COLLABORATE - Gartner Webinars for Week 2018.4

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2018

The Top 10 Megatrends in Analytics Presented by: Gareth Herschel EST: 10:00 a.m. | PST: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 The key trends in analytics What to consider when making choices for your analytics strategy How to identify and prioritize the right analytics trends for your organization REGISTER

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2018

AI Strategy Special Report: What You Need to Do in 2018 Presented by: Whit Andrews EST: 10:00 a.m. | PST: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 What level of adoption artificial intelligence has reached How you should prepare for artificial intelligence Examples of artificial intelligence in action REGISTER

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018

Creating Digital Value at Scale: A Gartner Special Report Presented by: Jorge Lopez, Don Scheibenreif EST: 12:00 p.m. | PST: 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 17:00 What does scale mean in digital business and how you can leverage it to create value What are the key barriers to digital scale and how do you overcome them How you can use scale accelerators, such as digital dexterity, network effect technologies, and the digital platform, to deliver breakthrough value REGISTER

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2018

Supply Chain Organization Design for a Digital Future Presented by: Ken Chadwick EST: 10:00 a.m. | PST: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 Key drivers affecting how we organize supply chain The challenges leaders must overcome in order to change Five organizational design strategies to implement successful change REGISTER

Developing a Cloud Strategy and Building an Adoption Framework Presented by: Douglas Toombs EST: 11:00 a.m. | PST: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 16:00 How to foster and develop new job roles in the era of cloud How to evaluate applications (both new and old) against service offerings from cloud providers How to plan a cloud exit strategy and deal with concerns over lock-in REGISTER

HR - Hiring in Today's Marketplace

Predictions of economic growth and increased employment opportunities in 2017, along with a large number of people looking for work, means businesses need to step up their recruitment game to find the best possible candidates.

With talk about millennials being “different” many companies are wondering just what needs to be changed in their recruitment process.

Canadian HR Reporter is offering a free webinar on June 1st - The New Face of Talent in Canada - that addresses how to effectively recruit from recent grads to recent retirees.

Everything from career sites, to employment brand, to how the application and onboarding process is laid out, affects how competently businesses are able to hire.

In this webinar participants will learn:  

• Changes in candidate expectations today vs before
• Areas of recruiting impacted by the changes
• Simple ways your company can become more attractive to job seekers of all ages.

If you have ever been asked or wondered “Why do we have to do it differently than we did for years?” this webinar will provide you with answers.

Register and learn more.

WELFARE - Developing Great Foster Programs, Webinars

Foster programs have grown and evolved over the years - beginning as an option to relieve the pressure on overflowing shelters, to an opportunity to address behaviour and training issues, to organizations that are foster-only and have no facility.

Now, fostering has become vital to the success of animal welfare and rescue organizations and an essential component of their business.

ASPCA Professional offers a variety of webinars to help organizations build and maximize their foster program.

Foster Programs: Animal Selection & Family Recruitment covers:

• Recruiting foster families
• Choosing the best animals for foster care
• Assigning animals to foster homes
• Paperwork and systems to track animals
• Scheduling foster recheck appointments
• Sending supplies to foster animals
• Retention and engagement of foster volunteers.

Part two of the series, Making Your Foster Program Thrive: Preventing Mt. Kitten, has representatives from Charleston Animal Society explain what they offer fosters including:

• Education
• Supplies
• Training and foster care manuals (sample manuals will be provided)
• Veterinary care, including spay/neuter surgery and emergency care
• Spay/neuter events, including a pre-kitten season event
• Promotions and marketing support.

Organizations that adopt through their foster homes may be interested in the Foster-based Adoptions webinar.

Since 1998, Seattle Animal Shelter has mobilized and empowered a team of foster parents to adopt animals directly from their homes.

In the webinar their experts discuss how to:

• Set up a foster program structure
• Use volunteer case managers
• Select animals for foster
• Run a foster-based adoption process.

HR - Managing Diversity in the Workplace, Webinar

With continued globalization and immigration, successfully managing diversity in the workplace is becoming more important to businesses.

Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between people in an organization.

It may sound simple, but diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, learning style, organizational function, education, background and more.

Diversity not only involves how people perceive themselves, but how they perceive others.

And these perceptions affect their interactions.

For a wide variety of employees to function effectively as an organization, human resource professionals need to deal effectively with issues such as communication, adaptability and change.

According to the HR Council of Canada, enhanced diversity and inclusion in an organization will:

• Support recruitment challenges and skills shortages
• Improve employee satisfaction and retention
• Provide better client service
• Broaden community engagement
• Foster innovation and problem-solving skills
• Promote organizational values more fully.

Doing business today means building a workplace reflective of the wider population and the global marketplace.

Canadian HR Reporter is offering a webinar - Diversity in the Workplace: Managing the Diverse Workplace of Tomorrow - on April 20th.

Laura Williams and Susan Lill, from Williams HR Consulting, will present an interactive webinar that will answer some important questions:

• What is diversity and what does it mean to Canadian organizations?
• Why does diversity matter in a workplace setting?
• What benefits do diverse workforces deliver to employers?
• What are some important pitfalls that organizations should look to avoid when fostering workplace diversity?
• What practices help organizations best manage workplace diversity?

The webinar is designed to help business prepare to strategically address both the challenges and opportunities that come with tapping the talents of an increasingly diverse group of employees.

Learn more and register online.

HEALTH - Spay/Neuter: New Research on Health and Behaviour - Webinar

When the spay/neuter movement began it was fairly simple - sterilize pets to reduce pet overpopulation and euthanasia.

Other health and behaviour benefits are touted for the surgery including a reduction in certain types of cancer and decline in problem behaviours such as aggression and wandering.

Owners were initially encouraged to have the surgery performed between six and nine months of age, until the advent of early age spay/neuter which is done as young as eight weeks old.

Now that spay/neuter surgery has become standard practice for the majority of pet owners for several decades, there’s a new body of information beginning to question the surgery and its benefits.

While the results are not conclusive - there are many other factors that need to be considered - the discussion about the pros and cons of the surgery has begun.

The Pet Professional Guild is offering a webinar - Current Spay and Neuter Research: New Insights Regarding Behavior and Health Presented by Dr. Nancy Kay - on April 6th.

This presentation costs $30 for the public and less for guild members.

It will focus on dogs, the results of some recent research and how some people’s thoughts about neutering dogs are beginning to shift.

Dr. Kay is a board certified specialist in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Recently retired from clinical practice, she worked as a specialist in private practice for 32 years.

Kay is published in several professional journals and textbooks and lectures professionally to regional and national audiences.  

Visit the Pet Professional Guild website for more information and to register.

DIGITAL - How to Avoid Social Media Marketing Mistakes

It doesn’t matter if you’re a novice at social media or have lots of experience, there’s always more to learn.

The speed at which digital media is growing and evolving makes it particularly challenging.

One way to learn is from your mistakes, but wouldn’t it be great to avoid as many as you can?

Marketo is offering a free webinar - 8 Biggest Mistakes Social Media Marketers Make and How to Avoid Them - on March 15th.

Lisa Marcyes, Sr. Social Media Marketing Manager at Marketo, will be discussing the top eight social media marketing mistakes - from strategy, to content, to metrics - and how you can avoid them.

Sign up for the seminar to learn:

• How to develop a winning social media marketing strategy
• Which social media accounts really matter
• How to identify metrics that indicate success

Another tool available to help keep your social media marketing on track is Simply Measured’s Social Attribution 101: The Beginner’s Guide.

With social attribution, you can prove how much revenue or response is driven by your social campaigns.

Download the guide to learn:

• Which attribution model fits your specific needs
• Why attribution is the answer to proving your Social ROI
• Different challenges with social attribution, and how to overcome them.

DIGITAL - App Trends, What You Need to Know

The mobile app economy was expected to grow rapidly, but not quite as quickly as it has.

Many corporations are now behind the eight ball, thinking there was more time to move into the mobile market.

A report by App Annie predicts the mobile app economy will double in size to $101 billion by 2020.

According to their 2016 Retrospective, “In 2016, the mobile market maintained strong momentum and saw significant growth in usage, downloads and revenue. Worldwide downloads exceeded 90 billion, an increase of more than 13 billion across the iOS App Store and Google Play.”

The retrospective examines the key trends driving the growth of the app economy, and takes a closer look at some of the stand-out countries, categories and apps.

Download the complimentary report to learn about:

• The emerging markets that that are growing by leaps and bounds for downloads and usage, and the factors behind their increases.
• The monetization opportunity that exists for publishers worldwide, and the countries seeing the largest gains.
• Top industries — like media and entertainment, social media, retail and retail banking — that are being transformed by mobile apps, and the trends they must embrace to stay ahead of the competition.
• How mobile gaming continues to evolve, led in 2016 by the juggernaut that is Pokémon GO.

App Annie is also offering a free webinar on Wednesday, February 22nd: 2016’s App Trends - What You Need to Know which examines the facts presented in the retrospective in detail.

App Annie analysts will answer attendees questions and talk about:

• The continued, steady growth of the app economy in 2016
• How mobile is disrupting and transforming traditional industries
• The changing landscape of mobile gaming and the prominent apps that contributed to these changes
• How to translate 2016’s findings into actionable items for your 2017 mobile strategy.

Sign up for the free webinar and/or download the report.

BUSINESS - Building Strong Teams, webinar

Every organization strives for success and a large contributor to reaching goals and achieving success is teamwork.

In today’s ever- and fast-changing world, the importance of strong teams is even greater.

But effective teamwork can be easier said than done.

According to a Forbes article: “It requires that people manage their egos, develop humility, communicate effectively, resolve conflicts and, above all, commit to one another and to a common goal.”

Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, authors of The Wisdom of Teams, studied teamwork across several companies and created the “team performance curve” which defines five stages of teamwork.

1. Working Group

The team members come together to share information but as yet there is no common purpose or performance goals that require mutual accountability. Each team member is only accountable for the work that the group has delegated to them.

2.    Pseudo-team

This team is at the bottom of the performance curve. Members may believe they are part of a team but not yet acting like one. This may be because they don’t want to take the risk of committing to a common purpose and the mutual accountability that this entails.

3.     Potential Team

At this level the team members are moving towards a common goal and approach to achieving it. They are working towards a higher level of performance and must agree on mutual accountability.

4.    Real Team

In this type of team a small group of people share a common purpose and approach. They have complementary skills and share accountability for results.

5.    High Performing Team

The difference between a real team and a high performing team is the relationships between the team members. High performance results from the members being committed to one another’s personal growth and development.

So how do you optimize your organization for teamwork?

A free webinar by Queen’s University may have some answers.

Brenda Barker Scott, co-author of Building Smart Teams is presenting Designing Collaborative Workplaces on February 28th.

The webinar will cover:

• the value of shaping work as a collaborative instead of a solo task
• the art of forming co-evolving teams and scoping who should be involved and how
• a platform of supportive practices, tools, principles and technologies to help teams quickly become productive
• the role of leadership in setting the outcomes, pace and tempo of collaborative work, as well as coaching collaborative performance
• approaches that support teams to learn together and innovate
• the elements of a foundational social fabric for collaboration.

Sign up for the free webinar.