Live Webinar May 25th, 2023 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

Positive outcomes don’t happen by accident—they happen because of leadership. As a leader, when you accept the concept of “it’s always the leader,” you assume responsibility.

Join leadership experts Ken and Scott Blanchard as they share six enduring principles of leadership and how to adapt them for the challenges of the 21st century.

In the first half of this special presentation, bestselling business author Ken  will share three foundational mindsets all great leaders possess. These mindsets are at the core of Blanchard’s teachings over the past 50 years.

• Leadership is a partnership: The best leaders partner with people for their highest development. Leadership is not something you do to people, it’s something you do with people.
• A good leader catches people doing things right: Good leaders focus less on evaluating, judging, and correcting the performance of others and focus more on the power of positive reinforcement.
• Leadership is love: This seemingly radical notion is a common denominator in everything Blanchard has taught over the years. Leaders are servants who love their people and bring out their best.

In the second half of the presentation, company president Scott  will share how, when he became president in 2020, he inherited a company built on Ken’s three principles. Then a global pandemic hit. Scott will detail how he adapted these fundamental concepts to the rigors of both the pandemic and post-pandemic age.

• Leaders must have their people’s backs: People can sense when their leader isn’t there for them. Your people must know they can count on you to be forthright and fair, no matter what. You can’t be an effective leader if your people don’t trust you.
• Leaders must adapt to, and develop, rapport with people—not the other way around: Leaders need to shift from judging direct reports to investigating what’s behind less than acceptable behavior. Your role is to develop rapport and clear the way for your people to be exceptional.
• Learning as a leader is never over. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. As a leader, you must grow and change to meet the needs of the present and future.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore these six timeless principles of leadership and how they can be used by you—and other leaders in your organization—to build out your individual leadership journey and inspire the highest level of achievement in others.

Presenters

Scott Blanchard (LinkedIn profile), President  The Ken Blanchard Companies

Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Ken has an excellent collection of his latest 3 books the “The Essential Ken Blanchard Collection“ on amazon which includes the titles Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called “Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A”, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, and Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. They are an excellent read!

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6 Enduring Principles Of Leadership

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Live Webinar May 22, 2023 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The webinar “Mapping Your Future: Aligning Your Career Planning with Personal Strategic Planning” provides practical tips and strategies for aligning career aspirations with personal strategic plans.

In this webinar Hanan Mohamed (LinkedIn profile) highlights the importance of mindset and behaviours essential for career planning and development, common traits of successful project managers, and potential pitfalls they may face.

Personal strategic planning involves aligning goals, values, and resources to achieve long-term success and fulfillment.

This webinar identifies critical elements of personal strategic planning, including clarifying personal values, prioritizing self-care, cultivating mindfulness and self-awareness, engaging in meaningful relationships, planning and setting goals, and focusing on career planning and continuous professional development.

The webinar also encourages aspiring project managers and professionals to prioritize self-care, seek support, and engage in continuous learning and personal/professional development to achieve their desired outcomes.

It emphasizes the importance of aligning career aspirations with personal strategic plans through adaptive learning, personalized planning and developing a growth mindset.

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Mapping Your Future:
Aligning Career Planning With Personal Strategic Planning

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Live Webinar May 23rd, 2023, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Business growth remains CEOs’ top business priority for 2023, even as uncertainties mount, including inflationary pressures, volatile economic growth rates, environmental sustainability pressures, and geopolitical upheaval.

According to the Gartner Understanding Corporate Growth Strategies Survey, 37% of respondents expect to increase revenue by at least 10% this fiscal year.

Successful companies improve their growth goals by adopting three practices: strategic diversification, collective leadership, and embedded antifragility.

In this webinar David Furlonger (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) VP & Gartner Fellow; Dave Aron,  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst; & Tom Turcan (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Managing Vice President;  will help leaders across the enterprise better understand the approaches and strategies that high-growth enterprises use to deliver strong performance in challenging economic times.

Discussion Topics:

• Embed antifragile practices into your operating models in the face of uncertainty
• Exhibit a collective executive responsibility for driving growth
• Diversify your strategies and asset portfolios of assets

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3 Proven Ways For CXOs To Drive Growth In Uncertain Times

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Live Webinar – May 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Microlearning is designed to meet a specific learning outcome, but how can you know that your design will be effective?

One aspect to consider is the cognitive load required to process the information and activities you design.

That’s because information overload is a significant hindrance to effective learning and retention. Fortunately, we can do something about it. Over the decades, cognitive load theory has been researched and refined.

This interactive session demonstrates ways that learning designers can reduce high cognitive load during individualized and collaborative learning.

In this session, Connie will explore:

• A model of how people learn
• Different types of cognitive load
• Causes of high cognitive load
• Practical instructional strategies you can use to reduce high cognitive load
• How cognitive load affects collaborative learning

Presenter: Connie Malamed (LinkedIn profile) helps people learn and improve their instructional design skills so they can gain confidence and proficiency in this field. She has helped hundreds of people gain competence in instructional esign and I’d love to help you. Connie had her own ID business for 20 years, wrote two books on visual design, publish The eLearning Coach website and podcast, and was honored with the Guild Master award for contributions to the industry.

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Strategies For Reducing Cognitive Load In Microlearning

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Live Webinar – May 24th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Whether you need to build an Excel-based dashboard, perform some serious data analysis, or simply summarize data for a personal project, Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel’s data analysis and Business Intelligence (BI) toolkit.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!) you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret and understand your data which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the important questions on which you base your key business decisions.

However, Pivot Tables suffer from several limitations, leaving users frustrated and looking for workarounds. Enter Power Pivot, a free pre-installed add-in from Microsoft. Power Pivot helps you to overcome those limitations.

From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, people everywhere use Pivot Tables to summarize and understand their data. Learning how to create Pivot Tables is one of the must have skills for anyone who needs to use Excel to quickly build reports and summaries. This training will provide you with a solid foundation that you can use to build your own pivot tables and reports.

Learning Objectives (This Session ):

• ntroduction to DAX (the Power Pivot formula language)
• Performing a Lookup with DAX
• DAX Calculated Columns v Query Editor Calculated Columns
• Introduction to Measures
• The all-important Calculate function
• CUBE functions – letting the worksheet talk to The Data Model

Learning Objectives (This Series):

• Use Pivot Tables to turn raw data into meaningful and insightful reports and summaries
• Structure your raw data in the right way
• Design and format your Pivot Table reports so that they are easy to read and understand
• Summarize your data in different ways including totals, counts and percentages
• Convert a Pivot Table into a chart
• Use Slicers to create interactive Pivot Table Filters
• Understand the benefits of Power Pivot and The Data Model
• Import data into The Data Model – the why and how
• Create Pivot Tables from multiple lists or sources
• Avoid the issues that surround working with large datasets
• Understand the basics of the DAX formula language to create Pivot Table based formulas

Presenter: Mike Thomas (LinkedIn profile) an SME in IT training business since 1989, his primary focus and passion being Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Power BI. In 2012 Mike founded The Excel Trainer where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses. Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.

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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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Excel: From Raw Data To Actionable Insights. Mastering Pivot Tables & Power Pivot (3 of 3)

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Live Webinar – May 24th, 2023 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

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Make Your Java Dev Team More Productive With AI-Led Unit Testing

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