Special Event

Using Microsoft Planner/Trello to Organize Yourself

Learning Objective of Presentation: Understand how to use tools like Microsoft Planner and Trello to organize your activities and to keep yourself organized.

Summary Description of Presentation:
We are confronted daily with myriads of activities and tasks, both routine and special. Our work, family, friends, and other parts of our lives bombard us with requests for our time, attention, and energy. Life pulls us in many different directions. As we have no doubt experienced, there are scads of gadgets, software, and apps that compete to manage our scheduling, activities, and pursuits. In this session, we will explore how to use Microsoft Planner and a similar tool from Trello.com to help us accomplish three goals:

1. To become more methodical in our organization.
2. To be more connected with the devices and tools that we may use.
3. To be more consistent in using these tools.

This session will be practical, with plenty of examples using these apps. You will also receive a valuable workbook and a handy cheat sheet to help you apply your new skills.

Venue: Virtual Event
Log in information (Zoom Link) would be provided to all registered participants before event starts

Door Prize: Yes-a workbook (in PDF format) with the major points and a “cheat-sheet” to help in implementation.

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Dancing inside the Waterfall:
Borrowing Agile Concepts to Benefit Your Waterfall Project

Presenter: Ryland Leyton, CBAP, PMP, CSM, SPC4.

Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021
Time: 6:00 p.m to 7:15 p.m
Venue: Virtual (Event link to be provided following registration)

Description of Presentation: Agile concepts can benefit every project, including waterfall implementations! In this session we show how to apply core agile concepts in any situation and avoid saying agile “trigger” words that could create resistance. No agile experience is required to benefit from this session. While the presentation is software focused, examples from other industries will be explored.

Learning Objective of Presentation:
1. Learn four key concepts applied in agile work efforts.
2. Understand the benefits and uses of these concepts in every project.
3. Learn how to avoid “agile prejudice” regarding using these ideas, and how to overcome objections.
4. Have a means for conversing about these ideas without mentioning agile

Appreciation Intelligence: The New AI

Roger Wolkoff
Professional Speaker, Trainer, and Author
All About Authenticity

Description of Presentation: Appreciation affects your bottom line and your workplace culture. Don’t think so? Think again! Now, more than ever, showing appreciation is the number one tool you should be using in your relationship-building toolkit. Customers, clients, and teammates expect nothing less. This program will show you how appreciation enhances your productivity and reduces the noise cluttering your work and personal life.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify your preferred appreciation language: words of appreciation, quality time, acts of service, or tangible gifts.
- Understand the business case for appreciation.
- Learn how to identify and meet other people’s appreciation preferences.
- Brainstorm and capture ideas for each appreciation language.
- Write down the One Thing that you will implement immediately.

Title of Presentation: Game-Changing Project Leadership

Amber McMillan, PMP, Prosci, ADKAR, CVA, EQP, NLP
Chief Visionary Officer/Executive Director, Rogers Society

Learning Objective: To inspire individuals to own their talents, leveraging them to benefit others while using influence to protect project success.

Description of Presentation: In times of change, the innovations necessary to facilitate new ideas can wreak havoc on project scope, schedule and budget. As PM professionals, we have tools and techniques at our disposal to adjust, amend and create space to control change. But, as PM’s who lead teams, we must also consider the people in the midst of those changes. What can we do to positively influence the attitudes of the people we lead on projects? This session will drill down on 3 game-changing leadership techniques to eliminate dissension and the destruction of project teams.

Interactive Digital Communication: Using Augmented Reality in Business

 Della Bryant M.A. 

This presentation will introduce some of the ways you can use augmented reality in formal and informal business settings. As digital media becomes more prevalent in our everyday lives, learning to communicate effectively on a variety of platforms is necessary. Augmented reality provides an opportunity to engage with your audience in a way they will remember. Whether your audience is a campaign for your company's clients or your coworkers, interactive communication is a great way to effectively communicate complicated messages in an easily digestible format. 

• Discuss the reasons interactivity plays a crucial role in communication and how this changes depending on the scale of the audience.
• Defining “Extended Reality” which is the broad term for Virtual reality, Mixed Reality, and Augmented Reality.

• Introducing new methods of digital communication and how it can be integrated to create more interactive communication with your audience. Lens Studio, Spark AR, Adobe Aero, AR Business cards, and Oculus Quest are just a few of the more accessible forms of recent interactive mediums that feature augmented reality. 

• Setting a formal tone on a traditionally informal Platform.