and be counted; your career will thank you for it.
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Mar 20, 2014 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar lifts the lid on project governance to explore what is supposed to be happening, why it isn't occurring, and what to do about it. Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the challenges associated with designing effective project governance structures. He will explore what steering committees are supposed to do, why they often don't, and what you can do about it. Make going to a steering committees the highlight of your month, not the thing that you dread most. Here's how.
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Feb 28, 2014 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
So what does it actually mean to manage an agile project? What does it take to get acceptance and adoption, and to introduce the practices to an organization? Is it more effective to introduce aspects of the approach, hoping for some level of take-up, even if it means compromising many of the overall foundations? Or is it necessary to adopt agile wholesale, and fend off attempts to water it down? In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the agile phenomenon: where it came from, what it is meant to do, and how to best make it work. Whether you are trying to make it work, or just want to find out more about what it's about, be sure to tune in as we try to deftly explore the agile phenomenon.
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Jan 16, 2014 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
So what actually does work in the world of project management software? What are the solutions that we should see, what would we like to see, and what gets us derailed? What would the ideal project management solution look like, and what pragmatically represents 'good enough' to get the job done. This webinar explores the world of project management software. Join Mark Mullaly as he explores what is needed in project management software, where the tools are falling down and what project managers should look for in an ideal solution.
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Dec 19, 2013 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This webinar explores what it means to think about social change efforts as projects, and how to think about applying the tools of project management in a way that can provide value. Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the factors that make social change projects unique, the challenges in directly translating project management techniques, and strategies to be able to do so effectively. Managing social change is about delivering results; appropriate strategies need to be relevant, appropriate, responsive and scalable. It has been said that with the right lever you can move the world; this presentation explores how project management can be a critical source for good.
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Nov 21, 2013 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the imperative of actually learning from projects. This webinar explores the need for conducting lessons learned, the essential steps that should be addressed, and how to ensure that the results have a meaningful impact. Explore the critical stages of learning from projects, identify what works and what doesn't work in doing so, and find out how to make sure that the insights you gain actually provide benefit to future project teams. Make sure you tune in; you just might learn something.
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Oct 24, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the scary world of projects-gone-wrong. He examines some of the great (and not so great) project failures that have haunted the halls of project management. He probes the detritus to find out just what happened, and examines the entrails to figure out why it happened. Most importantly, he draws what insights he can from this motley collection of ghoulish gore to offer suggestions for how we mere mortals might avoid a similar tragedy.
Join us as we pry open the crypt and shine a light on the horrors that lie within. It should be a hauntingly interesting presentation.
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Sep 26, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the development opportunities that are available to senior project managers. He shares insights from research and interviews to define the skills that organizations most value in looking for senior project managers. The webinar will lay out development options that are available to senior project managers, and suggest strategies by which those options can be pursued. If you are a senior project manager, if you are someone that cares about your career, if you are someone that is striving to be the best you can in your role and your organization, then this may be your path to what’s next. Join us.
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Aug 15, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the process of negotiating requirements in detail. He starts with an understanding of what requirements are supposed to do, and how they fit into the overall process of project planning. This presentation provides practical guidance that any project manager can apply to successfully laying the groundwork for a successful project plan. After all, isn't that the least you require?
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Jul 18, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
So how much support from a PMO is enough? What does the optimal PMO actually look like, and what services do they provide? To what extent should they be interventionist, or provide support on a demand-based, as-needed basis? In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what the optimal value-adding PMO looks like, the services it provides and the level of support required to actually be seen to be effective.
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Jun 20, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores how to think about the role that consultants can play on your projects and in your organizations. The presentation outlines the types of consultants and why each is relevant and valuable. Also discussed are effective strategies for selecting and hiring consultants. You will learn how to when a consultant can provide value, the kind of consultant you need to look for and the best ways to ensure they deliver the outcomes you need. You will also learn what to watch out for, and what not to do along the way.
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May 16, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the origin of both traditional and agile techniques, and explains why these viewpoints are actually two extremes on a continuum. Rather than viewing the problem as a black-and-white, either-or proposition, this presentation illuminates the shades of grey that can be leveraged in developing effective management strategies.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly outlines a series of strategies for effectively negotiating support from your sponsor and steering committee. It outlines how to approach this critical relationship at the outset in order to get the help you need, when you need it. Learn how to educate your sponsor about the support that you need. Find out how to negotiate a working relationship that is effective. Help them to make decisions in a way that helps you deliver your results. Above all, built the governance structure that you need to be successful.
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Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to manage a business process improvement project successfully. He explores why process improvement projects are difficult, and the factors that make them challenging to be able to manage. He also introduces strategies to more effectively manage these projects successfully. Find out how to approach the initiation, the planning and ultimately the management of business process improvement projects in ways that will most reliably deliver success.
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Feb 14, 2013 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he provides guidance on how to train your sponsor to provide the support you need to be successful.
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Jan 17, 2013 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
In this presentation, Mark Mullaly provides an overview of the key skills project managers are identified as most in need of developing. He introduces several meaningful models of personal development, and provides guidance on how to use these models to develop an effective personal development plan. If you are striving to improve your skills as a project manager, this is a presentation you will want to build into your training plan.
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Dec 13, 2012 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he explores how to learn from failure, and do so gracefully (or at least meaningfully). Embrace learning how to fail; we won’t hold it against you.
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Nov 30, 2012 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
PREMIUM webinar
This presentation provides the project manager with a primer in how to think strategically about projects. It provides guidance about what questions to ask at the beginning of a project to ensure a project is strategically aligned as possible. It gives a framework for thinking about potential strategic linkages and how best to support them. And it provides a framework for evaluating project success that express impacts in strategic terms. If you are managing a significant project, or want the impact of your project to be more significant, then this presentation will help provide the tools to succeed.
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Oct 18, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the challenges and potential benefits that a portfolio management implementation can provide. This webinar will explore the challenges that exist at each stage of the portfolio management process, and suggest strategies to address them. It will also consider some of the larger organizational challenges that are associated with implementing a portfolio management approach. Lastly, it will provide some survival strategies for those facing the need for better portfolio decisions in environments where portfolio is a dirty word.
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Sep 20, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
webinar
So what is new in the world of project management? What needs to change about how we think about managing projects today, and what we need to be bringing to the project landscape? In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what is changing in the world of project management, and why. He considers what this means not just for the discipline of project management but for individual practitioners. He suggests a blueprint for continued professional development in order to be relevant in the projects and organizations of today, and tomorrow.
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Aug 16, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
PREMIUM webinar
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the challenges of managing our way out from under the mounds of documentation that represent our projects. He identifies where current practices evolved from and why, how they got this intensive and what we can do about them. Learn how to accurately assess how much project management is enough, and how to scale down the documentation - and the expectations around the documentation - associated with your project. You will gain a better understanding of what is appropriate for effective project management, and how to effectively manage with a lower impact on you, and on the trees.
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Jul 19, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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What do the management practices of mega-projects actually look like? How do these differ from the practices of normal projects? How do the results of mega-projects differ? And what insights might be useful and relevant managing the projects that the rest of us get involved with? In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the processes by which mega-projects are managed, and the degree to which they relate (and differ) from what might be viewed as traditional project management practices. He evaluates the track record of mega-project techniques in delivering projects successfully. And he explores the lessons learned and insights gained from actual mega-projects, and how these can be related (or adapted) to our own practices and projects. Join us for what promises to be a really big (and very useful) presentation.
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Jun 21, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores the challenges, opportunities and approaches by which project managers can get control over their own work life. He discusses the typical difficulties that project managers face in gaining control of their own workload, and provides concrete suggestions on how to manage more effectively. In an age where the need for work/life balance is commonly discussed, isn't it time you took the time to figure out how to get some? Carve some time out of your schedule for this webinar; it could be the most important one you spend this month!
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May 24, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Join Mark Mullaly as he explores politics in a project environment, and provides an overview of the political skills that any project manager should have to survive and thrive in their workplace. You will learn strategies for exercising politics productively, as well as for addressing instances of negative politics when they unavoidably turn up.
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Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Stakeholder management is about more than just writing down their names and maintaining the information in a log. A lot more. Successful project managers don't just manage their stakeholders, they engage with them. They build an early dialogue with their stakeholder community, and they keep communicating throughout the project and even after it is completed. Join Mark Mullaly as he provides insights into the tips and techniques that will enable you to engage more successfully with your stakeholders.
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Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores the world of social media, and its relevance for project management. The presentation will include an overview of available media solutions, how they can be used (and abused) in a project context, and guidelines for how to select, plan for and incorporate social media. He will explore strategies to take best advantage of social media solutions, as well as cautions, risks and pitfalls to be watched for.
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Feb 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Join Mark Mullaly as he explores the promise and perils of adopting consistent practices, and provides practical guidance for the project manager on how to continue to function effectively in the face of organizational standards.
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Jan 19, 2012 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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It is never something that we like to face – but it is a reality that we often have to accommodate, despite our preferences to the contrary. When we are told to do more with less, and to scale down what it will take to do our project, what are our options? How do we approach it? How do we make sure that, when all is said and done, we have the bandwidth and resources to still successfully deliver what we are committed to?
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Dec 15, 2011 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Issue management is a critical aspect of effective project management, but one that often gets overlooked or given less attention than is needed. While risk management is often perceived as being critical, it is in the management of issues that risks are actually identified and managed. Which means that ignore issue management is, well, risky…
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Nov 17, 2011 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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What we understand as a project is clear and well defined: a clear objective, a set of related activities and a defined start and end date. Except when the project doesn't it. Getting project closure is important, but also can be elusive. Customers and sponsors resist closing out projects for a variety of reasons: because they are unsatisfied with the results, because they have further plans, or because there is more work to be done. At the same time, project managers and teams struggle with uncertainty, ambiguity and stress.
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Oct 25, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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This webinar takes a fresh look at what it means to monitor portfolio performance. Join Mark Mullaly as he helps to define the questions that a portfolio manager should be asking, the reporting process that this requires and how to move beyond just status reports to know what is really going on inside a project portfolio.
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Sep 27, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Risk management has a bad name. “Risk”, like “politics", is a word weighted with negative baggage. When we hear the word, we view it as focussing on problems. Risk management on projects can become a doom-and-gloom exercise in finding all of the bad things that might go wrong, and coming up with plans of what to do about them.
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Aug 16, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Projects are hard enough when the focus is on getting the technical result produced, on time, on budget and to specification. When we add in the complication of getting that used, however, the challenge becomes much more significant. Organizational change requires the evolution of structures, roles, responsibilities. processes and - above all - behaviours. It is all about getting people to work in new and different ways, and to embrace why they need to make this change.
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Jul 19, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Prioritization of projects involves making competing decisions. Sometimes the competition is between projects. At other times, the competition is between departments and business units. The decisions we make are based upon different projects, to accomplish different outcomes, by different areas of the organization. We aren't comparing apples and oranges; at times, we are comparing kumquats and bathroom tissue.
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Jun 21, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Alot of project management is wrapped up in the idea of scheduling. Many project management software packages put the management of schedule front and centre; for some, it's all they really actually provide support for managing. Project management courses emphasize the ideas of managing the critical path, building Gantt charts and analyzing PERT networks. Much stress is created about project schedules, milestones, dependencies and deadlines.
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May 10, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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This webinar focuses on various aspects of piloting change in organizations when change is largely implemented via projects.
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Mar 15, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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The advent of social media brings with it exciting new communications opportunities within projects. It also brings a new kind of risk. In the age of social media, project managers have a whole new communications dynamic to manage in their projects. This can create a radically different communications plan. It can also create the need to define communications recovery strategies and can impact how we define roles and responsibilities within projects.
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Feb 15, 2011 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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As project managers we often have projects handed to us. We are often not involved in defining the compelling reason to make the change or do the project. Our involvement often begins with a: “Hey Sue, would you take this one on?” And off we go to plan and deliver the project, sometimes in a bit of a vacuum that can bite us along the way.
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Jan 18, 2011 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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We hear a lot about portfolio management. It’s a term that is often misunderstood or at least used to represent a variety of ways to manage multiple projects. But what is the approach to establishing an effective portfolio and determining the projects to include? How do we know what to put in the portfolio bucket?
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Dec 21, 2010 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Facilitating virtual project team meetings requires some conventional thought with a good dose of some out of the box thinking. A good project manager prepares well for all meetings and especially for those meetings held at a distance. In virtual meetings, the project manager needs to find creative ways to engage participants and know what people are really doing at the other end of a call. Have you ever attended a virtual meeting where someone is called upon and they don't answer or when a question is asked? Don't let that happen to you.
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Nov 16, 2010 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Even when speaking the same language, we all interpret words in our own way, with our own filters and supported by our personal or organizational context. We sometimes forget that others may define or react to the exact same word much differently than we do. In addition, organizations and areas within organizations may use and interpret the same word differently, depending on the context. As project managers, we don’t always understand the impact various contexts and these different interpretations can have on an organization’s ability to successfully implement change. As such we may find ourselves dodging verbal hand grenades – terms that can blow our organizational change projects right out of the water!
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Oct 19, 2010 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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The project management profession has been around for more than a century and will continue to be relevant for the foreseeable future. We know that project managers are often equipped with a multitude of technical tools that support them in effectively managing a project that aligns to strategy. The opportunity to learn about specific capabilities and tools that support the project beyond the technical aspects is sometimes limited. This presentation presents three relatively universal capabilities that project managers will practice for a long time to come. We'll zero in on three specific and pragmatic tools that the project manager can use to effectively manage projects to there desired outcomes.
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Sep 22, 2010 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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In projects it is important that the project manager know who's on first.. They can facilitate the negotiation of and agreement to project roles. They can also orient people to their role. And the sooner the better. The sooner those involved in projects understand their role and how it relates to the roles of others on the project, the more effective they can be in their roles when executing the project. Everyone knowing who's on first can prevent much confusion and reduce the number of problems you encounter on a project.
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Apr 20, 2010 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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The project is done and you are wrapping things up. There is one key step that you and your organization must take is conducting the Post Implementation Review (PIR). You can call it lessons learned or a benefits realization or a PIR. Regardless, it is often not done frequently enough and when done, it is not done well. This is very unfortunate because the PIR is critical to provide you, your project team and the organization the opportunity to get better at managing and governing projects. Join us for this Project HEADWAY webinar when we will explore the the meaningful PIR. There is only one rule for this webinar - No Pointing Fingers!
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Mar 23, 2010 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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To support your PMO’s success, join us in this Project HEADWAY webinar where we examine the different types of PMO's, the role each plays and the essential factors that must be in place to ensure its success.
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Feb 16, 2010 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This Project HEADWAY webinar will examine the role that you play or can play as a coach on your projects and within your organization. We will introduce a coaching process for project managers, examine at some of the actions to take and the pitfalls to avoid.
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Jan 26, 2010 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This webinar explores the concept of the community of practice and looks to understand how it is relevant to almost every organization.
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Dec 22, 2009 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This Project HEADWAY webinar explores the greening of project management and examines the role that the project manager can and maybe should play.
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Nov 17, 2009 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This Project HEADWAY webinar examines benefits realization from a portfolio perspective. What are the key steps a portfolio needs to take and what are some of the pitfalls it needs to avoid?
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Oct 20, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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How can the portfolio support projects and ensure they have the opportunity to realize their benefits? What are the steps the portfolio can take to ensure projects have the required supports, that expectations are being managed and that governance and oversight is being applied? This Portfolio HEADWAY webinar examines portfolio governance and oversight.
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Sep 22, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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This Portfolio HEADWAY webinar will examine the process of selecting a project--from documenting and screening the original idea, developing a business case, making the final selection and then prioritizing those selected projects.
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Aug 18, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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In this Portfolio HEADWAY webinar, we examine project portfolio management and the foundations that must be in place to ensure that the portfolio is there for the long haul.
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Jul 21, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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The notion of "on-time, on-buget, on-scope" seems to be more of a myth than reality and the idea of being able to plan the whole project at the beginning and sticking close to our project plan is long dead. In this Change HEADWAY webinar we examine the concept of extreme project management and explore some of the opportunities this project management approach presents and the pitfalls we should avoid.
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Jun 16, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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In this Project HEADWAY webinar, we interview Mark Mullaly, the President of Interthink Consulting Incorporated and a co-lead of PMI's Value of Project Management research study. Mark will provide insights into the challenges that we experience and offer suggestions for how we can try to gain the support and commitment of management to the project management process.
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Apr 21, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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An increasing number of projects now involve team members from multiple locations across the city, the state, the country or even the world. This Project HEADWAY webinar will examine virtual teams and provide thoughts and suggestions on how you can manage them more effectively. Please join us because it really does involve more than the phone.
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Mar 24, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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Make your next status meeting a valuable one, and not a bored meeting. This Project HEADWAY webinar examines how to make this meeting more effective for both the project manager as well as the other meeting participants, ensuring everyone meets their objectives and gets out on time!
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Feb 10, 2009 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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A good lessons learned session is more than just an exercise in asking questions. It is about the willingness to hear the answers and make the necessary changes to avoid the same problems on current and future projects. It is not about finger pointing. It is about collectively assessing opportunities to build stronger projects. This Change HEADWAY webinar will explore what makes a good lessons learned discussion work.
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Jan 20, 2009 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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As project managers, we should incorporate change management activities into our project management plans to increase the likelihood that our projects will have lasting, long term success. This gantthead Change HEADWAY webinar will examine the key change management activities you should consider and how they will impact the project.
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Dec 16, 2008 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Projects are about change: changing locations, changing technology, changing people, changing processes. Successful change is, in part, about doing a project at just the right time. This Change HEADWAY webinar will focus on how change management techniques can be used to understand where your organization is at prior to embarking on the project.
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Nov 18, 2008 12:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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Change Management is viewed more and more as critical to project and organizational success. In this Change HEADWAY webinar, we will be examining the change management process from a project manager's perspective to understand how change management can impact all aspects of your project.
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Oct 9, 2008 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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A little bit of up-front effort to understand what stimulates your team can have a long lasting impact on team members working on your project. This Project HEADWAY webinar will examine the concept of motivation and present some simple, but powerful ways by which you can foster and maintain inspired team members and an invigorated team.
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Sep 18, 2008 12:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)
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As a project manager, it is important to actively monitor and manage issues to ensure they do not explode and become a risk that impacts the success of the project. In this gantthead Project HEADWAY webinar, we will define project issues, explore some of the causes and try understand how to manage them to ensure project success.
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