Online Webinar– Recorded June 14, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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We have all faced the challenge before. We’ve been asked to solve a problem. Sometimes, the request is to actually implement a specific solution. Months of work and thousands of dollars of investment later, however, things don’t get any better.

All too often, the problem that presents itself at the outset of a project isn’t the real problem at all.

It might be a symptom of the problem. It may be proxy for the the real problem. At times, what we think we are doing is only tangentially related to the real work that needs to be done.

Digging out root causes is a skillset that matters. Taking the time to explore a problem before moving on to a solution is a vital capability. Figuring out what the actual problem is—and not what is described or perceived—is essential to ultimate success.

In this webinar, Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management provides essential insights into how to explore and evaluate problems, how to identify and explore causal relationships, and how to do the necessary but difficult work of getting to root causes.

If problem solving is essential to your role—and when it isn’t it?—this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.

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Digging For Root Causes

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

What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it?

The real measure of impact is whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience.

Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as a trainer easier.

Becky’s rule of thumb is never do for participants what they can do for themselves—even in a virtual classroom. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.

During this free 1-hour webinar, you will:

• Discover when to use breakout rooms and how to do it effectively
• Discuss common objections from presenters and participants—and how to overcome them
• Explore how you can add a variety of exercises to keep breakout rooms engaging
• Experience effective breakout room learning activities live on Adobe Connect

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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Hidden Gems Of Breakout Rooms

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

One of the ongoing questions in the business analyst profession from those who manage business analysts to the business analysts themselves is “how do we measure business analysts?”

Since much of the success that business analysts achieve is based, in good part, on the work that others perform (as are the business analyst failures) it is difficult to carve out specific metrics that the business analyst (or the business analyst’s manager) can point to which support their claim to success or not.

But there may be some critical success factors in the profession that determine whether a business analyst is performing successfully, with excellence, or just adequately. Or worse…

This webinar discusses the problems of business analyst metrics and how business analysts are typically measured in terms of their overall success.

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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Critical Success Factors For Business Analysts

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 21st, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Learn about the power and awesomeness of vector graphics in PowerPoint.

Use simple vector elements to make professional PowerPoint slides and graphics in minutes.

Geek out with Mike as he breaks down pro tips and techniques to make your job easier, lower file size, and blow everyone away with incredible new skills.

• Understand vector in PowerPoint
• Make pro graphics
• Use vector to cut out photos fast
• Know where to go to get pro vector graphics

For Another Great PDU With Mike Parkinson Check Out:
Billion $ Graphics’
Top 10 PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, & Tools

Presenter: Mike Parkinson (LinkedIn profile) Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs & CPP APMP Fellow, is an internationally recognized visual communication expert, professional speaker, and trainer, and a multi-published, award-winning author of Do-It-Yourself Billion Dollar Graphics: 3 Fast and Easy Steps to Turn Your Text and Ideas Into Persuasive Graphics & A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters. Mike’s  creative services firms, 24 Hour Company & Billion Dollar Graphics helps organizations, and agencies & he regularly contributes articles and conducts training seminars to companies, organizations, agencies like Microsoft, Fed Ex, Motorola, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Subaru, and the NSA as well as at learning institutions and organizations such as STC, ATD and Training Magazine.

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Victory With Vectors (PowerPoint Advanced)

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 20th, 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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Talent Scarcity: How To Hire & Retain A Shrinking Workforce

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Online Webinar– Recorded January 5th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Pull requests have become the No. 1 undiagnosed bottleneck in engineering—and we have the data to prove it. After analyzing 1,000,000 pull requests, LinearB has uncovered CI/CD’s greatest weakness and—thankfully—a eureka moment that will forever change the developer experience: Continuous Merge.

Here’s the dirty little secret: not all PRs are created equal. They don’t all need the same level of effort, and some of them don’t need any human intervention at all—it’s just a matter of using data and context to know which is which, and creating intelligent automation workflows to handle PRs appropriately.

In this session, Luke  will dive deep into how to change your processes so your team can adopt Continuous Merge and other practices in order to merge and release faster, with higher quality.

Presenter: Luke Kilpatrick (LinkedIn profile) Director of Developer Experience  started as web developer in 1996, transitioning to building developer programs in 2010 with VMware. Luke has managed and spoken at developer events around the world with highlights being Atlassian Appweek, Nutanix .NEXT, DevRelCon and Data’s Future Developer Summit.

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Completing The Promise Of CI/CD With Continuous Merge

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