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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Live IIL Webinar – June 15th, 2022 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Live IIL Webinar – June 15th, 2022 1:30 am – 2:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003)

You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. This session may fill up quickly so sign up today. If you cannot attend live – sign up and a recording will be sent to you.

“Agile projects need to report to the PMO”
How does this statement make you feel? 

Anxious? Frustrated?  Anticipating a fight? There’s likely to be resistance. 

The reality is, all projects, even Agile ones, should have supports to be successful.  But at the same time, PMOs can’t remain the same and expect Agilists to just comply; PMOs also need to change and adapt. 

Rubin Jen will review the types of PMOs and what benefit they bring to an organization, but then also their place in an Agile environment.  He will investigate the value they need to have for Agile projects.  And finally, he’ll provide a few examples of value-added services that can assist. 

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A PMO For Agile Projects: Not An Oxymoron!

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Live Webinar June 15th, 2022 11:00 am – 11:45 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

Channeling his best Jeff Foxworthy, Bob shares some patterns and anti-patterns that surround the leadership shift to more agile tactics and mindset that many leaders are facing and struggling to adopt.

Presenter: Robert “Bob” Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership – Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations.  He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

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You Might Be An Agile Leader, If…

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Live Webinar June 15th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  HBR – Harvard Business Review

Resignations are at an all-time high and companies desperate to attract and retain employees are trying everything—from pay raises to trendy perks.

But these interventions are falling short. According to Marcus Buckingham, (LinkedIn profile)  leading thinker on workplace performance, the real problem is that companies have designed jobs to be stressful, meaningless, and unlovable. To attract and keep the best people, leaders need to design work that people love.

Marcus will share insights from his May/June cover story, “Designing Work That People Love” as well as the data from his work at ADP Research Institute on what keeps employees engaged.

Marcus will discuss:

• Why leaders need to change their approach to performance management to take advantage of each employee’s unique skills and passions.
• Three mindset shifts leaders must make: Viewing employees as the organization’s key stakeholders, moving away from standardization in performance management tools, and trusting each employee to accomplish their goals as they see fit.
• How companies like Walmart and lululemon are changing their thinking—and how they are making improvements in retention and performance.

Employees don’t need to love everything about their jobs, but research shows that a little love can go a long way toward reducing burnout and helping with engagement.

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How To Enhance Employee Engagement & Commitment

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