Live Webinar – Septembeer 26th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Your people need a holistic talent management program to achieve their full potential. L&D is one of the most critical parts of that comprehensive program.

New research from Cornerstone’s global Talent Health Index found most surveyed organizations are falling behind with their talent initiatives, including L&D and skills strategy.

Join Mike Bollinger (LinkedIn profile) VP, Strategic Initiatives, Cornerstone OnDemand, to discover how to improve these critical aspects of your talent program and exceed rising employee expectations.

You’ll learn:

• Key areas where today’s employees want to up-level their skills development
• How High-Performing Organizations make their learning programs enticing for employees
• How to assess your own organization’s talent strategies and uncover your most pressing challenges
• Practical ways to improve your programs and ensure your people get the growth and development opportunities they need

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Appraise & Engage: Research-Backed Tactics For Transformative L&D

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Live IIL Webinar – September 21st, 2023 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Live IIL Webinar – September 21st, 2023 1:30 am – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: PM8175

This session may fill up quickly so sign up today. The recording is only available for 120 days.

Change is related to observing value within an evolving context, and being able to remain relevant by adapting to it.

This includes being responsive to stakeholders evolving needs, or to evolving regulations, or to an evolving business context. It can therefore originate from both internal and/or external sources.

The completion of this webinar will enable you to have a clear understanding of the content of this principle.

This webinar describes the meaning of the following principle of the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition: Change.

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Understanding Change In PMBOK® Guide: 7th Edition

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Live Webinar – September 20th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Excel’s dashboarding capabilities empower users to transform raw data into meaningful insights.

Suitable for business reporting, financial analysis, or project management, Excel dashboards offer a user-friendly and visually impactful means to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively.

Building a dashboard requires data that can be sourced from various locations such as databases, CSV files, and web pages.

Often, this raw data isn’t immediately suitable for use, necessitating cleaning, merging, and combining processes.

1. Do you often find yourself saying, “It’s taking too long” when referring to the time spent formatting your data for reports?
2. Are you regularly tasked with repetitive and time-consuming data cleaning and transformation activities?

These might include removing unnecessary rows and columns, filtering out irrelevant data, converting text to numbers or dates, splitting or merging columns, removing unexpected characters, or combining files together.

Would you appreciate a solution that can perform all of these tasks with the click of a button? If your answer is yes, then Power Query (also known as Get and Transform in Excel 2016 and later) is what you need.

Learning Objectives:

• Import data into Excel from sources such as text files, web pages and databases
• Keep the imported data in sync with the source data using just two clicks
• The Power Query Editor – the key to data cleaning and transformation
• Save a ton of time – automate the cleaning and transformation process

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Excel Power Query & Dashboards

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Live Webinar – September 19th, 2023 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

When it comes to charts, we all know how to make bars, lines, and pies. But sometimes we want something a little different. Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims will show you how to extend and hack PowerPoint’s charting tools to create unique data visualizations that will stand out and make audiences take notice.

Learn how to:

• Explore lesser-used chart options such as tree maps, waterfalls, and funnels
• Calculate proportional shapes
• Manually construct unit charts
• Manipulate standard charts to create bullet graphs, lollipops, and slope graphs

For another great Nolan Haims PDU Opportunity
Check Out:
Using Imagery In PowerPoint Like A PRO

Presenter:  Nolan Haims (LinkedIn profile) has 20+ years experience in the fields of visual communications and presentation, having created every type of presentation from Fortune 500 CEO keynotes, to TED talks to multi-million dollar agency pitches. He trains organizations to think visually, speaks at national conferences, writes on visual storytelling at PresentYourStory.com, and is a co-host of the long-running Presentation Podcast. And as one of only 34 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, he works with and advises the software development team. He runs his own visual communications consultancy in Montclair, NJ.

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PowerPoint Charts That Stand Out

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Online Webinar  – Recorded Jan 11th 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

According to a recent ATD research study, only 54% of organizations evaluate some learning programs at Level 3 of the five-level evaluation model.

To establish real credibility and prove value, you need to measure whether or not participants applied what they learned in a training program back on the job (Level 3 evaluation).

Unfortunately, measuring on-the-job behavior change is not something many L&D professionals know much about nor often do.

Also, some L&D professionals who are conducting Level 3s have fallen behind recent advances made in evaluation and survey design methodology. Consequently, they likely are collecting data that is either misleading or invalid.

In this informative, highly engaging session you will learn practical tips and guidelines on how to create Level 3 participant surveys that measure job behavior change.

Particular emphasis is given to three crucial areas of survey design: the content of the survey items, formatting of the survey, and the measurement scale used.

Ken Phillips  (LinkedIn profile) will help you to:

• Use facts from a recent Association for Talent Development (ATD) research study to benchmark an organization’s use of Level 3 evaluations
• Avoid the common mistakes made by many L&D professionals when creating Level 3 evaluation surveys that result in the collection of misleading or invalid data
• Use twelve tips and best practices for creating valid, scientifically sound Level 3 evaluations

Click to register for:
The Holy Grail:
Capturing Elusive Level 3 Evaluation Data

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Live Webinar – September 14th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In 2024 it will be critical to position your employees to grow and gain the skills both they and your organization need.  Do you have the strategy, people, and tools in place to deliver this experience to your employees?

This session will cover why resilient organizations succeed by having the correct set of skills for the market they pursue, and what role technology plays in identifying, mapping, and delivering on a skills-based learning strategy.

Key takeaways:

• What is a “skills based learning strategy” and how to start crafting one?
• How to put employees in a position to succeed by having the correct set of skills for the business that employs them
• How AI and automation help identify skills-gaps and save (sometimes massive amounts) time
• The critical role leadership and managers play as culture drivers in skill development

Presenter: Ryan Houmand (LinkedIn profile) is a seasoned professional with 25+ years of management experience at ADP & The Home Depot. As the Principal Learning Specialist at Bridge, he brings expertise in learning and development strategies. Ryan has spoken at ATD ICE, DevLearn, and prestigious academic institutions. He is the author of ‘A Passion for Monday’ and appeared on NBC, CBS, FOX, and ABC, discussing overcoming Monday blues. With an MBA and a BA in Economics, Ryan delivers dynamic presentations on talent development, productivity, and positive work culture.

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Building A Skills-based Learning Strategy At A Critical Time

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