IT Academy - Upcoming events and training - July 2021

Hosted by the IT Staff Development team, Yale’s IT Academy consists of a robust speaker series, recommended online training offerings, and learning events to support the professional growth and staff development of Yale’s IT community.

New IT Academy Curriculum Web Page

The IT Academy announces the new IT Academy Curriculum web page.  As the IT Academy continues to expand its curriculum and learning opportunities a new web page has been created to search and find courses, trainings, speaker series videos, and more.  Using the new filtering capability, you can find trainings supporting our ITS Organization Priorities, including Service Quality, One IT at Yale, and Workplace of Choice.  Filters also exist for IT Competencies, IT Academy Goals, IT Roles, and by topic.  We welcome input and other trainings to add to this tool, please contact paul.gruhn@yale.edu

Upcoming Sessions 

Weekly Dynatrace Training

• Enablement Sessions - Tuesdays 11:00 a.m - noon via Zoom
• Administration Sessions - Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
• Coaching Sessions - Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. via Zoom

Organizational Effectiveness and Staff Development

Register for these trainings in TMS (VPN Required)

• Workflow Management (vILT) July 13, 20, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• InsideOutside Coaching (vILT) August 11, 8:30AM – 4:00 PM

Tech Talks

July2021 - Upcoming Events

“Organization Change Management at Yale” with Beth McKinley

Wednesday, July 7
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Join Beth McKinley, Senior Organization Change Management, who will help us prepare people for the change our various projects will bring.  On large projects at Yale, we often have an organizational change manager assigned to our project team.  However, project managers and team members often undertake this work themselves on smaller projects.

Attend this Tech Talk to learn the change management process, including looking at the change from the perspective of our stakeholders, performing a stakeholder analysis, identifying impacts, and thinking about training and communications from the stakeholder lens to ensure that your project is successful.

• Pre-register for the July 7 Tech Talk in TMS. Login to Yale’s VPN may be required.
• Join us through Zoom
• Add this event to my calendar

“Life After Yale: A Digital Retirement” with Patrick J. Lynch, Author, Illustrator, Photographer, and Artist

Wednesday, July 21
3:00—4:00 p.m.

Patrick J. Lynch is an author, illustrator, photographer, and artist. Lynch retired from Yale University after 45 years as an interactive media designer, medical illustrator, biomedical and scientific photographer, video producer, a director of media and communications departments, and a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites.

Lynch is the author or co-author of ten books published by Yale University Press, including his latest book, “A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast.”

Pat started work at Yale 49 years ago, complex media production involved rooms full of expensive equipment and many technical specialists. Now that all has collapsed down to me and my trusty iMac, a Wacom tablet, and several cameras.

His talk will mostly be about how he writes, illustrates, and photographs content for the three books he has written since “retiring” in 2016.

• Pre-register for the July 21 Tech Talk in TMS. Login to Yale’s VPN may be required.
• Join us through Zoom
• Add this event to my calendar

Café IT

July to December 2021

Upcoming Events

“Weight Management Strategies for Success” with Becky Purcell, Dietician/Health Educator, Being Well at Yale

Wednesday, July 14
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Join Becky Purcell, Dietician/Health Educator, from the Being Well at Yale team.  Beck will discuss the challenges we all face in keeping our health and weight where it needs to be.
In this session you will learn how to:

• Get on the right track with your eating habits.
• Set realistic goals for yourself that will last.
• Strategies to help you approach weight management with a more positive and productive mindset.

• Pre-register for the July 14 Cafe IT in TMS. Login to Yale’s VPN may be required.
• Join us through Zoom
• Add this event to my calendar

Other future Café IT events

“Developing an Innovator’s Mindset” with Jon Soderstrom, Managing Director of Yale Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) and a Panel of OCR Team Members
Wednesday, August 11
3:00—4:30 p.m.

“The invisibility of contemporary Native American people in society and education” with Angie Makomenaw, Community Wellness Specialist, Yale College Community Care
Wednesday, September 22
3:00—4:00 p.m.

“Zoom Fatigue is Real and Here’s How to Fix it” with Jeff Hancock, Founding Director, Stanford Social Media Lab, Stanford University
Wednesday, October 13
3:00—4:00 p.m.

“Thank you for your Service” a Café IT to honor IT staff who have served (or are serving) in the United States Military with guest speaker Tracy Crow
Wednesday, November 10
3:00—4:30 p.m.

“Thinking Strategically” with Kimbirly Moriarty, Chief Strategy Officer, Yale School of Medicine
Wednesday, December 8
3:00—4:00 p.m.

• Pre-register for all of these 2021 upcoming Café IT events in TMS. Login to Yale’s VPN may be required. 
• Add these Café IT events to my calendar.

IT Academy staff development training resources

• Check the IT calendar of events and TMS IT Staff Development pages(login through Yale’s VPN may be required) for additional details on future Tech Talks, InfoSec Chats, Café IT, and other IT events and training.
• View the ‘new’ training opportunities recently posted on the IT Academy Curriculum web page.
• A myriad of training courses and opportunities are available on Yale’s LinkedIn Learning website, and It’s Your Yale Learn and Grow Calendar.
• If you missed a past Tech Talk, InfoSec Chat, or Café IT event, most were recorded and are available either through the IT Academy Speaker Videos Microsoft Stream Channel or via the IT Staff Development (Public) Box folder.