Live Webinar July 27th, 2022 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The Confluence, Influence, & Intersectionality of ERGs

Tasked with managing within a hyper-evolving organizational shift, “The Great Quit” or “The Great Resignation” requires leaders and employees at every level to engage in operational shifts to maintain operational excellence.

An approach that will galvanize your people is to re-shape the relationship between the C-suite and employee resource groups (ERGs) who are representatives of every level of employee.

After this webinar, participants will:

• Be positioned to identify the means and methods to create opportunities for the C-suite and ERGs to evolve their partnerships and breakthrough impediments.
• Create ideologies and symmetry between traditional operations and much-needed innovations to grow and retain employees through equity and inclusion.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the two-way street of executive leaders and ERGs to influence organizational behaviors.
• Assist the C-suite in breaking down silos and working together to create a greater sense of belonging.
• Learn to share experiences to build agility in ERGs and other organizational teams.

Presenter: Nyah Lynn Edwards (LinkedIn profile), serves as an equity and inclusion professional and certified professional coach with an emphasis in leadership development. Her mission is to grow servant and transformative leaders to meet the challenges and opportunities of today. She brings 20+ years of experience in human development capital. Nyah has engaged in a vast number of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) projects and facilitated DE&I for thousands of leaders, using facts, storytelling, experiential learning, and other theories to ensure transference of learning to the workplace. Nyah is a recipient of President Barack Obama’s 2017 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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Together We Rise

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Live Webinar – July 21st 2022 5:00 am – 6:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 21st 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Why use storytelling in Project Management? Storytelling has been a primary form of communications for millennia. With an ever-increasing need for project managers to paint pictures with data and engage stakeholders in a world of change, there has never been a greater need to use storytelling.

This session showcases three speakers, local to the Thames Valley. Each telling a short story, between 5 and 10 minutes, the presentations promise to be highly visual, engaging, and informative on a wide range of topics relating to project management.

Join three locals to the Thames Valley for this quick fire delve into stories of project management, ranging from nuclear robotics to risk management.

We hope this session inspires, enables learning and fun in equal measure.

Speakers and topics being discussed:

• • Steve Walters C.Chem, FRSC, FAPM, Principal Consultant, UK National Nuclear Laboratory (retired)
    • The value of prior learning. Over a long career Steve has found that things learned long ago have a habit of “coming round again”, and projects benefit from prior learning to expedite agile delivery now. In this example, Steve describes how spacecraft and robotics benefit from nuclear (and specifically radiation) technology skills.
  • Paul Game (MSC), Self-employed, focused on e-commerce and digital information.
    • Risk management, a short story. Bringing learning from recent master university courses, Paul’s talk will introduce risk management concepts that relate to major projects.
  • Laura Hartley (LinkedIn profile) BSc (Hons) MAPM – Delivery Enterprise Assurance and Governance Manager with Thames Water
    • Storytelling and neurodivergent communication. While the technical know-how to get a project delivered is clearly irreplaceable, she thinks soft skills are vastly overlooked!
    • Storytelling has allowed her to reach a common understanding with more people in more teams than any other soft skill shehas , save for active listening.
    • Being neurodivergent, communication and influencing is occasionally difficult for her, and framing outputs and the project journey through the lens of a story changed how she managed projects entirely, making her delivery much more successful.
    • This discussion will outline some of the issues she faced, and how storytelling as an art formed the backbone of the project management work we performed.

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Project Management Storytelling: From Risk To Nuclear Robotics

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 9th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Raju Rao  says:
Our daughters’ wedding – a case study in Crisis Management!

This case study is based on a personal “project” – Raju Rao (LinkedIn profile) daughters’ wedding.

Being a certified PMP, it was but natural that we ensured that all copybook processes of project management were deployed for planning the wedding.

This included a WBS, scheduling where required, resource planning, risk management and procurement.

In that sense, it was a well-planned project and one week before the wedding we were pretty relaxed.

Little did we know what was in store for us.

The wedding dates were on 6 and 7 December 2016 and heavy rains struck Chennai in India from 1 December, many areas were flooded and its disastrous effects continued till 8 December.

In the midst of great challenges we had to conduct the wedding.

It was done against all odds considering that many weddings during the period were postponed or even cancelled.

I this session Raju will bring home the challenges faced and describe some interesting anecdotes in people behavior, procurement and leadership.

Raju will spell out inferences and Best Practices from this episode which can be applied in crisis situations in organizations or personal life.

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An Indian Wedding:
A Case Study In Crisis Management

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Live Webinar July 21st, 2022 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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What happens when you take project management down to its essence?

Not everyone likes and values project management. Not every organization is accepting of project management practices. Project management can be viewed as cumbersome, bureaucratic and excess overhead.

That’s not to say that project management can’t still deliver value, but the approach to doing so has to change—sometimes a lot.

You need to understand the absolute essentials, how to apply them effectively, and still sometimes manage expectations with team members and clients about how you are managing.

In this presentation Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management takes project management to its bare bones, and builds it up again into an essential framework that you can manage and use just about anywhere.

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Bare Bones Project Management

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Live Webinar July 20th, 2022 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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On the road towards a sustainable future, one of the topics which finds frequent mention is the circular economy.

This requires that we look at initiatives with a total and holistic perspective. This applies to project professionals as well.

How do we as project managers reconcile between project as a temporary endeavor with a circular economy which is essentially long-term and operational in nature? How can we contribute towards and benefit from this economic activity?

In this webinar Raju Rao (LinkedIn profile)  will deliberate on understanding the opportunities and challenges of a circular economy and what it presents for project professionals.

It will help in further exploring our roles in our projects, organizations and    society. Examples and case studies will be included to give a picture of current happenings

Learning Outcomes:

• What is a circular economy? Why do we need it?
• Circular Economy and Sustainability – understanding the global perspective
• Project as temporary vs Circular Economy as ongoing
• What do the standards say? Our professional responsibility
• Projects and initiatives in the space
• What can you do?

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The Circular Economy:
What Does It Mean For Project Professionals?

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Live Webinar – July 14th 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

1. Are you on an Agile team and not seeing value out of your sprint planning?
2. Are you looking for tools or best practices to make the ceremony more effective?

If so, you will benefit from this webinar.

Sprint planning is when the Agile development team takes the prioritized product increment and begins translating it into a goal and a plan of action.

The team learns more about each backlog item, engages in estimation exercises, and defines the goal of the sprint.

When sprint planning runs effectively, the team comes away with clarity and purpose in their work and the chances of delivering on the sprint goal increase greatly.

In this webinar, NK will describe best practices of engaging and effective sprint planning to help you put your team in the best position to succeed.

NOTE: May’s webinar has been postponed to July 14, 2022. If you have already registered, no further action is needed.

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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Best Practices For Sprint Planning

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