Online Webinar – Recorded February 05, 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Changing an organization’s culture is crucial for delivering on digital initiatives.

Many leaders struggle with what to do and how to do this effectively, whether within their own functional unit or across the enterprise.

In this leadership webinar Gartner expert Christie Struckman (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst  will share case studies of organizations that successfully drove culture change in their organizations, as well as common challenges and best practices.

Christie explores how you can follow these organizations’ success by using Gartner’s Five Steps for Culture Change model to accelerate the delivery and achievement of your business strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify the steps necessary to make culture change happen
• Understand the biggest barriers for culture change and ways to overcome them
• Learn from organizations that are further along in their culture change journey

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5 Steps To Change The Culture Of Your Organization

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 27th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

A location strategy outlines where to hire and source talent across markets to meet current and future skills needs. Organizations must continuously refine their location strategy to thrive in an increasingly competitive talent market and globalized work environment.

Whether HR Leaders address talent shortages, support global business growth, or seek to achieve cost savings, they must be ready for their business leaders to ask, “Where should we be?”

Answering that question effectively requires a well-framed talent strategy that is aligned to business objectives and informed by in-depth labor market intelligence.

Answering it efficiently requires close consultation with business stakeholders.

Join Lynne Mayers Gartner VP Advisory (LinkedIn profile) to find out how to partner with your business leaders on location strategy, and how to utilize talent intelligence to drive good decision-making.

Discussion Topics:

• Consult with business leaders to establish good criteria for location strategy analysis
• Structure your talent strategy to inform location decisions
• Incorporate data into location analysis to drive smart decisions

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Supercharge Your Workforce Strategy With Location Intelligence

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 21 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic thinking and critical analysis are valuable business acumen skills that have never been more important than they are now.

Providing focused and actionable insights is paramount to effective and efficient leadership, expanding digital dexterity, and supporting desired business outcomes.

This becomes essential as CIOs assume their roles in leading strategy execution across all parts of the organization. CIOs who understand that the ability to focus on strategic thinking and critical analysis can be made in different ways, times, and in various places across the organization adds dimension to the CIOs’ ability to add focused strategic value.

In this executive leadership webinar, Kevin Smith (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst will demonstrate how to adapt CIO strategies to deliver the maximum value to your expanding range of stakeholders.

You’ll understand how these “dimensions” of strategy development can help you recognize what you contribute, and how to tailor approaches accordingly to deliver the most value possible to a growing list of stakeholders.

Discussion Topics:

• Gain insight into the evolving discipline of strategy
• Identify the difference between strategic thinking tools and methods
• Understand the roles CIOs play in designing strategies with various groups

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CIOs, Strengthen Your Strategic Leadership Impact

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Live Webinar February 13th, 2023 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the top of the list of hot topics in Project Management.

Project Management has been evolving for decades and project managers must continue to adapt to the changes.

The current focus on Artificial Intelligence as a factor in project management has created a need for project managers to determine how AI will affect their role during project planning and implementation.

This presentation will review how AI is being used to enhance the role of the project manager and how it can increase the probability of completing a project successfully.

Topics covered in this webinar, include:

• How AI can expedite and simplify typical data-driven and labor-intensive project manager tasks.
• How AI can enhance the creativity of the project team when resolving issues or developing alternative solutions to a problem.
• How AI can assist in the risk assessment process includes identifying threats and opportunities.
• Provide insight into the “Human” side of AI and the concerns that are generated by its use.

Presenter: Frank P. Saladis PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a respected author, keynote speaker, and senior consultant for the International Institute for Learning Inc. (IIL).  Frank is also the originator of International Project Management Day, a day of recognition for project managers held during November each year.

Frank is the author of numerous highly regarded Books within the Project Management community and a popular series of articles entitled “Positive Leadership in Project Management”  He was awarded the 2006 Linn Stuckenbruck Person of the Year Award by PMI®. He is a past president of the PMI® New York City Chapter and was the Chair of the PMI Education and Training Specific Interest Group (EdSIG) through 2008.

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The AI Savvy Project Manager

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 3rd 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations struggle to manage and optimize their cloud environment in a way that is both effective and scalable.

IT leaders must understand the foundation of cloud governance and operations, manage cloud-related incidents on a daily basis, and enable application teams to use cloud services effectively.

n this webinar Ken Rothenberger (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director, Advisory will guide IT leaders through a framework for more effectively managing cloud environments. This framework is similar to how a managed service provider operates, and it focuses on “productizing” automation, engineering and operations capabilities to more effectively deliver cloud operations.

Discussion Topics:

• More effectively deliver cloud operations
• Understand software platforms, managed services, and consulting services
• Explore the Gartner framework for managing cloud environments

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Make Your Organization’s Cloud Environment More Effective & Scalable

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Online Webinar – Recorded Story July 26th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Every leader across the organization must be able to tell a clear, impactful story to achieve success. Still, you and your intended audience can significantly change how that story is told.

Join a panel of Gartner experts; Maria Boulden (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP, Executive Partner, Dennis Gannon (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP, Advisory, & Steve Miranda (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Executive Partner;  all former departmental leaders in their respective fields, including Sales, HR, Finance, and IT – share their experiences and insights on crafting unique stories that generated success for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

This is a must-watch program for any leader in the organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out how a leader’s role shapes the story they need to tell other leaders
• Unfold the right mix of emotion and data to craft an impactful story
• Get examples of how your peer leaders use storytelling to achieve their desired outcomes

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Impactful Storytelling: How To Tell Your Unique CXO Story

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