Leadership Development
Simple Truths: The Power of a Situational Approach
Presented by Dr.
Victoria Halsey and David Witt
Build Strong
Work Relationships to Boost Team Performance
To improve the level of engagement and performance among
team members, managers must master the art of flexing their leadership style to
increase the quality and quantity of their conversations with the people they
lead.
During this webcast, you’ll learn the timeless truths and
proven practices of the most widely-used leadership model in the world.
Look at the ways managers—new and experienced alike—can improve the way they
connect and communicate with others to improve performance.
The bottom line is that you’ll discover how to:
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Save time by being more purposeful and intentional in your
conversations with your people
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Build a sense of partnership by aligning with others on
goals, development level, and the leadership style match
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Use a common language of leadership to create a motivating,
high performance work environment
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to partner and
work effectively with team members, peers, or colleagues in a side-by-side
relationship and explore new ways to learn, experience, and apply Situational
Leadership® II.
Take your first steps in learning a common leadership
language and approach that builds stronger work relationships through focused,
engaged, and more meaningful conversations. You’ll walk away inspired and with
specific ideas that you and your team can put into practice right away to
improve engagement and performance. While attending this program is FREE, reservations
are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 1, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Agile Product Delivery
Connects Your Business with Development Teams End to End
Presented by
Jama Software
Although Agile has been around for quite some time, larger
organizations with complex product portfolios are still struggling to enjoy the
real benefits across the enterprise. There are two dimensions to scaling Agile:
1) adopting strong Agile practices in the upstream by streamlining the process
with the business as well as streamlining the process in the downstream with
testing and operations 2) replicating what you have done and achieved successfully
in isolated teams across the enterprise. Easier said than done. According to
Forrester Research, scaling Agile and adopting more mature practices across the
organization, though hard, is possible*.
Join Jama Software and Guest Presenter Diego Lo Giudice, VP
and Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, to learn actionable
recommendations for successfully scaling Agile adoption across the enterprise.
You’ll also learn from Jama Software how its Agile Workflow Design facilitates
fluid communication without a heavy-handed process to give your engineering
teams visibility upstream to the business strategies and requirements defining
their sprints, participate in spec definition and review and make better
decisions about their tasks.
By embracing mature agile practices across product, project
and development teams, your organization can scale Agile across the enterprise
to deliver better products to market faster.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 2, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Jama Software @jamasoftware
Cost: Free
Consulting
Skills: The Art and Science of Success
Presented by
Michelle Moore, Global Knowledge
Every business needs to have a
consultative approach that increases organizational buy-in, enhances client
relationships and improves customer service. Applying consulting skills can
mean greater success for individuals and organizations alike.
In this one-hour webinar, Michelle
Moore will provide an overview of the Consulting Skills Lifecycle and present
practical ideas from our McMaster Certified Consulting Skills Program. You'll
learn how to:
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Engage your clients.
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Gather and analyze
information.
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Present findings and
recommendations.
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Plan and implement
recommendations.
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Conclude the engagement
and evaluate results.
Outline
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Use the five-step
Consulting Engagement Life Cycle.
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Identify any skills gaps
you might have.
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Immediately use some
pragmatic and impactful consulting tools.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 7, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge
@globalknowledge
Cost: Free
Rookie Smarts: Why Learning
Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Presented by
Liz Wiseman, researcher, executive advisor, speaker, author
How Being New,
Naïve, and Even Clueless Can Be an Asset
In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse.
Rookies are unencumbered, with no baggage to weigh them down, no resources to
burden them, and no track record to limit their thinking or aspirations.
For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more
valuable than mastery. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman argues that the most
successful rookies are hunter-gatherers — alert and seeking, cautious but
quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like pioneers.
Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she
refers to as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of experience, they retain
their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of
these high-performing rookies.
This webcast explores the questions every experienced
professional faces: “Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and
irrelevant? Will a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my company or me? How
can I keep up?”
The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when
to think like a rookie.
Liz will offer vivid illustrations, personal reflection,
and practical tools to help leaders keep themselves and their entire team
fresh, relevant, and performing at the top of their game.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are
required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 8, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Jump Start Your Business
Analyst Career
Presented by
Laura Brandenburg, CBAP, Principal at Clear Spring Business Analysis, LLC
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Do you find yourself wondering what to focus on
to achieve business analyst career success?
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Are you looking for an extra edge to move your
career forward more quickly?
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Would you like to learn how to reset and finish
2015 in the best possible way?
Here’s a snapshot of what we’ll cover in this live webinar
session:
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An inside look at the business analyst job role, de-cluttering
and de-mystifying what a business analyst does so you can decide where to
invest in building up your skill set.
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How to expand your business analyst experience and skills
and get momentum even if you do not complete the entire business analyst role
for an end-to-end project.
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What goals and action steps make the most
sense for you, given your career background and current career situation.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 8, 2015; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Bridging-the-GAP
@llbrandenburg
Cost: Free
Outside-In
vs. Inside-out Requirements - Which view are you taking?
Presented by
Angela Wick, Principal at BA-Squared, LLC
Are you communicating requirements inside out? Do your
requirements come from a system perspective (inside out) or a user perspective
(outside in)? Come discover techniques to ensure both views are used for the
right requirements! Many requirements can be written from either perspective,
and we will discuss the benefits and risks of each. We will learn techniques
look at requirements from both of these critical perspectives, and when to use
which perspective. We will also look at how agile and traditional approaches
use each of these views to get to quality requirements.
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Learning
Objectives
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Understand the difference between inside-out and
outside-in requirements
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Learn the techniques to get at both views
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Learn when to use which view of requirements
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Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 9, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times
@BATimes
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by
Richard Larson, Watermark Learning
The event is a free chat session using webinar technology.
It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from
Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's
certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams
to re-certification.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, July 10, 2015; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning
@WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
The Art of the Interview:
How to Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills
Presented
by Terrell Smith, MBA, PMP, CBAP, Corporate Education Group
Get more out of your requirements interviews and make
better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but
highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing
skills. This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better
facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements. The key to this process
improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate
preparation, sequencing and delivery. Interviewing is the cornerstone of
elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you
need. You will learn how to:
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Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you
need to know
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Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the
right types of questions
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How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a
relationship
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Capture stakeholder responses
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Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship
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Review lessons learned to improve for your next
interview
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, July 10,
2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education
Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Fundamentals of Lean Start-Up and How it Works in Large or Small
Enterprises
Presented
by David Mantica, President of ASPE Training
Agile is a way of working that is
based on core value and principles. From those core values and principles,
practices are developed. Most people know Agile from specific practices like
daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc, but the foundation of Agile is
its fundamental values and principles. Because of this Agile is very
extendable, meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new
practices.
One of those new flavors of Agile is
the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of agile dealing with
Product Development and Launch. It can tie in marketing / sales, but at its
core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and
from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less
long term risk.
Even though "Start-up" is in
the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn't just for small organizations or
entrepreneur based organizations. One of the big trends for large enterprise
organizations is the concept of Intre-preneurship. Which is basically
incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger
organization. The same can be done with Lean Start-up.
In this presentation we will look at
what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its
practices and activities. From that point, we will look at some practical
real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any
organization type. With real-world examples, this seminar will explain the
theory of Lean Start-up, how it can be executed to significantly reduce the
risks involved in new product development, and how it allows the market to help
you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14,
2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
The Challenge of
Transitioning to Agile in Highly Regulated Industries
Presented by
Blueprint Systems
Are you in a highly regulated industry (e.g. Finance,
Healthcare, Telecommunications) and considering/attempting a transition to
Agile?
In this webinar you
will learn about:
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The importance of non-functional requirements in regulated
industries.
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Traditional mechanisms for handling non-functional
requirements in Agile, and why it is not adequate for large enterprises.
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How Requirements Management tools can be used to capture
non-functional requirements for Agile projects.
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Blueprint’s mechanism to accelerate the elicitation and
definition of non-functional requirements.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 15, 2015; 11:00 am – 11:30 am
EDT
Host: Blueprint Systems
@Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
