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Live Webinar – November 20th, 2018- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Most of us learned Visio by doing: a boss or a colleague said

1. “Can you create an org chart of our division?” or
2. “We need a flowchart of this process. By tomorrow.” or
3. “Fred created this diagram before he left. Can you update it for Monday’s staff meeting?”

We make do with what we know, but never had formal training or time to discover better techniques.

This session will give you 20 tips and tricks to move you past where you are now and into a world of new features and enhanced productivity.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Uncover hidden dialogs, techniques, and features in Visio
• Learn keyboard shortcuts and ribbon tips that will make you a Visio power user
• Turn Visio diagrams into business intelligence dashboards

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Scott Helmers (LinkedIn profile  @VisProcess) Visio MVP – Based on his knowledge of Microsoft Visio and his active participation supporting Visio online, Microsoft has named Scott a Visio Most Valuable Professional, one of 13 in the world. Scott recently wrote “Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step” for Microsoft Press as a followup to his bestsellers Visio 2007 For Dummies & Microsoft Visio 2013 Step By Step.

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20 Visio Tips In 60 Minutes

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 26th, 2018
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Digital business transformation has become a catch-phrase for practically any large change effort.

Yet everyone seems to have their own definitions of what digital transformation means.

In this webinar Tomas Nielsen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director identifies some common ambitions and high-level best practices for progressing digital transformation towards design and delivery.

Discussion Topics:

• Distinguish between different types of digital transformation
• Key questions that need to be answered to start the digital transformation journey
• Safe bets, focus areas and skills that most enterprises include in their journey

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Progress Digital Business Transformation To Design & Delivery

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Online Webinar  – Recorded April 24th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Energize Others!

Learn Secrets Of Motivation Being Unlocked By Researchers

Leaders, use Energize to motivate your teams. Jam-pack your communication with these tools to calm fears, energize passion, and convince people.

Even influence those you have little power over using these neuroscience nuggets. Become a master of motivation.

Ignite passion for goals, involve people in meaningful ways, and inspire the action you need.

Bob Faw has turned these scientific insights into tried-and-true tools. He’s taught these simple tools to many thousands of people around the world.

Learning Objectives:

1. Motivate three areas of the brain critical to long-term performance through
   1. Calming,
   2. Convincing, and
   3. Energizing.
2. Rebalance your own negativity biases to be more realistic and optimistic.
3. Positively prime yourself and others for more positive attitudes.

Presenter: Bob Faw (LinkedIn profile) trainer and consultant CEG, has 25+ years of professional facilitation experience. Author of several books including An Old Sea Dog Can Learn New Tricks: Power Reframes and Feed Forward, and Staying Positive in Negative Times.  Bob’s programs increase team synergy, interpersonal skills and enhance connections and mutual trust. A keynote speaker and business school professor, his book Energize: Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools is an Amazon e-book best seller

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Energize Leadership

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Online Webinar – Recorded  April 16th, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  American Management Association (REP 1294)

Do your Team Members Feel Valued?

With the growing trend of distraction and dysfunction in the workplace, more people are seeking to be the valued team members they feel they should be.

Consultants and authors Mark Thompson and Bonita Buell-Thompson, along with researcher Clifford Nass, have assembled new, clear strategies for anyone wanting to become a truly valued contributor both at work and in their personal lives.

This webcast will present recent study data and lay out the tactical, practical steps required for this type of change.

Sir Richard Branson will be a special guest on this program, answering questions program registrants have submitted in advance.

Topics to be covered include:

• The myth of multitasking
• The power of reciprocity
• Removing the distractions

Presenters:

Mark Thompson is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of  Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters and  Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market . His latest book, with coauthor Bonita Buell-Thompson, is Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value.

Bonita Buell-Thompson is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University and is research director for Success Built to Last and Now, Build a Great Business. She spent 25 years in corporate human resources and created the first corporate intranet at such companies as Levi Strauss, Bank of America, Genentech, Pacific Telesis and others.

Sir Richard Branson (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Virgin Group, which consists of more than 400 companies around the world, including the airlines Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America, wireless company Virgin Mobile. Branson started his first business when he was 16 and in 1972 he opened a chain of record stores that kick-started his Virgin brand.

Sir Richard Branson is the author of numerous books including:

• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
• Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life
• Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School
• Screw Business As Usual
• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

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Becoming A Valued Player:
A Toolkit For Personal & Professional Success

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Live Webinar – November 20th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Wait, what? Engaging compliance training?

Compliance learning is traditionally seen as a laborious, boring and painful process that learners must endure. But it doesn’t have to be!

It’s time to shift your learning strategy to focus less on the legal side and instead consider the learner’s perspective. Join us to discover tips, tricks and strategies to make compliance training interesting and fun, including:

• Locating “context-driven content” that adds usefulness to procedures, policies, software, guides, etc.
• Shifting the style and delivery of content with trickles and snippets, cases, scenarios, and applications
• Utilizing your LMS to deliver timely and engaging compliance eLearning content
• Case studies and examples of engaging technical and compliance programs from successful companies

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.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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Creating Fun & Engaging Compliance eLearning

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Live Webinar November 19th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Transform Your Customer Journey

AI-related technologies provide deep insights into B2B sales processes and drive automation of those processes, but AI’s bigger impact will be felt in your B2B customer experience (CX) programs and strategy.

This customer experience webinar explores the current AI-related technologies that can transform your B2B CX initiatives and examines use cases of those already reaping the benefits.

Discussion Topics:

• Why artificial intelligence is important for B2B organizations
• How to leverage AI technologies for customer experience initiatives
• What to consider when deploying AI technologies

Join Ilona Hansen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Analyst & Senior Director to understand how to “Use AI To Create Better B2B Customer Experience”.

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Use AI To Create Better B2B Customer Experience

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