Live Webinar July 28th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514)

Test management has come to be equated with what various automated tools do, but truly managing testing as a project applies powerful practices to testing’s unique challenges and produces far greater results.

Learn to better define and communicate how you’ll reliably deliver testing’s full value so you can negotiate for the scarce time, resources, and influence you need to do it.

• Common test management tool capabilities and limitations
• Added benefits of managing testing as a project vs. an activity
• Tailoring project management methods to testing’s unique challenges

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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Manage Testing Beyond A Test Management Tool

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Live Webinar July 27th, 2020, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

A Q&A With Greencore CIO Tracy Costello

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation initiatives in Manufacturing.

Digital transformation became a necessary path to survival today and growth for tomorrow.

How do you strike that balance between meeting today’s challenges and enabling future growth?

In this webinar, Tracy Costello, (LinkedIn profile) CIO of Greencore, a leading manufacturer of convenience foods for retail and food service customers across the United Kingdom, fields questions from Gartner and you about the challenges and best practices for digital transformation in the manufacturing sphere.

Discussion Topics:

• Q&A With Greencore CIO Tracy Costello
• How digital transformation helps Greencore navigate the pandemic
• Why digital transformation is vital for future growth in manufacturing

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Digital Transformation In Manufacturing

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Live Webinar July 30th, 2020 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

As the pandemic changed the way we live and work, we sought to understand how your priorities, attitudes, and work experiences evolved.

By deploying weekly pulse surveys and interviewing over 30 HR practitioners and business stakeholders, HCI researchers tracked and monitored how HR professionals responded to the crisis.

Jenna & MaryFran share what we’ve learned from you and explore the connection between symptoms of burnout and the emotional impacts of COVID-19.

In this HCI research webcast, you will:

• Learn how priorities shifted from March to June 2020 as the  pandemic forced people and their organizations to quickly respond and adapt
• Understand how the emotional and psychological employee experience evolved week-after-week and what worked to lessen the negative impact on the workforce
• Compare your organization’s response and support to others in our research
• Apply evidence-based interventions, treatments, and solutions to help your employees’ build resilience and manage stress now

All registrants will receive a copy of the research report.

Presenters:

Jenna N. Filipkowski, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) Director of Research, Human Capital Institute

MaryFran Heinsch (LinkedIn profile) Research Analyst, Human Capital Institute

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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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Balance Or Burnout:
Understanding & Supporting The Emotional Impact Of COVID-19

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Live Webinar – July 29th 2020 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Live Webinar – July 29th 2020 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Complex projects have a huge pool of untapped data.

How exactly do you collect and harness the information that is held in this data?

This webinar explores how Intelligent Forecasting can improve forecasting in major projects.

Are you frustrated by the hype of project analytics, are you looking for practical, achievable ways to get started with your data analytics?

Join Richard Corderoy (LinkedIn profile) to find out how you can apply advanced analytics to your projects today.

The Oakland Intelligent Forecasting platform has been developed specifically for major projects and organisations who may have started the journey to improving their reporting capabilities, but may be struggling with siloed reporting, an over reliance on experts verus data driven experts and difficulty in maintaining the corporate memory.

In this session, Richard will talk about the challenges he faced developing the platform; from extracting data from large enterprise systems, the move to the Cloud, to how he up-skilled our team to be able to deliver cutting edge analytics, dealing with complicated architectures, internal politics and inconsistent processes.

He’ll also give you the practical steps to get started on the journey to master simple straight forward forecasting, and gain better insights from your current data which can answer questions such as:

• What is the value of risks compared to the approved cost envelope?
• Have activities been closed correctly in our data?
• How close to deadlines do people wait to change forecasts?
• Do expected historic risks map to actuals at portfolio level?
• How often do PM’s roll the previous period’s spend forecast into actuals?
• Are frequency of updates a sign of control or panic?
• Which projects have mandatory milestones?

He’ll also be able to share with you some of the outcomes we have been able to achieve including:

1. Significantly improved project forecasting
2. Enhanced board and management level reporting
3. Improved process compliance
4. Targeted assurance activity
5. Builds better data quality

There are huge benefits to be gained from helping your organisation become more data-centric, and we’ll give you the information you need to start to extract the full value from your data.

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Cutting Through The Hype:
How To Use Advanced Analytics To Do Practical Things Today

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Live Webinar – July 30th, 2020 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Mastery Training Service

In this session, Erika will provide the necessary foundation for new and progressive leaders to be successful as a leader, not just for today and but for the future.

Through Erika’s Leadership Iceberg Model, she will breakdown the three levels to give participants a practical idea on how to build their leadership style and capability so they can be the positive change the future workforce needs.

The 3 levels are:

1. MIND
   • The expectation that people have or think leaders should be
2. BODY
   • The actions/behavior people experience with leaders
3. HEART
   1. The core character of who the leader is and what drives their thoughts, actions/ behaviors

Three key takeaways include:

• To understand the connection between self-awareness and leadership and how that gives you a competitive advantage.
• To understand the true power and control you have to maximize your influence and responsibility over your team.
• To understand how to increase your performance by being your authentic self at work and giving your team permission to be authentic as well.

Presenter:  Erika Monaé Founder and CEO of the Erika Monaé Group, LLC, is a Detroit native, an HR practitioner with 10+ years of HR & OD experience & is the Founder & CEO of The Erika Monaé Group – a professional coaching & consulting practice. She is a SHRM & HRCI certified HR professional. Erika has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting & a master’s degree in Human Resources & Organizational Development.  Erika is a “People Builder,” as she builds off people’s strengths to fuel them so they can be authentic& allow others to see their light SHINE!

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Level Up To Authentic Leadership

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Live Webinar July 28th, 2020, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

At any given time, 25 percent of executive leaders are in transition, either moving to a new executive role within a company or to another company.

Transitions can be disruptive to individuals and organizations.

In this webinar, Heather Colella, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Analyst introduces a new body of research that helps executives reduce the likelihood of disruptive transitions by using transition fundamentals and frameworks that increase individual success.

Discussion Topics:

• Challenges of an executive transition
• Gartner research framework to help transitioning executives succeed
• The role of brand in a successful transition

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The Executive Transition: How To Ensure Success

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