Live Webinar July 15th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Stephen Cohen (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the impact, opportunity and approaches used when crafting a truly bespoke software architecture.

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Live Webinar July 10th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is second in a five part series on People Management by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

After you hire that excellent candidate, it’s important to work with them to establish mutually agreed upon job performance goals.

Everyone wants and needs to know what is expected of them and how their performance will be measured.

Learn how to develop meaningful, measurable, and attainable job performance goals that contribute to project, departmental, and corporate objectives.

In this webinar participants learn about:

• The constant feedback life-cycle
• How to align individual performance goals with the goals of the business
• How to write goals that are specific and measurable
• How to get your employees engaged in writing their own goals

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – July 14th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

What Makes Happiness At Work So Hard?

The truth is that happy cultures are difficult to build and sustain.

• First, organizations must change the powerful social scripts that inadvertently undermine positive environments and behaviors.
• Second, business priorities must demonstrate a real commitment to happiness as a strategy for success.

In this Second of a three part webinar series on The Happiness Advantage at Work, Devin Hughes,  talks to Jennifer Falkenberg, Director of Customer Service Learning & Development, on the challenges and critical steps involved in building a happiness advantage inside T-Mobile.

To learn more about the 1st recorded session see our post  The Happiness Advantage At Work Part 1: Unraveling the Happiness Mystery and link to the recording.

In the fast-moving mobile marketplace, T-Mobile is a positive outlier.  Jennifer suggested that happiness might be exactly what her organization needed as an enabler to deliver on T-Mobile’s Un-carrier promise to employees and customers.

Jennifer saw that starting inside out and infusing happiness into their DNA was “how” T-Mobile could deliver on the Company’s mission to revolutionize the wireless industry.

Hear Jennifer’s story and join in the dialogue to discuss:

• How “social scripts”, the unwritten rules that dictate how we behave when others are present, determine the rules of engagement inside our organizations and ultimately define corporate culture
• How to leverage and manage social scripts to create a more positive workplace that fosters higher performance and aligns with (and drives) company objectives.
• The priority check needed by management at all levels when focusing on the long-term success of our organizations.  This includes both recognition that a positive culture drives better performance – but how important it is that that connection is made clear!
• The power of leading from the front in building awareness and momentum, and how success can ripple out in group environments, especially the workplace.

As a participant you will gain valuable insights into:

1. How to get senior leader buy-in and support for happiness
2. How to empower teams and individuals to create a high-performing culture
3. How to spread learning and positive behaviors that support both happiness and performance
4. Why JJ and Nationwide Brokerage Solutions is committed strategically to a world class, happy and engaged culture

Speakers:

Devin Hughes (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Consultant with International Thought Leader Network, a highly sought after keynote speaker.  He has been consulting, training, and writing about personal development, organizational change and the science of happiness for the last decade.  Devin is an avid storyteller who has the unique ability to connect with audiences.  Drawing on a variety of ideas, disciplines and experiences to inspire “Big Thoughts” and facilitate conversations, he inspires people to achieve their personal and organizational goals faster by capitalizing on the power of the “The Happiness Advantage”

Jennifer Falkenberg (LinkedIn profile) is passionate about training, learning, and people development. As an L&D executive at T-Mobile US, she’s a learning guru! With 20+ years of experience leading and teaching people, Jennifer leads an award-winning L&D team whose culture centers around the customer experience by enabling the Customer Service frontline to effectively and efficiently resolve customer’s issues in an Un-carrier way. Jennifer believes learning solutions should be simple, effective, relevant, and engaging. She is un-satisfied with the status quo and un-afraid to innovative.

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4  Manage Project Team
• 13.2 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 – July 14th 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

Agile is a way of working that is based on core value and principles.  From those core values and principles, practices are developed.

Most people know Agile from specific practices like daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc, but the foundation of Agile is its fundamental values and principles.

Because of this Agile is very extendable, meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new practices.

One of those new flavors of Agile is the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of agile dealing with Product Development and Launch.

It can tie in marketing / sales, but at its core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less long term risk.

Even though “Start-up” is in the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn’t just for small organizations or entrepreneur based organizations.

One of the big trends for large enterprise organizations is the concept of Intre-preneurship. Which is basically incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger organization.

The same can be done with Lean Start-up.

In this presentation we will look at what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its practices and activities.

From that point, we will look at some practical real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any organization type.

With real-world examples, this seminar will explain the theory of Lean Start-up, how it can be executed to significantly reduce the risks involved in new product development, and how it allows the market to help you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica 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.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements

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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