Presented at
Diana Initiative 2019,
Aug. 10, 2019, 1 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Chances are, you’re frustrated that your ideas, solutions, and advice just don’t seem to get through to the decision-makers you work with. This happens to everyone from time to time, but if it’s a regular occurrence for you, you might need to learn to increase your influence at work.
Influence is the difference between that person at work whose team always seems to get extra staffing, or that developer who always gets to choose the tech, and those that don’t.
It isn’t magic, it isn’t luck, and it isn’t _just_ natural ability. You can learn how to increase your influence through some simple planning, framing and delivery steps.
These skills are important if you want to make sure your expert opinion is understood and considered by those making crucial decisions about budgets, time frames, architecture, security and even everyday things like the air-conditioning temperature.
In this interactive workshop I will explain the basics of influence in a workplace, talk you through the steps, and walk you through addressing a real problem in your real workplace.
Presenters:
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Keira Paterson
- Co-Founder at eConvenor
Keira Paterson is a Django developer and co-founder of eConvenor.org and is passionate about diversity, equity, sustainability and empathy in technology.
Motivated by a desire to see automated tools improving the effectiveness of community organizers, Keira taught herself to code building eConvenor with her partner in 2012. In 2017 she made the jump into web development as a career, while continuing to develop and manage eConvenor.
Prior to development, Keira gained 10 years experience in people-focused work, as a trade union organizer, a political volunteer coordinator, staff manager and policy process manager. She now works in her spare time to bring these two worlds together - teaching people stuff to computer-people, and computer stuff to people-people in hopes of a more secure, equitable tech future.
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