Online Webinar  –  Recorded May 23th 2014
Duration: 1 Horur – 1 Category A PDU / CDU – Free PDU / CDU
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) CourseID: WS032814

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that  experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

In This session you will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Presenter: Darrel Raynor PMP CBAP (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director, Data Analysis & Results Darrel is a veteran project consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise

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Live Webinar – August 8th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The Content Organizer is a SharePoint feature that can automatically manage some important library tasks.

• This saves organizations time and effort but is also a useful tool in Business Process Automation.
• It takes much of the “need to know” away from end users so they can focus on their jobs while SharePoint handles categorization and classification of information.

Content Organizer offers the following features:

• Routing documents to different libraries or folders,
• Drop Off Library, folder size management
• Automatic folder creation,
• Duplicate item resolution, and
• Auditing.

Content Organizer is another of the powerful tools offered in SharePoint 2013. This tool allows organizations to manage information automatically.

The topics that will be covered in this webinar:

• What is Content Organizer?
• How does Content Organizer help an organization manage information?
• Using Content Organizer to route documents
• Using Content Organizer to build a Drop Off library
• Managing folder size and duplicate submission using Content Organizer
• Auditing stored information

While much of classification and categorization requires thought and intention, many users don’t understand the big picture of an organization information management. Tools like Content Organizer help an Information Management professional to facilitate the automation of the process in order to help reduce human error.

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar August 7th, 2014 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are You an Inspiration To Your Team?

Leaders that have an ability to inspire are often those that possess qualities that generate an emotional connection with those under his or her charge.

This skill is often underutilized, particularly in instances of new leaders. Sometimes through inadequate training, or hasty promotion, leaders are not equipped to chart a course which resonates with others.

It falls to the organization to be better able to identify and prepare potential leaders so that they are better set up for success through training, development, coaching and mentorship. Leaders that are more mindful, more familiar with the organization’s mission, vision and values are more likely to inspire and instill a sense of ownership and purpose in their direct reports.

Presented by: Val Jon Farris (LinkedIn profile) Leadership Development Expert Keystone Consulting

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4  Manage Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Live Webinar August 5th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

For many years JavaScript was considered a second-league interpreted language with the main purpose of making web pages a little prettier.

In reality, JavaScript became the main programming language for the majority of the UI developed for web applications. You can run JavaScript on the server-side too. JavaScript is a flexible, dynamically typed language that supports both object-oriented and functional programming.

But mastering JavaScript can present a challenge to developers who started with classical object-oriented languages like Java, C++, or C#, as they quickly find themselves in the Wild West Land of dynamic programming.

Why learn JavaScript?

• First, learning how things are done in a different language makes you a better developer in your primary language.
• Second, adding JavaScript to your skill set makes you a more valuable software developer.

This fast-paced presentation will introduce you to JavaScript, highlighting how it differs from the classical object-oriented way of programming.

Presenter: Yakov Fain (LinkedIn profile, @yfain) Yakov Fain is Managing Director at a software boutique Farata Systems. He authored several technical books and lots of articles on software development. His book “Java Programming. 24-Hour Trainer” was published by Wrox in 2011. Yakov is Java Champion. Yakov leads Princeton Java Users Group and New York City Dart User Group. This year he’s co-authored the O’Reilly book, “Enterprise Web Development: Building HTML5 Applications: From Desktop to Mobile“.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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