Live Webinar – June 21st, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Executive presence, the ability to inspire, influence and empower others is a vital leadership skill – whether communicating face-to-face or remotely.

However, believing that executive presence is conveyed the same way to a live or virtual audience is not only inaccurate, it’s costly.

In this session virtual-communications expert Julie shares the adaptations leaders must make to develop their virtual executive presence and continue to lead with confidence and credibility.

Learn:

• Why Executive Presence is different virtually
• How the camera distorts your audience’s perception
• How confidence and credibility get lost on camera
• The top five trust-building virtual behaviors
• How to elevate your own Virtual Executive Presence

Presenter: Julie Hansen (LinkedIn profile) specializes in helping sales teams craft and deliver winning presentations and demos by applying today’s best practices from business, acting, improv, and storytelling. Her work has been featured in numerous business publications. Previously Julie spent 20 years  as a sales leader in a variety of competitive industries, including technology, media and real estate.  A professional actor, & popular speaker and workshop facilitator for sales conferences and kick-off events, Julie resides in Denver.

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The Missing Leadership Skill: Virtual Executive Presence

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Live Webinar – June 15th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

This webinar will teach the five foundations of building a coaching culture that leads to greater talent development and retention.

5 levels of a coaching culture are very easy to understand and require organizational persistence to execute.

The following foundations will be taught:

• How to use training to drive the initiation of coaching
• How to support coaching within your organization
• How to leverage the missing piece most organizations do not realize is the secret sauce to a successful coaching culture
• How to use a specific coaching methodology to drive coaching
• How to use measurement strategies to understand the effectiveness of your coaching

Presenter: Tim Hagen (LinkedIn profile) Progress Coaching, has been helping organizations implement highly effective coaching for 20+ years.  Tim is the author of “Quit Managing and Start Coaching” and “Coaching…Corporate America’s #1 Weapon ” and the creator of  the Progress Coaching Training Methods.   A pioneer in the coaching movement, Tim continues to innovate and build solutions that drive and retain top talent.

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How To Build A Coaching Culture
That Enables Greater Traction With Training

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Live Webinar – June 15th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How many times have you found and/or kept a superior performer .?   According to Careerbuilder, 3 out of 4 small business employers have hired the wrong person.   74 % say they have hired the wrong person for a position.  It turns out that employees ‘think’ they can pick the best, but most don’t really know how to find and hire new candidates.

The United States Department of Labor puts the cost of a bad hire at up to 30% of the employee.

Poor hires can result in lost productivity and expenses in hiring, recruiting mistakes and ineffective training workshops.  And it gets worse… managers also spend too much time supervising poorly performing employees who were chosen. Gallop estimates that in the US, businesses lost $450 – $550 billion dollars in productivity because of inadequate vetting of new candidates.

The hard skills for a job are fairly easy to determine: things like level of education, experience and technical skills.

What is sometimes harder to determine is what “type of person” would be most successful — one that would fit the role as well as the organizational culture. It requires time and attention in the selection process.

Using a Job Benchmark based on the job requires  due diligence in hiring.   The TTI Job Benchmark process starts with:

• Identifying the specific job to be benchmarked
• Identify Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that have a clear understanding of what the job is and what is involved to create superior performance within that role.

To get started, use SMEs and the hiring manager to discuss:

• Duties – create a list of all the activities and tasks required for the JOB
• Use Key Results to group duties’ that are similar and title them
• Insist on specific and measurable statement for each Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Create and validate the Benchmark (high and low results)
• Compare the top candidates with the Job Benchmark (TriMetrix Job Plus/Talent Comparison)
• Debrief the hiring manager / stakeholders while looking at the results

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

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Hiring With No Real Data?
Try The Amazing Job Benchmark For Accurate Selection

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 13, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In an environment of nonstop meetings, there are few tools as indispensable as the icebreaker.

If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance that is challenging to overcome.

When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants get mentally in the room, connect with one another, focus on a common goal, and  get energized to contribute.

Becky will …

• Explain the necessity and methods of connecting with your audience immediately
• Identify and list criteria to include in a virtual icebreaker
• Experience effective virtual icebreakers

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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Icebreakers To Awkward-Proof Your Virtual & F2F Training

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Live Webinar – June 8th, 2022 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Data visualization is the representation of numerical data in a visual format so that your audience can quickly and easily understand it and gain insight from it.

Until a few years ago it was enough to take a set of numbers and create a bar chart or pie chart.

Although in the right situation these traditional charts are still appropriate, things have moved on and we’re constantly hearing words like Data Visualization and Infographic.

This training covers how to visually represent your data using some of Excel’s non-charting tools.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to select the most appropriate visualization to convey your message
• Learn how to create Sparkline charts (mini-charts embedded in a cell)
• Learn how to use shapes, symbols and icons to create infographic-style charts

Presenter: Mike Thomas (LinkedIn profile) an SME in IT training business since 1989, his primary focus and passion being Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Power BI. In 2012 Mike founded The Excel Trainer where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses. Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.

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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Data Visualization With Excel

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Online Webinar – Recorded  December 8th 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

As employees return to the office, businesses want to believe that remote and in-person staff can simply join a Zoom call and replicate a cohesive team.

Yet we’ve learned that it is a cognitive challenge for remote and in-person employees to engage equally in a synchronous workplace. Companies that don’t address this imbalance risk stratifying their workforce, affecting equity, productivity, and innovation.

In this webinar Dalnaz will explore how you can bridge the gap between in-person and virtual participants to ensure robust training engagement and outcomes.

Dalnaz will look at best practices and tactics before, during, and after training, including:

• Using asynchronous tools to align on training expectations prior to sessions
• Fostering a level playing field of communication between in-person and remote participants
• Capturing a 360-degree understanding of meeting content and discussion across all audiences
• Measuring engagement and outcomes for each training participant

Discover how to develop flexible, consistent, and accessible training to support all your employees in an evolving future

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5 Best Practices For Bridging The In-Person vs. Virtual Attendee Training Gap

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