Live Webinar June 13th, 2021 – 11:00 pm to 11:59 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:   PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

New Plymouth District Council has a vision to be New Zealand’s sustainable lifestyle capital.

Partnering with ServiceNow and Red Moki, a robust, digitized and streamlined way to manage large council infrastructure projects was implemented.

It allowed the council to manage projects in 30-year planning cycles to smaller external and internal ones required by the project management office.

With project, program, portfolio and demand, the results delivered visibility, confidence and consistency and a year after the strategic planning’s initial implementation, New Plymouth District Council has a robust backlog of continuous improvement items.

In this webinar, Agnes Delerue (LinkedIn profile) will share the story of aligning their strategic roadmap and plans to deliver the business outcomes they wanted.

In this webinar you will:

• How to drive new levels of consistency, transparency and speed into how work is prioritized, planned and executed.
• Best practice to approach strategic planning, that include capturing strategies, goals and targets effectively.
• What tools can help keep track of real-time performance to understand if you are on track to meet strategic objectives.

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How New Plymouth District Council Maximized Its Business Outcomes

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Live Webinar June 16th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  HBR – Harvard Business Review

The pandemic has challenged small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) in numerous ways, including the need to ensure employee safety, facilitate remote work, and deal with shifting demands and expectations from customers and employees.

Other obstacles—employee burnout, labor shortages, and economic uncertainties—have also emerged, leaving SMB leadership and employees somewhat dazed and confused.

The pandemic has prompted these businesses to rethink how they operate and what they prioritize.

SMBs recognize that to thrive, they must become more resilient and agile, and that they must devise longer-term strategies and align their priorities with their investment.

Among 300 SMB executives surveyed by HBR-AS, 71% have already made changes as a result of the pandemic to ensure they can better respond to future business disruptions.

Alex Clemente (LinkedIn profile) will share insights from this HBR-AS survey about challenges SMBs face and actions SMBs are taking.

He will then discuss with Michael Mendenhall (LinkedIn profile), SVP and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at TriNet, & Todd Pruzan (LinkedIn profile) Senior Editor of Research and Special Projects, Harvard Business Review what SMBs must do to become more resilient.

Including:

• What allowed some SMBs to adapt to the pandemic’s challenges better than others
• How expectations are shifting for customers and employees
• What is means to cultivate a strategy of resilience and how to do it
• How SMBs are building their workforce for the future
• The need to focus efficiency enablers and streamline day-to-day operations

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How To Make Your Business More Resilient

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Live Webinar June 14th, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

As product management is scaled across the organization, CIOs and IT leaders are also challenged to focus employee development strategies on accelerating current, in-role performance and preparing employees for future, emerging roles.

In this s webinar on building product management teams in IT, Gartner expert Jessie Ustjanauskas (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Specialist, shares how you can prepare your workforce with the skills and competencies needed to succeed in this new model.

Discussion Topics:

• Prepare your workforce with the skills and competencies needed for success
• Learn how to reframe competency expectations for product management
• Understand how to take a coordinated, enterprise wide approach to develop cross-cutting skills

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

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Build Product Management Teams In IT:
Competency & Skills Development

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Live Webinar – June 15th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How many times have you found and/or kept a superior performer .?   According to Careerbuilder, 3 out of 4 small business employers have hired the wrong person.   74 % say they have hired the wrong person for a position.  It turns out that employees ‘think’ they can pick the best, but most don’t really know how to find and hire new candidates.

The United States Department of Labor puts the cost of a bad hire at up to 30% of the employee.

Poor hires can result in lost productivity and expenses in hiring, recruiting mistakes and ineffective training workshops.  And it gets worse… managers also spend too much time supervising poorly performing employees who were chosen. Gallop estimates that in the US, businesses lost $450 – $550 billion dollars in productivity because of inadequate vetting of new candidates.

The hard skills for a job are fairly easy to determine: things like level of education, experience and technical skills.

What is sometimes harder to determine is what “type of person” would be most successful — one that would fit the role as well as the organizational culture. It requires time and attention in the selection process.

Using a Job Benchmark based on the job requires  due diligence in hiring.   The TTI Job Benchmark process starts with:

• Identifying the specific job to be benchmarked
• Identify Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that have a clear understanding of what the job is and what is involved to create superior performance within that role.

To get started, use SMEs and the hiring manager to discuss:

• Duties – create a list of all the activities and tasks required for the JOB
• Use Key Results to group duties’ that are similar and title them
• Insist on specific and measurable statement for each Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Create and validate the Benchmark (high and low results)
• Compare the top candidates with the Job Benchmark (TriMetrix Job Plus/Talent Comparison)
• Debrief the hiring manager / stakeholders while looking at the results

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

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Hiring With No Real Data?
Try The Amazing Job Benchmark For Accurate Selection

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