Jeannette GraceMarch 6, 2024

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

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.

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

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Jeannette Grace

Instructor, Institute for Professional Development

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IPDNovember 17, 2022

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:

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.

IPDSeptember 26, 2022

Part 3 Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines | Past Business Architecture Expert Insights Webinar

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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

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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.

IPDAugust 22, 2022

Part 2 Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture | Past Business Architecture 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.

IPDAugust 9, 2022

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 3 – Your Governance (Past Webinar)

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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.

Participants will learn about considerations for:

Engagement – How do others access your services?Deliverables – What products and services are you providing?Interactions – What are the roles and responsibilities of the people involved?

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.

WATCH THE FIRST WEBINAR IN THIS SERIES HERE

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

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 2: Your Business Architecture Practice Charter

Maureen Mathias

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: 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.

IPDAugust 9, 2022

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 2: Your Business Architecture Practice Charter – Past Webinar

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* Please Note – This Expert Insights focuses on Business Architecture and is intended for an audience with a background or understanding of Business Architecture.

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 set up a practice in her organization.

This is a continuation of Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice: Part 1: Your Value Proposition which can be viewed HERE

Many are doing the work of business architecture within their organizations. How does this work by siloed individuals become a coordinated effort within an organization? How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization? Taking a cue from lawyers, the answer is “it depends.” While there are many paths, this Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide the strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.

This second session on Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice provides tips and strategies for establishing a charter for your business architecture practice.

Participants will learn about:

The elements that go into a solid charter
Aligning the charter to the value proposition
Mission, vision, and goals to track success

WATCH THIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR HERE

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

WATCH THE FIRST WEBINAR IN THIS SERIES HERE

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

IPDJuly 22, 2022

A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management | Past Business Architecture 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.

Beth SchaeferMay 4, 2022

The Change Chart | Past Leadership 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.

IPDJanuary 31, 2022

Session 3 of People and the Playbook | Past Business Architecture Webinar

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This session will discuss the importance of change management in any transformation. Consider research that supports building change management resources and the importance of communication during transformation. See an example of how the State of Minnesota’s new Change Agent Network will monitor and manage the complexities that come with implementing the multi-agency transformation generated from the playbook and maturity assessments. Find ideas for supporting grassroots change in the business units.

The State of Minnesota launched the Modernization Playbook to address outdated systems and infrastructure. The Playbook is an end-to-end framework to establish consistency in understanding roles, language, and process activities for a successful transformation of business processes and IT portfolio and application management to support modernization efforts.

This 3-part Series will showcase the Playbook and its purpose, how it was used to rank state agency maturity, and how it is used to chart transformation and focus agencies into the future.

While the state of Minnesota developed the Playbook to address IT modernization projects, the Playbook concept can be applied to a full spectrum of projects and portfolio management*.

*Where you see the words state agency, think Business Unit or Product Line. Where systems or infrastructure appear, think new products, The Great Resignation, pandemic shifts, or any one of the number of forces that require transformation in your organization.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Stacey Walker is the Transformation Program Manager in the State of Minnesota’s Office of Transformation and Strategy Delivery, a newly formed enterprise services department that serves all 22 executive branch state agencies. Stacey has been in her role since April 2021 having transitioned from the healthcare sector where she has worked for 25 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Nursing and a Master of Science degree in Nursing/Healthcare Leadership. In the early 2000’s with the digital transformation to electronic medical records, Stacey moved into a clinical informatics role and progressed from there into project and program leadership where she has gained 12 years of experience. Stacy earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2015 and recently became certified in organizational change management. She is known as a creative leader with high-energy and is honored to be able to serve her fellow Minnesotans in her new role helping to modernize Minnesota’s state government

Here Are the Other Two Webinars In This Special Series.

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Session One – The Marvel of the Playbook

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Session Two – Modernization, Maturity, and the Playbook”

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IPDJanuary 30, 2022

Session 2 Modernization, Maturity, and the Playbook | Past Business Architecture Webinar

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This video focuses on how a playbook works in conjunction with maturity assessments. Learn the process the State of Minnesota used to have Executive Branch Agencies self-rank their maturity using the playbook and how those rankings were used to identify gaps and ultimately create maturity roadmaps for improvement planning. Find ideas for standardizing your organization’s maturity mapping.

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The State of Minnesota launched the Modernization Playbook to address outdated systems and infrastructure. The Playbook is an end-to-end framework to establish consistency in understanding roles, language, and process activities for the successful transformation of business processes and IT portfolio and application management to support modernization efforts.

This 3-part Series will showcase the Playbook and its purpose, how it was used to rank state agency maturity, and how it is used to chart transformation and focus agencies into the future.

While the state of Minnesota developed the Playbook to address IT modernization projects, the Playbook concept can be applied to a full spectrum of projects and portfolio management*.

*Where you see the words state agency, think Business Unit or Product Line. Where systems or infrastructure appear, think new products, The Great Resignation, pandemic shifts, or any one of the number of forces that require transformation in your organization.

Here Are the Other Two Webinars In This Special Series.

Session One – The Marvel of the Playbook

Session Three – People and the Playbook

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Stacey Walker is the Transformation Program Manager in the State of Minnesota’s Office of Transformation and Strategy Delivery, a newly formed enterprise services department that serves all 22 executive branch state agencies. Stacey has been in her role since April 2021 having transitioned from the healthcare sector where she has worked for 25 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Nursing and a Master of Science degree in Nursing/Healthcare Leadership. In the early 2000’s with the digital transformation to electronic medical records, Stacey moved into a clinical informatics role and progressed from there into project and program leadership where she has gained 12 years of experience. Stacy earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2015 and recently became certified in organizational change management. She is known as a creative leader with high energy and is honored to be able to serve her fellow Minnesotans in her new role helping to modernize Minnesota’s state government.