Live Webinar – May 20th 2020 7:00 am – 8:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 20th 2020 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

We’re in the middle of a global pandemic.
But project professionals still need to make things happen,
Even with team members working from complex home situations.

One answer is to deploy virtual, creative collaboration, suites to our time. Our speaker, Dr Penny Pullan, suggests that we try engaging our stakeholders, using a facilitative, virtual leadership approach.

Penny wrote the first ever Facilitation and Virtual Working sections in the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition, and will bring them to life for you, using creative methods (such as live drawing) and proven tools (such as her Magic 6 TM).

While this session will be lots of fun, Penny is deadly serious. If we don’t show leadership and engage others, we might as well give up.

Tricky remote projects and programmes need far more than process and analytical skills. Our profession must move on from outdated methods, bringing new, creative ways of collaborating remotely into our practice.

You can expect a very interactive, facilitative, virtual session. Please bring your own ideas and experiences to share.

Penny’s hope is that you will leave invigorated to tackle your tricky, virtual projects and engage your stakeholders.

Presenter:

Dr. Penny Pullan (LinkedIn profile, @PennyPullan) contributed the Facilitation (3.1.4) and Virtual Teams (3.2.2) sections of the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition,. An experienced project & programme manager, she has helped others to develop their own creative collaboration and virtual leadership skills for 12+ years through her consultancy Making Projects Work Ltd.

Penny runs a facilitation programme for project professionals. Her award winnng books include: ‘

1. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams (Kogan Page),
2. Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing Change (Kogan Page, co-edited with James Archer) and
3. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management: Engaging People to Identify, Own and Manage Risk (Short Guides to Business Risk) (Gower, co-authored with Ruth Murray Webster).
4. Her next book is due out in late 2020 and is entitled: ‘Making Workshops Work: Creative collaboration for our time’’ Contributions are welcome!
5. And Contrubtions to the  APM Body of Knowledge by Association for Project Management (3.1.4) and (3.2.2) sections
   

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Creative Collaboration For Virtual Project Professionals

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Live Webinar May 19th, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

COVID-19 forced many organizations to make the difficult decision to implement layoffs and furloughs.

Most recognize the risks associated with reductions in force (RIF):

1. Disengaged employees,
2. Productivity drops and
3. Weakened labor market brand

Organizations that put in place effective engagement strategies post-RIF can help limit the severity and duration of a disengaged workforce. This allows the organization to recover more quickly.

In this webinar, part of our Leading HR Through the Reset series, George Penn, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP, Team Manager will bring you the latest insights and practical guidance on how to focus your engagement efforts.

Discussion Topics:

• The impact of reduction in force (RIF) on employee engagement
• A framework to focus your engagement efforts on areas of greatest impact
• Tactics that HR and management can use with remaining employees

the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Engage Your Employees After An RIF
(Reduction in Force)

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Live Webinar May 20th, 2020 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Now that we’re in this new, uncharted era of work, it’s time to reassess what the employee experience looks like in your organization.

Dania Shaheen (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, People & Strategy, Kazoo & Elizabeth Yarbrough (LinkedIn profile) Kazoo Founder & Lead Consultant  will share insights about this new phase of the employee experience and why it matters more than ever.

No matter where or how you’re working, your company’s health depends on your ability to inspire and align your employees.

Don’t know where to start?

Don’t worry.  Dania & Elizabeth will share how you can measure inspiration and alignment in your company using Kazoo’s Thrive Index – an employee experience assessment tool that helps you understand where you’re at and what steps you need to take to create a thriving employee experience.

Learn:

• Why your company needs to reexamine your employee experience to compete in the future of work
• What attributes make a positive employee experience
• The relationship between the four pillars of the employee experience (EX) and the balance of inspiration and alignment within your organization
• How to use the Kazoo Thrive Index to evaluate your current employee experience and the steps to take to move from surviving to thriving

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Assessing Your Employee Experience
In The New Era Of Work

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Live Webinar May 20th, 2020 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  HR.com

In an uncertain world, coaching and mentoring are two forms of learning and development that can adjust quickly to changing needs. In the coming year, HR professionals will lean even harder than usual on these development practices thanks to their dynamism. Therefore, it’s critical to understand the current trends, strengths, weaknesses and best practices in these two areas.

In this presentation, we will be discussing the findings of HR.com’s Coaching and Mentoring 2020 report and exploring research data that covers:

• The uptick in virtual/remote coaching and mentoring
• The effectiveness of today’s coaches and mentors
• How coaching and mentoring are used in today’s organizations
• The culture-related factors associated with coaching/mentoring
• The challenges that currently hinder coaching/mentoring
• The degree to which organizations provide formal training in these areas
• The methods most commonly used by organizations that excel in these areas
• The future of coaching/mentoring

Dr. Heidi Scott Chief Learning Officer HR.com will discuss why coaching and mentoring are important in our current era of economic uncertainty.

Then Heidi will discuss the degree to which coaching and mentoring are used by today’s organizations and the perceived effectiveness of those programs.

• Is there a gap between the perceived importance of coaching/mentoring and the actual skill sets of today’s managers?
• If so, how can organizations address those gaps?

You will also learn about the factors that hinder the workplace coaching/mentoring movement & they will discuss a range of other factors, including:

• The need to have more frequent, quality conversations with employees,
• The influx of younger workers, and
• The need to revamp outdated and ineffective performance management systems.

Heidi will also examine a range of details about coaching itself. For example,:

• Who does the coaching and mentoring in organizations?
• Which coaching/mentoring skills do leaders tend to have,
  • which ones do they lack, and
  • which ones will they need in our fast-emerging future?

Perhaps most importantly, we will describe how organizations that excel at coaching and mentoring differ from those that do not.

Join Heidi as she discusses the results from the survey and how they may apply to your organization.

Here’s What You’ll Learn:

1. Current trends in coaching and mentoring
2. The impact of coaching on culture and performance
3. Strengths and weaknesses of today’s coaches and mentors
4. How L&D can develop better coaching/mentoring skills among managers
5. How organizations with good coaches and mentors tend to operate
6. The importance of coaching/mentoring in the future

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Why Coaching & Mentoring
Are Needed Now More Than Ever

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Live Webinar May 18th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The Gartner 2020 CIO Agenda focuses on the actions that enterprises have taken to anticipate and adapt to the disruption caused by COVID-19.

Ten attributes of agile enterprises clearly emerge that set them apart from their more fragile peers.

In this webinar Chris Howard, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio), Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst examines these resilient attributes and provides guidance on how to cultivate them in your public- or private-sector organization during the current state of global disruption.

Discussion Topics:

• Attributes that separate agile organizations from fragile ones
• Techniques to increase your enterprise’s resilience
• Actions that will have lasting benefits during the COVID-19 disruption

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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10 Attributes Of Resilient Enterprises

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Live Webinar – May 19th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 19th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

This webinar aims to introduce the principles of portfolio management and also provide some examples from recent case studies experienced in delivering a transformation portfolio.

It covers the key principles and approaches with the associated benefits of adopting portfolio management approach to help achieve an organisations objectives and strategic outcomes.

The approach outlined is in line with the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition and the recently published Portfolio Management – A practical guide that was written by APM Portfolio Management Specific Interest Group.

Case study examples from members of the Specific Interest Group will help bring to life some of the challenges encountered in both the introduction and ongoing management of portfolios.

Presenters:

Petula Allison (LinkedIn profile) Change and Portfolio Planning Manager,Yorkshire Building Society (YBS); has experience in both the public and private sector and is a member and appointed Co-Chair for the APM’s Portfolio Management SIG which creates valuable practice-oriented knowledge that helps drive forward the Portfolio and Project management profession for the APM.

Adam Skinner (LinkedIn profile) has 15 + years of successful project and programme delivery experience from a career spanning HM Treasury, PA Consulting, Atkins Global and P2Consulting. Adam specialises in the implementation of Programme and Portfolio Management capabilities through the establishment of Programme and PMO’s. Adam has established PMOs & P3M capabilities across a range of sectors including government, energy, retail and the financial sector & sits on the APM’s Portfolio Management SIG committee as Co-Chair. Adam is a graduate with distinction of Saïd Business School’s MSc in Major Programme Management.

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An Introduction To Portfolio Management:
The Theory & The Practice

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