Live Webinar – September 30th 2020 5:00 am – 6:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 30th 2020 10:00 am – 11:00 am BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

APM is delighted to be joined by thought leaders Jonathan Norman, Sarah Coleman, Vicki Griffiths, Tim Lyons and Ian Cribbes who will each share their insights and reflections on a range of topics including creativity and innovation, influencing at a distance and risk and decision making and what this means for project delivery in the new normal.

They will make best use of interactive technology so do come ready to share your own thoughts, reflections and experience for what we hope will be an exciting and stimulating session.

Presenters:

Tim Lyons (LinkedIn profile) is an APM Fellow, and a NLP Master Practitioner and INLPTA Master Coach. His original degree is in the philosophical aspects of Linguistics, and he holds a Masters in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Coaching for the work he did on the decision making habits of successful project managers.  Tim interests are in decision making systems and skills, communications in the project environment and applying NLP principles to organisations, and coaching individuals to be their best. He has worked on large and small programmes over the years in many parts of the world, and is currently working for the Crossrail Programme.

Vicki Griffiths  (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Project Manager at Fugro, a multinational company specialising in marine and land site characterisation projects. Currently she is working on a number of internal change projects that will impact the entire company. Vicki is a Fellow of the APM and one of the first group to attain Chartership in the APM and is currently mentoring others to achieve this goal. For the last year she has been the Chair of the Women in Project Management (WiPM) SIG at the APM.

Jonathan Norman, (LinkedIn profile) publisher of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management (Short Guides to Business Risk)  is responsible for the knowledge repository and the Association’s virtual community of practice. The repository collates and curates insight on the experience of major projects with resources from the Olympics, Crossrail, Thameslink Learning Legacies and from across industry. He also facilitates a wide range of virtual activities and events to complement the Association’s main seminar programme and socializes everything we do. ​

Sarah Coleman (LinkedIn profile) BSc MBA With 30 + yrs experience supporting business critical projects, programmes up to $50m  internationally Sarah is an author keynote speaker and Fellow at Lincoln University, APM Mentor at Judge Business School, in Cambridge.  Sarah started her career in technology and telecoms  and she worked for government and multi-nationals developing her project, programme and change skills and experience. In 2007 she established Business Evolution Ltd  and now supports strategy, change, projects and programmes.

Ian Cribbes (LinkedIn profile) FAPM has worked with a wide variety of organisations within the UK and internationally, leading projects with values in excess of £35 million pounds.  Ian is a co-opted member of the People SIG committee and an active member of the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.  Ian now runs his own company assisting organisations with programme and project management issues and advising on stakeholder engagement processes.

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Lessons From Lockdown & Impact On Project Delivery

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Live Webinar – September 29th, 2020 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Marvel at how amazing your presentations can be using only Google Slides. Create visual, dynamic, engaging slides that help your audience learn, in this interactive session packed full of real-life examples of bullet points transformed into meaningful visuals.

Google Slides is a terrific to create stunning presentations, especially if you understand some of the advanced features and capabilities it offers.

In this session you’ll see how to create amazing visuals, develop effective graphs and charts, engage your audience with compelling animations, and impress them with beautiful, professional design. All using only Google Slides. You’ll see a host of visual storytelling techniques, all demonstrated live, that you can use immediately to create effective presentations.

Presenters:

Joey Dudley is a design consultant at Brightcarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He creates beautiful graphics and design layouts for use in presentations, infographics, animations, and eLearning to ensure that they are both professional and communicate effectively. Joey is a dab hand at building dynamic, visual content in Google Slides and loves to share amazing things that you can do with it, including plenty of blogs and tutorials at Brightcarbon.

Richard Goring (LinkedIn profile) Director at BrightCarbon, (a specialist presentation agency). has helped to write and create thousands of presentations, and coached hundreds of teams to present more effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points. Richard is passionate about improving the way that people present and believes that anyone can deliver a great presentation if given the right techniques and a bit of practice.

For Another Great PDU With Richard Goring Check Out:
Become A PowerPoint Jedi
With The Force Of Templates & Masters

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Create Stunning Presentations Using Google Slides

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Live Webinar September 29th, 2020 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

As economic fallout from the pandemic mounts, greater numbers of companies are facing the possibility of having to reduce their workforce.

This is often a last resort after organizations have exhausted other options such internal mobility programs and redeployment initiatives to avoid letting go of valued employees. And while the best time to prepare for these moments is well ahead of them happening, the truth is that many companies are not prepared.

They don’t have a plan in place, and even for the one’s that do, many in the HR ranks may have not experienced large-scale layoffs in the decade of prosperity since the Great Recession.

Add to this the complexity of handling layoff notifications remotely.  The well-being of your employees and your employer brand and reputation are at stake depending on how you handle this situation.

Join Lindsay Witcher (LinkedIn profile) Ranstad VP, Global Practice Strategy & Solutions & learn the steps to take when getting ready for a layoff. You’ll gain best practices for planning, communicating and managing your force reduction; how to handle virtual notifications; and pitfalls to avoid.

Lindsay will also explain how outplacement services can help departing employees find their next roles faster, maintain the morale of remaining employees and safeguard your company’s reputation.

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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Preparing For Workforce Changes: Managing A Layoff

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Live Webinar September 28th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

You cannot have a discussion with someone about the future, especially emerging technologies, without eventually referring to a book, comic, television show or some other form of science fiction.

These science-fiction stories help us visualize plausible futures while engaging obstacles and opportunities not yet realized or even imagined.

In this webinar, Marty Resnick (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst; explores why CIOs, CTOs and technology innovation leaders need to embrace storytelling techniques and maximize multi-experience, transmedia, and science fiction storytelling strategies to effectively communicate future scenarios.

Discussion Topics:

• Why IT leaders need to embrace multi-experience, transmedia storytelling
• How science fiction provides a roadmap to your future
• Communicate future scenarios, visions and strategies that inspire action

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

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Use Science Fiction Storytelling For
Successful Future Scenario Planning

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NOW RECORDED FROM – September 29th 2020  EDT
NOW RECORDED FROM – September 29th 2020  BT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

EVMS – Part 1 Of 3

This series of webinars will introduce people to the, often poorly understood, system of work (the Earned Value Management System) that underpins good Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and enduring decisions.

The techniques for analysing EVM data are well understood and widely deployed. However, the system of work that provides ‘unquestionable’ data to analyse is less well understood. This, in turn, has led to a lack of understanding of what Earned Value Analysis is actually telling us about our projects.

This series of webinars aims to improve and broaden the understanding of what makes a good Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and why it is important to be as concerned about the system as it is about the data.

Scot Butcher & Martin Eveleigh will build up your knowledge over three webinars, here in this first webinar, starting with why a “good” Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and associated baseline is required to support valid Earned Value Analysis (EVA).

The sub-heading for this webinar is: Obsessing about SPI & CPI is pointless without first knowing that the project is under control.

Along the way, Scot & Martin will debunk a number of EVM myths.

It should be noted that within the proposed three hour duration of the webinars, this can only achieve an awareness level of the scope and complexity of an effective EVMS.

It is highly likely that, for some attendees, this will leave them with more questions than answers. However, the intent of these webinars is just that – to start to get people to ask themselves the difficult questions.

This webinar is suitable for professionals with a beginner to intermediate level of experience.

Presenters:

Scot Butcher (LinkedIn profile) MEng has spent his entire career as a Civil Servant in the Ministry of Defence. In 1998, Scot moved to a role in a multinational project based in Munich, Germany. In 2002, Scot joined the PMO for a major submarine procurement programme & was the lead for risk and change management for the programme, leading stakeholders through a particularly busy time.  One of Scot’s key roles was to improve the EVM practices. In 2013, Scot became head of the Submarine Portfolio Office (SPO) & chaired a number of EVM Integrated Baseline Reviews and System Demonstration Reviews.

Martin Eveleigh (LinkedIn profile) began his career in the field of Aerospace Development &  Electrical Design; then in 1993 Martin entered into Programme Management working on ever increasing complex Projects/Programmes. Martin authored the Rolls-Royce EVM System Description (EVMSD) and successfully led it through formal US Government ‘validation’. In 2005, he performed audits, teaching, mentoring and advising in all things Earned Value and Project Controls. Currently Martin runs his own Project & Programme Management Consultancy, enabling and sentencing of System demonstration Reviews (SDR) and Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR) as well as routine Surveillance. Martin holds a Masters Degree (MSc) in Project & Programme Management

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An Introduction To An Effective Earned Value Management System (EVMS): Part 1

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Live Webinar September 29th, 2020 11:00 am – 11:45 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .75 Hour  .75 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

Being proactive with an annual ‘Career Audit’ will help prepare you for new opportunities.

In this webinar, Erica Woods (LinkedIn profile) will highlight the top 8 suggestions for auditing yourself.

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8 Actions For Your Annual Career Audit

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