Summary:

Light Dinner: This month we’re continuing with our light dinner format — typically sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie or similar light dinner.

As a technical leader in a complex organization, you depend on a lot of people to get the crucial things done.  A huge part of your success comes from your ability to influence others, both within your team and across departments and disciplines.

Even if you have solid grounding in management and interpersonal skills (and how many engineering degrees provided that?), the demands for these skills are escalating.

In addition, many of our hidden assumptions are up for question.  We need to grow our conscious competence at leading collaborative conversations.

We’ll explore contrasting sets of assumptions and their effects by trying them on and observing what happens. You will gain key pointers on managing real-world situations and building positive influence.

Bio:
The speaker, Lucy Freedman, is the author of Smart Work: The Syntax Guide to Influence (2012). Her company, Syntax for Change (syntaxforchange.com), helps technical organizations make sense of the human side of change so they can turn current challenges into breakthroughs in business growth.  Her client list includes Intel, H-P, Agilent, Cisco, Sun, and Tokyo Electron, among other technical, scientific, financial, and government organizations.  Lucy recently organized a web-based Master Class for Change Agents in the Workplace, “Cultivating Change.” She delights in helping clients achieve observable results.