Live Webinar October 26th, 2016 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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In today’s PMO environments, a clear understanding of PMO management’s leadership role and responsibility is absolutely essential for a successful evolution, from project management to program management to portfolio management organization.

In this webcast learn: 

1. Are you ready for a position of PMO leadership?
   1. What’s necessary to ensure the success and growth of your PMO organization as well as your own?
2. What is the true role of PMO management?
   1. Hint: It’s not simply to establish and/or maintain a Project Management Office.
3. As a project management professional, what’s your leadership role in PMO development and organizational strategy?
   1. Where is your influence absolutely essential?
      1. Here’s a hint, it’s not at your current level.

This presentation will focus on the expanding role and vision of PMO management while exploring the corresponding project/program/portfolio management essentials and dynamics necessary for collaboration and organizational success.

Presenter: Ruffin Veal III PMP (LinkedIn profile)  Principal Ruffin Veal and Associates, Inc, is an IT & PM professional whose career spans multiple industries including manufacturing, banking, retail and government. An author, speaker and trainer whose industry related articles can be seen in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Virtual Library as well as in national and international publications. Ruffin holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an M.S. degree in Project Management. Make sure to check out Ruffin’s ProjectTalk blog.

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Leadership Strategies For
Organizational Development & Success

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Live Webinar October 27th, 2016 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

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

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3 Tips To Build An Accountable Culture

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Live Webinar October 26th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Practical Advice To Get More Done & Save Time

Another dreaded meeting.  Another time waster leaving many participants unsure of what the meeting was about or why they were asked to attend.

Do meetings have to be this way?

No, say meeting researchers Emily and Dick Axelrod.  They’ve whittled down their 60+ years of combined experience in helping institutions large and small plan and execute meetings into a precise, effective system called the Meeting Canoe.

Dick and Emily provide tactics and guidance to help you run your next meeting better. Bring your most vexing meeting problems to this webcast and walk away with ideas you can use the very next hour.

Topics include:

• Rescuing the discussion
• Redirecting when the meeting derails
• Recapping decisions and everyone’s to-dos
• Handling participants who show up late or leave early
• Preventing the discussion from hardening into conflict

Presenters:

Emily Axelrod (LinkedIn profile) believes that honesty, relationships, communication, and engagement are key factors in change. Emily is cofounder of and principal in the Axelrod Group, Inc., with her husband, Dick. For  30+ years, Emily has used strategic visioning, work redesign, & team development, to build sustainable, fun, and dignified organizations. Emily uses her southern spirit and wit with her high profile clients and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, coach, and is a guest lecturer. She co authored You Don’t Have to Do It Alone and was a contributing author to The Change Handbook, The Flawless Consulting Field Book, and Future Search in School District Change.

Dick Axelrod (LinkedIn profile) co founded The Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large-scale organizational change. With 35+ years of consulting and teaching experience with fortune 100 clients and the National Health Service in the UK, Dick is now faculty at the University of Chicago and recently received their Excellence in Teaching Award. Dick now resides in Wilmette, Illinois with his wife Emily.

Dick has authored several books including:

1. Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations,
2. You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done ,
   • Co Authored with Emily Axelrod
   • The New York Times called “the best of the current crop of books on this subject.
3. Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done

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First Aid For Time-Wasting, Energy-Sapping Meetings

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Live Webinar – October 26th, 2016 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

“The bio-metamorphosis is needed…“ Yikes! What is this? (The learner)

• Why do we use complex words?
• Can we avoid them?
• How?

Jargons, techie, procedural, product specs, scientific and legal terms are just a few examples of complex words.

Such content, if not translated into simple-to-understand ways become stumbling blocks in learning and application.

Metaphors are story methods that translate complex ideas into easily understandable day-to-day form.

They help learners and your audience understand your ideas without getting stuck with technical words, definitions and applications.

In this webinar you will learn the answers to these questions:

1. Why are jargons and technical word series cognitive learning blocks?
2. How do you conduct a simple test that shows metaphor works?
3. How do you create metaphor, a representation of your ideas that simplifies the meaning?
4. What are the building blocks of metaphors?
5. How do you find metaphors for legal, technical, financial, compliance and scientific concepts?
6. How do you insert metaphors in your content, presentations and eLearning to motivate learners?

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.

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How To Simplify Complex Ideas Using Metaphors

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