Professional Development for Women and Minorities

Playing in the Sandbox: Effective Strategies for Managing Multi-Generational Teams

Playing in the Sandbox: Effective Strategies for Managing Multi-Generational Teams

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Enhance techniques for successful collaboration among teams.

Managers are charged with meeting diverse needs to maximize value and productivity. To be a competent leader and manager, your role is to create opportunities, empower others, and leverage the specialized skills of employees. One continuing challenge is managing multi-generational teams. The complexity of communication presents two core challenges. How do we increase quality and efficiency of knowledge sharing? How do we improve value? Collaboration and knowledge sharing practices are essential to solving problems, enhancing professional relationships, increasing productivity, and improving work quality. Building communities that continue to address knowledge sharing and collaboration systems is the key to remaining competitive.

At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:

1. Explore knowledge sharing techniques to stay ahead of the competition
2. Identify new and innovative ways that organizations share knowledge and collaborate
3. Explore ways to foster communities that embrace successful collaborative exchanges
4. Examine global and multi-generational knowledge sharing opportunities and challenges

MODERATOR: Reggie Grant, Director, Program Management, Lockheed Martin Corporation

PANELISTS:

LaSonya Berry, CEO, McPherson Berry

Michael Powell, Vice President, Organizational Development & Training, Powell Consulting Group

Marvy Moore, Asst V.P., Market Development, ATT

Creating Enviroments Where Women Thrive

Strategies For Creating an Environment Where Women Thrive- Angela Ivery

Angela Ivery of Lockheed Martin sits down with Career Communications Group's CEO Dr. Tyrone Taborn, and discuss her experiences working for Lockheed Martin. A company that has created an environment where women can thrive

http://blackengineer.com/artman2/publish/WOMEN_OF_COLOR_56/A-Company-Where-Women-Thrive.shtml

Monica Emerson- Bias in the Workplace

Monica Emerson, the national chairperson of the Women of Color STEM Conference, is back on the Women of Color #STEMISAGIRLTHING Webinar Series.

This episode, is the second in the nine-week series, and is focused on bias in the workplace.

Unlocking Innovation: Training for Breakthroughs

Unlocking Innovation: Training for Breakthroughs

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Improve team creativity and development.

In order to stay ahead of the competition, people and teams must be creative and innovative. The key to success is engaging in ways of thinking that inspires breakthroughs. Science and technology is about using talent and skills to create possibilities. Did you know that there are proven tools to inspire teams to have every day breakthroughs? Uncover hidden talent on your team; learn strategies that are not only fun and creative, but also just might help you create the next breakthrough.

At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:

1. Explore leadership skills that encourage creativity
2. Learn techniques and tools that support an inventive mind
3. Play games that inspire creativity and innovation

PANELISTS:

Paul Chi, Vice President, Strategic Innovation Group, Booz Allen

Terita Norton, Senior Project Leader, The Aerospace Corporation

Rodney Elmore, Solutions Architect, Health Division, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Leadership Excellence in Action: Roadmap to Inspire and Engage

Leadership Excellence in Action: Roadmap to Inspire and Engage

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Increase techniques for strengthening team leadership

The concept of leadership is talked about so much we all should be experts. We use and hear words like inspire, engage, and motivate as we seek real solutions to leadership challenges. This workshop looks at the concept of leadership in action. What behaviors, knowledge, and skills do you need to grow and develop as a leader? How will you measure success? What unique qualities, power, and influence impact people and teams? Engage with federal executives and discover ways to turn YOU into tangible leadership value. This roadmap will take you from good to great leadership.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. List sources of power needed to be influential
2. Take a self-assessment to identify personal leadership strengths
3. Explore the art of delegation and effective team leadership
4. Explore the role of feedback and performance measures
5. Create an action list with and explore plans to measure success

MODERATOR: Thomas Stanton, Director, International Business Development, Lockheed Martin Corporation

PANELISTS:

Darryl Stokes, Vice President, Electric Transmissions and Substations, BGE, an Exelon Company

Rick Wilson, Project Manager, Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Time to Take Control

In the Women of Color in STEM series, a second edition kicked off last week with Delene Sedillo, associate director of procurement at the NASA Johnson Space Center and 2015 Women of Color Award winner for Managerial Leadership in Government.

http://blackengineer.com/artman2/publish/WOMEN_OF_COLOR_56/Women-of-Color-Magazine-launches-a.shtml

The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion (Presented by Aerotek & EASi)

The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in a STEM Workplace
Presented by Aerotek & EASi

Organizations whose workplaces are heavily dominated by a STEM workforce must deliberately promote diversity and inclusion as a means to fuel continuous innovation. This must be done in the face of certain unique challenges that confront a STEM Workforce. The purpose of this seminar is to examine the unique challenges faced by organizations that hire predominantly STEM graduates and discuss some practical steps for promoting diversity and inclusion as a means generate and sustain innovation in such organization.

By the end of this seminar, attendees will be able to learn:

1. The unique diversity and inclusion challenges that confront STEM workers
2. The benefits of diversity and inclusion to any workforce
3. How to promote diversity and inclusion in a STEM workplace
4. How to promote team success using diversity and inclusion
5. How to promote diversity and inclusion in virtual environment.

MODERATOR: Sherry Matlock, Senior Quality Manager, EASi

Situational Leadership: The Shift Every Leader Must Make to be Effective

Situational Leadership: The Shift Every Leader Must Make to be Effective

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Identify personal leadership styles

What is your leadership style? Do you handle everyone and every situation the same way despite the circumstances? One of the key qualities many great leaders share is the ability to adapt. The way you manage and lead depends on the needs of the situation and the people executing the tasks. Awareness of how these elements change and flow will enable you to adapt your style and preferences to meet the needs of the vision, mission and goals. You can’t be a leader if you don’t have followers or if you lack the ability to bring your vision to fruition.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify your personal leadership style
2. Explore leadership style model to discover ways to adapt your style
3. Participate in mock leadership challenges to practices adapting and applying situational leadership strategies

MODERATOR: Rainia Washington, Vice President, Culture, Diversity and Equal Opportunity Program, Lockheed Martin Corporation

PANELISTS:

Shanna Travis, Senior Advisor to the COO, Department of Treasury

Gregory West, Chief Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dave Persson, Director of Business Operations, Aerotek

Personality, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence: Strategies and Assessments

Personality, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence: Strategies and Assessments

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Explore the benefits of emotional intelligence

Is your personality and leadership style helping or hurting you? Some studies have shown that emotional intelligence is a better predictor of success than technical or intellectual capacity. Effective leaders invest in a lifelong journey
of self- assessment and learning. Not only must they understand the business environment, challenges, and opportunities associated with growth, they also need understanding of how his/her personality, skills, experiences impact people and contribute to goal attainment. Leaders must work on capacity to manage self, have a positive outlook, and effectively recognize the needs of others. As the complexity of interactions change, more leaders are forced to use emotional intelligence to cultivate viable relationships with customers and employees. Join us as we assess varying levels of emotional intelligence and explore unique personal skills that will help you continue to develop as a leader.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Assess current level of emotional intelligence
2. Explore concepts of personality and habits
3. View scenarios and case studies to identify emotionally intelligent strategies
4. Examine the levels of emotional intelligent leadership

MODERATOR: Brigette Blair, Mission Assurance Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

PANELISTS:

Talia Fox, CEO, KUSI Vision

Ted Imes, Director, Talent Discovery, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Atherton A. Carty, Deputy Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Diversity of Thought – What Is It and How Do You Implement It as a Diversity Initiative

Diversity of Thought – What Is It and How Do You Implement It as a Diversity Initiative

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Define diversity of thought and how to implement it.

Diversity is a resource to be accessed and utilized for superior performance and innovation in part because of “more- than-one-way- thinking” which results in innovation and creates an agile workforce. Access to diversity of thought is blocked unless organizations also create an environment of fairness, non-discrimination, respect, trust and where employees feel that their voices matters. The social justice side of the diversity conversation is directly linked to the performance side, without it, Diversity of Thought is a human resource withheld. Diversity of thought allows for differing perspectives on ideas and unique insights into problems, it creates opportunities for innovation and partnerships in unexpected places where ideas will develop into newer and more forward-thinking ideas that can be implemented as successful business strategies.

At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:

1. Define Diversity of Thought Evolution
2. Examine how to create a culture and the challenges that embraces diversity of thought
3. How to measure Diversity of Thought and measure innovation results
4. Identify where companies should focus their energy to develop a Diversity of Thought program
5. List the Four Point Sequence and the Predictive model framework for Diversity of Thought

MODERATOR: Lonney Gregory, Principal Consultant, Linkage Inc.

PANELISTS:

Amanda Vallejo, Diversity & Inclusion Manager and EEO Compliance Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries

Shanna Travis, Senior Advisor to the COO, Department of Treasury