Sometimes we just can’t understand why someone is so difficult. It’s much simpler than you may realize. When we identify the driver beneath a behavior, we have taken the first step to remove roadblocks that cause unproductive conflict.
Presenter: Margie Campbell Charlebois
Managing a Remote/Hybrid Team: It’s the same AND different! Remote and hybrid work is here to stay, but most managers were never trained for it. In this month’s Expert Insights session, we share what the latest research says about remote and hybrid work, along with what the best distance managers do differently. Walk away with new thinking on trust, purpose, and what it really takes to lead people you don’t see every day.
Presenter: Christine Moore
Date and Time: Monday, April 6, 2026, 12 noon – 1 pm
Registration Closes: Monday, April 6, 2025, 11:59 pm
These terms are often used interchangeably, but they are very different. In this session, we’ll explore both the leadership and management aspects of change and why we need both to realize transformative change.
Leading Teams Through Change: An Experiential Learning Workshop
Whether you work in government, manufacturing, corporate, or non-profit, you will connect with Grolson’s change experience and learn lessons to apply to your own efforts at leading change.
Virtual and In-Person Options Available!
Presenter: Mandy Spiess
Presenter: Eric Dormoh
Burnout and chronic stress are common in today’s workplaces, but they don’t have to be. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the 4 R’s of Resilience: Recognize, Reframe, Respond, and Recover. This framework will help you reset your mindset, manage pressure, and conserve your energy. This session is not just a lecture; it’s a chance to take a break, reflect, practice simple tools, and leave with practical strategies you can use right away.
The mantra “Change is Hard” is insufficient.
Change and the transition process that creates change is human.
And humans are unique and messy. While change management provides valuable tools to organizational leaders, the fact is that each human experiences each change in a different way and at a different pace. That is why organizational change occurs one person at a time. This Expert Insights session will present a Transition Process theory.
Change Theory is not a new topic, but it remains a challenging concept for leaders to apply.
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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.
As the name 201 suggests, those with some background in business architecture or enterprise architecture may find the series more informative.
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.
Expert Insights Webinar
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
Learn more about how product managers can use business architecture in their roles.
Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture
Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.
Presenter: Karen LaPlant
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:
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.
Past Expert Insights Webinar
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
A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management
Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.
