Online Webinar  – Recorded 1st Mar 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Stakeholder Engagement helps us understand what people involved with a project want, and how to engage them to help achieve project success. For both new and experienced project managers, a big challenge is where to go for guidance on the topic.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, part of the APM People SIG , has started to collate stakeholder engagement resources on the APM Website.

This webinar provides an overview of the information and tools currently available and how you can help add to and improve this facility.

There are many reasons why projects may struggle to meet their goals but a lack of effective stakeholder engagement is widely acknowledged to be one of the main issues.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG), now part of the APM People SIG, was established to encourage practitioners to make stakeholder engagement a higher priority.

The first project for the SEFG was to start collating stakeholder engagement resources.

The aim is to support project professionals by sharing case studies, creating an introduction to the key principles of stakeholder engagement, and pointing to relevant and useful reference materials.

These APM Stakeholder Resources are now available on the APM website and .accessible to anyone!

In this webinar Fran and Ian will introduce the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, provide an update on the SEFG’s progress to date and the materials available on the APM site, and plans for improving and building on these resources.

Presenters:

Fran Bodley-Scott: A veteran marketing & communication consultant with many years experience  and founder of Marketing In Control, Fran specializes in customer retention and stakeholder engagement solutions. She’s been involved with projects throughout her career, ranging from product development to organisation change and business strategy implementation. Fran is an active member of the SEFG. She is a keen supporter of the PMO Flashmob and is also an active member of the APM Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.

Ian Cribbes (LinkedIn profile) 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.

Call for case studies:

Another important message from the webinar was a request for case studies. To help the SEFG support other practitioners, project managers are encouraged to provide case studies about their stakeholder engagement experience, tips and recommendations. If you have a case study to share, use the template provided below and send it to: SEFG@apm.org.uk.

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Stakeholder Engagement Resources For Project Managers

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 10th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

According to a Gartner survey, 75% of supply chain leaders believe that with labor shortages, low employee engagement, and retention challenges, voluntary turnover is here to stay and will likely increase over the next five or more years.

The traditional response of the blind pursuit of employee retention has not produced optimal talent results.

This raises the question: What if embracing employee turnover has its benefits?

Gartner’s most recent research finds that CSCOs seeking to thrive in this environment must adopt three talent shifts to translate turnover into a competitive advantage.

In this webinar supply chain webinar Caroline Chumakov (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Principal Analyst as she explores these three shifts and real-world examples of organizations that bring these practices to life.

Discussion Topics:

• Learn to shift from preventing employee departures to designing for them
• Understand how to shift from backfilling open jobs to architecting for on-demand skills access
• Change rewarding unnecessarily complex work to fixing it

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Your Supply Chain Employees Will Leave; Shift To Embrace Turnover

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 29th, 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Building on the success of our previous session, this 45-minute webinar delves deeper into AI FOMO with the antidote of tangible actions. Aimed at learning and development, as well as HR professionals, this webinar will guide you through advanced strategies for nurturing an adaptable and growth-oriented organizational culture.

Michael Hruska, (LinkedIn profile) President/CEO of Problem Solutions, will explore the nuances of change management in the context of AI, focusing on cultivating resilience, fostering innovation, and promoting a mindset of continuous improvement.

Participants will learn how to build on their existing AI strategies, overcome advanced challenges, and ensure that their teams are ready and excited for the future. This session promises to arm you with the tools and insights needed to turn the challenges of AI integration into opportunities for growth and development.

Learning Objectives:

1. Deepen Change Management Skills: Enhance your understanding of change management by learning how to build resilience and adaptability in your team, fostering an easy and natural transition for AI-induced changes.
2. Foster Innovation and Growth Mindset: Discover advanced techniques for encouraging innovation and a growth mindset within your team, making your organization a fertile ground for new ideas and continuous improvement in the face of AI advancements.
3. Develop Advanced AI Integration Strategies: Learn to anticipate and overcome complex challenges in AI integration, ensuring your strategies are robust, forward-thinking, and capable of guiding your team confidently into a future shaped by AI.

Presenter:  Michael Hruska, (LinkedIn profile) Allen Interactions, is a technologist and design thinking (DT) practitioner with experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. Michael is a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) & he provides technology, business model and innovation solutions to Fortune 500, government and startups. Michael researches, strategizes, designs, and makes advanced technology solutions and products. His team has built award-winning products and delivered solutions that support millions of users and billions of hits of daily web traffic.

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AI & Change Management: Cultivating Adaptability & Growth

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