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The 7 Habits for Managers: Essential Skills and Tools for Leading Teams National surveys* of thousands of employees disclosed that while many people work hard, they are worried about their lack of effectiveness. Survey results indicate: 1. Less than 50% of your team’s time is spent on the company’s most important objectives2. Only 14% of employees...

Without strong and effective relationships in business, today’s fast-paced, team-based and global work environments can’t function with peak efficiency. Maximum results will not be achieved. Emotional Intelligence (EI) competencies are at the heart of effective workplace relationships and productivity. Today we use EI as an integrated set of skills...

This hands-on Introduction to Big Data training provides a unique approach to help you act on data for real business gain. The focus is not what a tool can do, but what you can do with the output from the tool. Gain the skills you need to store, manage, process, and analyze massive amounts of unstructured data to create an appropriate data lake. You...

Change is the norm. You are responsible for your own productivity and that of your staff. Your day-to-day dealings may now include colleagues, your boss, and senior management who all have different interests and viewpoints. This seminar will equip you with proven supervisory techniques that you can put into action immediately. The skills savvy...

No matter how capable a person you are, you will not have sustained and lasting success unless you are able to effectively lead yourself, influence, engage, and collaborate with others—and continuously improve and renew your capabilities. The seven habits of highly effective people are at the heart of team, organizational, and personal effectiveness....

Why does emotional intelligence (EI) matter? Because at the core of every outstanding leader are the abilities to connect, achieve, inspire and act with resilience. Now you can learn to apply the best practices of an emotionally intelligent leader and give yourself a winning edge. EI helps you create and sustain unique opportunities and more impactful...

Learn to transform your mindset to manage and embrace change Adjusting and re-adjusting to a business environment that is constantly changing can feel like a never-ending struggle. Without specific skills to adapt, your productivity, morale and business results can be adversely impacted. You first need to recognize your responses to your environment—and...

The very best times to capture the animals at the National Zoo in your camera are the morning hours when they come out of their cages and dens. Pet and wildlife photographer Julie Gould, who has spent years photographing animals of all types in and out of zoos, leads this morning trek to all the best photo ops. While not guaranteed, it is possible...

Responding to Conflict: Strategies for Improved Communication Conflict in business is all too familiar—particularly under increased business pressures. Still, most of us lack basic conflict management skills. Rather than react to conflict on a purely emotional level, you can learn how to manage disputes and disagreements in a positive manner, or...

The IT4IT™ Reference Architecture is a vendor-neutral open standard Reference Architecture and value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. IT departments run on IT4IT™ principles and framework reap large rewards in cost savings and automation.  The IT4IT™ Reference Architecture leverages standardized activities, data...

During this two-day course, attendees will gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps. They will discuss the five competencies needed to become a Lean Enterprise....

There’s no shortage of ways to communicate quickly in the Digital Age. But what happens face-to-face when you need to find the right words and communicate them in the right way? Who Should Attend Early career professionals or anyone interested in enhancing their fundamental verbal communication skills, including coordinators, specialists, analysts,...

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is an architecture framework for the United States Department of Defense that provides structure for a specific stakeholder concern through viewpoints organized by various views. DoDAF defines a set of views that act as mechanisms for visualizing, understanding, and assimilating the broad scope...

The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, is a proven, sustainable Enterprise Architecture framework that facilitates the delivery of effective business innovation. The TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition defines a modular framework ideally suited to the support of strategic planning of an organizations’ assets and other key elements that are essential to enterprise...