Patrick Gray: IT Talent Crunch
11:30AM on Tue, Aug 19, 2008
Hancock Askew & Co. Learning Center, 2nd Floor
CC and ITPA
$FREE
Presented by:
CC’s IT Talent Development & Retention Focus Group
11:30 lunch followed by 12:00 presentation
FREE LUNCH PROVIDED
You MUST Register to attend: Please sign up by Thursday August 14, 2008
By Email: Crystal or Jamie
ccraven@hancockaskew.com or jwolf@thecreativecoast.org
By Phone: 912-571-2791 or 912-704-0746
About the Presentation
The pace of technological change is likely to increase rather than decrease. Challenge your staff to acquire and employ new skills, both technical and non-technical. Seek input from your people and push them to interact with colleagues outside IT as peers. Perhaps most important, develop a culture that rewards excellence. Spend time evaluating your people and providing feedback and letting them know where they stand. Offering opportunity and focusing on an ability to learn is hard work but presents an IT career as a place where high performers can grow and excel. This process is going to take time and effort but will deliver an amazingly capable staff that will excel.
About the Speaker
Patrick Gray is the founder and President of the Prevoyance Group, located outside Charlotte, NC. Prevoyance Group focuses on providing IT Strategy consulting, which covers the "softer side" of IT, focusing on issues such as organizational structure, CIO/C-suite relationships and helping businesses make sense of technology trends. Past clients include CA, Gillette, Nissan, OfficeMax, Pitney Bowes, SAP and several other Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Always exploring new ways to generate more value from IT, Patrick has published a multitude of articles and has been quoted numerous times in major publications such as the New York Times, CIO Magazine, and InfoWorld, and several in-flight magazines that have graced seatback pockets around the world. Patrick recently celebrated the publication of his first book: Breakthrough IT: Supercharging Organizational Growth Through Technology, published by John Wiley & Sons. Also active outside the consulting world, Patrick is also a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Connected Minds, an organization dedicated to capturing often-neglected perspectives of historical events.
Directions:
google maps
100 Riverview Drive, Savannah, GA
Turn into 100 Riverview Drive, just before park (large sign that says Hancock Askew.) Enter thru wrought iron gates. Parking is available and free.
