GIS Staffing Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers

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.

Instructor

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. In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has been invited to speak about GIS management across North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Between 1998 and the end of 2021 he served as GIS Manager, GIS Finance Manager and GIS Marketing & Business Development Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle. Before that he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland. Greg also taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor at the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration.

Greg Babinski is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. Under Greg’s leadership the GIS Management Institute helped develop the GIS Capability Maturity Model, Geospatial Management Competency Model, and the GIS Performance Metrics Model. Greg also helped pioneer an objective GIS ROI methodology.

In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter. He has published articles in the Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, as well as chapters in books about GIS ROI and GIS for counties best practices. In 2019 Greg was awarded an EthicalGEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society.

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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