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Peter de Jager is a provocative Speaker, Writer and Consultant. His primary focus is on how we manage change, technology and the future.
In addition to speaking at conferences worldwide, he's also written monthly columns for Municipal World and Computing Canada.
His goal is always to question what we think is so, and in so doing perhaps open up new opportunities.
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cost is at the very least, an e-mail providing a comment or two on the ideas presented or a
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TRIZ, Patterns
and Metaphors
Recording
available.
There's a body of Problem Solving knowledge called 'TRIZ', that is almost unknown in most circles. It's unknown even to those who are familiar with people/methodologies like Kepner-Tregoe, Osborne & Parnes, Wicklegren and Polya. Here I speak with some experience because even though I studied PS in University I was mostly oblivious to TRIZ until fairly recently.
While I am by no means an expert in TRIZ, I barely qualify as a novice... I know enough to introduce others to what it's about and why it might be the most undervalued way of thinking about the world and the problems we encounter.
In a Nutshell? TRIZ is the means by which we can stop re-inventing the Wheel.
In this session I'll explore a very small subset of TRIZ concepts. The thinking behind TRIZ and some personal opinions on why it isn't currently the next 'big thing'.
If you already know something about TRIZ? Attend to ensure I'm not leading the world astray! I don't think I'll be doing that - but that's the problem with ignorance.
If you've never heard of TRIZ AND if you solve problems as a part of your life? Then attend so that I can introduce you to a new world of problem solving strategies.
And if neither of the above are good enough reasons? Then attend just because I rarely(?) waste your time.
My Guarantee? To not waste your time. To offer some ideas that you can put to work tomorrow.
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Mistakes: Making, Avoiding and Dealing with Them.
Available
for downloading
If you're human - you make mistakes... and you likely have a great deal of difficulty admitting to those mistakes.
In this session we'll take a look at several different categories of mistakes, and what we might be able to do to avoid some of them. We won't suffer under the delusion that there is a silver bullet that will allow us to avoid all mistakes - that might perhaps be the biggest mistake we could make in this type of presentation.
The more useful portion of the discussion will revolve around how we deal with mistakes once we make them... and we will make them - so we'll have lots of opportunity to practice any advice we might stumble across.
Now... when you sign up for this session, you'll have an opportunity to contribute to the discussion via a handful of questions. Your answers are anonymous in that no names will be attached to your input if I use your thoughts in the presentation.
If the questions asked weren't enough to contain all your thoughts on this? Send more info to me at pdejager@technobility.com --- you KNOW I like sifting through this type of input, so please take the time to inundate me with your gaffes and errors. EVEN if you won't be attending the webinar on Dec 11th but instead listen to it later... please provide input to the process.
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The Art of the Pitch: 10 Tips for selling your idea to Management
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for downloading
You've spent days, weeks or months developing your great idea and are ready to take it to senior management.
Chances are, you're so close to it you haven't asked yourself ten basic questions that can make the difference between failure and success.
Veteran journalist and marketing writer Bob Scheier offers ten quick tips for making sure your idea is as clear, compelling and brilliant to the listener as it is to you.
I'm pleased to welcome Bob Scheier as our second webinar guest. Bob is a veteran information technology journalist and marketing writer. A former senior writer and editor for PCWeek (now eWeek) and Computerworld, since 2000 he has produced marketing collateral for top IT providers including Microsoft, EMC, AT&T and Symantec. In addition to continuing to write for top IT trade publications, he blogs on marketing and technology trends.
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Just Trust Me!
Recording Available:
What is 'Trust'? Why should 'Trust' be a topic of interest to us as managers or as employees? What do we even mean when we talk about 'Trust'? What can we do to build it... and how do we erode it?
I think those are good questions to get us started - but are they enough to get anyone to devote an hour of their time to listening to a webinar on 'Trust'?
That all depends on whether or not you 'Trust' me to deliver something of value.
And that self referential loop is what we're going to build upon. If you decide to register for this session? Then your responses to some of the questions during the registration process will shape the
conversation/direction of the webinar. In other words - we will end up exploring how we use Trust to make decisions.
Will it be a good use of your time? You'll just have to Trust me...
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A
Webinar on Webinars
Recording Available
This
mini-tutorial on producing a webinar is a response to a query on the ASAE
listserves.
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WMV format
Mind,
Management and Misdemeanors
Recording Available
The webinar in August was a special event. I decided to bring on a Guest
Speaker, Jamie O'Boyle from
Cultural Studies and Analysis. Enjoy.
Over 90% of our thinking occurs below our conscious threshold. That means that “facts” are what we use to validate decisions that we have already made at an unconscious level.
Jamie O'Boyle, an expert in human thinking processes, values, and behavior, will analyze the “black box” of the human mind on projects – The unconscious assumptions, cognitive defaults, and cultural biases that influences how a group makes decisions, for better and for worse.
This process begins by comparing the ideal project with the way project implementation actually works in real time and space—and, most important of all, how the project operates inside the brain.
Human factors include loss aversion, how people project the future (poorly), how we estimate probabilities, hierarchy, estimating value, and other unconscious processes that affect our decision-making without us being aware of it.
The best-planned project can fail unless it appreciates and incorporates a working knowledge of the way people actually think about and act to realize any project, large or small. Understanding human factors is essential. Anything people have been doing for the past 35,000 years isn’t going to change anytime soon.
This short presentation (50 min) was sponsored by Peter de Jager's ongoing webinar series.
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for the WMV format... and here
for MP4 Format (**Note. The MP4 format starts out 'wonky'... but does get
better after about 20 seconds of blank screen. I have no idea why this one
is different from all the other ones.)
Time Management: For those who don't have any!
Recording available
We are each given a score and four hours each day - with the exception of frequent fliers who sometimes get more, and sometimes get less depending on whether they're flying East or West.
It's a rare individual who has more time than they need. Most of us would willingly buy more time if such a thing were possible, but we can't... so? How do we use what we have as efficiently as possible?
Yes, this session will cover some of the more obvious solutions, but as always I hope to bring some lesser used strategies and tactics to the discussion.
Some that immediately come to mind? The Virtue of Laziness, Leverage, Drastic measures, Pretend you were to die tomorrow!, a Stoic approach, some simple arithmetic and of course... some surprises.
So? If you can find the time? (If you can't then it obvious you really should...) Join us on June 30th
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Seven
Simple Strategies for Solving Any Problem
We all Solve Problems on a daily basis - in fact, if it wasn't for problems to solve - most of us wouldn't have jobs. But how good are we at solving problems? Based upon my experience, most of us tend to jump into a problem with both feet and seldom do much thinking or analysis before we start wrestling a problem to the ground.
In this session we looked at some very simple, yet powerful ways, to approach a problem.
We tried to provide a few ways to sneak up on a solution, rather than charging at it. In short? How to think differently once you discover the old ways aren't working!
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Creating Change - without Authority and only Influence
While we often don't have any authority or power to initiate a Change, we
always have influence. Regardless of where we sit in the power structure,
it is possible to become a driving force for Change. It's not easy, it
might cost us more than we are willing to pay, but making Change happen is
always an option. All you have to have is a passion for the needed Change
and a willingness to make an effort, sometimes a supreme effort, to make
that Change a reality. This session will draw on my experience, your
stories, proven techniques, guerilla tactics and of course - some
subversive ideas... in short? A collection of ideas that will either get
you fired... or possibly result in the Change you're passionate
about.
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Lost
or Losing your Job
Of all the Changes we experience in the workplace, job loss is the most devastating. The
Change involved in implementing a company wide ERP system, pales next to the harsh reality of Job loss.
This is not a motivational rah! rah! talk. The reality is that your employment status will be the same after, as it was before, you listen to this
webinar. What I offer instead of
clichés and platitudes are some insights into how we respond to these events, and how we might better
deal with the turmoil going on between our ears. In other words? This webinar
is not be about finding employment, but about dealing with the chaos inside so that you're better able to focus on the task that you're really interested in... finding employment.
If you know someone who might benefit from this presentation? Please help
them find this page.
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Creating
Good and Bad Presentations.
Have you ever sat through a good presentation? How about a Bad one? One
where you shake your watch in disbelief saying to yourself "It MUST
be broken... time cannot be moving this slowly, or painfully!" - In
this session... yes... we'll cover the basics ie. Know your material, use
of humor, Use of Threes - but we'll also focus on how presentations can go
wrong... and some of the subtleties of communicating from the stage AND in
casual conversation.
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The
Building Blocks of Resistance
We don't resist Change as much as we resist being Changed... We like to
have a say in what Changes we embrace - and for good reason - this
mini-presentation will explore a dozen or so aspects of Change that
motivate resistance - such as risk, ambiguity, fear etc. as well as how
those reasons make themselves known and more importantly what we, as Change
Agents, need to do to minimize their effects.
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for MP4 Format
So?
You're a Change Agent - How's that working out for you?
The title 'Change Agent' is an embedded part of the
Change Management lexicon. What does it mean to be a 'Change Agent'? What
is our role? Who are (or what are) we responsible to? What are the
challenges? Pitfalls? Bear traps - in our path? How do we (can we?) avoid
them? If you're interested in a different perspective all this all too
commonly used term... then To access this webinar - link
here
for the WMV format... and here
for MP4 Format
On Predicting the Future
-- November 2008 (45 minutes of your time)
Have you ever
wondered why it's so difficult to predict the future? Aside from all the
obvious reasons?
In this session, partly tongue in cheek - but mostly an honest look at how
we fail, and how we succeed at predicting what might happen - I'll
offer a few ideas, a few musings, some real life examples, some observable
patterns in how we look at what might be, and finally a few lessons to
take away and apply to our thinking.
My goal is to poke fun at ourselves and arrive at a few ways to
look at the future that will make 'predicting' less embarrassing and more
useful.
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for MP4 Format
7 Ways to Communicate a Change
- October 2008
Ask anyone what is involved in the successful implementation
of a Change and
they'll respond... Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
- but ask most
managers what they should communicate, or how they should
Communicate,
and you'll draw a blank stare. In this webinar - we'll list
some good, and some
oh so bad ways to communicate a Change.
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Out
Out de Box - September 2008
An exploration of the Creative
process. - MS Quicktime Movie - 46 minutes
This is the first attempt at using the GoToWebinar
service. Looks like I'll be staying with this for a while.
To access this webinar - link here
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for MP4 Format
Problem
Solving - August 2008
The rudiments of solving problems -
Sound file - 45 minutes
First webinar attempt - sound quality is not the best - to be honest? It's
terrible.
You'll need to link here
to follow along with the presentation - ignore the instructions I give in
the presentation. (This is the reason I went to the application I used
above)
Where
is Technology Taking us?
A Change Management presentation on how a new Technology will impact your
organization
Change
Management Overview
A general overview of Change
Management - sound file - about 45 minutes
Presenting for PMI - Project Management Institute - Sound quality is
'okay'
Peter
de Jager/Change Management Interview
A very good interview by George
Torok - sound file - about 30 minutes
Change
Chronicles #1
First part of a planned 'Podcast'
that have replaced with the more interactive Webinar idea. - sound
file - about 25 minutes
Change
Chronicles #2
Last part of a planned 'Podcast'
that I have replaced with the more interactive Webinar idea. - sound file
- about 25 minutes
I Asked
for Apple Pie (MP3)
A little 90 second Keynote on Customer Service
These are
called PowerPlugs
Rejection
Letters
A little 90 second Keynote on the value of
rejection Letters
Creativity
is all around us
A little 90 second Keynote of Creativity
The
Fight, or Flight of the Butterflies (MP3)
A little 90 second Keynote on Stress
Newsflash:
Change Hurts (MP3)
A little 90 second Keynote on Change
The World is Changing Faster
(MP3)
A little 90 second Keynote on Change
Video
Demo
This is a short video clip of me presenting on
Change Management
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