Live Webinar August 24th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)

Some people, upon their arrival at this place called MANAGEMENT, believe they can rest on their laurels.

Truth is, there is much more to learn and much more growing that has to take place.

The job requires new knowledge, new skills, and new behaviors, and managers need go after learning opportunities whenever and wherever they can find them.

Here are three ways to grow into a really great manager:

• Seed – get feedback from all levels to gain insight into your performance
• Feed – get smarter: Go after your own learning and development
• Weed – get rid of unwanted behaviors

Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc. Casey’s primary focus is on management learning and development and working with new managers who want to make a successful transition into move into leadership roles. Prior to founding Waybridge Associates, Casey was human resource development manager at Marshalls Department Stores.

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Growth Spurt! Three Ways to Become a Great Manager

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Live Webinar – August 25th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider:   Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

• Where does a project manager fit in an Agile space full of self-managed teams?
• How do you transition with the environment and what is your role in Kaizen?

Join this session with Elena Gilbert to identify ways to incorporate Lean concepts and techniques in your project management style to stay relevant and keep team goals aligned with the business.

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Tying In Lean Into Project Management

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 2nd, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute

Join Chuck Wolfe in an entertaining, engaging, and practical presentation  designed to inform leaders about key aspects of emotional intelligence.

Chuck will demonstrate how we all have emotional abilities, that we differ in these abilities, and why these differences matter.

Chuck’s presentation will include multi-media including video with an award winning business leader, audio with an award winning Harvard Professor, and audio of callers from his radio show.

Chuck will demonstrate how his Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and team members inspire and influence others.

Learn how to:

• Increase engagement
• Embrace change
• Manage conflict
• Improve performance
• Handle other emotionally challenging situations at work and at home

As leaders you will gain knowledge about managing relationships, and you will know how you can assess emotional abilities, leadership styles, and motivational driving forces for members of your organization.

You will learn how emotional intelligence assessment can provide information on emotional strengths and potential “emotional intelligence disabilities.”

Did you know just as there are learning disabilities there are also emotional disabilities? Join Chuck for what promises to be an exciting presentation.

Presenter : Chuck Wolfe (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Charles J. Wolfe Associates, LLC, offers executive coaching, talent management, performance improvement, and change management to executives. In 1999 Chuck began working with pioneering psychologists on the science of emotional intelligence. He created the Emotion Roadmap, a process designed to easily integrate the science of emotional intelligence with real life practical applications. Chuck has taught at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, US Army, US Coast Guard Leadership Academy, and Yale. His clients include Exxon, ESPN, Coca Cola, AIG, Marriott Hotels, GE, Kaiser Permanente and more.

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) toward SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Follow The Emotion Roadmap To
Inspirational & Influential Leadership

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Live Webinar – August 24th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:Training Magazine

Opening channels for collaborative communication is critical in today’s ever-changing work place.

Employers and managers risk drowning out valuable input and alienating employees if they simply push information out and dictate direction.  However, providing and managing invitations to participate can be challenging.

In other words, moving from monologue to dialog is necessary, yet difficult.

You must balance presenting clear information concisely – that is, commanding the room — with facilitating input and innovation – in other words, collaborating creatively.

Learn to:

1. Manage anxiety prior to speaking so that you are calm and confident when engaging your audience.
2. Prepare your audience for interactive participation.
3. Facilitate the participation while it’s happening, such as calling for questions and queuing them up.

Join Matt and learn specific, immediately applicable facilitation techniques that are informed by scholarly research.

Presenter:  Matt Abrahams  (Linkedin profile @boldecho) Co-Founder/Principal at Bold Echo Communications, has published research articles on cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication. Matt works with executives to help prepare and present keynote addresses and IPO road shows, conduct media interviews, deliver TED talks and recently published the third edition of his book Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting, Matt also developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held leadership positions in several software companies, where he created and ran global training & development.

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From Monologue To Dialogue:
Adding Interaction To Your Presentations

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Live Webinar – August 25th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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For decades, leaders and managers have been trained to think and act on upon the assumption that employees and customers are rational beings.

Motivational, organisational and structural approaches have been developed on the premise that people know what is good for them and that they behave accordingly.

Therefore rewards, bonuses, job promotions as well as punishments have been designed to make sure people understand and achieve goals.

However, there is strong scientific evidence that this approach is not just irrelevant but dangerous because it does not accept humans as they are:

1. Emotional,
2. Irrational and  …
3. Primarily focused on their survival.

Management styles need to change and modern leaders have to reconsider their approach.

 The webinar aims to:

• Understand What Business is Really About Today
• Familiarize participants with misunderstandings, stereotypes and myths concerning our brain, leadership and management
• Understand the three brains approach and its relation to leadership
• Discover various aspects of leadership-related brain rules and protocols
• Be able to recognize the impact on motivation, engagement, performance and internal communications
• Learn a comprehensive model for applying brain-based leadership
• Make your own brain ‘leadership-smarter’ and achieve more!

In this webinar Nikolaos Dimitriadis (LinkedIn profile) provides both the evidence for the need to change and directions on how this should happen. Prepare for the holistic brain leader!

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An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Brain Leadership:
How To Engage Employees Through Neuroscience

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Live Webinar – August 23rd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Whether for holiday readiness, specific events, or general performance, many organizations struggle to create accurate testing plans.

Why?

Because they lack visibility into exactly how their customers behave.

In t his webinar Dan Bartow (LinkedIn profile) Principal Product Designer, SOASTA & Lauren Younger (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Management, SOASTA will explore the details of how test plans are typically created and how they can be drastically enhanced — and even automated — by using actual user behavior data to ensure accuracy and efficacy.

Learn about:

• Current trends in performance testing
• Reasons why load testing in production is not optional for most organizations
• How to use Real User Monitoring (RUM) data to enhance test plans
• How leading edge data science technologies can drastically reduce costs for expensive load tests and increase revenues by discovering unexpected user behavior
• How retail organizations use intelligent testing for holiday readiness and other key events

Your takeaway from this webinar will be actionable answers to the question:

• What should I test, and how should I test it?

The SOASTA Digital Performance Monitoring platform enables the seamless convergence of data, analysis, planning, and reporting. The result: the most accurate performance testing models in the world.

Through deep analysis of Real User Monitoring (RUM) data — such as user paths, user bounce rates, user think time, user geography, third party analytics, and peak analysis (including specific days, times, and pages) — organizations are now able to generate automated test reports that tell them what to test, when to test, where to test, and how (to what load) to test.

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Welcome To The Intelligent Testing Revolution!

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