Archive for October, 2016

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

If you’re running a retail store or restaurant chain, building consistent positive customer experiences is crucial for your brand.

With the power of social media, bad experiences have tendencies to go viral, which can cost your business thousands of dollars and the permanent loss of potential customers.

You have the opportunity to modernize operations for your employees with interactive, mobile-ready SOPs and job aids.

Employees closely following policies and procedures will consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences. Join this webinar and learn how other retail chains are leveraging new technology to effectively communicate and engage their workforce.

Ahmed Datoo (LinkedIn profile) will discuss:

  • The challenges of traditional forms of communication
  • Best practices to enable your millennial workforce using technology
  • How your peers are harnessing the strength of interactive, mobile SOPs

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

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Employees Gone Mobile: How To Modernize Store Ops

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The Four Habits Of Servant Leaders

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Online Webinar  – October 27th, 2016
Activity Type: Online or Digital Media  1 PDU Free
Activity Type:
Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Ken Blanchard believes that the world in is desperate need of a need leadership model – Servant Leadership.

Today’s business world is characterized by increasing change – technological, cultural, social, economic, and personal. The net effect is increasing anxiety, insecurity, and more pressure than ever before on today’s employees, creating an intense need for managers to be more effective as leaders.

Learn how practicing the four habits of Servant Leaders will  provide the inspiration and skills needed to empower today’s emerging workforce.

  • The Heart – Motivation or Intent/Leadership Character
  • The Head  Assumptions and Beliefs/Leadership Methods
  • The Hands  Application/Leadership Behavior
  • The Habits  Daily Recalibration of Commitment to Mission and Values

Presenter: Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Ken has an excellent collection of his latest 3 books theThe Essential Ken Blanchard Collection on amazon which includes the titles Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called “Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A”, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, and Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. They are an excellent read!

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The Four Habits Of Servant Leaders

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Live Webinar – October 26th 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements.

This process is based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others —  and employing IAG’s experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.

This webinar will:

  1. Explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn’t,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
  2. Give participants a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.
  3. Provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

  • The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
  • Different Prioritization Techniques
  • Why Prioritize?
  • When to Prioritize Knowing
  • What to Prioritize
  • The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
  • Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
  • Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
  • Rating Facilitation Methods
  • Next Steps
Get Specific Answers to:
  • “How granular does my prioritization need to be?”
  • “How much time should we spend on prioritization?”
  • “Is prioritization done just once or iteratively?”
  • “What does prioritization mean if we’re Agile?”
  • “What should we prioritize? Requirements? user Stories? Use Cases?”
  • “What factors should we consider when prioritizing?”
  • “What is the best ‘scale’ to use for prioritization?”
  • “What is the difference between importance and priority?”
Participants Also Receive:
  • Presentation Material
  • Requirements Prioritization Template
  • Requirements Prioritization Example Worksheet
  • Sample Requirements Prioritization House of Quality Example

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Live Webinar – October 26th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)

When starting a new project, one of the most important decisions you can make is choosing the right project delivery strategy.

While the waterfall approach is the standard methodology framework being used in the majority of organizations, most people are not aware that there are several different project delivery strategies: waterfall, iterative, incremental, IID, and its lightweight cousin, agile.

In this webinar, you will learn the differences between these project approaches and how to choose when agile is the best approach for a project.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

  1. Understand the different structural approaches for managing projects
  2. 2. Learn a model for helping you choose the right approach for a project
  3. 3. Understand when to use agile and why to use agile

With the Course You Will Receive:

  • Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
  • Personalized Certificate of Attendance
  • Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Kevin Aguanno IPMA CSM CSP APM PMP ACP (LinkedIn profile) is known in the industry for his innovative approaches to solving common project management problems with agile project management and troubled project recovery by using techniques from Scrum, Extreme Programming, Feature-Driven Development, OpenUP and other agile methods.Kevin also performs IPMA assessments for the ASAPM in the U.S.A. and the PMAC in Canada. In 2013, the PMAC formally recognized Aguanno with its highest honor by naming him a Fellow of the Project Management Association of Canada (FPMAC).

Kevin Aguanno is the author of 30+ books, CD’s & DVD’s including:

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Choosing Wisely:
When Is Agile The Right Approach?

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Project Management Tailoring Methods

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Live Webinar October 27th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar Lory Wingate (LinkedIn profile) outlines a specific method that can be used to tailor project management processes to projects of various size and complexity.

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Project Management Tailoring Methods

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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 profilePrincipal 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.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

Registration for this session is close to being full. If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

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Leadership Strategies For
Organizational Development & Success

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