Online Webinar  – Recorded October 4th, 2012
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDU’s – Free
Provider: PM Times (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Business Analysts and Project Managers spend too much time in long, inefficient, ineffective meetings.

Worse yet, oftentimes they are leading them!

We all know that meetings are a “necessary evil” in the world of business analysis and project management, but the question is – How can we do it more efficiently?

Most people don’t realize that there are specific techniques that anyone can employ to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in their meetings. This webinar is filled with tips and techniques to help you make your meetings much more efficient.

This two hour webinar reveals 5 key secrets you can use to reduce the length of your next project meeting (live or conference call).

Learn how to manage lengthy discussion, develop agendas to encourage brevity, artfully manage difficult meeting personalities like the “dominator”, “the rambler”, “the multitasker”, and get team members to come prepared and actually get involved in the meeting facilitation.

You will learn facilitation techniques that balance the leader’s focus on task with a desire to build/maintain relationship.

These techniques will not just reduce your meeting time but also enhance your credibility as a leader and improve the morale of the team. The session is filled with tips and techniques that you can begin implementing immediately.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to establish a PAL for your meeting to provide necessary structure
• How to artfully and tactfully manage difficult personalities like the dominator, the multitasker, and the rambler
• How to keep the meeting focused and on track

With the Course You Will Receive:

• White Paper – Managing the Meeting from Hell
• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Dana Brownlee (LinkedIn profile) a speaker and trainer garnered critical team leadership and management consulting experience through her years with AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM Consulting, and EMC Corporation. She possesses an impressive array of credentials including an MBA (Emory University), BIE (Georgia Tech), BS (Spelman College), IBM Business Transformation Consulting Certification, Project Management Professional, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator Qualification.

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5 Secrets To Virtually Cut Your Meeting Time in Half!

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Live Webinar January 10th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Brexit stands front of mind for many companies with supply chain operations.

• What does Brexit now mean for the free flow of goods and services across the continent?

Join Tom Enright (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst, as he explores the impact of this decision, how all European countries will be affected, and how to prepare for the long-term impact of the potential destabilization of the European Free Trade Zone.

Discussion Topics:

• How Brexit will impact the free flow of goods and services across Europe
• The effect of Brexit on your supply chain operations
• How to prepare for the potential long-term destabilization of the European Free Trade Zone

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How Brexit Will Impact Supply Chains Across Europe

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Live Webinar January 9th 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar – January 8th, 2019 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Getting your presentation design off to the right start is essential. PowerPoint templates and masters are the underlying force that ties all your slides together, but so often they are ignored and forgotten.

Having a consistent, branded PowerPoint template will ensure that all your presentations look the part from the beginning. But templates within PowerPoint can be an easy stumbling block for the uninitiated.

In this masterclass Richard looks at how to create a PowerPoint template from scratch, teaching you how to set the template masters, the color scheme, layout options, fonts, and animation effects.

Moving through the session, Richard will show you exactly how to work in PowerPoint to achieve a consistent, professional presentation template, so that you can become a true PowerPoint Jedi with unmatched skill and speed.

Presenter: Richard Goring (LinkedIn profile) Director at BrightCarbon, (a specialist presentation agency). has helped to write and create thousands of presentations, and coached hundreds of teams to present more effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points. Richard is passionate about improving the way that people present and believes that anyone can deliver a great presentation if given the right techniques and a bit of practice.

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Become A PowerPoint Jedi
With The Force Of Templates & Masters

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 8th 2015
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

“Continuing education, whether formal or informal, is critical for those of us in education!” Becky says.

“And, for many of us in this industry, I think the desire and passion for learning comes naturally.”

In this fast-paced, interactive webinar you’ll explore how to put the point back into PowerPoint.

From high-tech to low-tech ideas, experience different ways to make this tool work for you.

Objectives:

• Examine tools to engage learners in real time
• Use 8 design tips to differentiate a good PowerPoint from a bad PowerPoint
• Select a strategy to begin applying to your own content

Presenter:  Becky Pike Pluth (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO, The Bob Pike Group Becky has more than 17 years of exposure to Bob Pike’s Creative Training Techniques (CTT) and vast experience in cross-functional training design and delivery, project management and business operations. She easily employs a participant-centered approach to classroom training, one-on-one training and blended e-learning and author of numerous professional development training materials including:

• 101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train
• Webinars with WOW Factor: Tips, Tricks and Interactivities for Virtual Training
• SCORE 3: Super Closers, Openers, Revisiters, Energizers
• SCORE for Technical Training, volume 4
• SCORE! for Webinar Training, volume 5

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8 Great PowerPoint Presentation Tips to Save You
From A Fate Worse Than Death By PowerPoint

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Live Webinar January 10th, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Continuous change drives instability and often overwhelms us. To cope with this change, we must learn to find order in chaos and see how seemingly unrelated trends actually overlap to affect our plans and solutions.

Join Daryl C. Plummer, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Managing VP & Gartner Fellow as he presents the Gartner Top Strategic Predictions for 2019 and Beyond. CIOs must leverage these predictions to prepare for changes that will be far reaching and comprehensive.

Discussion Topics:

• Augmented intelligence and analytics are affecting human lives as skills rise
• Culture and privacy are connected as “people-oriented cultures” resist the dehumanization of the individual
• Processes will become products, and markets will consolidate as customers soldier on

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Gartner Top Strategic Predictions For 2019 & Beyond

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