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Online Webinar – Recorded November 7th, 2018 Activity Type:Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free Provider:RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)
What Is The Recipe For Successful Project Delivery?
It takes just the right ingredients and the proper amount of time to prepare a successful project, and managing all the cooks in the kitchen is a key part of it as well.
If you are skipping over crucial project management processes, your project is likely to hit unanticipated roadblocks and dead ends.
On the flip side, overly complex or unnecessary project management processes waste time, annoy teammates, and clog the works. So, where is the sweet spot?
In this webinar, you will learn how to utilize the key project management processes for project delivery success.
Presenter:NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.
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Live Webinar February 27th, 2019 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU Provider:Human Capital Institute
Honest, open feedback and regular communication are the backbone of success in any company, especially a fast growing one.
But there are many challenges to establishing a culture that encourages and rewards honesty in what can be difficult conversations.
Get it right and this one skill can transform how managers engage with direct reports, influencing the overall culture of your company.
Fail to address it, and your company could suffer from a toxic work environment, unaddressed bad behavior, and a lower quality of work.
Join Keegan Walden (LinkedIn profile), Ph.D., Co-Founder and COO of Torch, as he discusses the why feedback can be difficult to solicit and give, and how to establish a healthy culture that encourages it.
Learn:
What a healthy feedback culture looks like and how to implement one in your organization
The role of trust in establishing a healthier, more natural approach to feedback and hard conversations
How the generosity gap in evaluating others can impact your company.
What happens when you avoid giving hard feedback and the one thing you need to get right in order to overcome this barrier.
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.
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Online Course from Proformative – Recorded Purchase the entire course– for $36 USD Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1.5 PDU $36 USD Dedicated to helping professionals advance their careers.
If you are in a new strategic role …
You will appreciate the ROI Of taking this course!
This course packs into one hour “The Best” of what you need to know
to understand the challenges, and directions required
for your first 100 days in your new strategic role!
Few Resources Exist To Help You
With Your 1st 100 Days As PM!
Although this course is focused towards the Strategic role of the CFO, the information provided within this course is EXTREMELY VALUABLE for anyone taking a strategic/leadership role within an organization!
Project Managers & Change Managers will strongly benefit from this course!
Much of the focus of the CFO Role that Blair describes is project driven and change management focused.
The aim of this course is to be able to align organizational vision to strategic initiatives –
Similar to the roles that PMs are in especially where the initiatives are PMO driven.
Throughout this course Blair Cook discusses all of the topics as “projects” to be undertaken –
By the CFO function.
ALL concepts of this course are applicable to the CFO function (his expertise) and are applicable to Project Managers, Change Managers and PMOs in the “First 100 Days” of their new undertakings!
Advanced preparation, education or prerequisites are NOT REQUIRED.
In this course Blair will help you understand how to best get started in a new “Professionally Strategic Role”.
Whether this is your first appointment or perhaps you are transitioning to a new role at another organization, Blair will look at different approaches for your first 100 days.
Beginning with a profile of the modern CFO as the example, he will help you understand the leadership and direction you need to bring to the organization.
From there, Blair looks at team building principles and uses the examples of the finance function to help you understand how you can use proven tools to help assess the existing functions against best practices.
Blair will use a strategic approach to developing an overarching mission and value statement using the finance example, to bring context to specific action plans.
Again using the finance example, Blair shows how to structure the functions within the organization context to optimize and balance responsiveness to stakeholders with the need for control.
Finally, and most importantly Blair will look at change management principles to help you initiate your first major project in your new role.
Here is a course preview …
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
Describe the competencies of the Strategic functions
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to many of the strategic organizational functions that Project Managers & Change Managers perform.
Assess the level of maturity of your organization
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to assessing the level of maturity of your team.
Learn what you need to build a high performance team
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a high performance productive project or change management team.
Build a strategic plan & learn how to create the “Right Conversations” to implement the plan.
Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a strategic plan aligned with organizational goals and the vision statement.
This is very suitable for project or change management professionals especially as part of PMO functions.
Build a structure that works
How to balance off structure and control while getting closer to the operational activities.
Understand basic Change Management Principles
Excellent information on transitioning the organization for new growth.
Presenter: Blair CookCA, CPA, MBA (LinkedIn profile@BlairCookCACPA) is a many-time CFO, corporate director, a sought after keynote speaker on business financials, and a passionate educator working with dozens of public/private companies; and professional bodies/post-secondary institutions across Canada. His career is divided between academic endeavors, such as developing the new certification program for CPA Canada, and supporting the corporate world at the highest levels.
Blair is a life-long learner who encourages continuing professional development. He observes and experiments with various financial and management theories in real world contexts and shares lessons learned to others who share a passion for developing financial leadership competency.
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Course Session – Certificate Provided Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 0.5 PDU Provider: UDEMY
Pivot Tables separate beginners from intermediates and allow you to delve deep into your data like no other tool can!
This course received a 4.5 of 5.0 Stars (on 290 ratings)
And has had 6,460+ students enrolled
Prerequisites:
You should have a basic understanding of how tables work
You’ll understand how formulas such SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, etc. work
Should close to or at Intermediate Level
This is not really suitable for Microsoft Excel Beginners
This Class Is For:
Users who have more complicated data. I.e. multiple fields of data and you’re trying to get insight into your information
Anyone who is interested in data handling, analytics, processing, database development, this course is a must. It will tie into later understanding of how databases work.
Microsoft Office. It is the oldest, most well-known, most affordable and most trusted data management tool available and hence everyone uses it.
Pivot Tables are extremely powerful analytic tools available in Microsoft Excel.
Pivot Tables sort, group and summarize information. It’s easy to use and even easier to learn! Learn how to setup your data, how to create your first pivot, apply the different types of parameters using the pivot module, change data sources, refresh links and much more.
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Course Session – Certificate Provided Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 0.5 PDU Provider: UDEMY
The Keys to Goal Achievement : Discover the elements that practically guarantee that you will achieve your goals
4.6 (296 ratings) 6,742 students enrolled
Who is the target audience?
This course is for anyone who wants to become more effective
What Will I Learn?
Write really compelling goals that will drive them towards success
Understand the power of the unconscious mind
Spot opportunities and possibilities in situations to help promote success
Requirements:
No previous knowledge required
You should have a piece of paper and a pen to hand to take notes
You will ideally have a goal you want to work on in mind so that you can apply what you learn straight away to a real world goal
You should have and be able to keep an open mind
You should be committed to your own success and be willing to learn
No previous knowledge of NLP is required but you may find it useful
When it comes to Goal Achievement, most of the time, what people have when they are wondering why they are not getting anywhere is dreams.
Now there is nothing wrong with having dreams, after all if you dont have one, how can they come true.
But dreams are very different to Goals and goal achievement.
Matthew Barnetthas heard it said before, and its a line he borrows often when working with people,
Goals are dreams in action!
That is, a goal, is a dream with direction, that is measurable and thought out. So that is what this course is about.
This course is concerned with writing and planning your goals, its about goal achievement.
You are going to learn the key components of a well crafted goal so that you can confidently pursue it safe in the knowledge that you will achieve it.
You will learn about the unconscious mind and the powerful resources within you to assist you in achieving your goals. And you will learn actionable steps that you can use straight away.
Presenter: Matthew Barnett(LinkedIn profile)NLP , Hypnosis , Law of Attraction and human Behaviour Professional has passion in seeing the incredible potential of human beings being realised through engaging with their unconscious mind though understanding Human Behaviour. Matt built a million dollar engineering business, and was employed as a Project Manager for overseas technology transfers. Matt’s natural ability to program code, had led him to the world of Internet business where he applied his knowledge of programming, PERL, PHP, JAVA (oo) and C and business process /project Management (PRINCE 2) to assist launching a UK start up, later acquired by the Royal Mail and Rothschild’s Ventures. This gave him time to concentrate on other areas of his life, including training and coaching. Matt is a member of the American Board of NLP as well as the American Board of Hypnosis and the Timeline Therapy Assoication.
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