Professional Development

The Abstracts

Survivor Guide: Leading in Difficult Times

During her 23 years of IT/Technology Industry experience, Harriet has successfully navigated through several mergers/acquisitions and numerous rounds of downsizing. Through it all she has gained tremendous insight into what makes particular individuals and leaders successful. If you are in a leadership role in the IT or Storage industry it is your responsibility to ensure your organization's success in times of change. This workshop will provide practical tips and guidance on how to make sure you and your organization are able to navigate change and thrive in difficult times. Handouts for use outside of the seminar will be provided.

Learning Objectives #1

• Understanding your Role
• Leading the Way
• Setting the Tone
• Educator
• Symbolism

Learning Objectives #2

• Supporting your staff
• How to talk with your people
• Immediate First Aid
• On-going Health Care

Trust Technology—The Key to Productive Teams and Profitable Organizations

Trust Technology is a revolutionary technology that will propel your organization to profit and productivity. Trust Technology will run on any operating system, any hardware platform, and requires no license fees or upgrades. This tutorial investigates how trust impacts the organization at all levels. Trust is the foundation of every single relationship in our lives, from the corporate CEO to the individual team member and it even includes the relationship between the products or services that the organization provides and the customers that buy or use them. This tutorial will provide the participant with an opportunity to gain a fundamental understanding of trust and how to cultivate a trust-based environment that will propel the organization to the next level.

Learning Points:

• The impact of distrust (or the lack of trust) on an organization can and does affect corporate profits.
• While there are numerous types of trust, only authentic trust can create healthy relationships that thrive and prosper.
• The foundational elements to build and maintain a trust-based organization are commitment, openness, responsibility and integrity

Developing Successful Technical Presentations

Intended Audience

IS/IT technical staff and managers, integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel
Anyone who wants to understand more about how one can create and present technical topics effectively from someone who has learned making every mistake in the book yet maintains a successful storage networking education business.

Description:

Soft Skills Development for the Technical Professional is often overlooked and underestimated in terms of the critical skills needed by technical professionals for success. Like a computer system requiring both hardware and software to provide system benefits, technical professionals need hard skills and soft skills in their Professional Development.

This seminar provides an entertaining and informative set of practical tips and tricks that technical presenters can incorporate and addresses traps that they can fall prey to. This as a practical approach to integrating commonly used tools and improving both the presentation creation and delivery of technical topics that will appeal to a large segment of SNW attendees. The ability to build clear technical messages and to communicate those messages is as important as the message itself.

Syllabus includes:

• Technical people do it backwards!
• Gathering acorns!
• What makes an “atrocious” presentation?
• Key tips and tricks for building successful presentations
• Avoiding presentation delivery traps
• Answers vs. Questions Presentations
• Creation and Deli very
• The role of the brain
• Useful Presenter Tool bag items
• And much more

What's exciting about it, why it's important, where it's going?

• It provides training aimed at technical professionals to improve their presentation creation and delivery skills
• It's given by a practicing technical professional with teaching and presentation experience
• It provides real world, personal examples of "what to do" and "what not to do"

Working Together: Expand Your Career by Expanding Your Skills

Being a brilliant technologist is unfortunately often limiting in today's interconnected world. Having skills in leadership and communications expands your potential for a career with more options for personal and financial growth. This workshop will give you an opportunity to expand your understanding of leadership as a technology professional and the interaction of technology experts with the rest of the business for mutual benefit.