New Member Orientation

March 15  | 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Free

Join us for a 30-minute virtual informational session focused on welcoming new PMI MN members and providing membership benefits!

Effectively Dealing with Workplace Disrespect

March 15 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Virtual | PDU:1 | Leadership

Join us for our Virtual March Chapter Dinner with speaker Paul Pelletier!

Research shows that more than 70% of workers have been impacted by disrespectful workplace behavior. Disrespect in project management comes in many forms: rudeness, sabotage, gossip, bullying, harassment, ignoring, demeaning, controlling and the list goes on. Regardless of the type, bad behavior poisons the work environment. Its impact is enormous: disengagement; loss of creativity and productivity; and sick leave, benefit and turnover costs. It not only creates dysfunctional workplaces, it can impact your project teams, client relationships, reputation and bottom line.

Fortunately, there are many proactive, preventative measures that you can take to manage disrespect. With many tools and an action plan, everyone in your workplace can create an effective strategy to prevent, manage and eliminate your workplace nightmare. The focus of this presentation is on providing leaders with tools for approaching and resolving disrespect issues, before they become full-blown conflicts or poison a team. Critical to disrespect management, participants will develop strategies for changing the context of bad behavior from negative to positive, from disrespectful to appropriate.

New Discipline Agile Scrum Master Certification Prep Course

March 25 - 26 | 9:00 AM - 5:15 PM | Virtual | Credit Hours:16

Are you considering the Discipline Agile Scrum Master exam from PMI? Join us for a two-day boot camp where instructor Barbee Davis will walk you through Disciplined Agile and what to expect when taking the exam.

Disciplined Agile is not a framework, but rather a toolkit that focuses on the decisions you need to consider with these options. It shows you how to effectively combine strategies from Scrum, Agile Modeling, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Agile Data, SAFe and many other approaches in a tailorable and scalable manner. Organizations that adopt Disciplined Agile go to market sooner, deliver value faster and make their customers happier.

Barbee Davis has years of experience in teaching discipline agile and focuses on how to make the material “stick” for participants. She is a celebrated author, sought after speaker at national and international conferences and is a regular contributor on projectmanagement.com.

Your course material will be sent to you virtually several days before class starts so you can review. The cost of the course includes course materials, the two-day boot camp and your first attempt at the DASM exam.

• Participant Limit: 20
• Credit Hours: 16

PMP Certification Prep Course

April 19 - 23 | 9:00 AM - 5:15 PM | Virtual | Credit Hours:35

Are you considering the PMP certification this year? Join us for a five-day boot camp where instructor Barbee Davis will walk you through the updated PMP materials and what to expect when taking the exam.

The PMP continues to be the “gold star” certification for project managers. Currently about 6% of all project managers carry the PMP certification. Join the exclusive club and start prepping for your PMP.

This year PMI (Project Management Institute) introduced a new PMP exam that draws from both Agile and traditional waterfall. The exam is notoriously difficult and a PMP Exam prep class will help you feel more confident as you prepare.

Barbee Davis is a certified Approved Training Provider by PMI and has years of experience in teaching PMP exam prep and focuses on how to make the material “stick” for participants. She is a celebrated author, sought after speaker at national and international conferences and is a regular contributor on projectmanagement.com.

• Participant Limit: 20
• Credit Hours: 35

On Demand Webinars

Leading Without Authority | PDU:1 | Strategic & Business

Behaving like a leader is important for everyone in the organization, no matter where they sit. Project Managers are perfectly positioned to do more than manage--you fill a critical leadership role in project success.

This session will take you through traits, intentions, characteristics, and look into methods to drive change that can make you a great leader.  You will learn tools of the trade that are critical to your professional success.  We will touch on topics like: communication, facilitation, trust, motivation, empathy, change and transformation, managing conflict and stakeholders, and building teams.

Persuading the Bear: How to Influence Without Authority  | PDU:1 | Leadership

In this practical and insightful presentation, the audience will learn best practices for leading and influencing without authority, giving them the skills they need to effectively persuade others, lead diverse teams, and get projects done on time.

How to Generate Happiness & Love Using Portfolio Management | PDU:1 | Leadership

Speaker Craig Kilford will share engaging stories from his experiences of creating successful enterprise project portfolio management ecosystems within various companies. Using real life examples, his interactive talk will discuss a rapid high-energy approach, the things that work great, the things to watch out for and how focusing on creativity and authenticity will help increase the overall happiness of leadership and portfolio teams by 48.8%.

Let's Really Talk Culture | PDU:1 | Leadership

The type of culture that any work team, department or company develops is not from the words that are framed on the wall, titled: Our Vision. A culture takes shape by the attitudes and behaviors of its everyday people.

In this session, you will build your skills to address tough issues, and learn the little things that make a big difference in keeping a healthy team culture.

New PMP® Certifications for the Month of January

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