Online Webinar – Recorded  April 16th, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Do your Team Members Feel Valued?

With the growing trend of distraction and dysfunction in the workplace, more people are seeking to be the valued team members they feel they should be.

Consultants and authors Mark Thompson and Bonita Buell-Thompson, along with researcher Clifford Nass, have assembled new, clear strategies for anyone wanting to become a truly valued contributor both at work and in their personal lives.

This webcast will present recent study data and lay out the tactical, practical steps required for this type of change.

Sir Richard Branson will be a special guest on this program, answering questions program registrants have submitted in advance.

Topics to be covered include:

• The myth of multitasking
• The power of reciprocity
• Removing the distractions

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

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

• 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”

Presenters:

Mark Thompson is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of  Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters and  Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market . His latest book, with coauthor Bonita Buell-Thompson, is Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value.

Bonita Buell-Thompson is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University and is research director for Success Built to Last and Now, Build a Great Business. She spent 25 years in corporate human resources and created the first corporate intranet at such companies as Levi Strauss, Bank of America, Genentech, Pacific Telesis and others.

Sir Richard Branson (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Virgin Group, which consists of more than 400 companies around the world, including the airlines Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America, wireless company Virgin Mobile. Branson started his first business when he was 16 and in 1972 he opened a chain of record stores that kick-started his Virgin brand.

Sir Richard Branson is the author of numerous books including:

• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
• Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life
• Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School
• Screw Business As Usual
• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

NOTE:  You must be logged in to your AMA Account to see the VIEW NOW Button – Registration on this site is free.

Click to View Becoming a Valued Player: A Toolkit for Personal and Professional Success

Live Webinar May 7th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Actionable Insight Through Ontologies

Traditional machine-to-machine (M2M) uses the internet to replace what was previously achieved through a wire. The challenges for IT are not much different to any other implementation of a prescribed business model.

But how are we going to leverage the connectedness of devices in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) in a world in which every individual may show a different degree of technology adoption?

Not everyone has the connected Crock Pot!

The challenges are manifold, and while in 2015 we are still arguing about technical standards that hinder communication of things across platforms, the looming challenges of data integration are even more significant.

Even if all devices e.g. in the connected home of the future are going to speak one language, how are we generating actionable insight from the available information according to the users’ need?

How do we determine the appropriateness of action?

An empty fridge might be alarming, but should we inform the user of an impending hunger crisis if the door hasn’t been opened in a week, the heating system is set to low, the car is parked at the local airport? Draw your conclusions!

Ontologies organize things and establish their relationship to each other.

They can be used for knowledge inference. For example, a car is a means of transport and ultimately an indicator of absence or presence. Some scientific domains are already making extensive use of ontologies to deal with vast amounts of information.

The Gene Ontology (GO) has over 40k interlinked terms that describe cell and molecular biology. For every biological entity on that scale, we can ask:

• Where is it?
• What is its function?
• What process is it involved with?

Benefiting from substantial government funding (in the range of > $40M from the NIH since 2001), knowledge inference through GO is widely applied in academic and industry research.

In this webcast Boris Adryan will introduce the three main branches localization, function and process that we use in GO and demonstrate how they’re immediately applicable in the IoT — after all, a cell is just a large, interconnected system.

Boris will further discuss relationship types that we use in the annotation of biological entities, and propose a few that are more appropriate for the IoT.

He will contrast this relatively simple system with other ontologies suggested for the IoT.

It is not his aim to sell GO as a one-size-fits-all, but talk about how building a large ontology has taught us pragmatism that is quite remote from many purely academic ontology proposals.

Presenter: Boris Adryan  (Linkedin profile, O’Reilly bio, @borisadryan) Having been part of the great Internet-of-Things community in London and Cambridge,  Boris realized that data analytics and machine learning methods are not yet fully exploited in the context of connected devices. My team and I hope to share our vision of the next generation of “smart”, when we start to leverage the vast amounts of sensor data that we’re facing with 50 billion connected devices.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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’

Click to register for Organizing the Internet of Things (IoT)

Live Webinar May 6th 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Online Webinar – Recorded February 12th 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

In today’s business world, it is necessary to have entrepreneurial zeal, leadership vision, and operational excellence.

Knowledge workers face extraordinary pressures to innovate, manage, and control processes.

Rates of change, industry consolidation, and growth requirements all contribute to the increased demands tied to day-to-day performance. Ambiguity has increased around when to use certain skills.

These pressures have us looking at reassessing the Leader-Manager mode for knowledge workers.

In this web seminar David will look at how to create a balance between using leadership and management skills as a practitioner in any workplace.

The reality is that you, during any given business day, will have to use both regardless of your role.

Understanding what leaders do, why they do it, and when they do it is important.

It is valuable to know what management is and when and where it is appropriate. The worst thing you can do is mix your uses and manage when you should be leading or leading when you should be managing.

This session will:

• Establish the distinction between leading and managing
• Identify the skills and competencies needed to be effective as both a leader and manager
• Demonstrate how to develop management and leadership action plans for individuals and groups
• Discuss how to successfully switch back and forth between leadership and management to drive business objectives

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

Click to register for Managers vs Leaders: When to be Which & Why?

Online Webinar  – Recorded October 9th, 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Big data…big deal

Information is supposed to make us smarter, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us.

This program is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your company initiatives.

The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, managers must consider the practical side of big data…what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions.

Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge. The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it.

This webcast focuses on the abilities needed to discover, interpret and deliver data analytics across products and segments.

In this webcast, you’ll explore:

• Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
• Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
• How to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
• 7 key questions you should be asking linking analytics to strategy.

Too often people dive into the data only to be lost in haze of data. This discussion will be pragmatic and immediately applicable to managers across all industries.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

Presenters:

Christopher Frank (LinkedIn profile) is the coauthor ofthe bestseller Drinking from the Fire Hose: Making Smarter Decisions Without Drowning in Information and the vice president of business-to-business and communications research at American Express. He is responsible for advertising, brand, and business-to-business research. Prior to joining American Express, Frank spent ten years at Microsoft, as senior director of corporate research.

Paul Magnone (LinkedIn profile) is vice president of business development strategic alliances at Openet Telecom, and also the coauthor ofthe bestseller Drinking from the Fire Hose: Making Smarter Decisions Without Drowning in Information. He is responsible for executive leadership of Openet’s global partner initiatives. Prior, he was a senior leader at IBM for 21 years driving growth programs including the launch of four new global consulting businesses.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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’

Click to register for Management Readiness for Big Data: Skills, Talent and Tools

Live Webinar May 5th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Face It – Lectures Are Boring!

Think engaged learning happens in large rooms ?

• Learn how to get your participants energized in a high-context experience that gets people talking and engaging in real business issues.
• Learn what caused one Fortune 100 executive to state, “Wow! This was the best learning experience I’ve seen in 20 years” following a class of 1500 people.

Amanda Young Hickman, Founding Partner, Insight Experience will share the 4 powerful concepts for making learning high-impact for groups of 60-2000.

Insight Experience’s unique large-scale simulation design engages participants with a set of real world scenarios, real time results, and both team and individual feedback.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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”

Click to register for Moving Past The Lecture: Experiential Learning For Large Groups