Live Webinar – May 26th 2015, 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 Project Management Institute has created its own certification for Business Analysis – the PMI-PBA (Professional Business Analyst).

But unlike the IIBA’s CBAP certification, there is no Body of Knowledge to use as a reference. Instead, PMI provided a list of 11 text books from which the test would be developed.

• So how was the test different from the CBAP?
• Is it something you can actually study for?
• What was learned from taking the test, and actually passing it!

This seminar provides an overview of the application process and tidbits about what the test was like. If I can pass it, you can too.

Presenter: Rob Snowden (LinkedIn profile, bio)  has over 25 years’ experience as a Business Analyst, PM, and JAD Facilitator at a variety of organizations both as an employee and contractor.  Working to better organizations like Supreme Court of Virginia, Coopers and Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers), Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Capital One, Barclays, and many others, Rob has been teaching BA courses. Rob has written blogs, white papers, and presented webinars on topics such as facilitation, virtual team techniques, building a BA plan quickly, the BA role in Agile, and Use Cases in Scrum. He also speaks at numerous various IIBA local chapters and presents at conferences.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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 What Is The PMI-PBA Rest Really Like? Find Out From Someone Who Passed It!

Live Webinar – May 27th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Successful predictive analytic projects follow a well defined approach from requirements to modeling, implementation and deployment, embedding the analytic results in operational systems that improve business performance.

In this live event, James Taylor, CEO and Principal Consultant at Decision Management Solutions and Matt Kitching, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Data Scientist at Apption, an award winning analytics consulting company, will discuss the business value of predictive analytics and show how decision modeling adds value throughout Apption’s big data analytics workflow.

Using a recent Apption Customer Retention Analytics engagement, James and Matt will walk through the workflow and show the value of predictive analytics and decision modeling in each step:

• Big Data Analytics allows you to use all your data to make key business decisions.
•  Decision modeling aligns analytics requirements with key business measures, creating a shared understanding across stakeholders while providing structure and transparency and so promoting buy-in.
•  Decision modeling focuses data scientists on the most relevant data, streamlining data preparation and exploration.
•  Predictive Analytics provide you with actionable insights that help you solve existing problems or head them off.
• Decision modeling provides a framework to evaluate and refine predictive models to ensure they will have a business impact.
•  Finally decision modeling ensures that predictive analytic models can and will be successfully deployed.

Predictive analytics are increasingly a must-have competitive tool. A well defined workflow and effective decision modeling approach ensures that the right predictive analytic models get built and deployed.

Presenter:  James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and is the leading expert in how to use business rules and analytic technology to build Decision Management Systems. If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: jamet123. James is passionate about using Decision Management Systems to help companies improve decision-making and develop an agile, analytic, and adaptive business. He has more than 20 years working with clients in all sectors to identify their highest-value opportunities for advanced analytics, enabling them to reduce fraud, continually manage and assess risk, and maximize customer value with increased flexibility and speed.

For more great information read James’ books Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics and Why You Need Smart Enough Systems.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 The Value Of Predictive Analytics & How Using Decision Modeling Helps You Succeed

Live Webinar -May 26th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Micro Coaching/Feedback Session – One week before

One week before the webinar, you will be invited to a Micro-Coaching and Feedback platform. During this period, you will learn first-hand how to prepare, detect, respond, and make every micro-coaching and feedback a boost to the learner’s or team member’s performance.

20 Minutes Lab Exercise

Have you heard these urgent requests before?

• “Can you make it quick, please?”
• “Can you tell me how I can improve immediately?”
• “Will you let me know instantly if I am doing a good job or if I am failing?”

The mode and tone of today’s workers and team members sound urgent, almost always needing immediate attention. What happens when we miss the opportunity to provide coaching and feedback because of long awaited and scheduled performance evaluation or weekly meetings? The urgency of the need may have passed, that the value of the coaching and feedback may be diminished. How do you avoid this from happening?

Topics covered:

• Why do micro-coaching and feedback work?
• What do science and research tell us about how people get rapid feedback in today’s “milliseconds oriented” workplaces?
• How do you detect opportunities for micro, quick coaching, and feedback in your business?
• How do you become perpetually alert for micro-coaching and feedback?
• How do you redirect urgencies and emergencies into micro-conversations that help learners learn, though in a very concise and precise manner?
• How do you design coaching for new learners or experienced learners?
• How do you integrate micro-content, micro-goal setting, and micro-tracking with micro-coaching and feedback?
• How do you add micro-coaching and feedback into your classroom training, elearning and performance support methods?

The first 20 minutes of the webinar will be a live exercise and action learning. You will be asked to respond to a micro-coaching and feedback situation, with the objective of helping you learn from the experience.

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of 3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1), and DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.  Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

PDU Category C 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’

Click to register for Can You Make Your Feedback Quick and Short, Please? Improving Performance With Micro-Coaching & Feedback

Live Webinar May 26thth, 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

You may not know it, but your company is already a big data company.

Most companies sit on a wealth of workforce data – 16 million data points on average for a Fortune 500 company, much of that stored in HR systems.

Yet only a very small percentage (4%) of companies have figured out how to harness that data to manage and predict workforce performance.

When applied to the workforce, the principles of Big Data, Workforce Science and Predictive Analytics can help companies understand drivers of worker performance in ways only dreamed about before.

Most companies already know how well workers are performing, but with Big Data, companies can also know why they are performing at that level, and how they can improve it.

Companies already applying big data and predictive analytics to HR are reaping rewards. Deloitte reports that HR teams are four times more likely to be respected by their business counterparts for their data-driven decision-making.

This webinar will illuminate key tips and best practices for HR practitioners to:

1. Define and build a big data strategy that focuses on WF performance
2. Get value out the data you already have and identify new data to capture
3. Do’s and don’ts for launching a data-driven WF optimization initiative
4. Learn about predictive analytics and how it can drive business change
5. Translate big data findings into business insights that allow you to forecast real measurable ROI outcomes

Presenters:

• Michael Housman (LinkedIn profile) Chief Analytics Officer, Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
• Max Simkoff (Linkedin profile) Vice President of Analytics, Cornerstone On-Demand

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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 Applying Predictive Analytics To Decisions About Your Workforce