IPDJanuary 14, 2025Expert Insights - archives

Navigating Polarizing Conversations at Work – Free Training | February 2025 Expert Insights Webinar

Navigating Polarizing Conversations at Work

Date and Time: February 20, 2025, 12-1pm

Last Day to Register: February 18, 2025

Presenter: Eric Dormoh, Jr.

In today’s diverse and fast-paced workplace, polarizing conversations around sensitive topics like politics, social issues, and differing work styles are becoming more common. These discussions can create tension, hinder collaboration, and impact team dynamics if not handled carefully. This webinar is designed to help professionals navigate polarizing conversations effectively to foster a positive and productive work environment.

Take-aways:
  • Techniques to remain calm and composed in tense workplace conversations
  • Strategies for listening to understand and build empathy
  • Approaches for addressing controversial topics while preserving respect
  • Tools for resolving conflicts and fostering collaboration in diverse teams
  • Ways to create an inclusive environment that encourages open, yet respectful dialogue

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More About the Presenter:

Eric Dormoh, Jr.

Expert Areas:

  • Unconscious Bias
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Microaggressions
  • Building Inclusive Language
  • Identity at Work
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Mentoring
  • Community Building
  • Emotional Intelligence
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IPDDecember 10, 2024Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives

Transformation Leadership – Free Training | Past Webinar

Transformation Leadership

Presenter: Mandy Spiess

More and more organizations are embracing transformational efforts.  This session will discuss how to ensure successful transformation and how you can play a role in that success.

Kay Take-Aways:
  • Strategies to effectively lead transformation efforts
  • Tips to ensure that those transformations stick

AUDIENCE:

  • Business Architects
  • Transformation Professionals
  • Product Leaders
  • C-Suite
  • Organizational Change Managers
  • Project Managers

Watch Video Here:

More About the Presenter:

Mandy Spiess

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IPDSeptember 4, 2024Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

Rethinking Your Personal Workplace Brand – Free Training | October 2024 Expert Insights Webinar

Rethinking Your Personal Workplace Brand

Date and Time: Thursday, October 24, 2024, 12-1pm

Last Day to Register: Wednesday, October 23

Presenter: Eric Dormoh, Jr.

AUDIENCE:

Anyone.

What are you known for at work?  The detail-person?  The office clown?  The risk-taker?  The brings-donuts-on-Friday guy? The asks-a-question-at-the-end-of-the-meeting-when-the-others-have-started-to-leave colleague?
 
Your workplace brand is important.
It becomes your elevator speech without words.  It can also represent your organization.  Your personal workplace brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room, and we may not spend much time reflecting on what happens in our absence.
Take-aways:
This month’s free Expert Insights webinar will:
  • provide some considerations for personal branding strategies
  • teach you to leverage your personal brand for leadership opportunities and workplace promotions
  • guide you through some self-reflective activities to help you think strategically about your personal brand profile.

Registration is Now Closed

Rethinking Your Personal Workplace Brand

More About the Presenter:

Eric Dormoh, Jr

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IPDAugust 8, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

Business Architecture 201: Part 1 – Business-Object Oriented Capabilities and their Relationship to Information | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Business Architecture 201: Session 1

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This session will focus on business capabilities and their role and position in the larger business architecture framework.  It will explain how capabilities can be used as building blocks to achieve the outcomes an organization strives to define and execute and demonstrate how capabilities use and modify information with an example drawn from ongoing work to transform Minnesota’s human service delivery systems.

About the Series:

This series will explore the core business architecture domains that DHS is leveraging to integrate service delivery and develop an enterprise portfolio of products.   The series will be especially helpful to the public sector and others whose product is a service, rather than a tangible item for purchase.

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As the name 201 suggests, those with some background in business architecture or enterprise architecture may find the series more informative.

Watch Video Here

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Katherine (Kit) Shelton from the Department of Human Services (DHS) for the State of Minnesota is applying business architecture to help DHS transform service delivery by coordinating distributed work to integrate services and transition to a product operating model. She and two other Enterprise Business Architects in the Agency Effectiveness Administration lead a cross-functional team of business experts from all over the department to apply shared principles and common standards across business units to integrate multiple perspectives into a single enterprise-wide business framework.

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IPDAugust 7, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives

Business Architecture 201: Part 2 – Using Architectural Value Streams to Center the People We Serve | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Business Architecture 201: Session 2:

As the name 201 suggests, those with some background in business architecture or enterprise architecture may find the series more informative.

This session will focus on value streams and demonstrate their role and position in the larger business architecture framework.   The presenter will illustrate the conceptual structure of an architectural value stream with a real-life example drawn from work to transform Minnesota’s human service delivery system. Learn the relationship between an organization’s value propositions and the experience of the people who seek value from the organization.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

About the Series:

This series will explore the core business architecture domains that DHS is leveraging to integrate service delivery and develop an enterprise portfolio of products.   The series will be especially helpful to the public sector and others whose product is a service, rather than a tangible item for purchase.

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Katherine (Kit) Shelton from the Department of Human Services (DHS) for the State of Minnesota is applying business architecture to help DHS transform service delivery by coordinating distributed work to integrate services and transition to a product operating model. She and two other Enterprise Business Architects in the Agency Effectiveness Administration lead a cross-functional team of business experts from all over the department to apply shared principles and common standards across business units to integrate multiple perspectives into a single enterprise-wide business framework.

 

Interested in Watching the First Part of the Series?

This video focuses on business capabilities, the role, and position in the larger business architecture framework.

Learn how capabilities can be used as building blocks and how to demonstrate how capabilities use and modify information.

Watch Video Here

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IPDAugust 6, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field: Part 1 – A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Expert Insights Webinar

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A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

This is Part One of a Three Part Series:

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field

Audience:

You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations

  • Enterprise architects
  • product owners
  • project managers
  • business analysts

Learn more about how product managers can use business architecture in their roles.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

 

WATCH PART TWO:

Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture

WATCH PART 3:

 Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dean Heltemes

A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.

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IPDAugust 5, 2024Expert Insights - archives, past webinar, Professional Development and Career Advancement Blog

Cybersecurity Employee Training | September 2024 Expert Insights Webinar

Cybersecurity Employee Training

Presenter: Karen LaPlant

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AUDIENCE

Anyone who uses a computer or phone to do work.

We all use the Internet while at work or while we are working remotely, so everyone needs to practice cyber safety.

This Expert Insights webinar will be a general overview about cybersecurity for anyone working at a company.

The goal of this training is to present information in a clear manner so that you know exactly what to do, and what not to do, to keep yourself safe when using the Internet.

Take-aways: 

After this session, you will:

  1. Understand your role in keeping your organization safe from cybersecurity attacks.
  2. Learn to identify scams and malware.
  3. Build secure passwords and authentications.
  4. Receive a checklist to protect information – for both yourself and your organization.

More About the Presenter:

Karen LaPlant

Karen LaPlant is a retired educator, but still teaches online computer courses for many MinnState Colleges. She taught full-time at Hennepin Technical College (HTC) for almost 30 years in the Information Technology Program area. She has also created the Business program at HTC and loved teaching E-Business.

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IPDAugust 5, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field: Part 2 – Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Past Expert Insights Webinar

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The success of a business architecture practice is tied to how well the business architect partners with the business and demonstrates value.

In this session we will discuss some tips and techniques for getting your business stakeholders to become your greatest champions.

Audience:

You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations

  • Enterprise architects
  • product owners
  • project managers
  • business analysts

 

WATCH PART ONE:

A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

WATCH PART THREE:

Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Dean Heltemes

A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.

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IPDAugust 5, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field: Part 3 – Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Past Expert Insights Webinar

WATCH VIDEO HERE

Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines

You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations

  • Enterprise architects
  • product owners
  • project managers
  • business analysts

WATCH VIDEO HERE

This is Part Three of a Three Part Series:

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field

 

Learn How to Collaborate Across Architecture Disciplines

In today’s complex business and digital environments, business architects often have to work closely with other architects, such as enterprise, data, and solution architects.  In this session we will explore modern operating models for organizing different types of architects, along with approaches companies are taking to improve collaboration.

WATCH PART ONE:

A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

WATCH PART TWO VIDEO HERE:

Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dean Heltemes

A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.

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IPDAugust 3, 2024Business Architecture, Business Architecture Expert Insights, Expert Insights - archives, past webinar

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Past Expert Insights Webinar

How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?

This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.

This first session in the series covers the basics that must be established before even starting to think about a formal business architecture practice.

Discover how to use business architecture techniques to define questions with a value proposition that will define the value that your practice will bring your organization.

Other takeaways for attendees:

  • Essential infrastructure and requirements for standing up a practice
  • How to develop your internal presentation to get buy-in

WATCH THIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR HERE

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Maureen Mathias


Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.

Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”

In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.

Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.

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