The Change Maestro’s Webinar Series consists of a series of 45-minute to 1 hour webinars (using the HRCI Model as a basis – 45-minute instruction and 15-minutes Q&A) available individually. Email us at dan@dbaiconsulting.com for more information or You can register to take these virtually at https://tls-continuum-learning-center.thinkific.com/courses/
Human Resource Management
The Big Data Trap: Why HR Needs more than Just Numbers - HR is confronted with a two-sided coin. Every time John Smith interviews a candidate, and the organization hires them, the candidate does not stay. Management is screaming what is causing this to happen. Do we blame John Smith? Do we blame the work environment? As HR professionals we are more concerned with the why things happen rather than when. The BIg Data Trap looks at the differences between the when question and the why question. The webinar also looks at an alternative way to answer the questions with the same metrics but in easier terms to understand the needs of the organization.
From Conflict to Connection: Harnessing the Power of Generational Diversity - There is a tempest in a teapot brewing. We all have our ideas as to what your organization should look like. That is view is dependent on your individual mindset. From Conflict to Connection webinar looks at the different views of the workplace from the focus of the five generations. It makes the argument that in the end despite their differing views they all want the same thing in the end – a valued and meaningful organization.
Human Capital Assets: The Engine Driving Organizational Success: - The global workplace has evolved over time, unlike everything else in our world, but many corporations have an outdated view of the role of their human capital assets. This webinar looks the evolution and how the changes directly affect your operations. These changes bring about new paradigms and strategies that influence how and where we work.
Moving the Needle: Why Strategic HR Matters More than Ever - Human Capital Management is faced with a major dilemma. As an HR professional you can either be in HR or at HR depending on your focus within the organization. Your CEO demands that you speak the language of business in order for you to earn a seat at the table. You are stuck in the NCR transactional HR model. In the course of this webinar we will look at both views and their characteristics. The webinar also discusses five strategies which will transform your Human Capital Management function.
Empowering Excellence: The Transformative Impact of Employee Ownership - Based on the book Employee Empowerment: The Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management, released by Productivity Press in 2020, this webinar introduces the TLS Continuum Empowerment Model which strives to increase the empowerment levels within an organization through the interaction between management, the cross-functional teams and the individual human capital assets. The webinar looks at the roles that each partner plays in the effort to sustain process improvement within the workplace.
Turning Discord into Discovery: The Power of Conflict in Finding Solutions - Every organization is confronted with conflicts in their daily operations. This webinar looks at the pros and cons of conflict in the workplace and then applies the nature of conflict directly to the question of how conflict functions in the continuous process improvement effort. It specifically looks at the benefits of conflict when arriving at problem solutions.
Workplace Investigation 101: Essential Skills Every HR Professional Needs - Sooner or later every organization is going to receive a complaint about some behavior, action, process etc. that effects their organization. Workplace Investigations 101 looks at the who, what, why, when and how to deal with the need for an investigation and the right way to handle these situations. Registration includes a template for the final investigation report.
Workplace Investigations Evidence: Separating Truth from Assumptions - Presented as a sequel to Workplace Investigation 101, this 1-hour webinar explores the rules of evidence and the different types of evidence available to you as well as looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each evidence type
Change Management
Perception or Reality? Decoding the Lens that Covers our World -This webinar considers the dilemma posed by us not seeing the world as it is but as we are. There are two views of the business world- one as the organization looking in a mirror and the other looking out the window at how our customers see us. The webinar looks at the differences between the two views. Based on the book Reality, Perception and your workplace culture, released by Productivity Press in 2019.
Empowering Excellence: The Transformative Impact of Employee Ownership - Based on the book Employee Empowerment: The Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management, released by Productivity Press in 2020, this webinar introduces the TLS Continuum Empowerment Model which strives to increase the empowerment levels within an organization through the interaction between management, the cross-functional teams and the individual human capital assets. The webinar looks at the roles that each partner plays in the effort to sustain process improvement within the workplace.
Catalysts of Change: Empowering Organizations through Results-Driven Solutions This webinar will look at the definition of a process along with the role that processes play n our organizational operations. Along with the discussion of what a process is, you will also be presented with the various tools that you can utilize to make changes to your processes in implementing process improvement.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering and Eradicating Organizational Inefficiencies for Peak Performance - Every organization is comprised of a collection of processes that on occasion falter, primarily because the process had a hiccup. A hiccup because we did not look for it nor did we take the time to counter it before it became a problem. This webinar looks at the presence of non-value-added activities which draw away from the organization and its customers. Further it presents ways to eliminate those system constraints to increase the efficiencies of the organization
Introduction to Continuous Process Improvement: The Path to Operational Excellence- This 90-minute webinar explores the basics of continuous process improvement from defining what continuous process improvement is to the principles of the various improvement tools to the continuous process improvement ecosystem
Strategic Thinking Unleashed: Transform Your Mindset, Transform Your Results - Close your eyes. Wait a minute and now open them. The world is not the one you saw a few minutes ago. The world now demands that you foresee these changes before they happen. This requires you to move from being the organizational fireman to the organizational strategic thinker with a brand-new characteristics of your thought process. This webinar will show you the path to make that transition
Power of the Mind - The Role of Brainstorming in Process Improvement - Design Thinking tells us that we should look at What if? The Improvement Kata from the Toyota Production System tells us that we need to consider the target conditions or challenges between where are and where we want to be. To make those choices, we need ideas. Not ones just pulled from a hat but generated by genuine open dialogue. Part of that dialogue is the utilization of the brainstorming tool. This 60-minute webinar looks at how to effectively create brainstorming situations in your organization to develop numerous responses to a problem and then select the best one for the situation at hand. Includes hyperlinks to download free templates to utilize the tools today,
Project Management
Project Essentials: Visualzing Success with the Ishikawa (Fishbone) Diagram - Part of Karou Ishikawa’s Seven Tools of Quality, it is used specifically to identify the causes of problems facing an organization and to use the brainstorming tool to discover solutions to those problems. This webinar explores the seven tools with an emphasis on how to construct a fishbone diagram for your organization.
Key to Process Excellence : Driving Continuous Process Improvement and Business Impact - This webinar presents a detailed look at continuous improvement process and the TLS Continuum Process Improvement Matrix.
Project Essentials: The Project Charter - Your Blueprint for Success - This 1-hour webinar explore how to construct a project charter for each project you are involved with. It looks at each section of the form and also provides examples of other project charter contents.
The Art of Project Selection: Unlocking Strategic Success One Project at a Time- The selection of the correct project to resolve your organizational problems is not a science it is an art. This 1-hour webinar looks at the criteria that can be used to select the types of projects that can be utilized. It also introduces you to the Daniel Bloom & Associates, Inc. created 10 Commandments of Project Selection.
Project Essentials: Agile Management- Driving Flexibility and Fast Results – Based on our TLS Continuum Toolbox Newsletter by the same title, this webinar explores the history, core principles values, and strategies to move your organization in the direction of rapid process improvement in this age of a volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity in the workplace. The webinar also discusses strategies to introduce agile management into your organization.
Project Essentials: Unlocking Project Success through Effective Team Collaboration – This one hour webinar looks at what constitutes a cross-functional team, the roles the team members play and how to create a cross-functional team
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