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

Does learning transfer from one project to another? If so, how? Projects are temporary organisations. Evidence suggests that as projects transition from planning and building, to their running phases, a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge is lost. The result is institutional amnesia.

James G. March, the admired Stanford Professor of organisational behaviour, advanced the idea of “myopia of learning” in companies. March found that organisations have a tendency to be short-sighted in learning across the three dimensions of space, time, and failure. Project organisations tend not to learn easily, and when they do, they overweight learnings from nearby (vs far-away) places; recent (vs historical) examples; and success (vs failure) stories.

This webinar will discuss the challenges of learning across projects; the underlying root causes of poor knowledge flows; and present a potential technological cure to help institutionalise knowledge in projects.

Presenter:  Dr Atif Ansar, (LinkedIn profile) Founding Director, Oxford’s Programme on Sustainable Capital-Intensive Industries. Atif’s expertise is on the confluence of large physical assets and technology. In particular, he is interested in how big capital projects have the potential to improve their performance and productivity, across their whole life-cycle, with the use of technologies such as big data, shared platforms, automation, and Artificial Intelligence. Atif’s research is widely cited and features regularly in the media.  He is the Chairman and co-founder of Foresight Works & is a Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford.  He is Founding Director of Oxford’s Programme on Sustainable Capital-Intensive Industries, & Senior Fellow of the MSc in Major Programme Management at Oxford Saïd Business School. Dr Ansar is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University & a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.

Previous presentations and webinars can be viewed on the APM Slideshare and YouTube channels.

This event is suitable for professionals with a beginners’ level of experience.

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Project Knowledge Management

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Live Webinar July 7th, 2020 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

In this time of uncertainty and disruption, it is more important than ever that organizations’ HR practices facilitate a sense of value, well-being, and positive experience for employees.

In this session, Lauren Bidwell, PhD, (LinkedIn profile) Research Scientist, Human Capital Management Research, SAP SuccessFactors, & Daniel Vonier, (LinkedIn profile) global vice president, People & Organizational Growth at SAP will discuss the impact of the current global crisis on key HR practices.

Including:

1. Learning,
2. Performance management, and
3. Rewards & Recognition
   • approaching these considerations and sharing insights from both the HR and the employee perspectives.

Learn:

• How these practices can be more effectively leveraged during this period
• What the implications for these practices might be through the remainder of 2020
• Insights on what HR is thinking and planning, and what employees want and need in these unprecedented times

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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Thoughtful Talent Management In Troubling Times

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Live Webinar July 9th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic thinking and foresight should be embraced for rebuilding, resilience, and reinvention of business models and opportunities.

CIOs must be prepared for anticipatory action and managing uncertainty. Continuous foresight must be used to see what can be changed and influenced (and what you can’t).

In this webinar Marty Resnick (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst  looks at how CIOs can reduce feelings of uncertainty, improve the quality of decisions, and prepare for directions and scenarios across many different future horizons.

Discussion Topics:

• Why to embrace Continuous Foresight for rebuilding, resilience, and reinvention
• Why CIOs must prepare for anticipatory action and managing uncertainty
• How to reduce feelings of uncertainty and improve the quality of decisions

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Use Continuous Foresight To Rebuild & Reinvent Your Business

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Live Webinar – July 8th, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:00 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,
• Will it be an opportunity to check email instead?
• Is it effective learning?
• How do you make sure that your learners interact with the experience and are really learning?

Online meeting technology is powerful and has made it easy to connect with people from anywhere in the world at any time, yet L&D 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.

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 that align with better learning principles such as authentic, relevant, fun, accessible, timely, efficient, and engaging are the key to your success.

Through them you’ll learn to manage the technology, get attendees to actively interact, and help presenters have a great time too!

Application On The Job:

1. Define virtual learner engagement to effectively design the appropriate activities.
2. Analyze activities for specific engagement techniques and feature usage to apply to your own activity design.
3. Create your own customized activities for immediate use in your virtual classroom programs.
4. Design an experience that aligns with better learning principles including authentic, relevant, fun, accessible, timely, efficient, and engaging.

Presenters: 

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. You can find Kassy on her her website

Dan Keckan (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Cinecraft Productions & author;  leads a team of amazing designers, developers and video producers that help organizations create authentic, relevant and effective learning. The organizations he works with include The Sherwin-Williams Company, Hyatt Hotels and Ace Hardware to name a few. His expertise includes designing effective learning strategies and aligning the strengths of different modalities with the actual skill or behavior to be demonstrated. Dan and his team have won dozens of awards including the International eLearning Awards.

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Activities For Spectacular Live Online Training
That Aligns With Better Learning Principles

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Live Webinar July 6th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Gartner’s annual CEO survey, conducted 4Q19, captured a valuable snapshot of the CEO mindset just before the pandemic crisis hit.

In this webinar Mark Raskino, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst explores the enduring issues that will help business executive leaders plan for recovery and continue long-term digital business transformations.

Discussion Topics:

• How CEOs approach the crisis based on their thoughts prior to it hitting
• Enduring insights on digital business transformation that can inform long-term recovery plans
• Key insights on 2020’s macro trends to know before reevaluating your strategy approach

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The Year Of Recession:
Gartner CEO Survey 2020

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Live Webinar – July 7th, 2020 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 7th, 2020 11:00 am – 12:00 pm BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:   IIL (REP 1003)

The causes of the majority of failed projects can be traced to poor definition and understanding of requirements. Prioritization of requirements and flexibility to adapt to changing requirements are essential for effective development in the Agile environment.

Understanding how to adapt and adjust while maintaining strategic alignment is critical to long-term success.

The sprint plan is the key building block of an Agile project. Establishing realistic estimates and sprint plans is critical to ensure that value is delivered quickly and that the team velocity is consistent and meets customer expectations.

Given the short time span of sprints (1-4 weeks), it is imperative that the team knows in advance exactly what they will work on in order to minimize waste.

Estimates are done around user stories and depending on the clarity of the user story, the estimates will be more or less accurate.

In this webinar Rubin Jen (LinkedIn profile) will assist you in better understanding the value and use of release plans and also assist you in establishing realistic sprint plans for your Agile projects. Live Q&A included

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Developing Effective Agile Release Plans & Sprint Plans

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