Live Webinar – April 25th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

In this two-hour instructional webinar, you will learn some of IAG’s best practices, tips, and techniques for facilitating Requirements Discovery Sessions.

This session will:

• Discuss the role of the session leader/facilitator in a requirements meeting.
• Explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements.
• Provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track & moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.

Key content covered in the webinar:

• The role of a facilitator
• Facilitation fundamentals
• Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation
• Preparation for a requirements meeting
• Steps to follow in the session – the main agenda items, using use-case and other modeling techniques
• Key questions to ask during a session
• Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting

Learning Objectives:

• How to conduct productive requirements meetings
• How to organize the topics to be discussed
• A process to keep the meeting on track
• Facilitation tips and techniques specific to requirements meetings

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Requirements Meeting Facilitation Best Practices

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Discover Key Skills Managers Need to Succeed

Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular hands-on American Management Association seminar, Management Skills for New Managers.

In this complimentary online session, you’ll hear about the skills and know-how you’ll need as you transition into your management role.

Literally thousands of managers have taken this seminar for help in effectively delegating work, motivating employees, and keeping them engaged and on-track to meet performance goals.

If you’ve ever wondered what you needed to learn to effectively face the duties and challenges of leading employees, take advantage of this introduction to a solution from the world’s premier management training organization.

What You Will Learn

• What the real role of the manager is in today’s organization
• Adding value – How to move from being a contributor to making everyone better
• What it takes to be effective as a manager – The Management Effectiveness Formula©
• Why and how your Managerial Mindset affects what you accomplish as a manager
• 3 key steps to managing performance : A Blueprint for getting things done through others
• How to plan performance and create mutually aligned expectations
• How to provide performance feedback in a way that actually creates change
• How to conduct Alignment Conversations to reinforce and sustain team member performance.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Dr. Joseph Reed (LinkedIn profile) is an organizational consultant who heads J.R. Training, Inc providing training to corporations and institutions. He served as a Marine Corps officer, university administrator, and a manager of trainingand development and taught management theory, organizational behavior and strategic management at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He has also authored several AMA courses including Management Skills For New Managers and Mastering Organizational Politics, Influence and Alliances. currently .

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Management Skills For New Managers

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Live Webinar April 24th, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Cybersecurity and technology risk functions are often a bottomless pit of demand, expectation, and cost.

CIOs should address technology risk and cybersecurity challenges through the lens of business value to deliver appropriate levels of protection that support business outcomes.

A mature risk and security function can offer defined levels of protection at defined cost making it possible to manage expectations with non-IT parts of the business.

In this webinar, you will learn to transform technology risk and cybersecurity into a business function.

Discussion Topics:

• Develop a mature risk and security function
• Define levels of protection at set cost
• Manage expectations with non-IT parts of the business

Join Paul E. Proctor, (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst  to understand how to “Treat Cybersecurity Like A Business Function”

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Treat Cybersecurity Like A Business Function

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Live Webinar April 26th, 2018 – 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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Success At Every Level:
HiPo Development Strategies For Accelerated Succession Planning

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 28th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Is available to PMI® members.

The Gahcho Kué Project created the largest new diamond mine constructed in the world since 2003.  In one of the world’s harshest climates, the project was successfully completed two months ahead of schedule.

This project achieved its goals even with several chilling challenges. The Gahcho Kué project was awarded as a 2017 PMI Project of the Year Finalist. Learn about this awarded project’s challenges, best practices, and lessons learned in this webinar with Kato Lone.

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How A Canadian Project Recognized For Excellence Freezes Challenges For Icy Results

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Live Webinar – April 24th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for turning your presentations into videos using PowerPoint only or a combination of PowerPoint and 2 free programs—Zoom meeting (the free level) and Audacity.

• Discover 5 reasons for turning PowerPoint files into videos
• Learn how to convert a presentation to a video using PowerPoint only
• Expand your possibilities with free online meeting software
• Get more control over audio quality and editing with Audacity

Presenter: Ellen Finkelstein (LinkedIn profile  @efinkelstein) is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint presentation skills. One of only 37 Microsoft-appointed PowerPoint MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the world, Ellen is a lively, confident speaker who freely shares her substantial experience in order to help others. In her books and webinars, she addresses the full range of issues associated with creating effective presentations, including:

• PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (Grades K-12)
• How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (How to Do Everything)
• AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
• Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5 For Dummies
• OpenOffice.org For Dummies
• Jakarta Struts For Dummies
• Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies ®

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How To Turn Your Training Presentations Into Videos
Using Only PowerPoint & Free Apps

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