Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Stop playing defense and create a stronger offensive in driving your employee retention strategy!

Join Dr. Bob Nelson, the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, engagement and retention, as he discusses how companies can be more proactive about retaining staff during the current market challenges.

If you’re a good employer, you know the frustration of training & developing talent only to have them poached by other companies—your competition or other firms in your geographical area.

Build a stronger connection with your employees so they don’t have an interest in leaving—even for more money.

Align individual aspirations of your employees with your company’s mission and create an ongoing conversations with each employee about their future with the company:

1. What they’re learning,
2. Ehat they’d like to do next, and
3. What they need to prepare for future opportunities.Topics covered will include:

• Retention challenges in today’s marketplace
• Understanding why your employees come & why they go
• Setting up a baseline of worker priorities & preferences
• Start with behaviors: low & no-cost strategies that resonate
• The role of every manager in helping to retain employees
• Having a recognition system, not just random activities/rewards
• The bigger picture: Communication, career development & tie to mission

All webinar registrants will receive a free Dr. Bob e-Doc: 101 of the Best Ways to Improve Morale at Work and all webinar attendees will receive a complimentary Dr. Bob book: Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies, individually shipped to your preferred physical mailing address. (US Residents only)

Presenter;  Bob Nelson, Ph.D., (LinkedIn profile) President of Nelson Motivation Inc, is a leading authority on engaging, recognizing & retaining employees. For the last 20+ years he has presented sessions on six continents on recognition & engagement. Working with Fortune 500 companies Bob helps improve strategies, systems and programs for better motivating employees to achieve exceptional performance.  As an author he has sold over 5 Million Books on management and employee motivation, which have been translated into 37 languages, including 1501 Ways to Reward Employees, The Management Bible, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, Please Don’t Just Do What I Tell You! Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee’s Guide to Making Work More Rewarding, and, Recognizing and Engaging Employees For Dummies .

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How To Create A Proactive Retention Strategy
To Keep Your Employees

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Online Webinar – BATimes
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2  PDU/CDUs – Free
Provider: Diversified Business Communications REP 1811
2  PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are You Too Soft?

Most Project Manager/Business Analyst leaders are not consistently willing to make the tough and unpopular project-related decisions, even though their instincts warn them that they are not taking the most effective action.

Witness examples of PM/BA actions (or inactions) that are indicative of too-soft behaviour.  Will you recognize familiar behaviour?

You do not have to be rude, insensitive, arrogant, or a bully
to avoid being too soft!

None of these attributes are acceptable …ever!

Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective project management and business analyst leadership behaviour.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to become a more effective leader
• How to avoid being too soft
• How to become a more effective leader

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Download – Power Snippets
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Neal Whitten PMP (LinkedIn profile) President Neal Whitten Group, is a Keynote speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling author in the areas of leadership, project management, & employee development with 35+ years of front-line project management experience. A writer for professional magazines including PM Network® magazine.

Neal is also the author of several books including:

• Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice For Successful Projects
• Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success
• The Gift of Wisdom: Lessons for a Lifetime
• Becoming An Indispensable Employee in a Disposable World
• Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success, New Edition
• The Enterprize Organization: Organizing Software Projects for Accountability and Success

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The #1 Reason Why PM’s & BA’s Fail:
BEING TOO SOFT!

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Live Webinar – September 28th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Games are fun! People will spend a great deal of time playing games. Why not leverage that to engage learners and help them learn new things?

In this presentation, we will discuss some aspects of games in order to guide your thinking as you craft interactions to engage your learners.

We’ll look at three areas that will help drive your design:

• Purpose of the game
• Elements of a game
• Types of Games

Presenter:  Greg Stager (LinkedIn profile) has been involved with eLearning since about 2004 & has been using Captivate since version 3. He has held positions as a high school science teacher, network administrator and IT consultant, and as an instructional designer for a state university. He has since transitioned to the private sector where he is currently serving as a technical training specialist for the manufacturing industry. In his spare time, he enjoys, playing the guitar, working logic puzzles, gymnastics, and creating fun interactions with Captivate.

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Game-Based Learning:
Considerations For Building Engaging Interactions

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Live Webinar – September 28th, 2022 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Recognition and rewards can drive performance increases of 20% or more by leveraging the power of motivation psychology, social dynamics and workers’ desire for aspirational awards within a positive culture that encourages the collaboration and success of all individuals and teams.

This seems like common sense, but it is not easy to implement in the workplace unless you create programs that are designed with recognition and reward best practices.

There is an art and a science element to effective recognition. This includes smart program structure, rules, training, recognition tactics, reward choices, actionable analytics and more.

Join recognition experts Ira Ozer (LinkedIn profile) and Jeffrey Brenner (LinkedIn profile), who will explore these aspects of effective incentive use while sharing proven programs that have won industry awards:

• Best practices to create effective programs from the Recognition Professionals International (RPI), Incentive Marketing Association (IMA) and the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF)
• How recognition programs can improve sales performance, company culture and create lasting change, while delivering a return on investment (ROI)
• Motivation psychology of recognition and rewards
• The power of tangible non-monetary rewards to improve performance

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Create Recognition Programs That Drive Improved Performance

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Live Webinar – September 21st, 2022 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

This training covers Office 365 Project Management.

In this session Dharmesh will provide you a useful insight into Office 365 As A Project Management Tool.

Learn effective and efficient ways to succeed in  your projects!

Presenter: Dharmesh Patel  (LinkedIn profile) is a seasoned Technical Project Manager with over 15 years’ experience using and implementing Microsoft technologies. Dharmesh has worked for various large multinational organisations, sectors including Finance, E-Commerce, and Technology as well as continued engagement with Microsoft.

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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Leveraging Office 365 As A Project Management Tool

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Live Webinar – September 21st, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Have you heard these complaints from designers and trainers?

• “We want to change our training, but our boss insists on his command and control style.”
• “My SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)  demand that all content must be lectured. So we overload learners.”
• “Our employees complain a lot since we keep training them on the same topic, same subject, over and over again, every year for compliance, but  they are so boring.”
• “Our learners don’t spend time on training and learning, because they are too long.”
• “Our learners find the topics irrelevant.”

The above are just examples of the moaning and complaining of workers, learners, L&D specialists, and leaders. Their “Training Is Broken”. How then, can they fix them?

Ray will discuss the following:

• What are the roots of “evil” in failed or broken training programs?
• How do you classify which one is deeply rooted or is just a lack of knowledge and skills or resources?
• What are superficial fixes and “band-aids” that won’t last?
• How do you fix or improve the problems in the following:?
• Meaningless content
• Long content
• Disinterested learners
• Spoon feeding learning
• Lack of application training
• Boring training

What should successful L&D specialists do? Where is focus fixed in design, authoring, multimedia, platform, and delivery?

When you register you may be able to submit advanced questions on “Broken Training” and receive a response from Ray.

Join the live session, and obtain Ray’s “10 Rules to Fix Broken Training”.

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of  3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1) and  DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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What If Your Training Is Broken? Now What?

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