Live Webinar – August 1st, 2019 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Whether it’s an online meeting, a presentation via webinar, or live online training, engagement is the main question on everyone’s mind:

Will it be worth my time to attend, or
Will it be an opportunity to check email instead?

Online meeting technology is powerful and has made it easy to connect with people from anywhere in the world at any time, yet  professionals often still struggle with getting everyone to interact.

Interaction is the answer to successful engagement and using the features of the platform is the answer to interaction.

However, the features alone do not engage the participants. It is what you choose to do with those features that will make the difference in your next virtual training, webinar, or meeting.

During this session, you will learn what you can do to be successful in the virtual environment and avoid having everyone ask for a recording or a copy of the slides five minutes into your next virtual event.

In this session:

• You’ll analyze the activities demonstrated and brainstorm where the techniques could be applied to your virtual training programs.
• You’ll explore the specific challenges of managing the technology, and brainstorm solutions to the engagement problems you are likely to experience with your live online attendees when technical problems arise.

Activities are the key to your success. Through them you’ll learn to manage the technology, get attendees to actively engage, and help presenters have a great time too!

Application on the Job

• Define virtual learner engagement to effectively design the appropriate activities.
• Analyze activities for specific engagement techniques and feature usage to apply to your own activity design.
• Create your own customized activities for immediate use in your virtual classroom programs.

Presenter:  Kassy LaBorie (LinkedIn profile) Director of Virtual Training Services for Dale Carnegie Training, is an indemand keynote speaker & leads a consultancy  to develop online training strategies for organizations . Her book Interact and Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, Webinars, has received rave reviews.  Previously Kassy served as the Product Design Architect and was a Master Trainer for InSync Training, & ExecuTrain.  Kassy also helped create the WebEx University.

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Online Meetings – Interact & Engage!
For Spectacular Training

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Online Webinar – Recorded Dec 11 2018
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

What’s standing in the way of your digital business growth?

Talent and skills. IT leaders must infuse their workforce with the talent and skills needed to propel the digital enterprise.

In this webinar Daniel Sanchez Reina (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Senior Director Analyst breaks down the market trends and best practices for planning, acquiring and developing IT talent and skills required to support digital business.

Discussion Topics:

• Workforce transformation scenarios that best help you to fuel digital business growth
• How to identify, source and recruit scarce digital talent and expertise
• How to cultivate new digital expertise and skills without hiring people

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Transform the IT Workforce To Grow Your Digital Business

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 25th 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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With the proliferation of cloud-based self-service platforms, it is becoming increasingly commonplace for business to break free from the shackles that bound them to Information Technology (IT) strategy forever.

While strategy is never a bad thing, it can be the slow-moving tanker that takes forever to change course, and in the age of agility, most companies have not aligned their strategy with agile principles, even less so IT.

Shadow IT, as it is known, has many advantages – with business possessing the ability to pursue available opportunities quickly proving the biggest plus. But it also creates many challenges.

These challenges require attention in order to prevent a shadow IT initiative from going rogue.

What are these challenges, and how do we mitigate the risk associated with them?

Join Anton Oosthuizen (LinkedIn profile), as he shares lessons learned from practical experience that can be applied by both project managers and business analysts to keep shadow IT initiatives in the light.

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Shadow IT:
Creating Synergy Between Business & IT Strategy

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Live Webinar – July 31st, 2019 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Mpug Member Free – Members only event
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

It may seem counter intuitive to apply random uncertainty to our hard won schedule estimates but doing so can dramatically improve the realism of our prediction of the future.

• But how can we justify applying uncertainty/randomness to management?
• What’s a reasonable amount of uncertainty?
• How can you capture uncertainty and apply it to your schedule without adding to your already heavy workload?

This session will use Barbecana’s Full Monte schedule risk analysis software to analyze the past and help produce happier clients in the future.

Presenter:  John Owen (LinkedIn profile) COO of Barbecana Inc, John has over 30 years of experience with using, supporting, and developing project management software tools across multiple industries.  Before joining Barbecana John was Product Director for Scheduling and Risk tools at Deltek.  Barbecana specializes in producing software for schedule risk analysis with the aim of helping customers improve confidence in their schedules.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Schedule Risk Analysis:
Using Random Numbers To Better Predict The Future

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Live Webinar – July 30th, 2019 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

It’s no secret that it’s an employee’s job market. With U.S. unemployment rates hovering below 4%, it’s harder than ever to hire the talent you need today—and harder still to hold onto the people you have.

Take control of the situation! Build a Culture of Recognition & Engagement where employees want to work for your organization because they feel connected to your mission, valued by their managers and supported by everyone—from co-workers to top management.

Learn powerful lessons that can help your organization:

• Better recruit workers who will better work out.
• Redefine the role of your managers to “own” creating a motivational environment for employees.
• Systematically thank, recognize and praise people for doing good work.
• Obtain the active support and involvement of your organization’s executive leadership.
• Build and sustain a strong culture of performance and accountability.

You’re guaranteed to learn proven strategies and techniques that the best managers at successful organizations are using to attract, hire, retain, and get the best from their employees—and what you can do as well!

Presenters:

Jill Christensen, Jill Christensen, (LinkedIn profile) President, Jill Christensen International & author of the best-selling book, If Not You, Who? Cracking the Code of Employee Disengagement, has uncovered a four-step strategy to turn your disengaged workforce into a unified high-performing team, resulting in increased profits, customer satisfaction, productivity, and retention.

Bob Nelson, Ph.D., (LinkedIn profile) President of Nelson Motivation Inc, is a leading authority on engaging, recognizing & retaining employees. For the last 20+ years he has presented sessions on six continents on recognition & engagement. Working with Fortune 500 companies he helps improve strategies, systems and programs for better motivating employees to achieve exceptional performance.  As an author he has sold over 4 million books on management and employee motivation, which have been translated into 37 languages, including 1501 Ways to Reward Employees, The Management Bible, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, Please Don’t Just Do What I Tell You! Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee’s Guide to Making Work More Rewarding, his most recent book, Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies will be released soon.

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Hiring, Engaging & Retaining Talent In A Strong Economy

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Live Webinar July 29th, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Successful data science teams need more than data scientists. You need to attract, hire and develop data engineers, developers, machine learning specialists and domain experts.

Training and upskilling are also vital components, as citizen data scientists become the leading source of new models and even expert data scientists struggle to keep up with the latest techniques and innovations.

In this webinar Eric Hunter, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst focuses on the most recent market trends you must know to shape strategic planning and organizational development initiatives that support data science outcomes for your organization.

Discussion Topics:

• How many traditional data scientists you need and what their supporting cast looks like
• The best options for training and education in data science and machine learning
• Organizational principles for data science teams placement

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Best Practices To Attract, Hire & Develop
Data Science Talent

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