Upcoming Webinars / Workshops

The management of IT people is a huge topic and so, for this chapter, it is necessary to narrow the focus. In this chapter, we will concentrate on what the business should care about that is specific to its IT Providers, visible outside the IT Provider organization and different from, or needs more sensitivity than, the management of all the other people in the organization.

This webinar is based on Chapter 15 of The Business Value of IT by Michael D.S. Harris, David Herron and Stasia Iwanicki (published March 2008).

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The IC Rating™ system is a practical, ready-to-use, standardized  assessment of your intellectual capital portfolio. The focus of a rating is usually on a single strategic business unit and provides a complete picture of your intellectual capital from three major perspectives:

• Efficiency - where you are today
• Renewal - the state of your innovation processes
• Risk - where you could be losing ground

The information generated in an IC Rating™ is critical for a variety of business leaders:

• Boards of Directors - to round out traditional financial information
• CEOs - to develop growth, innovation or change strategies
• CFOs - to supplement the traditional accounting view of the corporation's past and future potential
• VPs of Strategy - to provide an objective analysis of the company's performance against its strategic objectives
• COOs - to better understand and manage people, processes and relationships
• M&A professionals - to evaluate and/or communicate the intangible value drivers of a company's success
• Investors - to evaluate new or add-on investments

This one-hour webinar is presented by Marilyn Edelson of ITDC and Mary Adams of Trek Consulting.

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This workshop is designed to give you specific skills to build actionable plans for leading and managing change for yourself and your organization.

Also available on-site for your organization. See details below.

Lead people and teams to produce results in demanding environments.

LEADING SUCCESSFUL IT ORGANIZATIONS

This workshop is designed to deepen your understanding of and give you specific skills to build actionable plans for leading and managing change for yourself and your organization. In the morning program, you will learn what makes a successful IT leader, how critical coaching concepts such as social and emotional intelligence affect work teams and their performance dynamics and understand how leading organizational change requires both planning skills and coaching skills.

In the afternoon, you will be led through the creation of a simple, powerful one-page personal professional plan for the next twelve months. This unique opportunity to step back, look at your current work situation with fresh eyes and plan for your “best year yet” in 2008 will help you integrate the leadership and change management principles discussed earlier in the day.

You will leave the program with more knowledge about leading your organization to produce what you want and need as well as with renewed personal energy for you job.

It had a powerful effect on my Transition Enabling Team at the SEI. Anyone involved in setting goals and objectives to visualize their future, could experience breakthrough planning and organizational transformation if they use the techniques in the “Best Year Yet.” – Mike Phillips, Director of Special Programs, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

You Will Learn:

• What it takes to be an IT leader. . . or lead any complex, demanding organization to produce successful outcomes.
• What social and emotional intelligence is and how it relates to success in the workplace,
• Why change, while inevitable, is hard to manage.
• Seven essential factors for managing process improvement or any organizational change successfully.
• What a performance disruption gap is and how to deal with one effectively.
• How to cascade change in your organization through creating alignment, commitment and accountability.
• How to build an actionable plan for change beginning with yourself.
• The key principles to implement your plan successfully.

Who Should Attend: Government Agency Leaders, Chief Information Officers, Senior professionals, managers and executives, Directors of Training, and anyone in the government field involved in significant planning activities to lead important initiatives. While geared to IT, this workshop will be valuable to anyone leading a complex government organization or program.

Investment Price: $597 per person, $547 for 2 or more registered together, $497 for 10 or more group registration. Minimum on-site registration required, 6 persons.

To schedule an on-site workshop contact info@itdecisionscoaching.com or Fiona Thompson at 610-644-2856 ext 21

Webinar Presentations/Downloads

How to leverage your Intellectual Capital for Growth - Webinar Instant Replay--Click to see now (~1 hour)

Leading Success IT Organizations - Drawn from the successful ITDC one-day workshop, this 60 minute webinar provides a summary review of the essential elements of leading a successful IT organization. Webinar Instant Replay--Click to see now (~1 hour)

Managing Organizational Change - This presentation addresses the critical issues of change management when your organization embarks on critical process improvement initiatives. Please check the webinar schedule above on when you can participate in a live webinar on this important topic.

Webinar Instant Replay--Click to see now (~1 hour and 10 minutes)

How coaching helps IT Teams - This presentation outlines the challenges of managing distributed IT team and how coaching can yield to higher productivity. Please check the webinar schedule above on when you can participate in a live webinar on this important topic.

Publications

Achieve the Results you want: Make goals, not resolutions
Marilyn Edelson

In this month's (February 2008) Fast Company Magazine, "Make It Stick" authors Dan and Chip Heath ask us to imagine being consultants to the New Year's Resolution industry. They tell us, "Your clients are a deeply dysfunctional bunch. Every January, they proudly announce their resolutions. Two weeks later, most have already veered off plan, and by mid-spring, they may not even remember having a resolution at all." To read more download article...

Running the Marine Corp 10K Lessons Learned
Tom Cagley

Tom Cagley's observations of lessons learned one year after running the Marine Corps 10K Marathon and process improvement, caught our eye. It isn't too much of a stretch to see how running a race and completing any big project have things in common.

A Best Year Yet and ITDC White Paper - Breaking Through Performance Disruptions
Larry Lewis

Every day organizations are blindsided, unable to distinguish a performance gap from a

disruption gap and unaware of the difference between performance improvement and performance intervention.  Closing the performance gap is important.  Closing a disruption gap is vital.  A catalytic performance intervention is one of the secrets to organizational longevity, yet few organizations have a performance intervention system in place.

Developing the Future CIO
David Herron & Marilyn Edelson
A recent report from the Society for Information Management Advanced Practices Council, "Grooming the 2010 CIO," predicted a shortage of qualified CIOs in the years ahead. In this thought-provoking article learn to spot potential CIOs and help your organization prepare for the future.

Managing Organizational Change
David Herron
This is the companion white paper to the "Managing Organizational Change" webinar. Read about the hard reality that some improvement programs can and do fail but also how you can manage to receive the benefits of a successful Software Process Improvement program.

Put me in Coach, I am ready to play!
David Herron
Have you noticed an increase in the number of articles on professional and personal coaching? What exactly is professional and personal coaching? Who are these coaches, and who is getting coached? To learn more about coaching, download this article.

How Coaching Helps IT Teams
David Herron, Mike Harris and Marilyn Edelson
The ever changing environment for the successful management and delivery of business solutions has created many challenges for software development teams. Leading edge companies are discovering that training augmented by either one-on-one executive coaching and/ or team coaching is frequently necessary and one of the most cost-effective ways to manage.

HR Today
Chris Pallaris, Best Year Yet
Most organizations would agree that their staff is their most important "asset." Millions are spent training and nurturing these assets to perform fixed roles with increasing speed and effectiveness. And yet, despite this, organizations everywhere are grappling with a daunting range of challenges: incremental growth, unnecessary bureaucracy, poor project management and knowledge retention, insufficient communication and collaboration, limited innovation, talent shortages, and an inability to anticipate and respond to challenges in the marketplace.

For more information or to access our publications contact info@itdecisionscoaching.com or Fiona Thompson at 610-644-2856 ext 21

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