Live Webinar January 25th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

How project managers can communicate assertively to keep projects on time and under budget.

Picture this…. you are a project manager, wrapping up the weekly status meeting where you have just finished giving the pertinent details of the project and all tasks that need to be done.

The client sits back, smiles and says, “Seems like we are in good shape. You know, I bet if we slipped in this one little thing, it would make this project even better!”

“One little thing?” you think to yourself. This is the third “little thing” this month and you are feeling the panic of major scope creep.

The client is looking at you for an answer. Your emotions are taking over and you are struggling between what you would really like to say and what would be politically correct.

It’s a tough situation – What do you do?

You don’t want to be viewed as a pushover by your team or be the naysayer to your client.

For those who struggle with the challenge of what to say and how to say it, this webinar will give pointers on how you can communicate diplomatically in most situations.

This session will center on the use of stories, anecdotes and metaphors which are powerful tools that will enable you to connect to and influence stakeholders.

Benefits

• Gain real client communication insight from expert panel
• Learn how to connect and influence your stakeholders
• Become a skillful and diplomatic PM leader
• Earn 1 PDU for attending

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Presenter: Diane BuckleyAltwies (LinkedIn profile) PM Expert &, CEO of Core Performance Concepts

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Storytelling For Project Managers

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: ProjectManagement.com/Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Unfortunately, about one out of four development programs fail. Sixty-five percent of those that survive do not achieve all their goals.

A development program or project in trouble is distinct from a program encountering typical development difficulties.

Each day its performance seems to be worse, even when team members do not think it possible. A program or project with this problem can appear to be in free fall.

Thomas (Tom) Pavelko (LinkedIn profile) spent many years at a major aerospace company leading the successful recovery of important development programs.

Tom experienced firsthand what causes programs to stop achieving performance, cost, schedule, and quality commitments.

He refined ways to evaluate these programs, reorganize them to achieve their commitments and resurrect the morale of the team. Tom strives to lead these teams to enter a high state of productivity that he refers to as being “on step”.

In this webinar Tom will pull from the concepts of his new book, Project and Program Turnaround (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management).

Walk away being able to identify the essential fundamentals to execute a program turnaround effectively.

These include:

• Identifying the critical accomplishment that must be achieved next,
• Assigning each program responsibility to one person,
• Capitalizing on colocation and face-to-face communication,
• Recruiting problem solvers,
• Establishing team member commitments,
• Using team accomplishments to propel high team morale
• And more …

These are necessary to get the program team on step and successful.

The guidance provided in this session is applicable to all program or project genres, including nonprofit work, education, medicine, investment management, municipal management, construction and more.

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If the registration is closed  for this session they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar. An on-demand recording will be available at the same link below within 72 hours of the live session.

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Project & Program Turnaround

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Live Webinar – January 24th 2017, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: River Software

With the rise in popularity of mentoring, talent professionals are being tasked with creating mentoring programs that involve more participants and align with current business needs.

This is no small challenge.

So how do people design a mentoring program for their organization?

Join Randy and Chris and hear from the experts at River to learn where mentoring programs can naturally fit in organizations of all sizes.

Discover the key considerations you should make when designing your mentoring program.

Presenters:

Randy Emelo (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of River. He has more than 25 years of  management, training and leadership development experience both nationally and internationally.  Randy is a prolific keynote speaker, and author of  Creating a Modern Mentoring Culture (Infoline: Tips, Tools & Intelligence for Training) and Modern Mentoring, (released May 2015). Randy was named a 2013 CEO of the Year by the CEO World Awards focusing on topics related to collaboration, mentoring, social learning, and talent development.

Chris Browning  (LinkedIn profile) Chris has more than 20 years of management, business consulting, and organizational development experience, and has spent the last 11 years at River in various roles. Prior to joining River, he worked at Keane Consulting Group as the Organizational Development Manager, responsible for all learning and development and knowledge management programs. Chris has worked in the nonprofit sector in development and counseling/life-coaching capacities.

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Designing Mentoring Programs

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data and analytics leaders now come from all parts of the business.

Data and analytics programs are no longer being led exclusively by IT, but are created by and for other business leaders.

The integrated, connected, real-time nature of digital business requires collaboration between historically independent organizational units, and data and analytics programs are at the center of it all.

To realize your digital business vision and for cross-organizational collaboration to happen, business and IT must work together on vision, strategy, roles and metrics. In this webinar, IT leaders get answers and actionable advice for their most important questions from Debra Logan, (Gartner bio) VP & Gartner Fellow.

Discussion Topics:

• The trends impacting data and analytics, and the challenges and opportunities they create
• How leading organizations create and evolve their information and analytics strategies
• The leading practices in data and analytics programs

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Data & Analytics Leadership & Vision 2017

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