Live Webinar March 13th, 2019 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Speaking On The Spot With Clarity & Precision

It’s happened to all of us—you’re asked unexpectedly during a meeting to give a project update, or are stopped in the hallway with an important question, or are cornered in a challenging conversation.

You can’t plan for these unrehearsed events, but you can take steps to always be confident and ready when they do happen.

This preview of the AMA seminar, Effectively Communicating in the Moment, explains how this course helps you develop your in-the-moment communication skills and will offer some tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

Join Susan Mason for a preview of this seminar and how it will teach you to navigate through unscripted moments, including:

• Advice for keeping your composure while taking time to respond
• What to do when you are being pushed for an answer
• Ways to deliver your message confidently
• Specific stalling techniques that exude competence

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

Presenter: Susan Mason (LinkedIn profile) is Principal Vital Visions Consultants, has  35+ years of experience as an educator, executive coach, trainer, & keynote speaker. Susan has designed, developed and implemented a wide variety of learning solutions for organizations of all sizes, including AMA. She has worked at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations & Hamilton College where she now helps direct the Levitt Leadership Institute. She also has been a keynote speaker at AMA’s Women’s Leadership Center and is a member of AMA’s Online Course Faculty.

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Effectively Communicating In The Moment

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Live Webinar March 11th, 2019, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The use of chatbots and virtual assistants is exploding across the enterprise. Conversational platforms now make an impact on customer service, employee productivity, marketing, HR and boardroom decision making.

In this customer experience webinar, Magnus Revang (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst, looks at the use cases for chatbots, where they best fit in your organization, how to get started, and how to navigate the very confusing vendor landscape.

Discussion Topics:

• The capabilities of a chatbot and virtual assistant
• Navigating the vendor landscape
• How to get started with your first project

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Getting Started With
Chatbots, Virtual Assistants & Conversational Platforms

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Online Webinar  – Recorded
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  PM Times (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Few things have a bigger impact on project delays – and project manager frustration – than executive stakeholders who won’t engage.

Though they pay lip service to the value of a strategic project, when it comes time to actually review a document, provide feedback or update the status of a task, those stakeholders are often nowhere to be found.Sound familiar?

Then join Tony Toglia (LinkedIn profile) Fremont-Rideout Health Group & Shawn Dickerson (LinkedIn profile) GTM Director, Workfront; for an engaging discussion around how to get your project stakeholders off the sidelines and into the game. You will discover how to:

Learning Objectives:

1. Deliver real-time updates
   • Provide full visibility to all project stakeholders, instead of static reports that are outdated as soon as they’re produced
2. Keep it simple
   • Make it easy for stakeholders to stay engaged from project initiation through final delivery
3. Avoid email purgatory
   • Create an environment of unified communication and collaboration that connects individuals without endless email threads

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

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3 Keys To Get Project Stakeholders Off The Sidelines &
Into the Game

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Online Webinar – Recorded Feb 21 2019
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic planning is at the heart of any enterprise, and alignment with the corporate strategic plan is often a key concern of CIOs.

There is a science to developing an IT strategy, and there is an art.

This session explores the art of strategic planning, helping attendees articulate IT’s contribution to business success.

Discussion Topics:

• The components of an IT strategy when using “science” to develop it
• Techniques for developing an ‘artful’ one-page strategy
• How to effectively use the one-page strategy

Join  Heather Colella, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Research VP and learn to build your 1-Page Strategy.

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The Art Of The 1-Page Strategy

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 28th 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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In this seminar, Dr. Blaize Reich (LinkedIn profile) will first discuss two practices which can position a project to deliver value: Design Thinking and Benefits Mapping.

Then she will  review findings from a large scale study done to compare predictive and agile methodologies. An unexpected and interesting finding is that combining predictive and agile practices into a hybrid approach can produce good outcomes.

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Beyond The Triangle:
Delivering Value In An Agile World

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