Course Description: This course walks you through a structured system to help you understand and apply the specific techniques that will put you in control of the project’s scope from its inception through delivery. You will learn how to understand, validate, document, and control the product and project requirements. We’ve also provided case studies to enforce what […]

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Course Description: Having good communication skills is critical as a successful project manager. PMs spend 90% of their time communicating to project sponsors, team members, customers, vendors and other stakeholders. This course will teach you the best communication practices that make the top project managers successful. It also includes templates and techniques that you can immediately apply […]

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Course Description: Looking to become a better project manager? Look no further than this highly acclaimed course. In this practical course, we teach you how to leverage the knowledge and experience of seasoned project managers. Packed with tips, tricks and practical techniques you can immediately apply to your own projects, you will finish the course feeling confident […]

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Course Description: Project failure is expensive to your organization and to your career. This course will reveal the most prevalent causes of project failure and will show you what you can do to avoid the reason for failure by going after the root causes. Not surprisingly, the project manager is almost always a major factor for success […]

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Course Description: Wanting a course to follow up Risk Management Fundamentals? This course builds upon the previous course’s foundation to build your working knowledge in applying specific practical approaches, processes, and tools and techniques in managing the uncertainty—or risk—of the project’s success from the inception to the completion. Included are 22 downloadable “takeaways” which you can find […]

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Course Description: In this course you’ll learn that it’s not just about Millennials or Gen Z, it’s about adapting your daily management practices to better engage with all modern talent in this current digital age. Earn 6 PDUs as you take a closer look at each generation, develop an inclusion-ready mindset using a Stereotypes-to-Strengths framework, and break through the 5 most common stereotypes of Millennials. This hands on course includes practical exercises and reflection activities to help you level up your management skills and become an engaging, effective leader of all modern talent.

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Course Description: With so many project proposals to choose from to charter as programs and projects and include in the portfolio, why are some chosen and others abandoned?  In this course, learn why projects are investments, where they fit in the “big picture” and how they are vetted against each other based on beneficial contributions and the […]

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Course Description: Whether equipping yourself for your career, preparing for an exam, or building a foundation to teach others about project schedule network diagramming—this course is where it all starts! Learn the basic components of project scheduling and the network diagramming of schedule activities. This course is full of exercises to provide experience in understanding your project […]

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Course Description: Agile isn't just for software development! Agile techniques became one of the fastest growing and popular topics of project management as of late, but how exactly does it fit outside of IT?

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Course Description: Learn the basic components of earned value and how they are combined to provide a picture of project status, trends, and direction. This course is full of exercises to provide experience in understanding your project scenario in terms of earned value. The course includes the Earned Value Formula Map – a tool to visualize what […]

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Course Description: Don’t miss out on this highly informative course! This course describes the Alpha Study, a groundbreaking study that identifies top-performing project managers and the keys to their success. The course is based on research from the book Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know That Everyone Else Does Not by Andy Crowe. Meet the […]

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Course Description: This course builds the foundation for your understanding and application of specific techniques that will prepare your stance related to the uncertainty – or risk – of the project’s success from the start to finish milestones. (Includes a real-life case study to exemplify how the concepts being taught in this course were applied successfully in a […]

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Course Description: Agile has arrived! Take our Fundamentals of Agile online course and earn more than just PDUs. With more organizations increasing their use of Agile practices to manage their projects, it is more important than ever to understand what Agile means.

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Course Description: Even with clear goals, good planning and excellent teamwork, the average project stakeholder loses about six weeks a year due to wasted effort. It comes in the form of lost time and increased stress due to miscommunication, distractions and lack of clarity around task requirements and stakeholder expectations. This course covers applicable techniques and approaches […]

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Course Description: In this course, Jennifer draws upon the latest research, stories, and humor to demonstrate how organizations can harness...

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Course Description: Hasty changes in a client can complicate the job of a project manager. The abrupt changes can be costly to you and the outcome of the project. This course will explore and educate you on techniques to anticipate changes, and stay centered during the process. A successful project manager knows how to identify options, and […]

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Course Description: This online course prepares you for successfully resolving conflict by introducing you to the causes and need for conflict; revealing five conflict management strategies; listing the ground rules for negotiating conflict; describing 7 steps to successfully resolve any conflict; identifying actions you can take to change the conflict culture in your organization; and so much more.

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Course Description: Success does not just happen – it is made to happen. In this course, Neal reveals 18 of the most important leading-edge, best-practice, results-oriented behaviors that will promote your professional and personal success. Many of these behaviors you already know, but you may not routinely practice. Some of these behaviors are often avoided. As you […]

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Course Description: What do you do if your leaders’ expectations of you are unclear? This course discusses those important expectations of your behaviors that they expect. The more you understand what is expected of you, the more you will likely focus on honing those skills, improving your performance and, in the process, helping your leaders look good […]

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Course Description: Have you ever dealt with a difficult person personally or perhaps professionally? How effective you are at dealing with difficult people has a direct impact on how successful you become and can affect your job advancement, your relationships, and your overall confidence. This course defines 25 actions that you can employ to stay in control. […]

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Course Description: This course introduces you to disruptive innovative thinking; gives examples of disruptive companies; reveals why many companies suffer harmful disruption; lists the characteristics of a disruptive innovative thinker; identifies actions your company can pursue to spur disruptive innovation; and so much more.

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Course Description: Do you know when and how to escalate an issue? This course will show you the 7 guidelines to follow in escalating an issue to closure. Done right, escalations are a healthy and important business tool in any organization. They can help a team function more effectively in resolving conflict quickly and maturely. This course […]

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Course Description: If you were building a team and could hand pick its members, what are the key attributes you would look for? What are the behaviors and actions necessary for them to perform at their best? In other words, what makes a team member valuable? This course reveals a set of key behaviors and actions that every […]

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Course Description: Neal’s course provides 54 short scenarios that are designed for team building. Each scenario is presented with multiple-choice options. The scenarios and answers provide great content for team discussion and agreement so that the team can learn to operate at its highest level and perform in the best interests of the business. These real-life scenarios likely […]

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Course Description: This course can help you dive into a popular and effective framework for getting work done in small, quick Increments, providing customer value with each successive Increment, using small self-organized, self-initiated, highly adaptive and closely collaborated teams, while promoting steadfast continuous improvement.

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Course Description: Neal walks you through the mentoring dos and don’ts. He focuses on the mentee and addresses the most crucial information in achieving a successful mentoring experience. Topics include identifying the benefits of having a mentor, identifying your mentoring goal, finding the right mentor for you, defining the behaviors and actions of both the effective mentee […]

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Course Description: Earn 3 PDUs and gain a wealth of knowledge, tools and templates that you can use on every project or program you lead.

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Course Description: Success at work and in your life overall is largely not about how much time you have but how you invest the time you have. Would you like to hone your time management skills? Are you looking for that edge that allows you to complete work in less time, get more done each day, waste […]

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Course Description: We all want to reach our potential as a leader, team member, or employee. Are you looking for a means to assess your performance maturity and then focus on the improvement areas that can benefit you the most? In this course, you will learn about different practices, behaviors, and tips that will lead you to […]

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Course Description: Client Satisfaction Surveys are surprisingly not commonly utilized on most projects. Based on their value in influencing the success of a project and increasing the likelihood of the success of the resulting product or service being created, these surveys are clearly a missed opportunity. In this course, Neal Whitten demystifies Client Satisfaction Surveys and shows […]

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Course Description: Would you like to learn how to create a meaningful life that helps you feel happy and healthy overall? Work-life balance may not be easy early in one’s career, but figuring it out is necessary for lifelong satisfaction. This course will present you with meaningful information that can help you not only better understand your […]

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Course Description: Sometimes the right things to do are the most difficult. Do you struggle with making tough and unpopular-related decisions, even though your instincts warn you that you are not taking the most effective action? In this course, we will help you recognize too soft behavior, show you how to avoid being too soft, and demonstrate […]

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Course Description: With so much demand in the workplace, it can be a challenge for you or your team to stay focused on what’s most important. In this engaging, practical program, you’ll learn how to use affirmations, visualization, and three other powerful CRAVE steps to motivate your team and get things done. Tricia uses real-life examples that […]

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Course Description: Today’s organizations are looking for tomorrow’s leaders. As a project manager the next step in your career could take you to the level of senior leadership, but how do you get there? This course can help you move from a management position to one of a leader within your industry. Earn 2.5 PDUs as you […]

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Course Description: “Our mission was to save as many lives as we could as quickly as we could.” How do you manage a project when lives are at stake? How do you balance quality and urgency? We asked Dave Gibson those questions and many more. In this course, we interview Dave as he describes the work of the team […]

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Course Description: Once upon a time, there was a software development team. They worked remotely and felt pretty good about their results. One day, the team committed to implementing agile principles even though their team size and locations were not ideal for agile. Because of that, the team implemented new processes, experimented often, and adapted continually. Until […]

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Course Description: The need for organizational change management for today’s businesses to keep up, or even survive, is unprecedented. Agility is essential..

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Course Description: Eric Norman examines effective communications techniques, and focuses on both the message and the medium for communicating it.

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Course Description: Whether you are a novice project manager or an experienced practitioner, developing effective Work Breakdown Structures during the initial planning phase is crucial for your project. A poorly constructed WBS can result in many adverse project and program outcomes. In this engaging course, our SME Eric Norman presents the complex topic of developing and applying […]

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Course Description: Hiring for a key role is one of the most significant decisions a leader will make. But, the hiring process can be tricky. And, when the hire isn’t a good fit, the mistake is costly. Do you have room for growth in this area? Have you made hiring mistakes in the past? Do you have […]

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Course Description: Leading with Ethical Intelligence: Five Principles for Making the Right Decisions Every Time

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Course Description: This course begins by answering the question, “What is project management?” Learn as Andy Crowe defines roles, tells the history, and profiles this dynamic profession. You will learn how to define the scope and goals of your project, how to create a schedule, draft a budget and integrate risk by identifying and assessing the project’s […]

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Course Description: Walk through the steps in creating the Commonsensical Project Communications Plan and the Stakeholder Management Plan. We’ll cover all the components of each plan, highlighting on specific approaches, assumptions, and tools. Downloadable templates (.docx) with example content are provided, as well as the Stakeholder Analysis Assistant tool (.xlsx) that will help you with your Stakeholder […]

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Course Description: Take a guided walk through the steps in creating a realistic Risk Management Plan. A downloadable template (.docx) with example content is provided for the Risk Management Plan as well as a downloadable Risk Register (.xlsx) with automated Probability and Impact definition tables and the Probability Impact Matrix. Also included in the course are true […]

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Course Description: Take a look, from the project manager’s eyes, at a massive effort to transform 1300 acres into a premier sports vacation destination! See and hear PM Brad Jacobs’ advice to project managers—what worked well—and what he would like to do over. See the actual property via eye-catching videos.  The interviews, coupled with outline notes, knowledge […]

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Course Description: As an introvert, you may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but there’s more than one way to have some sway. Jennifer Kahnweiler proves introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like extroverts, they use their natural strengths to make a difference. Jennifer identifies six unique […]

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Course Description: In this course, you'll examine project/program risk in a new way, focusing on the important aspects of risk management that are often misunderstood, mistaken and confused.

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Course Description: Let’s talk about the PMO. The Project (or Program, Portfolio, Process, Policy, etc.) Management Office is one of the most controversial and misunderstood project-related organizational functions we’ve come to know in our careers. We have a hard time articulating and agreeing on the focus, function and purpose of the PMO including the role it plays, […]

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Course Description: Most lessons learned and their follow-up actions are not conducted in the most effective manner where the business gains an optimal return on its investment. This course will highlight the top 10 mistakes that are the most pervasive and the most harmful in the lessons learned wheelhouse. As a bonus, Neal will reveal many additional […]

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Course Description: The common struggle in projects is to get the right people to make decisions in a timely manner. In this highly informative course, our SME Kupe Kupersmith shares how to view and approach analysis so your focus is on reaching the desired outcome. Kupe is an accomplished BA, author, and sought-after speaker. In the course, […]

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Course Description: Walk through the steps in creating a Schedule Management Plan. This course covers all components of the plan and how to tailor it to your specific project, company and industry. A downloadable Schedule Management Plan template (.docx) with example content is provided to guide you through our discussion of each area of the plan and […]

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Course Description: Take this step by step course in creating a Scope Management Plan to develop and control the scope baseline of any project. This course covers all components of the plan as well as supporting documents like the requirements management plan and the requirements traceability matrix. A downloadable Scope Management Plan template (.docx) with example content […]

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Course Description: Take this step by step course in creating a Quality Management Plan. This course covers all components of the plan as well as supporting documents like the Process Improvement Plan and the Quality Metrics. A downloadable Quality Management Plan template (.docx) with example content is provided to guide you through our discussion of each area […]

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Course Description: Hiring for a key role within your company is a crucial decision. You want to make sure you are attracting the top talent. The #2 reason job seekers pull out of the recruitment process is a poor interaction with a recruiter or hiring manager. So, what is it that causes a poor first interaction? How […]

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Course Description: You will learn methods for collecting customer requirements, including how to ensure each requirement passes the SMART Test. Receive expert instruction describing common mistakes and how to avoid them. Hear helpful tips on the proper approach to collecting customer requirements. Apply your newly-learned knowledge in an exercise – you may want to share the results […]

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Course Description: Learn the six areas of performance – how Senior Management is evaluating you! Examples include: what questions to expect, most common mistakes, and written and verbal communication skills. Seven checkpoints are identified that you must perform before walking into your next status meeting with Senior Management. Based on research with thousands of PMs, three career-threatening […]

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Course Description: Seeking methods on how you can better control your project? This course gives you all the best approaches on controlling your project, including how to report to customers and senior management. Our expert instructor describes change management and teaches you how to avoid scope creep! This course also includes real world scenarios to help exemplify […]

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Course Description: In this online course, Eric Norman provides you with a new approach, or rather an additional tool, that will help you analyze the unique aspects of the work you take on, so that you can select a process delivery model that precisely aligns with the target outcomes identified for your work, the objectives to be accomplished, and jobs to be done.

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Course Description: This is the intro course for a 5-part series by Eric Norman, PMI Fellow. Do you sense a shift in your profession? The project management world is changing and former practices are not as effective as they once were. Organizations are demanding more from project managers. The role is evolving and brings with it entirely […]

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Course Description: This course describes what Stakeholder Analysis is, when to perform it, how to perform it, how to quantify it, and how often to revisit it. You will walk through an example case study on applying the technique. It provides a tool set for analyzing and ranking stakeholders that you can use on your current and […]

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