Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Track: global
Talent isn’t enough. To survive and thrive in today’s business environment, you must look beyond your talents and unleash the untapped power and potential that exists within you—your genius. When you deliver the package, you unleash your genius and set it free. When you are free, you can achieve breakthrough success and boundless possibilities in the workplace and beyond.
[This is the only instance of this session]
Track: Build Muscle as a Geo-Distributed Workforce
Culture is the shared meaning we have with a group of people and what we deem acceptable or normal in our interactions with others. This can be dramatically different from one culture to another. This session will provide tips and tools for how to minimize conflict, down time, and misunderstanding in working in cross-cultural teams across the globe.
In this session, you will learn:
[Also presented 9-10:30 on Thursday]
What do I need to know about working somewhere else?
Track: Grow Your Career
[Also presented 9-10 on Wednesday]
by Rich Cox
Track: Develop Core Skills
People should listen to you.
Communication is about how you listen and how you show up – even on Skype and email. Good collaboration requires good communication, and a project is only as good as its teamwork.
The good news is that you, by yourself, can have a big impact no matter who you are talking with. You can:
* Get your ideas heard
* Gain respect from others
* Increase your value to the community
* Have more productive teams and meetings
You learn to write code by coding. You learn to communicate by doing it. Get skills you can start using today with this practical and engaging session.
[Also presented 9-10 on Wednesday and 9-10 on Thursday]
by Bret Reckard
Track: Develop Core Skills
[Also presented 9-10 on Wednesday and 9-10 on Thursday]
by Dave Berz
Track: Grow Your Career
A successful career does not just happen. As with any other important project, it requires management. In this workshop you will discover the best tips and practices – from focusing your direction to marketing yourself – for setting professional goals and catapulting your career forward. This workshop will focus on:
* How to actively manage your career growth
* How to become career-knowledgeable
* How to make things happen for yourself and become responsible for your own career
* The best practices in marketing yourself for opportunities
* How to open your own doors
[Also presented 9-10 on Wednesday and 9-10 on Thursday]
by Athena Katsaros and Kate Roeske
Track: Lead with Confidence
A key role of a manager is to create an environment that is inspiring for everyone in it. One crucial means of doing so is interacting with your team members, peers, and other important people in a way that brings out their best, encourages them to take ownership of their challenges, and dramatically enhances your relationships with them. That’s what this interactive session is all about. You will:
* Assess yourself on 8 key leadership competencies and choose an area to work on to increase your effectiveness
* Watch a coaching demonstration
* Learn how to use a "coach approach" to managing
* Come away with new skills and ideas you can put into practice right away
[This is the only instance of this session]
Track: global
by Marian Stetson-Rodriguez
Track: Build Muscle as a Geo-Distributed Workforce
Trust is the secret sauce of high-performing teams. Trust increases speed, raises team spirit and lowers costs. Learn how you can you reach across differences to motivate others to trust you and each other. Follow a video global team, through frustrations and laughs, as they learn to trust their leader and each other. Discover 10 Trust Dimensions, how various cultures prioritize them, and how trust leads to high performing teams.
During an interactive, enlightening and fun presentation, you will learn:
* The 10 dimensions of trust, how they are prioritized across cultures
* A clear way to integrate the benefits of trust to accomplishing higher team performance
[Also presented 10:30-12:30 on Wednesday and 10:30-12:30 on Thursday]
by Maureen Burkley
Track: Develop Core Skills
Having Courageous Conversations means we are communicating in a way that values both ourselves and the other person. It is critical to being able to work effectively with others, yet it is not always easy to do. When we can identify the best approach for delivering a message, we can greatly enhance our ability to achieve results and gain cooperation from others.
During this interactive presentation, you will learn:
* What a courageous conversation is and what keeps us from having them
* Tools and techniques to enhance your ability to deliver a message that will be heard
* How to strategize to set your conversations up for success
[Also presented 10:30-12:30 on Wednesday and 10:30-12:30 on Thursday]
by Athena Katsaros and Kate Roeske
Track: Grow Your Career
This dynamic workshop is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be a leader and that there are opportunities for you to lead no matter what your role is. In this interactive session you will:
* Discover how to think outside the box about your own leadership
* Develop new skills that will make a real difference in your work and life
* Use the three elements of success to ensure your effectiveness as a leader
* Listen in a new way that will change the way you experience every conversation
* Walk away with eye-opening practical skills that will stay with you long after the workshop ends
[This is the only instance of this session]
by Rich Cox
Track: Develop Core Skills
Creativity and innovation are teachable skills. With the right mindset and methods you can sustain a thriving innovation culture that reduces pressure for deadlines and improves the quality of the ideas.
The key elements are empathy, deferring judgment, and a fail forward mindset. Embracing these has a dramatic effect on group dynamics and increases success.
Discover the ideas that fuel innovation at places like IDEO and Stanford that will enable you to:
* Generate more and better ideas
* Test and kill bad ideas quickly
* Blend techniques with what you already do
* Work with any development process (agile, waterfall, etc.)
* Adapt to changing technologies and needs quickly
[Also presented 10:30-12:30 on Wednesday and 10:30-12:30 on Thursday]