WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
March 09, 2020

PACENation announced today the featured speakers for the 2020 PACENation Summit, the national event dedicated to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE). PACE is a voluntary financing option that enables property owners to make critical energy, water and resilience upgrades to their homes and businesses.

The Summit will be held in Columbus, OH from March 30-April 1, and will feature over 25 sessions and collaborative workshops with over 90 expert speakers, including capital providers, state and federal policy makers, commercial property owners and representatives from the largest PACE markets across the country. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in multiple networking receptions, including a She-PACE reception for women working in PACE, an offsite reception sponsored by Bricker & Eckler, a live PACE project tour, and more. To see the full agenda and learn more about the Summit, visit https://pacenation.org/events.

Featured Speakers:

Yaphett El-Amin is the Executive Director of MOKAN Construction Contractors Assistance Center and President of Efficacy Consulting and Development. A former Missouri state legislator, Yaphett has more than 20 years’ experience in the construction industry, specializing in minority business support and workforce development. Over the past 8 years, Yaphett has also built more than 200 affordable housing units for seniors and working families directly in urban communities.                     

W. Craig Fugate served as President Barack Obama’s FEMA Administrator from May 2009 to January 2017. Previously, he served as Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Emergency Management Director from 2001-2009. Fugate led FEMA through multiple record-breaking disaster years and oversaw the Federal Government’s response to major events such as the Joplin and Moore Tornadoes, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Matthew, and the 2016 Louisiana flooding.                    

Lonnie Hendry, Jr. is Vice President of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) product management with Trepp, LLC with a specialization in valuation, appraisals and financial analysis. With a background spanning 16 years in the commercial real estate industry, he is charged with creating and enhancing Trepp’s CRE products and client solutions.  His experience includes conventional multifamily property management and development, commercial and residential leasing, brokerage and appraisal.                     

Glenn Prickett is Founder and Principal of Rock Creek Strategies, LLC. Glenn launched Rock Creek Strategies in 2019, after three decades of leadership in global development, corporate sustainability, and environmental, natural resource, and climate change policy and practice.                    

For more information and to register for the event, visit http://pacenation.org/events.

PACENation is the national nonprofit association that works to expand access to PACE financing. Our members enable millions of American property owners to increase the efficiency and resiliency of their homes and businesses with PACE. To learn more and join PACENation, visit http://pacenation.org.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (PRWEB)
March 09, 2020

Companies need leaders. Promoting high performing persons from within the organization, while common practice across many different industries, isn’t necessarily setting new leaders up for success. To that end, Dale Carnegie of Northern and Central Alabama is delivering two new leadership programs designed to develop emerging leaders while setting the teams within the organization up for success. Talk of Alabama’s Nicole Allshouse spoke with President of Northern and Central Alabama, Nancy Covert, recently to learn more about these new leadership offerings.

Dale Carnegie has recently started delivering 2 new Leadership Programs to address the ever-changing training needs of organizations. Based on the fact that the role leaders play in organizational success is vitally important, these two new programs are addressing the lack of guidance that exists when high performing team members find themselves in a new leadership role; effectively guiding leaders to achieve goals, drive results, and align their teams.

Without guidance, new leaders are left to figure it out for themselves, or fail. Dale Carnegie’s leadership training can speed up the transformation and help to ensure success. The Dale Carnegie Course is a solid foundation for those looking to lead themselves by focusing on their self-confidence and interpersonal skills. The Dale Carnegie Leadership Curriculum addresses additional leadership needs which focus on developing the competencies specific to new and experienced leaders

Dale Carnegie believes in bringing out the greatness in others, and that leadership is about working through/with other people—in trusting and dynamic relationships that inspire, engage, and align efforts—to realize desired organizational outcomes. The successful leader recognizes that leadership is not about doing the work or taking credit for it, but enabling and inspiring others to be successful. While sometimes the leadership role comes with opportunities to dictate, more often it’s about gaining buy-in and commitment through exercising influence patiently and with skill. That means leadership boils down to achieving results through other people.

Dale Carnegie of Central and North Alabama President, Nancy Covert explains, “While this may sound simple, it requires engaging many people or teams, managing competing priorities, providing compelling direction, and trying to figure out how to achieve results without unlimited resources.” Doing this requires that leaders role model essential competencies and apply principles, tools, and processes that bring out the best in people. By doing so, key leadership outcomes emerge which are critical for achieving the leaders desired performance results. Nancy also notes, “Unfortunately, these are skills in which few leaders receive adequate training as they are promoted into positions of leadership.”

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The Dale Carnegie Difference

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  Human Relations principles that are time-tested, global, timeless and universal, and guide everything that individuals and organizations do.
• Dale Carnegie provides practical skills that can be applied (not mere theories, buzzwords, or flavors of the month)
• Being a leader means being responsible for more than just yourself, and that is stressful. That’s why these programs provide practices to help reduce stress and worry.
• The programs are based on the wisdom and expertise gained from developing leaders longer than anyone else in the marketplace. Rather than trying to have people be someone they’re not, Dale Carnegie helps people bring out their greatness –their authentic self.
• Expertise from the organization that literally wrote the book on influence and building relationships. The knowledge and skills to work on getting things done through others

Upcoming Programs at Dale Carnegie of Central and North Alabama:

• Dale Carnegie Course – March 25-27, 2020
• Dale Carnegie Develop Your Leadership Potential – March 24, 2020
• Dale Carnegie Leadership Training for Results – May 1, 2020

If you’d like to know more about this or any of the programs Dale Carnegie of Central and North Alabama has to offer, call 205-444-5011 or visit https://birmingham.dalecarnegie.com/events/. Click here to view the full Talk of Alabama segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2bhnPCDbxg&feature=youtu.be

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CHICAGO (PRWEB)
March 09, 2020

Catalytic, the easiest-to-use, next-generation digital process automation platform, today announced the findings from its 2020 report on closing the digital maturity gap and scaling process automation enterprise-wide to gain competitive differentiation and ensure exceptional customer experiences.

Catalytic conducted a cross-industry survey of 600 enterprise C-suite leaders, department directors and managers, including dedicated automation leaders. The research report, entitled “The Real State of Automation Progress,” aims to uncover the status of digital transformation and the scaling of automation across enterprises.

Catalytic’s study examined where businesses see themselves compared to competitors in terms of adopting automation tools, how equipped companies and specific departments are to take process automation to the next level, who’s involved in decisions about automation, and what factors hold companies back from reaching digital maturity.

“Our findings confirm that despite all departments seeing the potential of automation, most companies are not achieving their goals and need to rethink the roles, responsibilities and technologies leveraged to ensure greater success,” said Sean Chou, CEO and co-founder of Catalytic. “Specifically, our report underscores why organizations need to look beyond RPA tools to truly scale their automation efforts and adopt a federated model so that multiple lines of business can actively participate while maintaining a strong central governance at the core.”

Key findings from the report include:

The Workforce Is Optimistic About Automation’s Potential to Make Jobs Easier

The report found that as employees get more familiar with process automation, they become more optimistic about its implementation and benefits. For example, 93% of respondents believe automation will make their jobs easier, especially those working within IT, procurement, operations, finance and HR. Findings show that 42% of those who are “unfamiliar” with automation still feel optimistic about its benefits. This percentage increases to 89% of those who are “somewhat familiar” with the concept. Based on this, Catalytic’s study shows that educating employees across departments will heighten their comfort level with automation technology.

Enterprise Overreliance on Centralized Models for Automation Hinders Them From Reaching Digital Maturity

Catalytic’s report found that automation initiatives are heavily centralized with a dedicated team responsible for its implementation and usage. While only 22% of respondents operate in a distributed model, organizations who use this approach to automation view the ROI as much higher than expected. Responses pointed to IT bottlenecks as the biggest enterprise challenge to reaching digital maturity, indicating a need to distribute automation efforts across the organization.

Companies Must Reimagine Roles to Empower Business Users + Amplify IT Teams

Catalytic’s findings prove that digital transformation shouldn’t have gatekeepers – meaning organizations need to reshape how to effectively roll out automation across the business. The IT department represents only 3.7% of the average company and is most effective at providing oversight and governance for projects. Further, when business users deploy their own projects and shift their roles for the future of work, organizations have 27x more resources to scale while eliminating bottlenecks and requirement gaps in the process.

With 61% of automation leaders prioritizing upskilling their staff beyond IT, it’s clear that enterprises are beginning to see the benefits of reimagining how and who plays a part in digital innovations. To assist with upskilling efforts and get employees more involved in decision making, organizations should consider introducing a low-code platform that allows technically-minded business users to build automated workflows for their teams without the need for traditional computer programming skills.

While C-Suite Leaders Feel Optimistic About Their Organizations’ Automation Process, Managers Tell a Different Story

C-suite and managers were asked to characterize the maturity of their automation efforts as “Novice,” “Intermediate,” “Advanced” or “Pro.” The C-suite (21%) is much more likely than managers to characterize their organization’s automation efforts as “Pro,” indicating their view from the top might be clouded and aspirational compared to managers. While 79% of managers cited their automation efforts as “Advanced” or “Intermediate,” only 9% currently rate their strategies as “Pro.” This shows further communication and collaboration between all departments, and the involvement of managers in decision-making and execution is necessary to change the narrative of automation to be more optimistic. This includes using automation to create more opportunities for people on the front lines of an organization to do more meaningful work. Automation initiatives that remain centralized will continue to contribute to the lack of department-specific confidence in automation skills.

To access the full report, please visit this link.

About Catalytic

Catalytic, the next-gen digital process automation provider, supercharges employee productivity with smart workflows. Using Catalytic, anyone can easily build low-code automations that connect systems, data and people so companies can execute higher volumes of work with less time, cost and risk.

In one collaborative platform, IT and non-technical users alike can embed AI, integrations, and data analysis tools into everyday operations. Then, recurring information gathering, document processing, decision-making and reporting become more automatic, rapidly boosting operational efficiency and transforming organizations at scale.

Proven by customers like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network, Edwards Elmhurst Hospital, Mayo Clinic, TalentWave, and UL, Catalytic is unlocking up to 5x returns, improving customer experiences and increasing competitive edge for companies globally. To learn more, visit: https://catalytic.com/.

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