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Live Webinar – October 11th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Lou Russell’s guest, Mary Cook, RMA Facilitator Extraordinaire, has been working with a private college to evolve their support organizations into trimmer, more efficient and customer-centric organizations to help the university meet its strategic goals.

Starting with IT and branching into other support areas, Mary has used surveys, profiles, assessments, facilitated sessions and blood, sweat but no tears to identify where each organization is now, and how jobs must change to become the future organization required to drive university success.

These projects follow the following process:

  • Pre-Project Planning / Charter: establish the business concept, expectations, scope
  • Discover: establish the current state including strengths and opportunities for improvement
  • Initial Design: Leverage an organizational survey and talent audits to create a high level gap analysis
  • Detailed Design: Benchmark key positions to create new hiring and succession planning models
  • Final Design: Create a proposed strategy for phased roll-out of new organization

This session will be part sharing of the Project Plan and how the ‘real’ project went. It will also include Q&A with key roles on the project.

Speakers:
Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile)is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand. She focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

Mary Cook (LinkedIn profile) has over fifteen years experience in meeting facilitation, leadership training and team development, strategy development, coaching leaders over twenty years’ leadership experience in the healthcare field. She is certified in the DISC behavioral styles, Workplace Motivators®, Emotional Quotient® and TriMetrix® Job Benchmarking and Talent Assessment System and uses a variety of other assessments for 360 feedback, cultural and team insights, and job benchmarking.

Scott Kincaid (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Information Officer at Butler University and is responsible for IT strategies and services for administrative and academic computing. Scott has held various leadership roles, including CIO, at OneAmerica, a diversified financial services company with $15 billion under managementas well as IT roles, and has taught as an adjunct professor at IU Kelley School of Business-Indy campus, University of Evansville, and Butler University.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

  • 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.1 Collect Requirements
  • 5.2 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Reboot: Successful Organization Evolution w/ special guests Scott Kincaid & Mary Cook