This workshop is for leaders of departments, divisions, or teams and for anyone who is striving to make their workplace more respectful for all.
Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace can be challenging – especially if you have limited knowledge and exposure to DEI concepts. When you or a colleague make honest mistakes in what you say or do that can be perceived as inequitable or exclusive, colleagues can give you the benefit of the doubt while still taking the opportunity to educate you. Educating in the moment is one way for you and others to build your DEI skills. In this workshop, you will learn what it means to provide Space and Grace in the workplace as a tool to expand DEI.
Participants will learn:
Actions that leaders and coworkers can take to provide space and grace
Strategies to approach DEI issues in a non-shameful way
How to create guidelines that allow for mistakes and respectful corrections.
Just watch your mouth!” is a familiar refrain we hear while growing up, intended to caution us against using inappropriate language. But as we navigate today’s constantly evolving culture, it’s not always clear what language is considered appropriate and inclusive.
In this webinar “Navigating Inclusive Language in the Workplace,” we’ll explore why inclusive language is critical across all facets of the employee life cycle.
Join us to explore how inclusive language can transform your workplace culture in meaningful ways.
Takeaways:
Explore the importance of inclusive language in building an inclusive and equitable workplace
Learn about three key strategies to implement inclusive language
Understand how inclusive language creates a sense of belonging and fosters diversity in the workplace
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.
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.
Even with the application of sound project management concepts, projects can still skid off track. Projects encounter many different and unexpected challenges and roadblocks and an effective project manager and team need to be able to address these situations to keep the project on a successful path.
The speaker has assembled a long list of project challenges from questions and identified proven solutions based on over 40 years of industry and public sector experience.
Four challenging project situations with solutions will be addressed.
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.
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.
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
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
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:
Learn and understand the difference between onboarding, On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Internships
Discover the 5 Strategic Approaches for a Successful OJT Program
Understand Earn and Learn program options
Secure useful tools, such as skill pyramids, for employee pipeline programs
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.
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.