Live Webinar July 23rd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations navigate heightened stakeholder expectations to take a stand on social and political issues, most recently and vividly illustrated by corporate statements condemning racism and pledging action. For many enterprises, engaging with racism and other societal issues feels difficult but necessary.

In this webinar Dean Vitté (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Director, Advisory & Elizabeth Kilbride (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Specialist, Research will delve into how corporate communications leaders can confidently establish and message their organization’s position for issues on which stakeholders may have deeply felt and divergent views.

Discussion Topics:

• Stakeholder expectations for organizations to engage with societal issues
• How audiences respond to organizational engagement with societal issues
• How you can maximize the positive response to your engagement with societal issues

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Establish Your Organizational Stance
On Societal Issues Like Racism

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Now Recorded

Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Panel Debate With Senior Leaders

You will hear about the key issues for senior leader involved in the governance of change from Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

You will also debate/discuss their views on the key findings and recommendations from APM‘s recent sponsor survey of project professionals involved in governance of change.

The finding and the recommendations from the sponsor survey include:

• The role of sponsors in the governance of change
• How well sponsors are held to account for successful outcomes of change
• The need for a sponsor competency framework
• Benefits of and approach to sponsor training
• Next steps for sponsorship in the project profession

This webinar is part of an engagement series throughout July to present the results of the sponsor survey and discuss/debate the implications with project professionals with experience in these areas working in the Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

Part 1 of the series:

• Sponsorship: How to enhance the role within the project profession

The APM Governance Specific Interest Group is engaged in improving investment outcomes through better governance of change, and promoting effective sponsorship is crucial in achieving this. APM has a number of publications and support material available through the APM for sponsors to help them achieve more successful business outcomes from major change.

Panelists:

Tim Carroll  (LinkedIn profile) practiced engineering & project management for the petrochemical sector early in his career. He then moved to the IT sector & over the past 20+ years until his retirement he worked in the financial service sector, as Group Head of Project Management for Standard Chartered Bank. Recently he has focused on regulatory change programmes including Basel II rules for risk management, US tax reporting regimes, the EU GDPR data protection regulations and the UK financial regulator’s Senior Managers Regime, which imposed governance requirements upon the organisation and its most senior leaders.

Nick Gray (LinkedIn profile) has spent his career working on complex major infrastructure programmes in the UK sponsoring & delivering enhancements at all stages of the lifecycle under a range of governance and management frameworks. His roots go back to London Underground as a graduate Civil Engineer and then Docklands Light Railway project managing a diverse range of jobs.  His highlights include sponsoring the iconic redevelopment of Kings Cross station and sponsoring the £5bn Thameslink Infrastructure Programme guiding 100 component projects as well as leading delivery of £780m of enabling activities.  He is now Programme Director covering risk and assurance in the Centre of Excellence for capital delivery.

Sarah Johnson, (LinkedIn profile) CEO Restoration & Renewal Sponsor Body; has spent the majority of her career working in senior roles in major infrastructure projects. She joined the R&R Programme as CEO for the Sponsor Body from High Speed 2 for the submission of a Bill to Parliament for the next phase of the scheme. In her current role, Sarah has overall accountability for the R&R Programme, overseeing a delivery authority and managing the relationship with both Houses of Parliament to determine the overall requirements for R&R.

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The Executive Sponsor Role

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Live Webinar – July 23rd, 2020 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Forget Photoshop and pricey stock photography—you already have everything you need to create professional looking image-centric slides in PowerPoint.

In this session Nolan Haims will help you source high-resolution stock imagery (for little and even no cost), insert it into PowerPoint, and use built-in tools and techniques to edit and combine your imagery with text just like a professional graphic designer.

Participants will learn how to:

• Identify images that work best in presentation
• Use PowerPoint features that automate layout and alignment
• Crop and edit imagery like a pro
• Combine text with photos
• Keep file size to a minimum without compromising image quality

Presenter:  Nolan Haims (LinkedIn profile) has 20+ years experience in the fields of visual communications and presentation, having created every type of presentation from Fortune 500 CEO keynotes, to TED talks to multi-million dollar agency pitches. He trains organizations to think visually, speaks at national conferences, writes on visual storytelling at PresentYourStory.com, and is a co-host of the long-running Presentation Podcast. And as one of only 34 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, he works with and advises the software development team. He runs his own visual communications consultancy in Montclair, NJ.

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Using Imagery In PowerPoint Like A PRO

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Live Webinar July 21th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

To get funding, buy-in, and support for big, complex, and sometimes scary ideas (like digital transformation), IT and business leaders must overcome common obstacles from an uncertain and resistant leadership audience.

This session will apply lessons from the successes and failures of those who have come before.

In this webinar Ed Gabrys (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst  will show you how to distill your ideas into short, easy-to-understand, persuasive soundbites that attract interest and investment, so you can get your audience to say, “Tell me more.”

Discussion Topics:

• Stop selling and start investing
• Overcome uncertainty and create familiarity
• Create and prototype your best pitch

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Craft A Persuasive Pitch
To Break Down Investment Barriers

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