PMIW Education

PMI Westchester Professional Development Program

For Questions contact Anita Dhir, PMIW Director of Professional Development, at Medhira Enterprises, (718) 340 8465 or adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

PMP Related Training Four Class Package

Take the Four Course Package to enhance your PM knowledge and/or to prepare for the PMP Exam!

Course Credit: 12 Contact hours of PM education or 12 PDUs

Or take individual classes! (Payments must be made via Pay Pal 2 business days before the first class or by check the first night of class)

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Scheduling and Costing

Learn more about the time and cost management concepts of project management!

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Course Credit: 3 Contact hours of PM education or 3 PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Procurement / Outsourcing

Learn more about the procurement management concepts of project management as well as how to manage your project’s outsourced efforts.

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Course Credit: 3 Contact hours of PM education or 3 PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Risk Management

Learn more about the risk management concepts of project management!

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Course Credit: 3 Contact hours of PM education or 3 PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Project Management Math

Learn more about the mathematical concepts of project management as described in the PMBOK!

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Course Credit: 3 Contact hours of PM education or 3 PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Managing projects effectively requires understanding project needs and managing time, cost, and resource constraints to deliver quality products / services that are on-time and within budget. This poses an ongoing challenge for project managers. Microsoft Project provides the capability to view, analyze, and manage these four elements concurrently. It is used to schedule and track project activities as well as to communicate project status.

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Benefits: 7 Contact hours of PM education / PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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MS Project Advanced Workshop

Learn how to create and baseline individual project plans, address project and resource constraints, create planning templates, manage enterprise resource pools (shared resources), set up organizational project and resource calendars, create organizational project portfolios and master schedules, update project plans using actual information, review progress and variance information, and communicate portfolio and project status.

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Benefits: 7 Contact hours of PM education / PDUs

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Project Management Workshop
This course introduces the core concepts of project management as outlined in the Project Management Institute (PMI)'s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK?). Using a hands-on approach, it helps the participants identify key project indicators, plan and track the progress of their projects, create successful project communication channels and institute a project team culture that produces individual as well as team results.

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants
Benefits: 8 Contact hours of PM education or 8 PDUs
Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions
Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/
(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)
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Template Your Way to Success Workshop
Are you making an effective use of your time, talent, and PMP knowledge? How big is your toolkit? This computer-based course will provide attendees with practical information and skill enhancing tips and techniques that can be applied immediately to the project work environment. Explore the creation and use of templates for your project management deliverables.

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Benefits: 6 Contact hours of PM education

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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PMP Exam Prep Study Series

PMI Westchester is pleased to offer a SPRING exam preparation/study series to further assist you to take the PMP Exam. New in 2008, it will be possible to earn 12 education contact hours with the completion of all class requirements including a simulated PMP exam on the PMI web site. This program requires a 6 week attendance commitment. If you are almost ready to take your exam, or just need a bit more study incentive, this is the group for you. Class size will vary, but a minimum of eight students is needed to begin a class. During class we review hundreds of sample examination questions. This helps each student to determine his/her readiness to sit for the exam. The session is fast paced, materials will be provided, light dinners are included, weekly home work assignments and simulated exams are mandatory.

6 weekday nights - 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Audience: Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, and Project Participants

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Wilton, 914-332-9391

Required: Personal copy of PM BOK Third Edition

Payment: Must be made via Pay-Pal by the Friday before the first class or by check at the first class session.

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PMP Exam Preparation Course

This highly sought after two-day class is designed specifically to help you pass the PMP certification examination. The course is based on the nine Knowledge Areas of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge and the five process groups - Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing. The newly added domain of Professional Responsibility will also be reviewed. The course will also provide attendees with practical information and skill enhancing tips and techniques that can be applied immediately to the project work environment.

Audience: Managers and Project Personnel who aspire to be PMP certified

Benefits: 16 Contact hours of PM education

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

Instructor: Anita Dhir, Medhira Enterprises, adhir@medhira.com, http://www.medhira.com/

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Managing Multiple Projects Successfully - 2 courses

Learning to manage multiple projects successfully takes more than six (6) hours. It is a lifelong pursuit. The goal of the following two courses is to accelerate your multi-project experience, to concentrate what is all too often years of accidental experience into hours of purposeful and intensive learning.

Course #1: Current best practices among well known experts in Portfolio Management, Program Management and Project Office Management across multiple industries.

Course #2: The analytical and collaborative tools, including Microsoft Project Server, Pro-Sight and Pacifica Edge. Hands-on experience in a computer lab will be provided.

The student will leave the courses with a plan of action that is tailored to their environment, a more effective project manager, and more grounded in the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK Guide, couched in the real world of multi-project management.

Instructor: Joe Fitzgerald is a professional trainer with experience designing and delivering courses for major corporations including Citibank, Ford Motor Company, NationsBank, Sylvan Learning Systems, W.R. Grace, Merrill Lynch and Prudential. He has over 20 years of hands on experience as a project manager, managing over 70 major IT projects for more than 40 different clients in 2005, and has managed over 30 projects at one time each year for the last seven years. He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with extensive experience in Information Technology, Human Resources and Business Process Management.

Audience: Project Managers, Line Managers with PM responsibility, and Project Sponsors

Benefits: 3 Contact hours or 3 PDU's per class

Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions

(Payments must be made via Pay-Pal by Friday prior to class start)

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Platinum Rule for PM - 7 PDUs or contact hours

Seminar Abstract:
Project Managers have a difficult job. You are expected to please everyone. You are expected to be part psychologist, sales representative, forecaster and motivator ... while delivering results. What’s a project manager to do?

We have a time tested, proven methodology to make every task easier for you: The Platinum Rule®, created by Dr. Tony Alessandra. This concept will help you communicate effectively, make others want to follow your directions, reduce tension among teams and help you win others to your way of thinking. Companies all over the world have embraced the Platinum Rule during the last 30 years… because it works. Over one million people have been exposed to Dr. Alessandra’s teachings through books, workshops, speeches, seminars, DVDs and CDs. His courses include: Relationship Strategies, People Smarts, Collaborative Selling, Street Smarts, and The Art of Managing People. We have worked directly with Dr. Alessandra and have created a course designed specifically for project managers to help you become more effective in your dealings with upper management, employees and customers.
During this session, you will learn step by-step methods to:

Get individual team members to see the big picture as well as their individual roles in the project.
Present concepts to others in a pleasing manner.
Motivate each member of your team.
“Sell” new projects or project change requests to both your manager and your clients.
Learn the most effective ways to present bad news to othersIf you want to improve your effectiveness, as a project manager and as a person, while reducing the stress associated with working with so many different types of people, then this workshop is for you.

You will learn:

Your natural behavior style.
How to identify the behavior style of others.
How to understand the strengths and weaknesses of people with other styles.
How to capitalize on your strengths while minimizing the weaknesses.
To develop communication strategies that are easy to learn and implement

When you attend this workshop you will receive:

An assessment of your behavioral style with a 41-page personalized report.
A 360? assessment of how others view your behavior style.
An e-book that describes in detail the different behavior styles.
A full day to understand and implement effective tools and techniques.
Sign up now and learn to improve all your relationships, reduce tension, and get more done in less time while learning how to manage, lead and build effective teams.

To register please use Pay Pal as directed on the website. You may register up to the Friday before class, but if enrollment is low the class will be cancelled, so to ensure it runs enroll at least a week before class.
Contact information: Anita Wilton - anitawilton@optonline.net or 914-332-9391.

Instructor: Ron Finklestein, President of AKRIS, LLC, small business success expert, business coach, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer, has published two books: "Celebrating Success! Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company" and "The Platinum Rule to Small Business Mastery". Finklestein has managed many projects, both large and small, over his career in many different industries. He uses this experience to bring The Platinum Rule to life. Finklestein is available for coaching, consulting and speaking engagements, workshops, and seminars. You can contact him at info@yourbusinesscoach.net or reach him at (330) 990-0788. Sign up for his newsletter at http://www.yourbusinesscoach.net
Amenities: Continental Breakfast + morning and afternoon break refreshments included.
Location: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center - BOCES - Elmsford Directions
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Class	Chapter Members	All Others
Project Management Workshop March 25, 2008, 9 AM - 5 PM, 8 PDU's or Contact Hours	$350	$500
Template your way to Success March 25 & 26, 2008, 6 - 9 PM, 6 PDU's or Contact Hours	$350	$500
PMP Exam Preparation Study Series Tuesdays, March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 12 Contact hours	$200	$250
PMP Related Training Four Class Package or take individual classes below to enhance your PM knowledge and/or to prepare for the PMP Exam! - 12 PDU's	$500 ~~$550~~	$600 ~~$700~~
Scheduling and Costing Mon, April 21th, 6 PM - 9 PM, 3 PDU's	$150	$200
Procurement / Outsourcing Wed, April 23th, 6 PM - 9 PM, 3 PDU's	$150	$200
Risk Management Mon, April 28th, 6 PM - 9 PM, 3 PDU's	$150	$200
Project Management Math Wed, April 30th, 6 PM - 9 PM, 3 PDU's	$150	$200
Platinum Rule for Project Managers April 25th, 2008, 9 AM - 4 PM, 7 PDU's	$350	$500
PMP Exam Preparation Course May 5 & 6, 2008, 9 AM - 5 PM, 16 Contact hours	$750	$900
MS Project Basics Workshop May 5 & 6, 2008, 6 - 9 PM, 6 PDU's or Contact Hours	$350	$500
MS Project Advanced Workshop May 7 & 8, 2008, 6 - 9 PM, 6 PDU's or Contact Hours	$350	$500
PMP Exam Preparation Study Series Tuesdays, May 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1; 12 Contact hours	$200	$250