Explore an interactive session where you will become aware of how impactful your mindset is. Learn how to increase the productivity of your teams without spending a dime.  Seek insights that you can apply to unleash your creativity, and in turn unleash the creativity of your organization. Investigate practical techniques that can be easily applied that will shape your attitude and improve your performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the impact from various mindsets
• Improve personal attitude
• Increase productivity of self and teams
• Build cohesive teams
• Overcome emotional hijacks
• Unleash personal creativity

Leadership is something that needs to develop.  Even with natural ability, leadership requires work.  Leadership isn’t easy!    Great leaders strive to understand themselves, their environment and those they lead. To develop your leadership skills, you need a plan; a strategy!  No matter what role you play in your organization, having a Personal Leadership Strategy that is actionable and achievable will benefit you!

In this session, Heather and Michelle will lead you through the development of a Personal Leadership Strategy from the perspective of an experienced and anew leader. Using real-world examples and tools, you will create your own personal leadership inventory! This will enable you to create  personal and team strategies to propel you and your team forward.  Strategies will incorporate self-promotion and team goals. By the end of this session you will have a personal leadership strategy roadmap to build your own strategy right away.   Join us if you are ready to take a chance to make a change to be a future ready leader!

Learning How To:

• Define personal leadership
• Evaluate leadership skill
• Create a leadership strategy

Feedback is essential at every level of the enterprise, but most people cringe at the thought of giving negative feedback. We’re conditioned from childhood not to say anything if it isn’t “nice”. As a result, we miss the opportunity to provide clear, meaningful feedback that can change relationships and outcomes. Instead, we suffer in silence or we dance around the topic leaving the receiver dazed and confused and everyone’s energy zapped. Let’s get rid of the old approaches like sandwiching the negative between two positives- you’ll just end up with a watered-down version of your truth. Let’s learn to say what we mean so we get what we want. The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your dialog but most of us don’t have the confidence or tools to communicate this directly. If you are an Agile team member looking to improve the retrospective, a manager looking to provide better feedback to your team or if you want meaningful feedback that empowers you to improve your own performance, this session is for you.

Learning Objectives:

• Give direct feedback that gets results
• Provide feedback in 5 minutes or less
• Elicit feedback that can inspire you to do great work
• Techniques to build your confidence

Over 400 analysts support nearly 200 Agile/Lean teams delivering software for Nationwide.  Our learning culture is anchoring in standard work monitored by maturity models that gauge impact on high quality software delivery.  Learning paths create an easy to follow framework to increase practical experience in specific technology domains and delivery practices.  Partnerships with Duke and George Washington University enable certification programs that foster breadth and depth of skill set development.  Local community college partnerships support ongoing reskilling as the pace of change quickens in our IT landscape.  Career development is a focus for people leaders in partnership with associates.  We’ve scaled our learning culture so that new and an tenured associates continue to learn and grow – you can too!

Learning Objectives:

• Standardize work processes using guardrails
• Identify major technology and practice gaps
• Determine & scale community learning needs

Jobs are disappearing. Industries are struggling. Businesses are facing unprecedent forces. Some leaders are painting a picture of crisis. Many business analysis professionals are helping corporations to transform. The truth is that the Business Analysis profession itself is not immune to these global forces. Most individuals must go through transformative change to thrive now and in the future. It is no longer adequate to respond or adapt. Relying on known techniques, tools and templates is simply not enough. We must dig deeper, much deeper. In every crisis lies the seed of opportunity. Join us to uncover what you can do now to lead in the age of AI, robotics and the internet of things and position yourself for long term success.

Learning Objectives:

• What is ‘deep’ business analysis and why it is imperative in business today
• What are the key ingredients to ‘deep’ business analysis
• How to lead yourself and your business through the age of AI, robotics and the IofT