Live Webinar January 27th, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Which technology trends will most impact your government organization?

Strategic technology trends have the potential to both create opportunity and cause significant disruption. Public sector executives must examine the impact of these trends individually and collectively. Strategies and operations must shift accordingly, or organizations risk undermining the quality of government services and capacity to deliver mission value in the future.

In this webinar Arthur Mickoleit (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Director Analyst will describe some of Gartner’s most popular research and identify the strategic technology trends that will have the biggest impact on your government organization over the next 1-2 years.

Discussion Topics:

• The technology trends that are most likely to impact strategic plans or cause disruption to government organizations
• Technology trends reaching critical tipping points or challenging conventional wisdom
• How you can leverage these trends to drive innovation and transformation in challenging government contexts

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Top Technology Trends For 2022: Government

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Live Webinar – January 27th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

There comes a point in learning experiences when merely presenting content no longer works. It is like a nail that is blunted at the endpoint. No matter how much you hammer, it does not penetrate the surface. In effect, learning results in diminishing returns.

But don’t despair. Designers, trainers, and coaches have another tool in their arsenal. Voila! These are the thinking tools and exercises. There is nothing complicated about them. In a nutshell, they are simply activities that help learners wrap their minds around the content you are teaching. The thinking tools and exercises aid learners to ask questions and find answers. They challenge the learners to interpret the content in their own context.

In this webinar, Ray will share his library of 25 Thinking Tools and Exercises. He has used these tools with verifiable results.

Topics to cover:

• What do you do when content presentations no longer engage learners?
• What do you do when learners are unable to apply ideas and fail to connect ideas to their real work situations?
• What are Thinking Tools?
• Why are they valuable to get results in learning?
• What are three must-do thinking processes to help learners improve learning experiences?
• Cases and examples on when and how to use Thinking Tools:
  • Troubleshooting
  • Consequence Thinking
  • 80/20 Rule
  • Trial and error
  • Metrics
  • Diagraming
  • Brainstorming

• How to apply Thinking Tools in compliance, sales, leadership, coaching, and other topic areas.

Join the webinar and get Ray’s “25 Powerful Thinking Tools and Exercises Listings”

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of  3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1) and  DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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25 Powerful Thinking Exercises & Tools To Help Learners Learn

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Live Webinar January 26th, 2022 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar you will learn how the seamless integration of enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods that are each embedded with advanced analytics can exponentially increase your organization’s performance.

About Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile) is an internationally recognized expert, sought after keynote speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.

Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina Gary has written numerous books and mentored individuals and organizations in performance management over the last 40+ years. Gary received a BS degree (honors) in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University (1971) and his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (1974).

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). From 1997 until recently Gary was in business development with SAS, a provider of enterprise business analytics and intelligence software.

Gary’s two most recent books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap  and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics .

His most recent book co-authored with Larry Maisel (LinkedIn profile) is Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance. Visit Mr. Cokins site at GaryCokins.com.

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Analytics-Based Enterprise Performance Management

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Live Webinar – January 26th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

This course provides an overview of how to manage a project’s resources, timeline and cost through effective critical path modeling using Microsoft Project.

This step by step approach addresses some of the common challenges in project estimating, including limited resource availability, multiple parallel activities, support activities, and accounting for time off, sick leave and minor changes.

Unlock the power of MS Project’s leveling feature and start your projects off on the right foot by attending this course.

Learning Objectives:

• The third class describes how to use resource leveling to determine timelines and resource requirements for projects.
• This lesson outlines an iterative process using resource, constraint and Gantt chart views to optimize the project timeline and budget, including techniques for leveling large, multi-phase projects.

Presenter: Sam Bell (LinkedIn profile) PMP, SSCP & CMMC RP, leverages 36+ years of IT and project management experience in managing data warehouse, call center, reporting, and security infrastructure and assessments projects. His focus on process improvement ensures a consistent, repeatable, and measurable approach is taken to deliver value and a secure operating environment for clients. At Edwards, Sam oversees the Cybersecurity Assessments practice, leading NIST 800-53, HIPAA, NIST CSF, and CMMC readiness assessments for firms of all sizes, across diverse industries.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project:
Leveling & Resolving Resource Conflicts

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As test automation engineers, many of us are asked to do more and more test automation. Leadership may be asking you for the percentage of manual test cases that have been converted to automation scripts, or the dreaded question, “Why wasn’t this caught with our test automation scripts?”

Join Janna Loeffler, (LinkedIn profile) Director of Engineering at mParticle, as she talks through how to efficiently scale your test automation efforts.

Learn about:

• Common inefficiencies in test automation practices
• Test automation metrics
• Reporting out your test automation efforts

Discover how scaling your test automation may not be a technology problem but more so a cultural problem.

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How To Efficiently Scale Your Test Automation

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Public sector organizations face a singularly unique year in 2022, and chief data officers and data and analytics (D&A) leaders have a unique opportunity to make a huge impact.

The Gartner 2022 Annual Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics Leaders provides a must-have desk reference for everything public sector data & analytics leaders need to know and do in 2022 and beyond.

In this data and analytics webinar, Andrew White (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) VP Gartner Distinguished Analyst looks at the programs, frameworks and best practices that you and your team need to set yourselves up for a winning year.

Discussion Topics:

• Why 2022 will be an especially unique year for public sector organizations and D&A leaders
• Top challenges and opportunities facing public sector data & analytics leaders
• Best practices for data & analytics leaders and their team to address these challenges

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The Gartner 2022 Leadership Vision For
Public Sector Data & Analytics Leaders

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