Online Webinar  – Recorded 1st Mar 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Stakeholder Engagement helps us understand what people involved with a project want, and how to engage them to help achieve project success. For both new and experienced project managers, a big challenge is where to go for guidance on the topic.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, part of the APM People SIG , has started to collate stakeholder engagement resources on the APM Website.

This webinar provides an overview of the information and tools currently available and how you can help add to and improve this facility.

There are many reasons why projects may struggle to meet their goals but a lack of effective stakeholder engagement is widely acknowledged to be one of the main issues.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG), now part of the APM People SIG, was established to encourage practitioners to make stakeholder engagement a higher priority.

The first project for the SEFG was to start collating stakeholder engagement resources.

The aim is to support project professionals by sharing case studies, creating an introduction to the key principles of stakeholder engagement, and pointing to relevant and useful reference materials.

These APM Stakeholder Resources are now available on the APM website and .accessible to anyone!

In this webinar Fran and Ian will introduce the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, provide an update on the SEFG’s progress to date and the materials available on the APM site, and plans for improving and building on these resources.

Presenters:

Fran Bodley-Scott: A veteran marketing & communication consultant with many years experience  and founder of Marketing In Control, Fran specializes in customer retention and stakeholder engagement solutions. She’s been involved with projects throughout her career, ranging from product development to organisation change and business strategy implementation. Fran is an active member of the SEFG. She is a keen supporter of the PMO Flashmob and is also an active member of the APM Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.

Ian Cribbes (LinkedIn profile) has worked with a wide variety of organisations within the UK and internationally, leading projects with values in excess of £35 million pounds.  Ian is a co-opted member of the People SIG committee and an active member of the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.  Ian now runs his own company assisting organisations with programme and project management issues and advising on stakeholder engagement processes.

Call for case studies:

Another important message from the webinar was a request for case studies. To help the SEFG support other practitioners, project managers are encouraged to provide case studies about their stakeholder engagement experience, tips and recommendations. If you have a case study to share, use the template provided below and send it to: SEFG@apm.org.uk.

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Stakeholder Engagement Resources For Project Managers

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 6th 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How many failures do you allow in your organization? Is it something you try to minimize or try to encourage? And while you might claim to “fail fast and cheap,” how often do you end up doing the exact opposite?

In this webinar, we will explore how our society developed such an aversion to failure. We’ll see how 20th-century education models and business plans are designed to minimize mistakes, even though research shows that mistakes are one of the biggest precursors to success. We will see how true innovators, from James Dyson to Thomas Edison, had failure rates well above 90%. And we will compare these rates to our own as we ask ourselves, “How can we get better by getting it wrong?”

Through discussion and hands-on mini-exercises, this webinar will reveal that professional environments have a lot to learn from the commercial gaming industry, the one spot in a society where failure is actually expected and encouraged. Attendees will receive case studies and ready-to-use tools for creating fail-forward approaches within their own organizations and building a playful and fearless learning culture.

Perfect for designers, trainers, and HR leaders, this session will give you the data and tools you need to improve any project or initiative through the lost art of trial and error.

Learn:

• To identify how adult learners have come to fear failure
• How to analyze and compare failure ratios, rates, and costs
• How to use game-based thinking to create environments that increase reflection and self-efficacy
• To get comfortable creating business metrics, even when they might fail
• How to “gamify” any learning environment with a provided template

Presenter:  Scott Provence (LinkedIn profile) is an award-winning instructional designer and author. He has delivered programs throughout the U.S. and Canada, and built material for everyone from one of the world’s largest private employers to the U.S. Department of Justice. Using a unique combination of instructional and game design, Scott’s passion is turning expert-level concepts into engaging products for a general audience. He is the author of the new book, Fail to Learn: A Manifesto for Training Gamification.

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Fail To Learn: How To Grow Your Organization
Through Trial, Error, & Play

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Live Webinar March 12th, 2024 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Project managers (PMs) lead teams to achieve project objectives and meet stakeholder expectations. This includes communicating the project vision and providing direction to everyone involved.

To effectively lead, the PM uses interpersonal skills to balance the conflicting and competing goals of all of the stakeholders in order to achieve successful project outcomes.

In this webinar Roger D. Jennings focuses on the skill set and mindset needed for project managers who are ready to move into the oversight level.

This position requires leadership that is centered on a basis of trust; thinking and acting strategically; engaging in critical thinking; and using effective communication to foster innovation and facilitate organizational change, risk management, proactive planning, and root-cause analysis.

Presenter: Roger D. Jennings, CBAP, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience in the IT Project and services industries. Roger progressed through the ranks of business analyst, project leadership, and project management, providing a solid foundation for his excellent instructional skills. .Roger has trained and mentored over 250 professionals in the areas of Project Management, Business Analysis, and Quality Assurance and has assisted organizations in their Process Improvement and Project Management efforts since

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Strategic Leadership:
What It Takes To Succeed In A Project Management Oversight Role

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Live Webinar March 7thth, 2023 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Every workplace today needs to leverage relationships and attitudes that get things done fast. Effective, high-performing teams within organizations generate new ideas and approaches that solve problems and create innovative solutions efficiently, cost-effectively, and with the highest level of quality.

Best Teams engage all personalities optimally. In this webinar learn how to maximize the contributions of introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts within project teams and maximize productivity by eliciting and valuing input from all types of people.

Join Bob To Discover:

• The key differences between the three “verts”
• The top 5 ways to engage introverts, focus on extroverts, and leverage ambiverts.
• Maximize the passion of all of the “verts”

Presenter: Bob Faw (LinkedIn profile) trainer and consultant CEG, has 25+ years of professional facilitation experience. Author of several books including An Old Sea Dog Can Learn New Tricks: Power Reframes and Feed Forward, and Staying Positive in Negative Times.  Bob’s programs increase team synergy, interpersonal skills and enhance connections and mutual trust. A keynote speaker and business school professor, his book Energize: Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools is an Amazon e-book best seller

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Best Teams: Introverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 3, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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VUCA , an acronym that stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity, has become a buzzword in management and business circles.

It has added a new dimension to management principles and practice this requires a fresh approach to adapt to the new situations that are emerging in business and industry.

Over the years project management standards have been adapting to industry practices and through its revisions introducing new topics and areas of knowledge.

The objective of the standards has been to present information that is relevant and valid for today’s operations.

Various project management standards have been studied to assess if the four parameters of VUCA have been included and discussed and if they are adequate for the practising project manager to function effectively.

This webinar will have the following Learning Outcomes:

• An explanation of VUCA and its relevance for project managers.
• How are the project management standards addressing these parameters?
• What are the shortfalls that need to be covered in knowledge and practice?

Join Raju Rao (LinkedIn profile) for this informative webinar!

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VUCA & Project Management Standards

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Live Webinar March 6th, 2023 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Good decisions are made when executives and managers understand the story behind complex data.

This highly interactive webinar focuses on how to make data more concise, impactful, and compelling to the intended audience through storytelling.

Through examples, this webinar will demonstrate how to create effective visualizations, such as charts and graphs, and make them easier to read and understand. Individuals that will benefit from this webinar include anyone who delivers presentations using data, especially those presenting to executives and managers.

The emphasis is on delivering explanatory analysis that conveys your intended message to the audience.

Topic Areas:

• Understand how to effectively prepare your story and maximize its impact on your audience
• Learn when to use different types of graphs to represent different data
• Learn tips for decluttering your slides to ensure that your message is clear, your visuals are impactful, and your audience remains engaged

Presenter: Eileen Twichell, (LinkedIn profile) is a dynamic and accomplished presenter and is highly regarded in the project management community for her expertise and knowledge of the field. She brings to you over twenty years of project management training and design experience and has developed and facilitated classes in project management, time management, presentation skills, coaching, and communications.

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Storytelling With Data

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