Presented by David Mantica, President at ASPE Training
Yes there is such a thing on Likeonomics. Author Rohit Bhargava wrote the definitive book on how being likeable drives business and personal success. But what the heck does that mean? Let’s start with this, would you rather work with a competent jerk or a loveable fool? At some point the competent jerk will end up being too much to deal with and will negatively impact productivity and morale. And in the end, you will continue to overlook the loveable fool’s weak points and utilizes them as best you can.
The key thought is to be both competent and likeable. How does someone do this? Well there are some very simple and easy tactics to do this. The first question to ask yourself is what makes someone likeable in your eyes? What do they do? What habits do they have? How do they interact with you? The answers to these questions will quickly give you a picture of how you can become more likeable.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 1, 2016; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
Effectively Managing Scope Creep and Requirements Changes
Presented by The Solarity Group
This session will discuss how to manage scope creep and requirements changes effectively, and provide your team with the information they most critically need.
During the brainstormers’ debriefing, they agreed that it wasn’t the scope creep itself that caused the greatest impact to the project’s outcome, but rather it was the management of that creep and the changing requirements (or the lack thereof) that either propelled or doomed the project to its “fabulous” or “terrible” end result.
Point your project toward “fabulous” and achieve your
desired end-result! Learn to help your stakeholders avoid or minimize the
“spin” and conflict that comes from confusion or disagreement on requirements,
including goals, priorities or approaches to the solution. Instead, manage
change and ensure your stakeholders have the clarity they need to be as
collaborative, productive – and as “fabulous” – as possible.
Objectives
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Tips to gain a shared understanding of scope at all levels
(portfolio, program, project, solution)
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How to recognize changes (as opposed to design option
approaches or decisions)
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How to discuss changes in scope and highlight the impacts
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 1, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: The Solarity Group @Solarity
Cost: Free
Registration: Solarity Public Webinar Registration
4 Easy Steps to Gather, Author, Approve and Manage Requirements
Presented by Jiri Walek, Director of Product Management at Siemens Industry Software
In today's hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success. While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity.
Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but it comes with its own set of challenges. The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.
Join this webinar to discover how a unified tool can:
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Provide the ability to utilize Agile
throughout the Product Lifecycle
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Positively impact innovation and
time-to-market through collaboration
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Give you full traceability
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Provide the advantages of electronic
signatures
·
Highlight the benefits of centralized reuse
and variant management
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 1, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Modern Analyst @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, 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, December 2, 2016: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration: Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration
Certification Update
Presented by Jas Phul and Suzanne Bertschi, IIBA
Learn more about Level 1 - Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™):
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Competencies required for this level
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Clarification of what qualifies for the 21 hours of
Professional Development for ECBA™
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, December 5, 2016; 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Public Webinar Registration
Certification Update
Presented by Jas Phul and Suzanne Bertschi, IIBA
Learn more about Level 1 - Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™):
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Competencies required for this level
·
Clarification of what qualifies for the 21 hours of Professional
Development for ECBA™Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, December 6, 2016; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Public Webinar Registration
Mindfulness and its Benefits to Individuals and Organizations
Presented by Brian Chossek, ASPE Training
Every leader wants to improve decision-making, performance and leadership skills. The challenge? Tremendous time constraints and a constant siege of new data points threaten our sense of balance, increase stress and create a filter designed for survival that may not lead to optimal performance or decisions. Today, major corporations from Google to General Mills, top business schools such as Stanford and the University of North Carolina as well as leading publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes and the Huffington Post have all recognized the power of Mindfulness and its ability to improve the top and bottom line and create self-regulating cultures of excellence. These same tools are available to you.
During this interactive conversation, you’ll receive:
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An overview of how our minds work
and how the function of our mind impacts leadership, decision-making,
innovation, collaboration and performance.
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An introduction to Mindfulness
and its measurable benefits to individuals and organizations.
Immediately actionable insights and techniques for increasing Mindfulness and performance.
Immediately actionable insights and techniques for increasing Mindfulness and performance.
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An understanding of 4 powerful
constructs that enhance your decision-making, performance, collaboration and
impact.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 6, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
Business-IT Alignment: Driving Business Outcomes
Presented by Adam McCllelan
Business and IT alignment is not a one-and-done thing. On the contrary, business strategies and goals continually evolve and cascade down to more specific needs throughout the enterprise — including IT.
To stay aligned with the business, the
IT side of the house should consistently ensure that it and the business both
understand what outcomes are desired in strategic, tactical, and operational
contexts. At the same time, IT should build up the disciplines required to
enable — and ultimately track — those outcomes.
Outline
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Introduction: why is alignment a
pressing need?
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What do we mean by business
outcomes?
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What does the business want?
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Why doesn't the business know
what it wants?
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What does effective IT enablement
look like?
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How and why do you track
outcomes?
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What is the path forward?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, Tuesday, December 6, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Global Knowledge @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Registration: Global Knowledge Public Webinar Registration
Not All BI is Created Alike: Learn What to Look for and Why
Presented by Daniel Brault, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing, Qlik
Where is data analytics today – and what should you understand before considering a BI solution? Join Daniel Brault, Senior Manager Product Marketing at Qlik®, for Not All BI is Created Alike: Learn What to Look for and Why. He’ll explain how to maximize analytic value across your entire organization, including how to choose a solution that allows you to see the whole story in your data. And you’ll learn the top trends in analytics today, including the learning objectives listed above.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.
Discovering best practices in
business intelligence analysis
2.
Understanding the current trends for
analytics
3.
Learning about the analytic
capabilities that helps you put your data to work
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 6, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Public Webinar Registration
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization. IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.
Learning Objectives:
1. How do you assess
the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus
for improvement?
3. What
implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 7, 2016; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Live Storyteller Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems
Join us for a live and interactive demonstration of Blueprint’s game changing solution, Storyteller.
More and more organizations
are embracing Agile as a development methodology that enhances efficiency and
speeds project delivery for bigger, enterprise projects. In so doing, they are
often looking for additional capabilities to support them with these
challenges:
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How can you
facilitate engagement and collaboration across the organization?
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What can you do
to ensure better Business & IT alignment?
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How do you get
everybody writing good, effective and consistent user stories?
Storyteller addresses these challenges head on
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 7, 2016; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST
Host: Blueprint Software Systems @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration: Live Storyteller Demonstration Registration
Overcoming Bias: How Leaders Can Build Authentic Relationships Across Differences
Presented by Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman, TMI Consulting, Inc.
Everybody's biased—even nice people like you. We all harbor unconscious assumptions about people who are different from us that get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from working together harmoniously and effectively.
So in an increasingly diverse and globalized world, what does respecting difference actually require?
Join bias experts (and biracial couple) Tiffany Jana and
Matthew Freeman for an hour-long webcast where you will learn how to identify
your personal points of privilege, make genuine connections with people who
aren’t like you, and figure out how to break down social barriers across a
spectrum of differences (race, religion, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
and more).
Tiffany and Matthew will discuss hidden biases and show how they arise from our histories and cloud our perceptions.
What You Will Learn
Tiffany and Matthew will use vivid and fun (yes, fun!) stories to help you become open to encountering people, cultures, and ideas outside our usual comfort zone. Make sure to tune in!
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 7, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Webcast Registration
Bring Data to Life with Power BI
Presented by Byron Brewer, ASPE Training
Designing stunning dashboards and reports is an art form! Attend this webinar to learn how to effectively use KPI indicators, gauges, dashboards, charts, maps, navigation tiles, and more to build visually compelling reports. This is demo-rich webinar full of examples of how to use the new Power BI Dashboard Designer tools to connect to Excel, databases, and other services and render that data into great visualizations. If you are new to Power BI, or an experienced BI professional, you’ll learn something new. Invite your employees, coworkers, boss, and friends!
All attendees will receive a free Tips & Tricks Power BI Guide and discount coupon for our 3-Day Power BI Boot Camp! Be sure to attend.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
SDLC Career Trends for 2017
Presented by David Mantica, President at ASPE Training
In this web seminar we will take a very wide angle lens look at trends that will impact SDLC practitioners in 2017 and beyond. There are a number of technologies, certifications, and new methodologies that will impact how software and system development is done. On top of this, we have to discuss the continued disruption speed of change and how you can prepare to effectively deal with consistent and perpetual change.
Areas that will be covered:
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DevOps impact on building
software
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Cloud everything
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Continued changes in how
Agile is executed in organizations
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What is value analysis and
how do you determine value and what to work on?
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Stress management
strategies to deal with change and work levels
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Keeping up: How to get the
training you need
·
Certifications to watch
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
How to Elaborate Requirements Through Use Cases and User Stories
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant
Use cases and user stories are both excellent techniques for understanding what a user needs from a product. While both have a similar purpose, use cases and user stories are not meant to be used interchangeably. That is why it’s important for a business analyst to understand the difference.
The older of the two techniques is the use case, which captures usage scenarios. In other words, a use case documents how an individual uses a product to accomplish something of value. This technique works well for projects where functional requirements and usage scenarios must be – and can be – specified upfront. However, what if you can't know the requirements upfront?
In a user story, the user and what they need the product to accomplish is also specified, but in contrast to use cases, at a much higher level.
Recognizing which technique is best suited to your situation is the key.
Learning objectives include:
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Determine when to apply use cases
and user stories to define stakeholder requirements.
·
Elaborate use cases through
scenarios.
·
Augment use cases and user
stories with diagrams and visuals for better communication
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration
The Business Analyst Catalyst: The Role of the BA in Today's Business World
Presented by Mike Zambruski, MBA, PMP, CBAP, Senior Instructor at TwentyEighty Strategy Execution
An effective organizational strategy should harden the intention behind mission and vision into goals that define the future direction—a direction that must reflect clear context, defined boundaries, and precise capabilities in order for programs and projects to reach intended targets with optimal success.
Business analysis transforms those aspirations into actionable scope by capturing, refining, confirming, and prioritizing the needs to be fulfilled. Only then is project management ideally positioned to achieve the reality envisioned by the strategy.
This means that successfully developing and implementing strategy requires a true partnership between the executives who define it and the business analysts and program and project managers who carry it out. All parties need to understand each other’s perspectives, challenges, and roles, and then regularly interact with each other to confirm alignment, efficiency, and feasibility. Eliminating any part of this undermines that partnership and the mutual clarity of purpose that it promotes.
This webinar defines a concept labeled “the enterprise triple constraint” as the integration of strategy, analysis, and implementation. Without professional business analysis as the catalyst between dreams and reality, projects become exploratory initiatives burdened with avoidable cost, delay, and risk of failure.
Participants will leave this webinar with practical techniques for both communicating and applying the concepts presented, all based on actual experience and real results.
Learning Objectives:
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Learn how business analysts can leverage their role as the
custodians and implementers of strategy
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Learn the concept of “the enterprise triple constraint,” and
understand how integrating its three pillars of strategy, analysis, and
implementation optimizes organizational success
·
Learn how to communicate and apply practical techniques that
maximize the business analysts’ impact on their organization
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Modern Analyst @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration
Your Brain and Business: Learn How they don’t Fit and what you can do about it
Presented by David Mantica, President at ASPE Training
Our brains have not evolved to match the needs of white color business environments. In many cases the natural reaction your brain has to issues in business are the complete opposite of what you should or need to do. Aside from this, no one trains or teaches on this subject. We brush it under the rug and just assume we will adapt or worse yet, assume it really isn’t a problem.
The reality is that this problem is an epidemic and shows up in the staggering increases in stress related illness and death and the exceedingly high level of disengaged workers. It is staggering to see the number of business professionals who don’t even know what self-talk is and the dangerous effects it may cause if left unchecked.
This web seminar will get into the very heart of brain dysfunction when tied to business interaction. The areas that will be covered included:
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The physiology of emotional
intelligence
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Affective forecasting and its
impact on decision making
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Cognitive biases and its impact
on day to day business interaction
·
Neuroplasticity and change
management: How hard it is to change?
·
Your lazy brain: How stereotypes
and decision patterns are developed
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Self-talk and stress
Within all these topics we will discuss techniques you can use to help you work around the innate limitations your brain causes. If we let our brains act instinctually against the business challenges we face each day, we limit our productivity and career growth.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 13, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
Strategies to Requirements Definition and Management Maturity
Presented by Keith Ellis, IAG Consulting
This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.
This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis. If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.
We will discuss the six critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement:
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Process standardization and improvement
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Integration of best practices and techniques
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Technology implementation
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Competent staff resources
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Quality deliverables yielding improved results
·
Infrastructure and organizational support
You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives. We will give you dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization's business analysis and requirements management groups. And we will take you step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization's requirements practice.
Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization's Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization's level of requirements management maturity.
Learning Objectives:
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How to start a requirements practice transformation program
·
What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
·
How to assess your organizations current requirements
practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
·
How to use the RMM model to promote and drive
change/improvement
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Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for
improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
·
What is the role of a Requirements Management Office
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 14, 2016; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Public Webinar Registration
A path to compliance with Blueprint and Unified Compliance Content Accelerators
Presented by Craig Isaacs at Unified Compliance and Ruth Zive at Blueprint Software Systems
In this webinar, Craig Isaacs, CEO of Unified Compliance (UCF), along with Ruth Zive, VP Marketing, Blueprint, will discuss how to mitigate your compliance risk with pre-packaged, consolidated regulatory information integrated from the UCF Common Controls Hub.
Blueprint is offering prepackaged Compliance Accelerators through its partnership with UCF, a leading provider of targeted, harmonized research for organizations to achieve and maintain compliance with industry, government, and best practice demands. These Compliance Accelerators deliver meaningful ‘content’ that is centrally accessible and reusable, arming all stakeholders across the enterprise with the information they need to ensure compliance throughout the application development life cycle.
In this webinar, you will learn:
·
How to
accelerate delivery with pre-packaged compliance and regulatory requirements
·
How to trace,
analyze impact, and audit your requirements in order to achieve, maintain, and
prove compliance
·
How to align IT
processes with the Business’ regulatory priorities
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 14, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: Blueprint Software Systems @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration: Blueprint Systems Public Webinar Registration
Ask the Right Questions
Presented by Kupe Kupersmith, President of B2T Training
This webinar will provide a framework for ensuring that you’re asking the right questions, at the right time, and of the right audience.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 14, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
Elicitation Without Alienation
Presented by Francine Wolfe, Sr. Business Analysis Consulting
Business Analysts are supposed to ask a lot questions. Business Analysts are supposed to be inquisitive and detail-oriented. Business Analysts are supposed to ask questions that make people uncomfortable? Sometimes in trying to be thorough, we Business Analysts can be our own worst enemy. We walk a tightrope between getting to the heart of the issue and alienating the people we are trying to help. Instead of giving up or figuring that others just being difficult, let's do a little soul-searching and find ways to build trusting relationships to get the information we need without making our stakeholders squirm.
Audience: Members Only
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 14, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
How Prioritizing Purpose Improves Organizational Performance
Presented by Brian Chossek, ASPE Training
According to Harvard Business Review, Purpose prioritizing organizations outperform their peers on 7 out of 8 categories. The measurable value of Purpose to individuals is just as remarkable: longer lives, enhanced performance, greater value-add to the organization, increased happiness and satisfaction, reduced stress levels, increased creativity and innovation, among others.
In a world where initiative overload, data and communication inundation, competitive pressures and a focus on bottom line performance increase stress and impede productivity, the 3As, Articulation, Alignment behind and Activation of Purpose can make the difference between organizational, business unit, change initiative or process improvement success.
In this session you’ll:
·
Be introduced to the indisputable evidence supporting a
purpose-driven approach
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Understand Why a Purpose-driven approach inspires and holds
much higher likelihood of achieving your goals
·
Gain exposure on how to use the 5 Whys to find individual,
initiative or organizational Purpose
·
Learn how to communicate from the inside out in order to
gain alignment and support for you and your efforts
·
See examples of how to create compelling metrics and KPIs to
keep Purpose visible, insure alignment and drive what you want to see
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 15, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
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