Live Webinar – September 6th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager.

Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

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Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

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Online Webinar  – Recorded May 17, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Handling conflicts in the workplace is a challenging, but necessary, reality for a Project Manager. How a leader deals with conflict either serves to better a team or contributes to its demise.

Conflict in teams is often cause by situations in which team members with different goals and needs clash, causing a loss of trust and often-intense personal animosity.

If you don’t handle conflict effectively, teamwork can quickly break down and talent may be wasted as people disengage from their work or leave.

The fact that conflict exists, however, is not necessarily a bad thing.

When you resolve it effectively, you can also eliminate many of the previously hidden problems that it brought to the surface.

In this conflict resolution webinar Shawn Stratton (LinkedIn profile) targets some of the most challenging aspects of communication that Project Managers face.

High-impact strategies that bring teams to the next level, where change is perceived as opportunity and adversity is turned into success, are revealed.

To keep your team members working effectively, despite coming into conflict with one another, you need to stop the downward spiral as soon as you can.

To do this, it helps to understand the key symptoms and causes before employing an effective conflict resolution model.

During the presentation you will discover:

• The 5 Dysfunctions Of Teams
• 5 major causes of destructive conflict
• How to facilitate healthy conflict
• A simple and effective conflict resolution model

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Effective Conflict Resolution

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2017 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 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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The Three I’s in Teams:
Intention, Interaction & Influence
In High-Performing Work Groups

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Live Webinar September 5th, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

In this webinar, Andrew White VP Gartner Distinguished Analyst (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) will explain how data and analytics leaders, including chief data officers, can align their data and analytics investments to deliver enterprise success.

Discussion Topics:

• How to put a data and analytics strategy into context
• What are the components of an effective data and analytics strategy
• How to build a sustainable, business-relevant data and analytics program

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Strategic Roadmap For Enterprise Information Management

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Live Webinar – August 31st, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The Nature Of Teamwork In Today’s Organizations Is Evolving!

New research conducted by Training magazine and The Ken Blanchard Companies found that while people spend over half of their time working in teams, significant gaps exist between what people want and what they are experiencing in terms of clarity, accountability, and leadership practices.

In this webinar, Blanchard researchers Lael Good and David Witt share the findings from the 1,300 person poll and identify steps for improving team performance in your organization.

Learn About:

1. The perceived lack of accountability among team members as the number one obstacle to team performance.
2. The impact trust has in determining the amount of effort people put into a team.

The survey found significant gaps between the amounts of support high performing teams receive versus the support average teams receive—at both an individual leader and organizational level.

With today’s accelerated pace, teams don’t have as much time to form, experiment, and organically develop along the way.

Don’t miss this opportunity to review the state of teams in organizations and how to take steps to close the gaps.

Presenters: 

Lael Good (LinkedIn profile) is a skilled speaker and facilitator who understands both the people and business aspects of today’s organizations. As a coauthor of two Blanchard programs, Situational Team Leadership® and The Leadership Bridge: SLII® and the MBTI®, she is an expert on the dynamics of people working together and high performance teamwork

David Witt (LinkedIn profile) is the Program Director for The Ken Blanchard Companies A business-focused writer, researcher, and speaker, David is the editor and lead columnist for The Ken Blanchard Companies Ignite! online newsletter, moderator of the company’s LeaderChat blog, and host of the company’s monthly webinar programming. He is the coauthor of several Blanchard whitepapers including Employee Passion: The New Rules of Engagement and The High Cost of Doing Nothing: Quantifying the Impact of Leadership on the Bottom Line. David’s special area of focus is employee engagement and he has co-authored several articles on this topic in academic and trade journals.

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Teams at Work – A Research Briefing:
What’s Not Working & How to Fix It

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 16 2016
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

This webinar is about Business Process Management (BPM) – the running and improving of a business via its processes.

Mark Monteleone CBAP / PMP, the webinar presenter, defines and provides insight in the use of BPM by answering six questions:

• As a business analyst, what should you ask for when joining a business?
  * What is the difference between managing a business by function vs. process?
• Why would you redesign rather than incrementally improve a process?
• Why should your process analysis cover a value chain rather than a sub process?
• Why should you establish leading and lagging metrics to control a process?
• What is the most challenging part of business process management, improving the process or managing the resistance?

Besides addressing the above questions, Mark will include a Business Analyst (BA) Quick Reference Checklist for conducting a “process redesign or incremental improvement analysis” plus explanations on various BPM terms and references.

Presenter: Mark Monteleone, (BA Times bio) CBAP, PMP  an independent consultant and author of The 20 Minute Business Analyst: a collection of short articles, humorous stories, and quick reference cards for the busy analyst  Mark has also written several articles in Modern Analyst, BA Times, BA Connection, International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and Global Flipchart. Mark also instructs courses on business analysis and project management plus consults on business applications and projects in more than 35 countries.

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Business Process Management (BPM) For BAs

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