I am glad to let you know that I passed PMP exam on Dec 30th 2011. Much of my preparation was from PM Podcast and PM Exam simulator. The PM Podcast is really good not only for the PMP aspirant but als
This presentation is aimed at helping you learn how to set up, conduct, and participate in effective project meetings. You will learn how to...
Plan project meetings that produce results
Conduct efficient, effective project meetings
Find solutions, make decisions, and reach agreements that others will support
Capture results so that people take action after the meeting
How this will change your project:
People will treat meetings as a business activity
Meetings will produce useful results
Meetings will be held only when appropriate
The work in a meeting will be more focused, more orderly, and more effective
Month 02: Dealing with Difficult People
Presented by Margaret Meloni, PMP
Dealing with Difficult People is a complete step-by-step guidance to working on and with the difficult people on your team to improve relationships.
It provides tools and techniques in dealing with difficult and toxic individuals. Working with difficult co-workers is a cause of low morale, decreased collaboration and slows down productivity. The lecture teaches you and your employees the skills of handling those toxic personalities and bad attitudes that are plaguing your office and bring some civility back to your workplace.
You will learn how to identify the various types of difficult behaviors that can damage your team. You will learn how to employ strategies for dealing with difficult co-workers and employees so that you can work together effectively.
The lecture also helps you identify the triggers that can cause you to become a difficult person. It helps you to control your own behavior, because ultimately, in any given situation you are the only person you can control and understand that other people’s behavior is not about you, it is about them.
The lecture has six regular modules and two bonus modules that will teach you to be more confident to deal with difficult people. You will also be able to integrate the concepts discussed into your daily work life. Become the best you can be at Dealing with Difficult People!
Month 03: High Performance PMOs – What makes a PMO Effective?
A PMO serves two critical functions in an organization. First, it is the eyes and ears of management to identify problems and risks. Second, the team is in the uniquely positioned to help resolve these issues.
Through interacting with project managers, reviewing projects, and analyzing metrics, the PMO is able to pinpoint the challenges and opportunities presented to the company.
This presentation examines what makes a PMO effective in living out its purpose and gets your engine revved with ideas on what can be accomplished. For the individual already leading a PMO, it will allow you to spot check what you have and tune your organization with best practices that will increase your performance.
You will be able to articulate how a PMO resolves key organizational challenges; think in terms of organizational change to gain commitment; understand the role compliance plays in PMO success; develop a sense of community instead of oversight; and recognize speed bumps that can slow you down
The intent of this session is to present best practices used by high performing PMOs to raise the performance of their organizations.
Month 04: Managing Teams In A Virtual World
Presented by Diane C. Altwies, MBA, PMP
This video presentation is a webinar on how to create, manage and make your virtual team perform more successfully. Virtual teams are possible with the advance state of technology today. Project Managers can create their working teams with members taken from different locations or around the globe and each member doing their work through a virtual workplace.
Since virtual teams are not discussed in detail in the PMBOK® Guide, it is necessary to study how virtual teams can work effectively in teams. Project Managers and project team members can learn in this session how to make their team perform more effectively.
Topics discussed include:
Selecting and building successful virtual teams
Managing virtual team work efficiently
Recognizing the challenges of working in virtual teams
Resolving conflict in virtual teams
Month 05: The Strategic Project Leader
Presented by Jack Ferraro, PMP
Learn how to demonstrate that you are more than a mere project manager. Establish yourself as a Strategic Project Leader who can turn project management into a strategic advantage for the organization.
This PM Lecture™ will give you a self-directed plan to begin building your leadership competencies. This will show you how to make a difference with every project you lead. The first of two parts on this leadership topic, it will teach you to transform the way you lead your projects.
The Strategic Project Leader provides clear direction on how to implement leadership practices. Learn how to build trust with senior executives that will allow you to truly change the world through the value of the work you provide. Become the enabler of your organization.
Month 06: Build your Service-based Project Leadership Skills
Presented by Jack Ferraro, PMP
Master the art of Service-based Project Leadership by applying the techniques and concepts first presented in the book The Strategic Project Leader. In the Introduction to The Strategic Project Leader, you studied the foundations of Service-based Project Leadership. In this PM Lecture we take you to the next level, introduce you to several important service-based leadership concepts and give you a road map to success.
Build Your Service-based Project Leaderships Skills is a motivating seminar that ends with a plan that will take you to the next level in Project Leadership. This PM Lecture will teach you to comprehend the importance of building trust on projects, master techniques to build project relationships based on trust and apply the key components of trust: credibility, reliability, intimacy and low self-orientation.
Learn to understand the benefits of trust-based relationships and describe the difference between leadership and power, describe and use the importance of consultative leadership and being and advisor, and engage your customer and frame the issues appropriately, among other things. Stop providing just deliverables. Begin providing value.
Month 07: How To Conduct A Successful Teleconference
How To Conduct A Successful Teleconference
The purpose of the presentation, “How To Conduct A Successful Teleconference” is to provide the basic ingredients needed to initiate and maintain an effective and efficient teleconference.
These ingredients are common to any meeting that achieves its stated goals. It is not “rocket science”. It’s simple meeting etiquette. The difference, however, is that everyone is not in the same place. You’re not eye-ball-to-eye-ball with your audience, which makes it more difficult to read their body language, to hear what they have to say, to make sure they have the opportunity to participate and to enforce the decorum that makes the participants look forward to the assembly.
After all, you are bringing them together to make decisions or for an informational session. In either case, you want them to be active listeners, even if they are in Timbuktu.
This presentation is designed to accomplish this objective.
Month 08: Leadership Challenges of Complex Projects - Part 1
Presented by Stan Levanduski, PMP
This PM Lecture™ enables you to successfully resolve the challenging issues facing you when leading (or preparing to lead) large, complex projects because Stan Levanduski, PMP, gives you the means to understand, plan for and then manage these challenges. Don't be stuck in a career leading small projects. Let Stan Levanduski, PMP introduce you to a philosophy and process of successfully leading large and complex projects.
Stan lays the foundation by showing you what the difference is between managing and leading a project and then moves on to analyzing what complexity really is and how it is created. It gets really interesting, when he moves on to discuss the Chaos Theory and Complexity Science and delivers an incredibly captivating lecture on how these seemingly unrelated domains relate to how you need to lead complex projects.
Once you have understood this foundation Stan takes you step by step through the process of preparing for and planning a complex project. He discusses the increased importance of communication on complex projects and gives you the tools to respond to this need. And he also helps you to create an environment on your complex project that will lead to success.
This Lecture is a must for everyone who wants to move from simply managing a project to leading complex projects. Differentiate yourself from your competition!
Month 09: Leadership Challenges of Complex Projects - Part 2
Part 2 of the 5.5 hour long presentation by Stan Levanduski, PMP
Month 10: Managing Stakeholder Expectations
Presented by Janice Y Preston, MBA, CPA, PMP
Managing stakeholder expectations was a new addition to the PMBOK® Guide in 2008, but savvy project managers have always understood the need to keep stakeholder interests in mind. This podcast will lay the groundwork for what you need to know to be ready to manage stakeholder expectations and will follow with tips and techniques to help your projects run more smoothly. The objectives of this podcast are:
Identify key stakeholders
Use a power and interest matrix to analyze stakeholders
Develop techniques to set expectations with stakeholders
What do executives want to see in a PMO Dashboard? How do today’s PMO Managers provide this information? What tools do they use?
At PMO and PPM conferences, these questions have been and continue to be the top questions asked by PMO Managers. This presentation provides PMO Executive Dashboarding Tips and Techniques that PMOs of all shapes and sizes can implement and has been given by Mark Price Perry at leading PMO and PPM conferences around the world.
Taken from material in Chapter 6, Executive Reporting - Keep it Simple, of Mark Price Perry’s best-selling book, Business Driven PMO Setup - Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success, this presentation will give you practical insights and techniques that you can use to ensure the success of your PMO.
Month 12: The 4-Week PMO
Presented by Cornelius Fichtner, PMP.
Throughout his career, Cornelius Fichtner, PMP has participated in the setup of a number of PMOs. He has seen the good, the bad and those that failed.
Over these years he developed a simple and pragmatic approach that will enable a company to roll out the initial release of their PMO within 4 weeks. In this presentation he gives us a high-level overview of his approach.
He reviews the PMO setup problems he came across over the years, defines the 4 basic components of a PMO that exist in any company (even if they don't know that they have them), reviews a standard PMO implementation schedule and presents three 4-Week PMO case studies.
You will walk away with a blueprint of the general steps necessary to roll out the initial release of your PMO within 4 weeks.
Throughout his career, Cornelius Fichtner, PMP has
participated in the setup of a number of PMOs. He has seen the good, the bad
and those that failed.
Over these years he developed a simple and pragmatic
approach that will enable a company to roll out the initial release of their
PMO within 4 weeks. In this presentation Cornelius gives us a high-level
overview of his approach.
He reviews the PMO setup problems he came across over the
years, defines the 4 basic components of a PMO that exist in any company (even
if they don't that they have them), reviews a standard PMO implementation
schedule and presents three 4-Week PMO case studies.
You will walk away with a blueprint of the general
steps necessary to roll out the initial release of your PMO within 4 weeks.
Month 13.1: Effective Presentations for Project Managers
Presented by Steve Kaye.
This podcast is aimed at helping project managers develop effective presentation skills in conducting meetings to achieve favourable results. It’s essential to recognize that showing this particular skill demonstrates leadership and the ability to think and communicate in public. It plays a significant influence towards career advancement and other opportunities.
It speaks the following wisdom:
Importance of goal setting for every meetings.
Knowing the audience expectation beforehand.
Coming up with presentation plan.
How practise makes perfect.
At the end of which, project managers are also given some tips on how to plan successful presentations in a short period of time.
Month 13.2: Do More With Less (Bonus Item)
Presented by Margaret Meloni.
Do More With Less is about time management. It’s a guide for project managers on how they can take charge of their lives to accomplish more in a limited period of time. It speaks of techniques on how to plan and organize daily schedule to accommodate more tasks.
This webinar is about setting rules and how to make the right decisions to achieve much better results. It teaches project managers to walk away from stress and walk the path to peace.
Month 13.3: What's Your Communication Style (Bonus Item)
Presented by Margaret Meloni, PMP
Are you a natural speaker or a shy observer? Do you like telling people what to do or do you say "yes" all the time? Are you having trouble getting along with your co-workers? Do you feel frustrated if you don’t get your point across?
These are only some of the questions that have baffled so many in the workplace. Being a member of an organization requires an understanding of how to communicate effectively with others to avoid conflicts. To accomplish company goals, you need to work together as a team. The exchange of ideas through meetings and discussions can sometimes lead to arguments due to the lack of communication.
Mastering the art of communication takes lots of practice. What’s Your Communication Style by
Margaret Meloni is a useful guide to understand others better.
Month 14: Stop Meeting Failure
Presented by Andreas Heilwagen, PMP
Have you ever tried setting meetings and most people don’t show up? Do you find yourself in the middle of a boring and unproductive meeting? Do you constantly start and end a meeting late? Stop wasting everyone’s time and your own! Learn how to set and conclude meetings successfully with the help of Andreas Heilwagen's informative Stop Meeting Failure.
Meetings are held for planning, organizing, delegating tasks and setting goals. If the meeting agenda is left unsettled, the meeting itself is useless. Time is running out and decisions will have to be made sooner or later. What do you when a meeting is going nowhere?
With Heilwagen's webinar, you will get valuable tips on how to plan a meeting from start to finish. You will also learn how to invite, encourage and motivate people to come to your meetings.
Month 15: Managing Scope from Cradle to Grave
Presented by Mike Graupner, PMP
This presentation is aimed at helping project managers develop the needed strategies to address the challenges of scope management. It covers the following learning:
The impact of project management to scope management.
The definition of the scope management process.
The plan and control scope during the project.
The identification and analysis of problems when scope is changing.
The adaptation of working in teams and leading the scope management process.
The evaluation of other people’s commitment to scope control.
Month 16: Project Monitoring and Controlling
Presented by Kristine Hayes Munson, PMP
This presentation aims to improve the processes used in monitoring and controlling projects. The topics will include the following:
All projects are not equal. Trying to execute a small project with the full-up PMBOK approach may turn out to be over kill. Small projects are typically executed by “accidental” or “casual” project managers rather than classically trained Project Managers who have been exposed to the complexity of processes and procedures contained in the PMI PMBOK. The sheer size of the book as well as the complexity of the methodology often frightens the casual project manager into “just winging” it because the formal process appears to be overly complicated. A majority of project run in typical organizations are in the small to medium category (defined as 3 to 10 people for about 3 to 4 months) these usually involve project managers and team members who have had little or no formal project management training.
This pod cast is targeted at this group and provides “just enough” project management to be effective, but not so much that you are overwhelmed with complexity. We will cover all phases from Initiation through Planning, Executing, Control and Monitoring and finally close-out and will discuss the minimum levels of structure and process required for the casual or accidental project manager.
Month 18: How Do You Know When Your Project Is In Trouble
Presented by Wes Kahle
We've all felt that sense of unease about a project, whether it is just something that didn't sound quite right or a general anxiety that seems to be spreading through the team. But who steps forward to say "Houston, I think we have a problem?" The sad fact is that most projects fail, not by a destructive act, but by the gradual erosion of focus, commitment and confidence....and no one calls this out as we tell ourselves that 'it's just in our heads', 'there is no clear evidence of a problem', or 'things will get better'. What has been lacking up to this point is a benchmark, a template for both (a) assessing the health of a project before it implodes and (b) communicating objective information to others that can help everyone see the situation clearly. In this videocast we offer you 4 easy to use measures to dimension whether your project is in trouble or not so you can end the debate in your head and begin fixing things on the ground.
Month 19: An Overview of Agile Methods and Agile PM
Presented by Cornelius Fichtner, PMP
This webinar is intended as an introduction to Agile software development and Agile project management for project managers trained in traditional waterfall based methodologies. It includes an overview of Agile, a review of the Agile Manifesto as well as the Declaration of Interdependence and how they both relate to project management, an introduction to 7 Agile methods and you'll also get a series of criteria and methods that you can use to determine, if a project should or should not be implemented using Agile.
Month 20: Effective Project Execution with Lean Agile Kanban
Presented by Josh Nankivel, PMP
Kanban is a method for developing products with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the developers. It emphasizes that developers pull work from a queue, and the process, from definition of a task to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see.
In this presentation, Josh shows you exactly why Kanban is so powerful and why. Then you will witness Kanban in action and come away with a deep understanding of the process and how to implement it on your own project teams immediately.
Month 21: Implementing Effective Risk Response Strategies on Your Projects
Presented by Kevin Reilly, PMP, CSM
Risks are an inherent part of every project, regardless of size or complexity. Understanding how to identify risks (both negative and positive), create response strategies for these risks, and monitoring and controlling them on you projects will ultimately mean the difference between project success or project failure. This webinar will concentrate on the different types of risk response strategies for negative and positive risks on your projects, as well as risk control techniques that have proven to be successful in the field. Theory will be mixed with real-life examples to drive home the concepts, and suggested action steps will be presented so that you can implement the concepts on your actual projects.
