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Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
GIS Staffing Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers
Goals and objectives of this workshop
The hiring, development, or promotion of your staff members is the most important decision you will ever make as a GIS manager.
Your personal competency and effectiveness as a GIS manager are judged by the team that you assemble and lead, and the goals and objectives your team accomplishes.
You will be working with the team that you have assembled for many years. Your career success and the success of your team depends on your leadership and management effectiveness in this critical competency area. The people resources that you assemble and develop are the most valuable asset that your GIS has.
This two-hour online GIS Academy™ workshop provides a clear foundation and action-based structure for GIS managers to plan, assemble, motivate, and lead an effective GIS team now and into the future.
Audience
Current GIS managers, supervisors, and coordinators who want to assemble a winning GIS team.
Topics Covered
Introduction
Background to the topic
The messy world of job titles, classifications, descriptions, and duties
GIS staff competencies
Aligning your team with your goals and objectives
The Moneyball approach to building your team
Hiring your team
GIS team performance – aligning your team with your goals (and with theirs)
GIS team motivation – put yourself in the shoes of your team members – what do they want?
Case Studies
Open Discussion
Prerequisites and Recommendations
No prerequisites. Recommended for GIS managers and leadership teams interested in developing effecitive GIS teams to support the enetrprise GIS for your organization.
What You Will Receive
Two hours of instruction from Greg Babinski, who is a subject-matter expert and workshop author.
A copy of the workshop presentation
Upon completion, a signed completion certificate which will indicate the CEUs (0.2) and GISCI points (0.05) earned.
An invitation to periodic GIS management Q&A sessions with the instructor and other workshop attendees.
Advance registration is required.
For more information, contact Greg Babinski at greg@gismcs.com
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Registered attendees will receive Zoom meeting credentials before the event.
Presenter
Greg Babinski is a GIS management consultant and founder of GIS Management Consulting Services LLC, located in the greater Seattle area.
He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. Greg is a GISP – Certified GIS Professional.
Greg is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter. In 2019 Greg was awarded an Ethical GEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society. In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has spoken about GIS management across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Greg has taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor with the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration.
In his spare time Greg likes "...hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views".
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