Online Webinar – Recorded April 5th, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: APMG International

Melanie Demystifies Agile!

1. Do you know what Agile means for your organisation?
2. Do you know what to do to become more Agile?
3. Are you feeling confused by the terminology?
4. Have you heard about Agile brands like Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) but don’t know what they mean?
5. Do you know who to involve in developing your Agile approach?

A key part of the cultural transformations that Melanie Franklin is involved in is the desire to become more Agile. A common issue across all these transformations is the confusion around what Agile is and what it will mean for the organisation.

In this webinar Melanie is going to start with the basics explaining:

1. The different Agile brands,
2. The principles of Agile working and
3. How this translates into Agile processes and a lifecycle model.

She will differentiate between development and project implementation and show how change management is a critical element of effective Agile working.

Melanie will also use examples to show how Agile can be applied to all sorts of initiatives and that it is not just for IT.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.

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Demystifying Agile!

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 13th 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Successful stakeholder engagement rests heavily on the extent to which you can engage, understand, and connect with your stakeholders. Understanding and practicing empathy is key to achieving this.

In this webinar Rebecca Collings (LinkedIn profile) & Donna Unitt (LinkedIn profile) is the APM Enabling Change Specific Interest Group (SIG) Chair, will explore the concept of empathy, explain the value of empathy when engaging with stakeholders, provide ideas to help you practice empathy, and offer practical guidance on effective empathy mapping.

Empathy mapping will provide you with the ability to understand and connect with your stakeholders to reveal valuable information and insights.

Learn about the importance of connecting with your stakeholders and understanding what they think, feel, say and do so that you can structure your change for success.

Join this webinar to learn about the meaning and value of empathy, techniques to build your empathy ‘muscle’ and how to use empathy mapping for your projects.

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Empathy: The Secret Ingredient To Successful Change Engagement

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 15th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The array of environmental, political, and social challenges that organizations must manage has continued to rise, and their impact on human capital is more significant than ever.

Join Alexander Kirss (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Research Principal,  & Felipe Hessel (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director, Advisory on this HR webinar to understand how CHROs can effectively identify and monitor human capital risks posed by a number of environmental, political, and social threats.

You’ll gain insight into how you can build a resilient HR organization to succeed and protect employee well-being.

Discussion Topics:

• Effectively collaborate with executives to mitigate and respond to risks
• Take the lead in protecting employee well-being
• Build a resilient organization that can succeed amid

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Help Your Employees & Organization Navigate Crises

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 10, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Mind-mapping is a visual brainstorming technique you can use to tap into the power of the brain, look at a subject in its entirety and organize around key learning objectives.

Mind-mapping is a tool that helps linear and lateral thinkers expand their sightlines beyond what comes naturally. Learn to mind-map and you’ll energize your training design and delivery!

Presenter:  Becky Pike Pluth (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO, The Bob Pike Group Becky has more than 17 years of exposure to Bob Pike’s Creative Training Techniques (CTT) and vast experience in cross-functional training design and delivery, project management and business operations. She easily employs a participant-centered approach to classroom training, one-on-one training and blended e-learning and author of numerous professional development training materials including:

• 101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train
• Webinars with WOW Factor: Tips, Tricks and Interactivities for Virtual Training
• SCORE 3: Super Closers, Openers, Revisiters, Energizers
• SCORE for Technical Training, volume 4
• SCORE! for Webinar Training, volume 5

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Mind-Mapping For Training Design

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Online Webinar– Recorded November 2nd, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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On June 15, 2023, a PMI Webinar was conducted where Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) and David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) discussed “Empathy when Eliciting User Knowledge” (original webinar 1 PDU).   The discussion / interaction was tremendous and there were more comments and questions than the leaders could answer.

Well, they listened to you and have now prepared a second webinar to answer most of those questions and continue the dialog.

Extracting knowledge from various workers is a key competency required for the current project professional.

Whether it involves product requirements, user acceptance criteria, creating the definition of done, determining value of stories in a backlog, or obtaining executive critical success factors, the project professional delivers many artifacts that depend on input from various knowledge workers scattered throughout the organization.

This session will focus on the approach the project professional must take to have effective elicitation sessions.

You must approach it from the knowledge worker perspective and be able to establish an environment of trust and psychological safety.

1. They will discuss the importance of humility and that you are eliciting information.
2. They will discuss the importance of seeing that environment to facilitate active listening and interactive engagement.
3. They will take a holistic approach to the elicitation including setting expectations, eliciting information, and providing feedback.
4. Finally, we will explore the impact that cultural intelligence is a factor in the overall elicitation and feedback.

Learning Objectives:

1. The importance of utilizing several components of human relationships including humility, empathy, respect, and gratitude.
2. Articulate the entire cycle of eliciting information from initial contact to knowledge exchange engagement, to paraphrase understanding, to follow-up.
3. Use Cultural Intelligence techniques to understand how knowledge extraction techniques must align with the culture of the knowledge workers.

Presenters:

Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) Author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Project Management: Simple, Effective Techniques That Deliver Business Value

David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) is a self-proclaimed practitioner of WOW!  Dave Davis has enough credentials that all the associated acronyms would make a full bowl of vegetable soup.  A proven dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic leader.   Dave has the unique ability to share his experience in a light hearted effective style that educates and motivates.  He has shared his message in many web publications and presentations throughout Europe and North America. Few people can combine business intelligence with strong leadership and a sense for using structured Program Management to further a company’s strategy like he can. He stays on top of emerging technologies and its associated social impact, and knows what can benefit an organization.

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Empathy When Eliciting User Knowledge

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Online Webinar  – Recorded December 6th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

We’re constantly being told that AI will revolutionize the way we all work and what we do, but can you imagine ever not using PowerPoint?

It just feels like it’s too embedded into everything to be cast aside. Fortunately, Microsoft, and others, are also incorporating AI tools into PowerPoint, allowing people to benefit from the technological leaps, while still using familiar tools.

The anticipated launch of Microsoft Copilot will be a huge boost to storytelling, design, and visualization for many – enabling them to create better presentations much more quickly and easily.

It’s easily the most exciting thing to happen to PowerPoint, and the entire Office suite, since it was first launched 30 years ago.

But there are other, more subtle, but equally useful AI tools that help you in all sorts of ways. From creating custom graphics and layouts to finding suitable content to incorporating web cam feeds into your slides, to automatic subtitles and translations of your presentation – as you deliver it, live.

Frankly, given that this outline is being written months ahead of the session being delivered, who knows what else will happen in that time. Certainly, plenty to cover that will be highly relevant to people in an L&D environment who probably dream in PowerPoint.

1. Understand the range of AI tools available to support your presentation.
2. Create stunning presentations quickly and easily using PowerPoint and AI.
3. Share your presentation stories with your audience in an engaging and effective way.

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Become A PowerPoint Jedi
With The Force Of Templates & Masters

Presenter:  Richard Goring (LinkedIn profile) Director at BrightCarbon, (a specialist presentation agency). has helped to write and create thousands of presentations, and coached hundreds of teams to present more effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points. Richard is passionate about improving the way that people present and believes that anyone can deliver a great presentation if given the right techniques and a bit of practice.

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PowerPoint & AI To Create Better Presentations, Faster

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