Topics
- Goal Setting
- Mentoring
- Advice
Why Do We Go To Work?
Drive
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
My Mission
Bring mutuality, mastery and respect to the process of making humane, impactful software systems
What Do You Want?
I Don't Know What I Want
Your mission is to find your purpose
I Know What I Want
Your mission is to map your purpose to your job
I Have What I Want
Congratulations! You're living the dream
Your mission is to maintain your vision
You Have a Goal
You're not going to get there in a single step
You're going to fail
Failure is learning
Celebrate failure!
The GROW Model
- Goal: where do you want to be?
- Reality: where are you now?
- Obstacles: what's stopping you?
Options: how are you going to deal with the obstacles? - Way forward: convert the options to action steps
Don't Do This Alone
You need help
Topics
- Goal Setting
- Mentoring
- Advice
What Does a Mentor Do?
- Feedback
- Encouragement
- Perspective
- Help formulate goals
- Network and connections
- Coaching / Teaching
Who Can be a Mentor?
- Someone you trust
- Someone you look up to
- Someone who shares your values
- Someone with experience
- Not your manager (probably)
- They don't even need to know that they're your mentor
Finding a Mentor
- Ask
- Find a mentoring network
Topics
- Goal Setting
- Mentoring
- Advice
Wear Sunscreen
Advice to Juniors
- Learn to build the thing right
- Find a mentor
- Improve your communication skills
Advice to Seniors
- Learn to build the right thing
- Become a teacher
- Find a mentor
- Improve your communication skills
Advice to Managers
- Learn to influence culture
- Find a mentor
- Improve your communication skills
Better Communication
- Mutual Learning Model (Chris Agyris)
- Non-Violent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
- Clean Language
- Feeling Good, book and podcast (Dr David Burns)
- tumbarumba.github.io/effective-communication/
Fin
Any questions?