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Strengths 2.0: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses Consider the adage that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Is it time to change your approach? Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). By attending this session, you will become empowered to: Achieve breakthrough performance by focusing on what you do best Decide what to participant, quit or outsource, and plan to maximize team resources Create higher engagement and more effective collaboration with customers and colleagues

Strengths 2.0: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses Consider the adage that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Is it time to change your approach? Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). By attending this session, you will become empowered to: Achieve breakthrough performance by focusing on what you do best Decide what to Participant, quit or outsource, and plan to maximize team resources Create higher engagement and more effective collaboration with customers and colleagues

P3O® - Are we doing the right things? To stay relevant, Project Management Offices need to reinvent themselves, finding new ways to help organizations achieve strategic objectives through agile project execution. The rise of Agile poses new challenges to organizations in terms of governance, resource allocation, capacity planning, portfolio selection, and prioritization. This presentation will teach you how to define and implement PMO functions and structures using AXELOS' P3O® model (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Offices). You will also learn how to combine PRINCE2® and Agile to balance adaptability and governance. Key Takeaways: Gain a greater understanding of the P3O model Learn from real-life scenarios how to adopt hybrid project management combining PRINCE2 and Agil

Simple Strategies to Reduce Stress Stress can affect your ability to think clearly and rationally and to perform well. This session aims to help you better deal with stress by sharing key insights and strategies to reduce stress and optimize your work-life balance, particularly as we all cope with the consequences of COVID-19.The session will also address the biology of belonging and how we have been affected by this over the past year. Learn coping techniques to deal with a different way of working and living Recognize the symptoms and causes of stress Discover simple stress busting techniques to manage & reduce the effects of stress in your life Create a simple personal plan to rise above stress for a healthier & more productive lifestyle

Stakeholder Engagement Skills for Project Managers Correctly identifying and engaging your stakeholders can mean the difference between project success and failure. In this important session, we will explore methods and tools to keep your project stakeholders satisfied. Identify and Analyze Stakeholders - We will discuss 3 Models to differentiate key stakeholders from other stakeholders Plan Stakeholder Management - We will examine approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project Manage Stakeholder Engagement - With the ever-increasing complexity in stakeholders' needs, expectations, and diversity, project managers must have exceptional interpersonal skills, so we will add some valuable interpersonal tools into your tool box Monitor Stakeholder Engagement - We will present ways to consider whether the engagement strategies are effective

Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities With the digital transformation around us, the world is witnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What makes it different? It comes with a profound change in how we live, work and interact with each other. It's diffusing at an unprecedented, exponential speed and at a large scale, nationally and globally. And, it is penetrating all industries and blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds. Organizations need to take ownership and lead the change, otherwise they will be out of business. The most important challenge is the type of leadership and talent needed to deal with this transformation. Project Management plays a vital role as it's the main driver for the change. Without the right skills, failure is inevitable. What is digital transformation? The new capabilities required for the transformation The Power of Execution

The Culture of Feedback in Agile This presentation will discuss how and why the culture of feedback is so important in Agile. See how Amadeus has introduced gamification and role playing to foster collaboration and transparency in a safe environment based on a feedback model. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

How to Estimate Agile Project Budget Using Burn Up Do we really know how much an Agile project costs? In this session, attendees will learn how to estimate budget based on milestones in a project using a combination of release planning and burn up charts. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

The Culture of Feedback in Agile This presentation will discuss how and why the culture of feedback is so important in Agile. See how Amadeus has introduced gamification and role playing to foster collaboration and transparency in a safe environment based on a feedback model. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

How Daring to Dialogue Improves Performance and Creates a Culture of Agility The single greatest predictor of success is the way we are having or not having conversations, and if we can learn to be more intentional in how we invite, cultivate, participate, and facilitate conversations there will not be any challenge that an organization cannot skillfully navigate in order to produce effective outcomes. But what if our conversations are stuck or ineffective? What if conversations break down instead of generating new collective thinking? We'll look at conversations and how to use the structure of the conversations to harvest the intelligence that already exists, and the daring role leaders play in creating a space for dialogue in order to greatly change the nature of the discourse. Key Takeaways include: Four actions that everyone can take to foster better conversations Understand the impact of monologue vs dialogue on culture Three ways for leaders to engage in better dialogue starting today