Career HQ: Business Skills Best of GSX 2024 Conference Recording

Business acumen - encompassing financial literacy, strategic thinking, training effectiveness, and market awareness - enables professionals to make informed decisions and contribute meaningfully to organizational objectives regardless of their specific role. These fundamental skills help individuals understand how their work impacts the broader business ecosystem, allowing them to align their efforts with company goals and identify opportunities for innovation and growth. 

This collection includes 2 GSX sessions covering how business fundamentals impact organizational success. 

Empower Through Education: Advanced Security Instruction Techniques 

Empowering security professionals with advanced instructor skills is crucial for developing and conducting industry-standard compliant training programs. Security experts will gain fundamental knowledge for creating and facilitating effective security-related training, focusing on various interactive and immersive learning methodologies. Through the design and implementation of scenario-based exercises and stress inoculation training techniques tailored to the security industry, professionals will be equipped to provide impactful and compliant training. This approach significantly enhances professional development, organizational preparedness, and resilience against potential security threats. 

Strategic Security Leadership: Navigating Organizational Change for Business Impact 

This presentation discusses how senior security executives can navigate organizational change to better support business priorities. As companies constantly transform, change management is critical to success. Security leaders must navigate many internal and external forces during change, emphasizing the importance of understanding executive priorities, corporate strategy, and culture. Effective communication, stakeholder engagement and addressing potential resistance are also covered. The presentation analyzes how security executives can gain a strategic view by understanding business strategy levels. They can then improve value by better aligning security with corporate objectives and priorities. Audiences will learn practical advice for navigating change and elevating the security function.