Are you currently struggling to work within a virtual team environment? Has your employer put you in charge of managing a virtual project team—or possibly asked you to assemble one for an upcoming initiative? When it comes to things like motivation, background, and skill level, dealing with project teams that are located in the same building is difficult on its own. But adding different time zones, cultures and communication styles into the mix can make building and managing virtual teams one of the most challenging tasks in project management.

During this 16-hour self-directed course, project managers will begin with a review of the challenges and advantages involved with working virtually, including a discussion of the impact of culture. The process of creating a virtual project team is also covered in detail, along with the various steps and tools involved with getting started. And the course concludes with a comprehensive overview of managing a virtual team—breaking down topics like building trust, achieving team cohesion, technology considerations, and project communication.

Includes 30 days of unlimited access to the online course, beginning from the time you first log in. In this course, students will have access to:

• A 10-section interactive tutorial
• 50+ learning-based exercises
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• Creation of a virtual teams 'Action Plan'
• End-of-lesson quizzes
• Unlimited 24/7 access to all course materials
• 16 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 16 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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This world-class online course will provide attendees with the Tricks of the Trade® from around the world for understanding and applying risk management. Risk management helps senior managers, project managers, team members and stakeholders be more proactive, prevent project problems instead of just dealing with them, and eliminate up to 90% of the things that can go wrong on projects.

This online course is ideal for project managers, senior managers and team members who would like to have projects completed with fewer problems, and includes the following:

• 7 Comprehensive Lessons Using Your Project as the Case Study
• Over 30 Interactive Risk Management Exercises
• Online Notebook for collecting "Tricks of the Trade®"
• End-of-Lesson Quizzes
• Post Testing
• 100+ Audio Clips
• Earn 14 PDUs toward retaining your PMP®, or 14 Contact hours toward earning a PMI-RMP® certification!

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This world-class course will help Program Managers translate the International Standard for Program Management into real-world technologies and real-world applications. Over the course of 14 self-directed hours, students will review the entire Program Management process from beginning to end, and improve their skills in six major areas of focus, including Governance, Prioritization, Escalation, Resource Management, Benefits Realization, and Stakeholder Management. Students will also learn the difference between project management, program management, and portfolio management—as well as how they interrelate.

Tricks of the Trade® for Program Managers—Online is designed for experienced project and junior program managers, PMO managers and senior managers looking to acquire a firm grasp of specific steps in the Program Management process—or of the entire process from beginning to end. In addition, because this course teaches students how to apply International Program Management standards in the real world, it can be taken as additional prep for people looking to earn a Program Management Professional Certification, and includes an entire lesson on preparing for PMI's PgMP® exam.

This comprehensive course includes:

• An 11-section interactive tutorial
• 4 hours of audio and video media
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• Real-life program management examples and scenarios
• End-of-lesson quizzes
• Unlimited 24/7 access to all course materials
• 14 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 14 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals—Online is full of project management tools that you can apply immediately to your IT projects—to deliver them on time, on budget, and with fewer headaches. Developed by world-renowned project management trainer Rita Mulcahy in conjunction with Cisco Press, this course will help you get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world project management tools and techniques.

This course covers dozens of real-world IT project management issues, including:

• Understanding why IT projects fail—and preventing failure.
• Defining effective IT project charters and requirements.
• Organizing IT roadmaps into manageable projects.
• Capturing, creating, and using historical data.
• Establishing "soft" and "hard" project metrics and milestones.
• Defining project scope, and avoiding scope creep.
• Identifying and managing stakeholders and expectations.
• Choosing the right PM tools for a project.

Includes 30 days of unlimited access, and:

• A 16-section interactive tutorial
• Learning-based exercises and games
• Examples and solutions specific to the IT industry
• A blog-based idea sharing tool for all students
• An Online Action Plan for your real-world project
• A comprehensive end-of-course assessment
• Tips and tricks from Rita herself
• Unlimited 24/7 access!
• Earn 14 Contact Hours or 14 PDUs

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Is your company considering establishing a project management office (PMO)? Are you unclear about the benefits a PMO can provide? Is there a major obstacle—or are there several major obstacles—standing in the way of you PMO's success? Implementing a Project Management Office can be complex on its own, but ensuring your PMO's success takes a good framework, a great strategy, and an intimate knowledge of the common obstacles and pitfalls commonly encountered during the PMO startup process.

During this 14-hour self-directed course, project managers will begin with a review of the PMO's role within organizations, including a discussion of the types and levels of PMOs. The value proposition and benefits of a PMO are also covered in detail, along with the various steps and tools involved with getting started. And the course concludes with a comprehensive review of the obstacles PMOs face—breaking down issues like communication, measuring PMO value, and gaining buy-in from upper management.

Includes 30 days of unlimited access to the online course, beginning from the time you first log in. In this course, students will have access to:

• A 9-section interactive tutorial
• 25 learning-based exercises and games
• 100 audio and 10 video narrations
• Downloadable PMO templates
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• End of lesson Quizzes + a Final Exam
• 14 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 14 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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Have you ever wondered what the difference between an average project manager and a great project manager might be? Is it experience, motivation, education, people skills—or something else? And if you could find out what these differences are and learn to apply them throughout your career as a project manager, would it be worth 14 hours of your time?

Imagine a course that benefits from 15 years of research, hundreds of presentations and infinite updates—and you will begin to realize the valuable insights you will receive in this course. What exactly makes the best project managers "the best?" What makes a project manager worth U.S. $500,000 a year? Not for the faint of heart, this intensive e-learning course designed by Rita Mulcahy will answer these questions, and help you acquire the skills of the most successful project managers.

This course is designed for experienced and trained project managers, team members and senior managers with at least 5 years of full-time project management experience, who want to know what it takes to put themselves in a group with the best project managers in the world. This course includes:

• A 17-section interactive tutorial
• Accelerated learning-based games and exercises
• A course weblog for sharing ideas with other students
• A downloadable notebook to document and retain ideas
• Downloadable "Tricks of the Trade" articles
• A comprehensive end-of-course self-assessment
• A personalized Action Plan
• Video tips and tricks from Rita herself
• Unlimited 24/7 access!
• Earn 14 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 14 PDUs toward retaining your certification

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This one-of-a-kind e-Learning course takes a completely different look at project management, using games like "The Pricing Game," "Guess the Truth" and "Grapevine" to illustrate and help readers overcome organizational politics on projects. This 8-hour e-Learning course dives deep into the topics of gaining buy-in from upper management, accurately estimating time and cost, controlling project communication, managing within corporate culture, taking care of your team, and more. Challenges and issues covered in this e-Learning course include:

• Presenting management with realistic options
• Getting your point across without confrontation
• Controlling the message and the communication channels
• Utilizing honesty and trust as a project management tool
• Knowing what is under your control, and what is not
• Overcoming poor project management conditions
• Making real change happen—without taking things personally

Includes 30 days of unlimited access, and:

• An 11-section interactive tutorial
• 75+ interactive learning-based exercises
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• 80+ audio and video narrations
• Creation of a project politics 'Action Plan'
• 8 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 8 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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Is your current project team under-performing? Does your team lack motivation, focus, and good communication? Are you assembling a new project team and hoping to increase your chances of success? This new e-Learning course will explore team building and team management topics such as principles, values, ethics, decision making, incentives, staffing, critical thinking, communication, and many more.

Developing High-Performing Project Teams explores the typical challenges involved in constructing, motivating and managing successful project teams—and will offer a set of real-world guidelines, principles, and tools for doing so. At the conclusion of this 8-hour course, each student will also walk away with a customized 'Leadership Action Plan' for use within their current project environment. Includes:

• A 4-section interactive tutorial
• Learning-based exercises
• 100+ narrated audio clips
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• Creation of a Leadership 'Action Plan'
• End-of-lesson quizzes
• Unlimited 24/7 access to all course materials
• 8 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 8 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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Are you looking to get an existing project back on track? Do you need easy-to-use tools that can make an immediate impact on your current project? Are you looking for a refresher on the fundamentals of project management? Includes:

• A 21-section tutorial
• Accelerated learning-based exercises and games
• A Blog-based idea sharing tool for all students
• An online notebook to document and retain ideas
• A comprehensive end-of-course self-assessment
• Video tips and tricks from Rita herself
• Unlimited 24/7 access!
• Earn 8 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 8 PDUs toward retaining your certification

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As a Senior Manager, how helpful would it be to understand your unique role in making projects successful? Have you ever wondered about the importance of supporting project management in your organization? This online course will answer these and many other questions.

Not only will you learn what project management is, but also hear what project managers feel are the things that are getting in their way and causing project failure. Be prepared to walk away with a project management methodology, and learn in a short period of time what really makes a difference.

• A comprehensive multimedia tutorial
• Dozens of interactive exercises
• A course weblog for sharing ideas with other students
• A comprehensive end-of-course self-assessment
• Video tips and tricks
• Unlimited 24/7 access!
• Earn 8 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 8 PDUs toward retaining your certification

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This e-learning course is designed for project managers who wish to improve their understanding of and effectiveness in one of the most misunderstood areas of project management—communication. In this course, you will learn how to follow and implement the five key components of the communications management process to help ensure good communication; including Identifying Stakeholders, Planning Communications, Distributing Information, Managing Stakeholder Expectations and Reporting Performance.

This course will also help you uncover all of your stakeholders AND their requirements, expectations, and communication needs—as well as plan a communication approach that takes those needs and your own communication needs into consideration. Additionally, project managers will learn to adjust their ongoing communication approach to meet the needs of the team and project, and manage stakeholder expectations throughout the life of the project so communication problems can be prevented before they happen! Includes:

• An 8-section interactive tutorial
• A comprehensive document library
• 20+ interactive exercises
• A course blog for sharing ideas with other students
• And end-of-course quiz
• 70+ audio and video narrations
• Creation of a customized Communication Action Plan
• 6 Contact Hours toward a CAPM® or PMP® certification, or 6 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® or PgMP®

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This new e-Learning course from author Peter Taylor is based on his best-selling book and regularly sold out live workshop, The Lazy Project Manager. This 6-hour course focuses on getting project managers to work smarter—not harder—by focusing efforts on areas of the project that matter most, not wasting time on things others can do, and avoiding things that simply do not need to be addressed. Peter's approach to what he calls "productive laziness" encourages project managers to expend the majority of their effort in project startup and project closing, so they may step back during the project itself and let the team work effectively. Challenges and issues covered in this e-Learning course include:

• The origin and science behind "productive laziness"
• Using project startup to get ahead of the game
• Managing project sponsors and scope creep
• Communication strategies for lazy project managers
• Filtering and delegating issues during the project
• Planning in advance for crisis—and staying calm
• Pushing your project across the finish line

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The disciplines of project management and business analysis are closely tied together, with some organizations combining the two roles, and others delineating them and assigning different individuals to each. To be effective in either role, professionals must have a clear understanding of both the work involved AND their personal abilities. This 4-hour course will define the two disciplines, as well as give students the opportunity to assess their personal skills as they relate to each role. The course will also offer specific suggestions for building strong PM / BA partnerships, and outline solutions for managing work when one person is assigned to perform both roles. Challenges and issues covered in this e-Learning course include:

• Key skills of a Project Manager versus a Business Analyst
• Are you a Project Manager, Business Analyst, or both?
• The Business Analyst / Project Manager partnership
• Separating the PM and BA roles in the real world
• The difference between product scope and project scope
• Distinguishing project risk from business risk
• Challenges faced when performing both roles

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Are time and cost estimates for your projects rarely accurate? Do you have trouble identifying WHY your estimates never hold up? Do you need real-world techniques for estimating time and cost on your projects? If so, RMC Project Management can help you find real-world solutions to your project estimating problems!

In only four interactive hours, this innovative online course will help you understand why project estimating mistakes occur, and will present real-world solutions that you can implement immediately. Includes:

• Over 4 hours of instruction
• 50 audio & video clips and 16 exercises
• A 7-module interactive tutorial
• Downloadable templates and articles
• A course weblog for sharing ideas with other students
• A final self-assessment
• 4 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® certification, or 4 Contact Hours toward earning one!

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Has your boss given you a project deadline that you believe is unrealistic? Did your sales team sell a project with a due date that you simply cannot meet? These might be common situations in the project management world, but they should NOT be happening... and now you can do something about it!

In only four hours, this innovative online course will help you understand why this situation occurs, and will present real world solutions that you can implement immediately. Register for this course today, and see how much you can learn in a short time while you make the problem of handling unrealistic schedules go away once and for all! Includes:

• Over 4 hours of interactive instruction
• Downloadable forms and templates
• Course weblog for sharing ideas with other students
• 46 video clips and 22 interactive exercises
• Final self-assessment
• 29-section interactive tutorial
• Earn 4 PDUs toward retaining a PMP® certification, or 4 Contact Hours toward the new PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) Credential!

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This unique 4-hour online workshop will provide you with a real-world, step by step approach to using risk management and give you the Tricks of the Trade® from around the world—tricks that that you can begin using as soon as you return to your project. In addition to a complete overview of the risk management process, this course will review common mistakes that others make—and teach you how to avoid them.

This online workshop is ideal for project managers, senior managers and team members who need an overview of the risk management process, and wish to have a clear explanation of the most common risk management mistakes. Includes:

• An Overview of the 6 Steps of Risk Management
• A Review of the Most Common Risk Management Mistakes
• Presentation Slides and Video Clips
• 7 Days of Unlimited Access
• Earn 4 Contact Hours toward a CAPM®, PMP®, or PMI-RMP® certification, or 4 PDUs toward retaining your certification

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