Solving the Puzzle: Using Models to Organize Enterprise-Level Change | Past Expert Insights Webinar

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Audience:
  • Executives & leadership responsible for achieving wide change
  • Program & project managers
  • System and business architects
  • Business analysts
Watch this free webinar to learn how to leverage business models to define overall scope, map work tracks, track vendors & systems, and ensure end-to-end coverage.
This “Model of Models” approach helps to eliminate gaps, minimize overlaps, and identify collaborations.
Takeaways:
  • Leverage multiple models to gain a better understanding of your (project, portfolio, initiative, strategy) scope & ensure full coverage
  • Organize your teams for business and system implementations

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Todd Sicard has been with Blue Cross Blue Shield MN for almost 30 years.  In his role as the Business Platform Implementation Director, he works to organize the people, processes, technology, data, and metrics to achieve a goal.  Before that, he was an enterprise architect for fifteen years

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Using the Capability Maturity Model to Assess Almost Anything | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Part of the Leadership Toolbox Series

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Leaders, Managers, Supervisors, and Project Managers

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This free Leadership Toolbox webinar takes a tool that describes an organization’s maturity, or is used for continuous improvement, and repurposes to start conversations on problem-solving.

Similar to the Expert Insights webinar on the Risk Register, this session demonstrates other uses for a tool traditionally used by project managers.

Take-aways:

  • Understand where to find capability maturity models
  • Alter models to align with initiatives and projects
  • Spark conversations that lead to the root cause of problems

More About the Presenter:

Beth Schaefer, IPD Director

Beth has 16 years experience building professional development programs for MN State. The advantage of this job is she gets to experience the training that she helps to build in project management, continuous improvement, change management and business architecture.  The fun part of this job is that she transfers that information to fit her role as a supervisor in the public sector.  Join Beth to see how you can use leadership tools from almost any discipline to improve your projects, teams, or departments. 

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Experiential Learning | Past Expert Insights Leadership Toolbox Webinar

Audience: Leaders interested in developing their workforce

The Leadership Toolbox webinars focus on a specific leadership tool so that you can become a more effective leader.

This webinar will explore experiential learning.  This a tool that leaders can use to build the skillsets of their team and connect learning directly to work application.

Take-aways:

  • Explore the complete definition of experiential learning
  • Understand the benefits of experiential learning for your team
  • Learn how to evaluate professional development for experiential learning opportunities

 

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Christine Moore

Instructor, Institute for Professional Development

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Accelerating Change: Tips for Keeping Change Moving | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Change will happen.

How you navigate it can determine whether it stalls, dies, or accelerates. Join us to learn how you respond to change and how to keep others moving.

Takeaways: 

  • Learn the four change responses
  • Understand the phases of change
  • Get tips on how to accelerate change

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Audience: Formal and informal leaders along with Movers and Shakers

The Leadership Toolbox Webinars focus on a specific leadership tool so that you can become a more effective leader.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Jeannette Grace

Instructor, Institute for Professional Development

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The Risk Register | Past Expert Insights Webinar

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Audience: Decision makers (Large or Small) for organizations on resources, projects, processes, and strategy.

Description:
Every decision you make (or delay making or avoid) carries an element of risk. 

Psychology Today’s latest research states that you make 35,000 decisions each day!  That equates to about 2000 decisions per hour, and in an 8-hour work day that is 16,000 decisions related to work daily! You are already informally, subconsciously, or automatically calculating risk for your job 16,000 times each day.  You could spend your whole day analyzing risk, or you could determine when to move those risk decisions from being automatic to being calculated.  This Leadership Toolbox session will show you how and when to use a risk register.  It is easy, and like any good tool, it will not only impress your leaders and colleagues, it will also provide an opportunity for collaboration and input.

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Takeaways:

  • Learn to build a risk register
  • Determine when to use a risk register
  • Understand the risk of doing nothing

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: You know Beth Schaefer as the host of the Expert Insights series, but she also manages the staff of the Institute for Professional Development at Metro State as part of the university’s leadership team.  Before her role at Metro State, Beth was the director of an area learning center serving grades 7 – 12. In this role, she led teachers, staff, students, and parents through experiential learning and the changes that occurred during those secondary education years. In her leadership roles, Beth mostly navigates change that is generated by external forces (economy, pandemic, legislation) to meet the needs of customers while lacking the time, money, and resources that would make those changes easier to lead.

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Moving Beyond On-Boarding by Taking On-the-Job Training to the Next Level | Past Expert Insights Webinar

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Moving Beyond On-Boarding by Taking On-the-Job Training to the Next Level

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Most employers are struggling to find enough people to fill their vacancies.  To stand out as an employer of choice, you may need to get creative with how you help someone start and build a career in your organization. Whether you are the hiring manager or the HR recruiter, this session will provide some thought-provoking approaches to building your employee talent pipeline.

Takeaways: 

  1. Learn and understand the difference between onboarding, On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Internships
  2. Discover the 5 Strategic Approaches for a Successful OJT Program
  3. Understand Earn and Learn program options
  4.  Secure useful tools, such as skill pyramids, for employee pipeline programs
  5. Find out how to join labor conversations in Minnesota that are solving worker shortage issues

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTE: Dan Solomon is the Manager of the Minnesota Dual-Training Pipeline program at Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI).  Before working at DLI, Dan was the field representative and state lead for education and workforce issues for Senator Al Franken. He also worked as a legislative assistant at the Minnesota Senate for six years.  Dan has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Hamline University and a Bachelor’s degree in political science and communication studies from the University of Minnesota.

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The Change Chart | Past Expert Insights Webinar

Expert Insights Webinar The Leadership Toolbox: The Change Chart because change is also a Verb

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The Leadership Toolbox Launch will feature The Change Chart, which is often used by our speaker for change management.

Before Covid, change was difficult; during Covid, it was unavoidable; and as we transition “back to normal”, change is overwhelming.

The Change Chart may not be the answer to all of your change issues, but our speaker is hopeful that it can move you from inaction (change is hard) to solution (change is doable).

If you find yourself using the mantra, “People do not like change,” as an explanation for failed change efforts, IPD encourages you to join this webinar and add the Change Chart to your Leadership Toolbox.

Part of: The Leadership Toolbox

Short on theory and long on practical application. One easy tool for leaders to implement and use.

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Beth Schaefer

You know Beth Schaefer as the host of the Expert Insights series, but she also manages the staff of the Institute for Professional Development at Metro State as part of the university’s leadership team.  Before her role at Metro State, Beth was the director of an area learning center serving grades 7 – 12. In this role, she led teachers, staff, students, and parents through experiential learning and the changes that occurred during those secondary education years. In her leadership roles, Beth mostly navigates change that is generated by external forces (economy, pandemic, legislation) to meet the needs of customers while lacking the time, money, and resources that would make those changes easier to lead.

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Are You Fixing or Solving? / Past Expert Insights Webinar

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All organizations have problems— it’s how we handle them that matters!

If it feels like your teams go in circles looking for answers to fix a problem only to have to fix it again the next month or next quarter, this webinar is for you!

Learn the difference between fixing and solving problems so that you can help your teams make real progress towards solutions so that problems are solved the first time.

You’ll leave knowing what it means to truly solve a problem and fixing pitfalls to avoid.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Christine Moore


Christine Moore is a Project (PMP®) and Process Expert along with being certified as a professional facilitator by the International Association of Facilitators.  She continues to hone the best way to fix a problem just once.  She will draw on her experiences from working with both the corporate and public sector (without naming names) to teach you what she has learned about solving problems – one time.

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Using Conflict to Build Inclusiveness – Past Expert Insights Webinar

 

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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 instructor will get you started on the journey to incorporate conflict in your workplace and how this can lead to better innovation and problem-solving.

This webinar will teach you:

  • The challenges of competing perspectives

  • How to move from “positions” to “interests”

 

“I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Jeanette Grace

  • Title/Position
    Instructor, Metropolitan State University
  • Expert Areas: 
    • Communication
    • Customer Service
    • Employee Engagement
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Teambuilding

 

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Navigating Change in Changing Times – Past Expert Insights Webinar

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During this webinar, you will:

  • Take a quick assessment to gain insight into how you navigate change
  • Learn about the “change curve” and how it can help you ride the waves of change

 

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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

If Mr. Churchill is correct; based on the last nine months, we should all be perfect by now!

If that statement does not ring true for you, this free webinar from the Institute for Professional Development will help.

Learn more about change and the effect it has on you, and others.

Begin tapping into the cycles of change and use them to be productive instead of feeling like you are being tossed about at sea.

“I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination

Jeanette Grace

  • Title/Position
    Instructor, Metropolitan State University
  • Expert Areas: 
    • Communication
    • Customer Service
    • Employee Engagement
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Teambuilding

 

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