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Heard! Spreading Love in your Workplace
You can contribute to a positive workplace environment by learning some team lessons from the restaurant kitchen.
Celebrating the Grumpy Coworker: Part One of a 3-Part Series
New research is debunking the myth that the always-happy employee is your most productive employee.
Celebrating the Grumpy Coworker Part 2: Because the Research Says So…
Research says a team should have at least one grumpy coworker on your team or in your department. Read about four of the reasons.
Accelerating Change: Tips for Keeping Change Moving | Past Free Expert Insights Webinar
Learn how you respond to change and how to keep others moving.
The Power of Ubuntu: How Connection Can Change the World
Explore the philosophy of Ubuntu and unlock the power to change your team and make a lasting impact in the world.
IPD Welcomes Eric to the Team – New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Specialist
Eric Dormoh, Jr is our new DEI Program Specialist.
Space and Grace in the Workplace | Past DEI Expert Insights Webinar
Explore the importance of inclusive language in building an inclusive and equitable workplace and learn applicable strategies to approach DEI issues in a non-shameful way.
Eyeshadow Can Change Your Life
My most successful resolution occurred about 10 years ago when I resolved to wear eyeshadow every day. I ended up losing 60 pounds.
Making Your Lists and Checking Them Twice
Be aware of how holiday celebrations may affect your staff and coworkers in different ways to help reduce the stress of the holiday season.
Using Business Architecture to Structure Product Taxonomy Session 3 | Upcoming Free Expert Insights Webinar
Learn how to define what Product Taxonomy is and demonstrate its role and position in the larger business architecture framework.
Moving to Interdependence
It is time for us to realize that we are not working on an island. We need to teach people to work interdependently, ask for help early, and work with others to dream big and solve large problems.
Using Architectural Value Streams to Center the People We Serve Session 2 | Past Biz Arch Expert Insights Webinar
Learn more about value streams role and position in the larger business architecture framework.
Practicing What We Preach
Every 3 years or so, IPD uses tools to check in with its customized training clients. This article discusses some of the tools we teach and use while sharing the results of our most recent survey.
Public Sector Hiring Challenges (and Solutions)- Part 2: Disrupt and Innovate
Ignite a spark for the Minnesota Public Sector to collectively promote ourselves as a great career option! Be disruptive and innovative with these links to organizations and events.
Watch Your Mouth! (Navigating Inclusive Language in the Workplace) | Past DEI Expert Insights Webinar
Inclusive language is critical and can transform your workplace culture in meaningful ways.
Public Sector Hiring Challenges (and Solutions)
While almost every industry sector is suffering with the challenge of the Great Resignation, public sector is suffering more than others. Learn six Talent-Recruiting Actions to Find Public Sector Employees in Minnesota
Business-Object Oriented Capabilities and their Relationship to Information Session 1 | Past Biz Arch Expert Insights Webinar
Explore the core business architecture that DHS is leveraging to integrate service delivery and develop an enterprise portfolio of products.
Pets, People, and Practices: Rethinking Bereavement Policies for a Diverse Workplace
One area where DEI policies often fall short is in bereavement policies and ensuring employees can grieve is essential for a company’s health and longevity. Learn more about potential gap areas…
Resolving Troubling Project Situations | Past Project Management Expert Insights Webinar
In this webinar, four challenging project management situations will be addressed with solutions.
It’s More Than Memorizing a List: Inclusive Language in the Workplace
Inclusive language in our workplaces is essential. Learn three ways to improve the use of inclusive language in the workplace.
It’s Beyond What You Can See. Part 2 of Who’s Sitting at Your Table?
It’s Beyond What You Can See. Part 2 of Who’s Sitting at Your Table?
The Risk Register | Past Leadership Toolbox Expert Insights Webinar
Stop spending your whole day analyzing risk by learning how and when to use a risk register.
Who’s Sitting at Your Table?
By: Destyn Land, M.Ed. Imagine that you were personally invited to a dinner party hosted by one of your favorite celebrities (for me this would be the late Chadwick Boseman). Upon your arrival, you realize the table you were assigned to sit at has seats that you do not
Moving Off the Diversity Plateau to Equity & Inclusion | Past DEI Expert Insights Webinar
While the “D” in DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) gets the most attention, the “EI” (Equity and Inclusion) are fundamental for creating an environment that supports diversity.
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
When we think about our work lives, and the way that we engage with our colleagues, I imagine most of us (including me) would ask, “What’s love got to do with it?”
Solving the Puzzle: Using Models to Organize Enterprise-Level Change | Past Expert Insights Webinar
Learn how to leverage business models to define overall scope, map work tracks, track vendors & systems, and ensure end-to-end coverage.
Diversify to Recruit and Retain
Learn 6 workplace values sought be younger generations and 4 actions leaders can take to demonstrate those values and diversify their culture.
Happy Holidays?
By Beth Schaefer IPD Director Last week I attended an annual holiday party with friends that I have been attending for 30-some years. Fun! It was a potluck, and I made a pretty ordinary salad – for about $35 dollars in grocery supplies – not fun. While many of us
Moving Beyond On-Boarding by Taking On-the-Job Training to the Next Level | Past Expert Insights Webinar
Learn a fresh approach by getting creative with how to help someone start a career in your organization.
Sources for ChitChat Article Information
Employee Small Talk Is More Powerful than You Think by Elaine Cole from Texas Christian University Neeley School of Business The Hidden Value of Chitchat for Getting What You Want by Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. from Psychology Today Missing Your Office Small Talk? Researchers say it impacts your
The Value of Chit Chat
Improve well-being, production, and creativity at work with one magical bullet that you are probably already doing … Chit Chat!
Six Things You Can Skip to Improve Employee Engagement
This article will discuss the 6 myths your organization should avoid if it wants to help those immediate supervisors maintain engaged employees.
Part 3 Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines | Past Business Architecture Expert Insights Webinar
Explore modern operating models for organizing different types of architects, along with approaches companies are taking to improve collaboration.
Part 2 Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture | Past Business Architecture Expert Insights Webinar
Discuss some tips and techniques for getting your business stakeholders to become your greatest champions.
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 3 – Your Governance (Past Webinar)
This third and final session in Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice poses questions that should be considered when it comes to the governance of an enterprise-level business architecture practice.
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 2: Your Business Architecture Practice Charter – Past Webinar
Learn how to stand up a business architecture practice within an organization.
Are We Moving Employees from Stakeholders to Customers?
This is the third blog in the Employee Engagement Series. Are employees becoming a stronger factor in how you do business?
A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management | Past Business Architecture Expert Insights Webinar
Learn more about how product managers can use business architecture in their roles.
Resources for Employee Engagement Article
Resources for Employee Engagement Employee Engagement: It’s Time to Go ‘All In.’ Dale Carnegie. Employee Experience vs. Employee Engagement: What’s the Difference? Gallup. Pendell. Engaging in Healthy Debate Over Employee Engagement. Association for Talent Development. Leeds and Nierle. Kahn’s 3 Dimensions of Employee Engagement: Still Good
Employee Engagement Defined
This month, we continue our exploration of employee engagement – especially in the shadow of The Great Resignation- by defining what employee engagement is and what it is not.
Employee Engagement = Employee Retention: Fact or Fiction?
Employers are dealing with exiting employees and being told employee engagement leads to retention, but is this a lot of mumbo jumbo?
The Change Chart | Past Leadership Webinar
Join IPD for the launch of a new type of Expert Insights: The Leadership Toolbox.
Twelve Questions to Define Your Career Wants and Needs
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You’ve Got Leverage
While a record number of people are leaving their jobs (see the series introductory article: Is The Great Resignation Time for Your Career Transformation?), you may not have to leave to get a better deal. Because so many people are leaving, this may be a good time to negotiate a
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Great Resignation Transformation
The Great Resignation Is On! This series of blogs studies the impact through the personal lens of your career ladder. Series Introduction Part 1: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Coming in April) Part 2: You’ve Got Leverage (Coming in May) Part 3: Make your Move Before making any
Evaluate Your Employee Benefits Assessment- Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Click Here to Print the Employee Benefit Assessment: Evaluate Your Employee Benefits printable pdf {{ vc_btn: title=CLICK+HERE&style=3d&shape=square&color=green&align=center&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fmetrostateipd.org%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2022%252F02%252FEvaluate-Your-Employee-Benefits.pdf%7C%7Ctarget%3A%2520_blank%7C }} Knowing your full benefits package can help you make decisions to stay with your current organization or search for a position with a new organization. Once you have made that decision, knowing
Research Resources for: The Great Resignation
Research Resources for: The Great Resignation: Time for Your Career Transformation Comparably: Good Reasons to Hang Onto Your Job During the Great Resignation Computer World: No ed in sight for the Great Resignation; workers keep quitting for better pay, benefits Resources The “Great Resignation’ could be a
Is The Great Resignation Time for Your Career Transformation?
To coincide with the IPD Expert Insights free webinar series on transforming the workplace using the Modernization Playbook, I thought I should take a look at workplace transformation on a personal level. For the first time in quite a while, workers are in demand so it stands to reason that
Session 3 of People and the Playbook | Past Business Architecture Webinar
This session will discuss the importance of change management in any transformation.
Session 2 Modernization, Maturity, and the Playbook | Past Business Architecture Webinar
Learn how the playbook works in conjunction with maturity assessments.
Session 1 The Marvel of the Playbook | Past Business Architecture Webinar
This session focuses on the creation of the State of Minnesota’s Office of Transformation to standardize and assist state agencies with their modernization efforts.
The Beatles & Your New Year’s Resolution
Are you in need of a New Year’s Resolution, or a Performance Goal? If you are as old (mature) as I am, you will remember the craze around a little book by Robert Fulghum entitled All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, we have the
Taters, Turkey, and TP Anyone?
Taters, Turkey, and TP Anyone? Worried about shortages in holiday gathering supplies? Now, more than ever, business architecture has a role to play.
Back to Business (RTO) Through a Business Architecture Lens – Past Webinar
A look at the COVID pandemic’s impact on corporations and the digital economy through the lens of business architecture.
The Top Four Obstacles to Problem Solving
This month we are featuring a free webinar on how to solve problems so that you do not need to solve them again. So, I took a quick look out on the world wide web, to see what obstacles people are facing to getting problems solved – especially
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 3 – Your Governance
Considerations for when it comes to the governance of an enterprise-level business architecture practice.
Return-to-Work Phobia
What can leaders can do to ease the fear of returning to work after Covid? Many people are dreading the return to work: the commute, unnecessary in-person meetings, sitting a cubicle, eating lunch at their desk… For over a year, public health messaging has been that the safest place
Five Criteria For High-Quality Diversity Training
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are not just buzzwords. To save time, I researched what makes a good DE&I trainer and combined the information into five key criteria.
Why It Makes Dollars and Sense to Improve Workplace Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month Things You Can Do Now To Improve Your Organization’s Mental Health – Even While Working From Home In the past, I would have dismissed this topic as something that is so distant to me, I would not even need to glance in its direction.
Are You Fixing or Solving?
Learn the difference between fixing and solving problems so problems are solved the first time.
Using Conflict to Build Inclusiveness – Past Webinar
Get started on the journey to incorporate conflict in your workplace and experience innovation and problem solving.
Action-and-Learning Blog
The Institute for Professional Development (IPD) mourns the tragic death of Daunte Wright.
Business Architecture at the Speed of Business – Past Webinar
Previously Recorded Webinar Watch the Video Here 2020 demonstrated the criticality of a business’s ability to pivot and respond to a rapidly changing environment. Business strategies are now fluid, and business architects need to adapt. The session will focus on practical tips and methods for how business architects can take
Pandemic Changes That Will Stick
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” John Drucker For this article, I am taking a quick glance at how our workplace environments are likely to change in the long-term as a result of the pandemic. It is a
Navigating Change in Changing Times – Past Change Webinar
Learn more about change and the effect it has on you, and others.
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition – Past Webinar
Cover the basics that must be established before even starting to think about a formal business architecture practice.
Does Your Company Need More Convincing to Send You to Business Architecture Certification Training?
Does Your Company Need More Convincing to Send You to Business Architecture Certification Training?
Using Conflict to Build Inclusiveness – Free Webinar
Register Now For Our Upcoming FREE Expert Insights Webinar Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12pm Noon-1pm CENTRAL TIME Using Conflict to Build Inclusiveness Does An Ideal Workplace = A Conflict Free Workplace? The goal is to be both diverse and inclusive, not to just avoid conflict. During this short webinar, our
Build Bridges Within Your Village
Satisfy the workplace needs and personality traits that every generation has.
Look Beyond For Joy
Look Beyond For Joy By: Beth Schaefer Director, Institute for Professional Development Normally, this is the time of year that I write about the “New Year, New You” and how training classes at IPD can help with that. However, 2020 was not a year of normal, and the first
BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SOCIAL SECTOR – FREE WEBINAR
Register Now For Our Upcoming FREE Expert Insights Webinar Title: Beyond Business – Business Architecture for the Social Sector Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12pm-1pm CENTRAL TIME Join IPD Instructor Bao Do as he discusses the response of various countries around the world to COVID-19 and how pandemic management capabilities highlight
Business Architecture In Uncertain Times – Past Webinar (May 2020)
"Business Architecture In Uncertain Times" An Expert Insights Webinar From the Metro State Institute for Professional Development Originally Aired: May, 2020 This presentation covers: How Business Architects Can Help Their Companies Navigate Through Uncertainty Learn tools that guide tactical and strategic decision making in a dynamic environment Prepare for future
Is Pocket Agile a Thing, or Did I Just Invent It?
Is Pocket Agile a Thing, or Did I Just Invent It? Or – Is it OK to be Agile Lite? By: Beth Schaefer Director, Institute for Professional Development I hesitate to say that I am practicing Agile because I have not been formally trained in Agile. And, I work
Value the Voice of Customer
By: Beth Schaefer Director, Institute for Professional Development It happened again last week. I was at a meeting where a policy revision was announced. As the policy changes were being laid out, several people in the room had questions that did not have answers. It became clear to me
Do You Cultivate Trust?
As a leader, do you create the space for High Impact Trust Advisors’s to flourish?
Always Be Networking
Why you should always be networking. Call IPD today for more information on how to grow your career. 612-659-7230
Why change inititatives fail: it’s not me, it’s you … except when it’s not
These are the real reasons people resist change… Call IPD today if you would like to learn more about our change management classes – 612-659-7230
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