Online Webinar –  Recorded October 12 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

This comes as no surprise to MSE chief information officers, as 80% of them say that it is harder to find qualified IT candidates, and 85% say that the competition for qualified candidates has intensified.

Join r Chad Walker (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Principal Advisor, to find out how MSE CIOs can proactively address talent demands and define a minimum viable talent strategy to overcome the challenges that talent shortages pose to the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• Analyze labor market survey data regarding the IT talent market
• Determine if you may already have the talent you need
• Identify how to consider your staffing strategy beyond internal talent options

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Midsize Enterprise CIOs, Overcome Talent Shortages
With A Minimum Viable Staffing Strategy

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 20th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Employees who believe that their jobs can be replaced by AI have a 27% lower intent to stay in their organization. At an average organization of 10,000 employees, this decrease in intent to stay costs 53 million USD per year in total costs and lost productivity.

The impact of generative AI (GenAI) on jobs and workers will vary greatly depending on labor market dynamics and other demand drivers.

This blend of certainty and uncertainty makes it difficult for executive leaders to create solid workforce plans that align with their technology and business investments. Join our expert, Helen Poitevin (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst,, in this Gartner IT webinar to learn how to future-proof your workforce by structuring and adapting AI strategies.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and a defined plan of action for your strategic goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Define your AI ambition along with key AI and GenAI investments
• Assess the talent implications of AI investments within your business context
• Plan for investments per talent segment to prepare your workforce for the years ahead

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How Generative AI Will Impact The Future Of Work

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 2nd, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Human Capital Institute

Staying Productive & Focused At Work Can Be A Struggle!

Staying productive and focused at work can be a struggle. Contemporary advances in technology and the accessibility to electronic applications and websites have amplified the prevalence of workplace distractions, both work-related and personal or self- interruptions. An executive at eBay referred to workplace distractions today as an “epidemic”.

An executive at eBay referred to workplace distractions today as an “epidemic”

In this webcast, you will learn:

1. How to implement effective methods for addressing workplace distractions
   • From Gloria Mark, (UCI profile, Microsoft profile) PhD professor of informatics as she shares research on the myth of multi-tasking and the importance of disconnecting from technology
   • From meditation expert and author of  Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace  and  Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier Sharon Salzberg, (Wikipedia) who shares how mindfulness techniques can be applied to the workplace.

Join HCI as they reveal the results from HCI’s latest Talent Pulse signature research and interview thought leaders on the topic workplace distractions.

Talent Pulse from the Human Capital Institute (HCI) is a quarterly research e-book that explores the latest trends and challenges in managing talent. Talent Pulse is designed to provide practitioners and decision-makers with prescriptive methods to rehabilitate the health and wellness of human capital and empower employees and leaders to effectively address future challenges. Each quarter, a new report is released in conjunction with one of the four HCI disciplines. The third installment of this Talent Pulse concerns important, timely topics in Leadership & Development.

Presented by: Jenna N. Filipkowski, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) Director of HCI Research, David O’Connell, M.A. (LinkedIn profile) HCI Research Analyst, and Andrew Bateman (LinkedIn profile) HCI Analyst Organizational Development & Leadership

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The Mindful Employee: Finding Focus In The Age Of Distractions

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 24th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Across industries, countries, and generations, discussions about AI, particularly generative AI (GenAI), are regularly occurring.

According to Gartner predictions, by 2026, over 100 million people will engage robo-colleagues (synthetic virtual colleagues) to contribute to enterprise work. While the benefits of productivity and revenue are compelling motives, the traditional approach to benefit and risk analysis is not enough to avoid potentially irreversible damage to the organization.

Join Ellen Eichhorn (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; who  discusses how to separate the hype, hope, and reality of AI in manufacturing. Also, differentiate AI, generative AI, and machine learning (ML), and examine functional criteria when pursuing this technology.

Discussion Topics:

• Differentiate GenAI and AI
• Communicate the business value of AI/GenAI
• Get insights to AI use cases for manufacturing leaders

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The Impact Of Generative AI On Manufacturing

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 23rd 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Business optimization efforts demand continuous, proactive IT engagement and business acumen in order to better understand and deliver business outcomes.

As trusted service and product providers, CIOs often have to balance divergent and contradictory roles to successfully deliver value to their internal customers.

As a result, CIOs must run IT like a service provider business in order to deliver differentiating technology capabilities that optimize business performance.

They need to deliver quality products and services at competitive prices to remain viable, all while seeking ways to enhance product and service offerings to improve customer outcomes and satisfaction.

In this webinar, Monika Sinha (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst r explores how IT organizations can think and act in terms of business value and outcomes to support technology-driven enterprise transformation efforts.

Discussion Topics:

• Establish a business office to run IT as a valued business service partner
• Shift from a project-aligned to service-/product-aligned delivery structure
• Proactively identify new and innovative services that address emerging opportunities

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Drive IT Operations Business Value With A Service Provider Mindset

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Live Webinar February 21st, 2023 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

Effective leadership comes down to implementing everyday, commonsense practices to help organizations thrive – and yet, for so many leaders, these fundamental principles are missing in their personal and professional lives.

In this special online presentation, business experts Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley disclose the simple truths about leadership and trust to help make common sense common practice.

Drawing from their new, action-oriented playbook, Simple Truths of Leadership Playbook: A 52-Week Game Plan for Becoming a Trusted Servant Leader,

Ken And Randy will share weekly prompt and exercises that can help you make progress toward your leadership goals.

They will also reveal some of their favorite teachings, including:

• The importance of servant leaders making the first move to extend trust to their people.
• Leveraging the power of trust to facilitate personal and organizational change.
• Catching people doing things right and praising progress.
• Owning mistakes and accepting responsibility.
• Using different strokes (leadership styles) for different folks, depending on their commitment and competence.

You’ll learn practical and memorable leadership wisdom on how to  become a trusted servant leader that people want to follow.

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover time-tested leadership principles that will help you – and the leadership in your organization – make a difference in the lives of those they influence.

Presenters: 

Randy Conley (LinkedIn profile)

Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Ken has an excellent collection of his latest 3 books the “The Essential Ken Blanchard Collection“ on amazon which includes the titles Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called “Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A”, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, and Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. They are an excellent read!

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Simple Truths Of Leadership: From Intention To Action

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