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Live Webinar January 20th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
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.

Developing Future Leaders Is Critical

Over the next five years, approximately 72 million Millennials will be in the workforce. As the Baby Boom generation retires – taking their accrued experience and institutional knowledge with them – the need for cultivating new leaders becomes even more urgent.

A recent AMA/I4CP study indicates that only a third of organizations rate their leadership development efforts as effective, putting sustained business success at risk.

  • If organizations recognize that this is such a critical issue, why are so few of them making progress in addressing it?

Ideally, leadership development should be aligned with business strategy, and it should ensure a robust pipeline of people ready to step up to leadership positions.

The importance of this alignment and readiness is highlighted by the often urgent, ongoing quest for effective methodologies.

AMA is convening this forum to allow senior talent management executives to share their thoughts and experiences in building and managing leadership pipelines.

Join the panel for a frank & lively discussion addressing key issues:

  • Steps being taken to prepare Millennials for leadership positions
  • What assessments to use for identifying talent for development opportunities
  • The core competencies needed for leaders to be successful
  • How to reinvent the concept of career development to be about the next experience rather than the next promotion

A well-defined and robust leadership pipeline delivers important benefits to every organization. This program allows you to discover how others are facing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities of developing their next generation of leaders.

Presenters: 

Erika Harden (LinkedIn profile) is Director, Learning & Performance, with Woodward, Inc., a $2.3 billion Aerospace & Energy Corporation headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Erika has 15+ years experience as a human resource professional spanning all aspects of HR Management in a variety of settings, including consulting firms, corporations, government and academics.

Nicholas Igneri (LinkedIn profile) is VP of Education at American Management Association and is instrumental in the design, implementation and management of AMA’s learning programs. Previously, Igneri held leadership positions at Docent, now SumTotal, as Director of Professional Services, and VitesseLearning as VP of Learning Solutions.

Anthony Lewis (LinkedIn profile) is Senior Manager of Organizational Effectiveness & Talent Management at Yamaha Corporation of America. In addition, he is President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association for Talent Development (ATD).

Brian Patterson (LinkedIn profile) is the Senior Training Consultant & Instructional Designer for Commercial Education with Roche Diagnostics. He has 25 years of experience in designing, developing and implementing high quality training in both governmental and corporate organizations, ranging from the Department of Defense to Eli Lilly and Company to Roche Diagnostics.

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

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 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’

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Developing A Leadership Pipeline That Works

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2016 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are You Overlooking Women For Your Tech Positions?

The focus on diversifying the workforce, especially in STEM careers, is shaping the talent landscape within the high tech industry, along with several other key industries.

The need for talent is paramount for organizations of all sizes along the business maturity continuum, from startup companies to those organizations that are reinventing their business strategies.

In this webinar Randi Zuckerberg, (LinkedIn profile) CEO, Zuckerberg Media, will focus on current workforce trends in tech talent and what is needed to succeed in the current environment.

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”

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for:
1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

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Women In Technology & Talent Pressures For High Tech Organizations

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar Pedro Serrador (LinkedIn profile) will draw on a literature review on planning that covers more than 270 sources, and will discuss the relationship between project planning and success.

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Projects: Not Planning Well Enough & Failing

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Two-Factor Agile Estimation

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

The same features that have allowed our brains to adapt to changing conditions, have also made it very difficult for us to make absolute estimates about time and value.

In this webcast we’ll look at how relative sizing and real world data can greatly improve the precision of the estimates we make.

We’ll look at why agile projects should estimate value as well as time, and explore techniques that will allow us to create useful software as early as possible in a project.

This webcast will be of value to anyone running or working on an agile project.

  • Project Managers will learn effective ways of tracking and predicting progress.
  • Developers will learn how to avoid being trapped by unrealistic estimates.
  • Customers will learn how they can derive the maximum possible value from the project.

Presenter:  David Griffiths (O’Reilly bio) has worked on agile projects since 2004. As an agile coach, he has worked with companies across the United Kingdom and Ireland in banking, telecommunications and transportation. He is also the author and co-author of 4 books in the Head First series including:

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 6 – Time

  • 6.4 Estimate Activity Resources
  • 6.5 Estimate Activity Duration
  • 6.6 Develop Schedule

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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Two-Factor Agile Estimation

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2016 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Useable Data Is INFORMATION

In a world where the words “Big Data” are used almost every day, nearly every team in both large and small companies is tasked with quantifying subjective data to draw objective conclusions.

This has been a hot trend in the world of Talent Acquisition, and can be a challenging endeavor in organizations when teams are already being driven to achieve difficult goals with little to no understanding from managers.

This discussion is focused on the following:

  1. What data should you obtain
  2. How do you get it (in big or small companies)
  3. Why you should get it
  4. How to influence that data to make decisions

Join Therasa Cha (LinkedIn profile) Head of People and Culture, TASER International, as she helps you identify what is a herculean task vs. doable and be able to use data to clearly highlight solutions.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

  • 5.2 Collect Requirements
  • 5.3 Define Scope
  • 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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.’

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

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4 Practical Steps For Making Data & Analytics Doable

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Live Webinar January 19th, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or
Live Webinar January 19th, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Cloud applications can deliver significant benefits, but selecting the right architecture, design and technologies for custom cloud applications involves complex tradeoffs.

In this webinar Mark Driver (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP, covers the intricacies of designing and building applications for cloud deployment and provides an in-depth look at development using cloud tools as well.

Discussion Topics:

  • The application design and architecture factors that make up truly cloud-native applications
  • Tools, best practices and design techniques developers must leverage to build cloud-native solutions
  • How the technology landscape will evolve over the next five years around cloud-native applications

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

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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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How Cloud Is Revolutionizing Modern Application Development

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