Online Webinar– Recorded June 14th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs have the opportunity to partner with leaders across the C-suite to improve business outcomes.

The key is to focus on each executive, develop an empathetic understanding of their critical outcomes and challenges, and then craft an offering to partner and deliver on business objectives.

In this webinar Irving Tyler (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst will help guide CIOs to construct leadership and IT value propositions for their C-suite peers to create and deliver the maximum business impact and advance their ambitions.

Discussion Topics:

• Construct a powerful offer and increase your executive opportunity
• Develop your engagement approach with tactical empathy
• Understand the key aspects of your executive leadership value to engage CxOs

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Achieve Maximum Value Of Technology For Your CxO Partners

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Online Webinar  – Recorded December 7th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Steve has been one to say over the years that he would hire a person with excellent communication skills, analytical skills and facilitation skills even without business area knowledge and / or technical skills because the latter knowledge and skills can be taught to someone who possesses the former set of skills.

Let’s face it, technical skills keep changing faster than a normal human can keep up.

Only a few years ago you would find it hard to see a position announcement in the Business Analyst world that included ‘machine language skills’, but today it is not unusual.

• What are the companies who ask for business analyst candidates with “machine language skills” or “blockchain background” or ‘big data knowledge” really looking for?
• Why are they asking for technical skills that are not really part of the business analyst’s venue?

This webinar presents the technical skills in demand today and what the organizations asking for those skills actually expect out of the business analyst.

The webinar also discusses the sneaky recruiting tactics many organizations use when hiring, especially in a seller’s recruitment market.

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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Technical Skills Every Business Analyst Should Master
Or At Least Understand

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Online Webinar  – Recorded December 7th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Defining New Coaching Cultures With ICF Coaching In Organizations & HCI

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 29th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Fusion teams have emerged as a driving force for innovation, inspiration, and strategic outcomes in today’s enterprises, making CIOs essential to accelerating digital business.

By creating an advanced operational model that smoothly integrates strategic planning and resource management, CIOs can make a difference and minimize economic headwinds.

In this webinar, Donna Scott (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst & Monika Sinha (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst will delve into the secrets of how leading enterprises are scaling fusion teams beyond IT.

Discussion Topics:

• • Discover the benefits of harnessing fusion teams
  • Identify and overcome common challenges faced
  • Adapt leadership styles to effectively manage diverse fusion teams

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CIOs, Ignite Your Business Transformation
By Mastering Fusion Teams

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 27th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Deloitte’s Global Human Resources Trends indicates that employee engagement (and culture) is the number one challenge facing business leaders. But they sadly claim, that organizations are only ‘somewhat ready’ for this challenge.

Many leaders and CEO’s STILL haven’t embraced engagement as a strategic business initiative!

If your organization is one of them, this could be a costly oversight! 

Why is this the case?  After 5 years of surviving countless organizational layoffs, job eliminations, mergers, reductions in training and development investments, and few promotions and pay increases, your employees are again be in the driver’s seat.

In this high energy and captivating webinar, global engagement thought leader and bestselling author Bob Kelleher will give you practical and specific ideas to help ‘engage’ your leadership team.

Specifically Bob will outline:

• Key business metrics proving that engagement DRIVES business results
• Specific ideas to help you ‘get’ the attention of the C Suite that engagement must be a priority
• How to help leaders create a line of sight describing where the company is going, how you’re going to get there, and what role all of your employees play in helping you get there.
• How to measure the ROI of your engagement efforts
• Why training your first line leaders is a necessary first step to engagement
• How to build a communication ‘promise’ that will build alignment, engagement, and consistency of message
• How effective performance management drives engagement (because A players want to work with A players)
• Why building a culture of celebration and recognition drives positive  business results
• The importance of defining one’s “Why” (according to research by Jim Collins (Good to Great), firms that focus  on Purpose out perform their peer group 6X!

Join Bob and learn how to get the attention of the C-Suite!

Presenter: Bob Kelleher (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of The Employee Engagement Group a best-selling author, thought leader, keynote speaker and consultant, sharing his insights on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the best seller, Louder Than Words: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results,  Creativeship: A Novel for Evolving Leaders  and the just released Employee Engagement for Dummies! The Employee Engagement Group recently introduced the world’s first virtual employee engagement resource center, Engage On-Demand, Resource Library.

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How To Engage Your Leadership On Engagement!

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 15st, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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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.

In this session Lynda & David 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.

They will discuss the importance of humility and that you are eliciting information.

They  will discuss the importance of seeing that environment to facilitate active listening and interactive engagement.

They will also take a holistic approach to the elicitation including setting expectations, eliciting information, and providing feedback.

Finally, they 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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