How can stronger IT-business relationships benefit your work, your organization, and the wider world? Drawing on 30 years of IT experience, including at the School of Medicine, we’ll use anonymized case studies and a visual “string map” to illustrate how focusing on relationships can save time and cut costs. You’ll learn actionable strategies to enhance collaboration, improve efficiency, and foster innovation. We’ll also connect these improvements to the Wisconsin Idea, showcasing the broader impact of effective IT partnerships.
Tag: Personal/Professional Development
Improving Your Skills as a Technology Instructor
So you’ve got the tech skills down, but now you need to help others learn it too? This session is for you! We’ll explore practical tips and tricks to make your training sessions and presentations shine. We’ll also crowd-source successful strategies to empower you to become a more confident and effective presenter.
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Continuing the Conversation: IT Support Symposium Virtual Meet-Up
Did you attend the IT Support Symposium on April 16th? Were you unable to attend this year? We are hosting a virtual session for folks who attended as well as folks who didn’t to connect and talk about the event. We’ll share a review of the event and spend time meeting new people or reconnecting with people who met at the event.
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Take the Next Step in Your Career with UW-Women in IT
Discover the varied paths your career can take, whether it’s growing into leadership, exploring new roles, taking a step back or simply finding work-life balance. Hear real stories from colleagues in IT who set different courses to navigate these waters.
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Unlock Your Creative Thinking
Join us to learn from A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech about overcoming mental blocks to utilize creative thinking skills in your daily worklife.
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Meet the Wisconsin Cyber Response Team
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Learn about CRT’s Wisconsin public sector outreach, networking, training, intel and other opportunities that CRT provides to its members. Here from UW–Madison employees who are current CRT members and the benefit it’s brought to their teams.
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Meet IT Connects
Alumni Lounge
Learn about the many groups in IT Connects. Each group will give a flash talk and then there will be an opportunity to learn more about individual groups and talk with current members.
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Planned Obsolescence: Turning a Technology Fallacy into a Leadership Strategy
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Planned obsolescence is a long-held belief that technologies are designed to fail to create a lasting need for consumers to buy a new model. Just as naturally as technology falling out of sync with modern needs, it is natural that people move on to other opportunities. Leaders must prepare for that inevitability, creating structures that enable people to seek their next steps without unintentionally creating systems that collapse when they do. This session will discuss practical approaches to collaboration, documentation, delegation, and coaching that keep the work moving forward—regardless of staffing changes, budget challenges, or new leadership priorities.