Abby Fichtner, Evangelist for Startups at Microsoft (aka @HackerChick on Twitter) took an unexpected path to success. As the Keynote Speaker for the "A-Ha!" NH Social Media Business Summit, she brought attendees along the path, and used the "minimum viable product" concept from lean startups to help attendees identify a sweet spot between their passions and strengths.
Social Media for Lawyers & Law Firms : Chicago Bar AssociationKevin O'Keefe
Presentation before the Chicago Bar Association on 4/13/11. Review of principals of blogging and other forms of social media for professional and business development with high level discussion of
This session is A Creative Dose™ – a booster shot – to inspire your creative thinking for your personal brand. Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly... Learn about the mysterious alchemy that occurs in the brain – and how to exploit it to find your best self for stardom.
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
White Space Creativity - Generate Conference London 2014Denise Jacobs
In visual arts and graphic design, white space is fundamental to allowing a creation to exist, by creating delineation and focus. Similarly, in our lives, creativity often sprouts from the "white space" of time: the moments in our increasingly busy schedules between activities and thoughts that allow the subconscious to better absorb and connect information. Clearly, in order to be more creative, we need to open up this "in-between" space in our lives, but once we've done so, how can we best capitalize upon the brain's natural creative capacities? In this talk, we'll explore several counter-intuitive and potentially subversive methods for leveraging this "white space" to foment innovative thinking creative productivity.
Abby Fichtner, Evangelist for Startups at Microsoft (aka @HackerChick on Twitter) took an unexpected path to success. As the Keynote Speaker for the "A-Ha!" NH Social Media Business Summit, she brought attendees along the path, and used the "minimum viable product" concept from lean startups to help attendees identify a sweet spot between their passions and strengths.
Social Media for Lawyers & Law Firms : Chicago Bar AssociationKevin O'Keefe
Presentation before the Chicago Bar Association on 4/13/11. Review of principals of blogging and other forms of social media for professional and business development with high level discussion of
This session is A Creative Dose™ – a booster shot – to inspire your creative thinking for your personal brand. Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly... Learn about the mysterious alchemy that occurs in the brain – and how to exploit it to find your best self for stardom.
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
White Space Creativity - Generate Conference London 2014Denise Jacobs
In visual arts and graphic design, white space is fundamental to allowing a creation to exist, by creating delineation and focus. Similarly, in our lives, creativity often sprouts from the "white space" of time: the moments in our increasingly busy schedules between activities and thoughts that allow the subconscious to better absorb and connect information. Clearly, in order to be more creative, we need to open up this "in-between" space in our lives, but once we've done so, how can we best capitalize upon the brain's natural creative capacities? In this talk, we'll explore several counter-intuitive and potentially subversive methods for leveraging this "white space" to foment innovative thinking creative productivity.
Say What You Mean: Professional Communication Skills for LibrariansCliff Landis
Excellent interpersonal communication skills are not just a requirement on every job announcement--they are vital to succeed in today's library! Attendees will learn how to use different communication styles to interact effectively with people across several library settings. A variety
of interpersonal communication topics will be covered, including: basic communication skills, direct vs. indirect communication, conflict management, and professional relationship maintenance.
How to Establish Social Proof Using Social LoveRaven Tools
When customers say nice things about you on Twitter, it’s a good thing. Attracting even more customers using that love is a GREAT thing.
Learn how to store social love, reach out for more information, and repurpose love on your website and landing pages. The added social proof will encourage others to take the next step with your brand.
As a developer and a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Beware: this presentation challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Find Your Shameless Spark - Inspiring Women Live 2014Denise Jacobs
Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly. Learn about the mental blocks that hold you back from promoting your brilliance to the world and how to bust through them, how to respect and feed your soul, plus several highly effective tips for sharing your skills and talents. This session is a booster shot of inspiration to spark your creative thinking about your personal brand and to promote your best self for stardom.
Infinite Possibilities - Digital PM Summit 2015Denise Jacobs
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity – edUi Conference 2015Denise Jacobs
Your inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let's discover how to anatomize this pernicious inner force, and then learn techniques to banish this critic so that you can have the mental space and energy to let your true talents emerge -- and help you be a badass with your work.
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
A very brief slide deck on the basics of conflict, with library-themed examples. Presented to Atlanta Emerging Librarians for the panel "You Got the Job – Now What? Rising to the Challenge in Your New Library Position"
The Creativity (R)Evolution - CREATE Festival 2015Denise Jacobs
There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
While some conferences support a proactive diversity policy, the common lament industry-wide is the pool of candidates just isn't large enough to draw from. It's time for women and people of color to Rawk The Web: to become more visible, promote our achievements, and make ourselves known as the rockstars we truly are.
Designing Around Storytelling - Breaking Borders, Reading 18 August 2015Anna Dahlström
Slides from my talk at Breaking Borders on the 18 August. http://breakingborde.rs/past-events/engagement/
Storytelling has always played an important part in our societies throughout history. In the last few years it's gained attention as an important aspect in communicating and building engagement with a brand’s customer base. But storytelling is also an integral part of the design process. It’s a tool that not only can help us define our content and messaging, but the experience as a whole. Both across platforms and screens, and how we interact with it.
Designing around storytelling - UX Oxford, 23 April 2014Anna Dahlström
Slides from my talk at UX Oxford on 23 April
http://www.meetup.com/UX-Oxford/events/172543682/
Storytelling has always played an important part in our societies throughout history. In the last few years it's gained attention as an important aspect in communicating and building engagement with a brand’s customer base. But storytelling is also an integral part of the design process. It’s a tool that not only can help us define our content and messaging, but the experience as a whole. Both across platforms and screens, and how we interact with it.
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - Twinkle Tampere 2015Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
Banish Your Inner Critic - Web Design Day 2015Denise Jacobs
Your inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let's discover how to anatomize this pernicious inner force, and then learn techniques to banish this critic so that you can have the mental space and energy to let your true talents emerge -- and help you be a badass with your work.
My presentation from the Engineers 4 Engineers Developer Conference:
How to Build Innovative Technologies
Abby will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Say What You Mean: Professional Communication Skills for LibrariansCliff Landis
Excellent interpersonal communication skills are not just a requirement on every job announcement--they are vital to succeed in today's library! Attendees will learn how to use different communication styles to interact effectively with people across several library settings. A variety
of interpersonal communication topics will be covered, including: basic communication skills, direct vs. indirect communication, conflict management, and professional relationship maintenance.
How to Establish Social Proof Using Social LoveRaven Tools
When customers say nice things about you on Twitter, it’s a good thing. Attracting even more customers using that love is a GREAT thing.
Learn how to store social love, reach out for more information, and repurpose love on your website and landing pages. The added social proof will encourage others to take the next step with your brand.
As a developer and a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Beware: this presentation challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Find Your Shameless Spark - Inspiring Women Live 2014Denise Jacobs
Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly. Learn about the mental blocks that hold you back from promoting your brilliance to the world and how to bust through them, how to respect and feed your soul, plus several highly effective tips for sharing your skills and talents. This session is a booster shot of inspiration to spark your creative thinking about your personal brand and to promote your best self for stardom.
Infinite Possibilities - Digital PM Summit 2015Denise Jacobs
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity – edUi Conference 2015Denise Jacobs
Your inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let's discover how to anatomize this pernicious inner force, and then learn techniques to banish this critic so that you can have the mental space and energy to let your true talents emerge -- and help you be a badass with your work.
Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.
A very brief slide deck on the basics of conflict, with library-themed examples. Presented to Atlanta Emerging Librarians for the panel "You Got the Job – Now What? Rising to the Challenge in Your New Library Position"
The Creativity (R)Evolution - CREATE Festival 2015Denise Jacobs
There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
While some conferences support a proactive diversity policy, the common lament industry-wide is the pool of candidates just isn't large enough to draw from. It's time for women and people of color to Rawk The Web: to become more visible, promote our achievements, and make ourselves known as the rockstars we truly are.
Designing Around Storytelling - Breaking Borders, Reading 18 August 2015Anna Dahlström
Slides from my talk at Breaking Borders on the 18 August. http://breakingborde.rs/past-events/engagement/
Storytelling has always played an important part in our societies throughout history. In the last few years it's gained attention as an important aspect in communicating and building engagement with a brand’s customer base. But storytelling is also an integral part of the design process. It’s a tool that not only can help us define our content and messaging, but the experience as a whole. Both across platforms and screens, and how we interact with it.
Designing around storytelling - UX Oxford, 23 April 2014Anna Dahlström
Slides from my talk at UX Oxford on 23 April
http://www.meetup.com/UX-Oxford/events/172543682/
Storytelling has always played an important part in our societies throughout history. In the last few years it's gained attention as an important aspect in communicating and building engagement with a brand’s customer base. But storytelling is also an integral part of the design process. It’s a tool that not only can help us define our content and messaging, but the experience as a whole. Both across platforms and screens, and how we interact with it.
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - Twinkle Tampere 2015Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
Banish Your Inner Critic - Web Design Day 2015Denise Jacobs
Your inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let's discover how to anatomize this pernicious inner force, and then learn techniques to banish this critic so that you can have the mental space and energy to let your true talents emerge -- and help you be a badass with your work.
My presentation from the Engineers 4 Engineers Developer Conference:
How to Build Innovative Technologies
Abby will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
This is a talk I gave at Harvard for the National Collegiate Research Conference. It's more theoretical than my typical presentation but kind of fun - it looks at what makes innovation happen.
Agile Mindset for Your Startup: From Vision to ViabilityAbby Fichtner
This is the presentation Jeffrey Beir & I gave at Harvard Innovation Lab on 7/23/2013.
You’ve got a big idea addressing a huge market opportunity - should be no problem getting financed and building a successful company. But that’s not how real companies get built. In the engineering world, agile has replaced traditional waterfall methodologies because it lowers risk, improves predictability and allows for mid-course correction. The same applies when thinking about how you build your business.
Abby and Jeffrey will present a framework for building your business with an agile mindset and explain why most companies should be built this way...
Under the Influence: The New Social VIPs and Their Power Over Your Future (#A...Epiphanies, Inc.
Delivering value, building and analyzing your network, and establishing your credibility - these are the keys to influence in the new social era. So says Kevin Skarritt, Chief Peep at Flock Marketing, in his session at the 3rd Annual "A-Ha!" NH Social Media Business Summit.
The No Bull Pursuit of Creativity in Business Blogging (#AhaNH 2011)Epiphanies, Inc.
If there's one thing you don't expect from state government, it's an engaging, exciting web presence. And yet that's just what Steve Boucher has created. Boucher, the Communications & Legislative Director for the NH Division of Economic Development, crashed a colleague's meeting with Lani and Allen Voivod, co-owners of Epiphanies, Inc. one quiet morning in January 2009, and the rest, well...
After 2 1/2 years, the blog amounts for the lion's share of the website's visitors and page views, the Facebook page is the largest state economic development presence in the nation, and Twitter followers have more than doubled in the last year as well. In this presentation, Steve shares his 7 keys to blogging success.
Succeed in the Social Realm, You Will: 7 Jedi Strategies for Mastering the So...Epiphanies, Inc.
And yes, #2 is blank because meditation, taking a pause, breathing itself, is the first of the 7 Jedi strategies for mastering the social media force. Allen Voivod, co-owner and Ally in Possibility at Epiphanies, Inc. takes people through some familiar and some unexpected ways to succeed with Web 2.0 platforms.
The 2011 "A-Ha!" NH Social Media Business Summit presentation by Walter Elly, consultant with V2 Strategic Advisors; former senior director of emerging technology at MicroArts Creative Agency; Co-director of Foursquare Day and co-founder of Portsmouth Foursquare. Walter talks about what's no longer strange in social media, and looks at two promising frontiers where social media is bound to bloom.
Blip, Spurt, Dash: How to ‘A-Ha!’ Yourself and Your Biz With the Social Web (...Epiphanies, Inc.
The "Blip," the "Spurt," and two "Dashes" that define what social media really looks like in our brave new world. From the emotional currency of the Blip, to the productive energy of the Spurt, and the defining Dashes of our days and inspirations, Lani Voivod, co-owner and Ally in Possibility at Epiphanies Inc., brings together our real-world lives and our social media lives in a powerful new way.
Twitter Crash Course: Beyond the Basics, to Tools, Strategies, and SecretsEpiphanies, Inc.
On the one hand, Twitter is as simple as it gets. 140 character posts. Follow people, and most follow you back. Reply to people, use a hashtag to be a part of specific conversations...sounds easy, right?
Twitter also goes rabbit-hole deep, and most of the use by its 500 million members happens "off-platform" - through a whole host of tools, apps, services, dashboards, and analytics designed to help you make the most of your Twitter experience.
So, once you've mastered the basics of Twitter - setting up your account, starting to tweet, finding people to follow - what comes next? How do you make sense of this awesome serendipity portal, which now ranks only behind Google and YouTube as the third-largest search engine in the world?
In this presentation, originally delivered for a Women Inspiring Women 2012 Entrepreneurial Series workshop, Allen Voivod pulls the curtain back on some of the tools, tactics, and strategies he and his co-Ally in Possibility Lani Voivod use to succeed with Twitter at Epiphanies, Inc.
"Your story is THE compelling reason to choose your business." So says Nancy Clark, President and "Owner Girl" at the Glen Group, a marketing agency in Conway, NH. At the 3rd Annual "A-Ha!" NH Social Media Business Summit, Nancy dove in to what it means to be fearless in telling your business' story.
Strategic Risk Taking: Lessons Learned from EntrepreneursAbby Fichtner
What can we learn from entrepreneurs about how to take strategic risks?
What is it that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial and what are some of the tools and frameworks that startups use to take the risk of creating things that no one has created before?
Lean Startup Applied: Building New Products for New MarketsAbby Fichtner
My talk given to the Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) January 2015 Meeting.
Abby Fichtner will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups like Facebook, Dropbox and AirBnB, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Discovering the Right Product for your StartupAbby Fichtner
How can you make sure that when you DO build it, they WILL come? The truth is, you can't - but there's a lot you can do to greatly improve your odds. In this workshop, which I gave at the Harvard Innovation Lab, I walk you through a framework for identifying the right product to build for the right market.
Includes case studies of what other startups have done and let's you try out techniques yourself to help you craft your own strategy for:
- Finding a problem worth solving
- Deeply understanding your customer
- Finding a solution that resonates
- Knowing what to launch
Beyond the Startup: Being Lean in Startups & BeyondAbby Fichtner
The thing about startups is that they're in a race. They need to find a way to start bringing in money before they run out of the money they have. This forces them to find ways to operate extremely quickly. They cut all the fat and just focus on what needs to be done. They learn at incredible rates about what will and will not work and use that knowledge to create products that customers will love. As a result, the really good ones are able to beat out larger organizations with many more resources. Imagine if those larger organizations, with so many resources, could operate as lean as a startup?
In this presentation, I share techniques that startups are doing today to be lean and talk about how some of these same principles can be applied within companies of any size.
FYI - there is video that shows these slides with the audio of my presenting this to UMass Lowell here (presentation starts about 10 minutes in): http://echoess.uml.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c90d10f4-f507-41ae-9fa1-4ce63aa967a0
Creating Your MVP (or Startup Validation Hacks)Abby Fichtner
My tech talk at Harvard Innovation Lab.
Do you have an idea for a startup but aren't quite sure where or how to start on your product?
Creating Minimum Viable Products allows you to quickly test out the assumptions you’re making about your business, validate that customers are indeed interested in – and willing to pay for – your solution, and help you to prioritize your product’s features. Hear case studies on what other, successful startups have done and learn a number of MVP tools you can use to quickly get your startup on the path to viability.
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the World ...Abby Fichtner
I updated my Lean Startup presentation for Agile 2011 to share what is happening in the startup community with the agile community and to show how Lean Startup is pushing Agile to the next level.
Session Description:
How does development look different when you're creating things that no one has ever created before? Lean Startup is about creating from a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world & do something really significant. It combines Agile Development with _Customer_ Development so we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Learning (rather than working software) becomes our most important measure of progress and agile practices are pushed to the next level. Come get a glimpse of the next level of agile and discover how development looks different when you're changing the world.
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the WorldAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my Beantown .NET Presentation (April 7, 2011)]
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a StartupAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my ScrumClub Presentation (December 9, 2010)]
Better Story Testing through Dev-Tester PairingAbby Fichtner
Agile 2010 Hands-On Workshop, 8/9/2010
Abby Fichtner & Dawn Cannan
You know how "Agile" works: programmers test drive their code via (A)TDD with testers automating much of the story tests. But how does it REALLY work? Do testers and programmers work together (YES!)? What does this interaction look like? In this hands-on demonstration, we'll walk you through how to drive quality on your projects by pairing testers and programmers. We'll use FitNesse to create effective story tests and keep them passing as the software evolves with each iteration. Bring a laptop and spend some time as a paired dev/test team!
Where Does Developer Testing End And Tester Testing Begin?Abby Fichtner
Agile 2009 Workshop presented by Abby Fichtner and Nate Oster.
Workshop description:
Where Does Developer Testing End And Tester Testing Begin?
This is a trick question, right? In agile, everyone works on the same items together, at the same time. Yet, the reality is we’re not all interchangeable cogs. Developers and testers each bring their own, unique skills to the table. The key to effective agile is not minimizing our differences, but building upon the strengths each person brings to the team. Join us for this hands-on simulation and retrospective as developers and testers explore how agile teams build quality into their process, how each member contributes to that quality, and how we can avoid traditional testing pitfalls.
This comprehensive program covers essential aspects of performance marketing, growth strategies, and tactics, such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, and more
Want to move your career forward? Looking to build your leadership skills while helping others learn, grow, and improve their skills? Seeking someone who can guide you in achieving these goals?
You can accomplish this through a mentoring partnership. Learn more about the PMISSC Mentoring Program, where you’ll discover the incredible benefits of becoming a mentor or mentee. This program is designed to foster professional growth, enhance skills, and build a strong network within the project management community. Whether you're looking to share your expertise or seeking guidance to advance your career, the PMI Mentoring Program offers valuable opportunities for personal and professional development.
Watch this to learn:
* Overview of the PMISSC Mentoring Program: Mission, vision, and objectives.
* Benefits for Volunteer Mentors: Professional development, networking, personal satisfaction, and recognition.
* Advantages for Mentees: Career advancement, skill development, networking, and confidence building.
* Program Structure and Expectations: Mentor-mentee matching process, program phases, and time commitment.
* Success Stories and Testimonials: Inspiring examples from past participants.
* How to Get Involved: Steps to participate and resources available for support throughout the program.
Learn how you can make a difference in the project management community and take the next step in your professional journey.
About Hector Del Castillo
Hector is VP of Professional Development at the PMI Silver Spring Chapter, and CEO of Bold PM. He's a mid-market growth product executive and changemaker. He works with mid-market product-driven software executives to solve their biggest growth problems. He scales product growth, optimizes ops and builds loyal customers. He has reduced customer churn 33%, and boosted sales 47% for clients. He makes a significant impact by building and launching world-changing AI-powered products. If you're looking for an engaging and inspiring speaker to spark creativity and innovation within your organization, set up an appointment to discuss your specific needs and identify a suitable topic to inspire your audience at your next corporate conference, symposium, executive summit, or planning retreat.
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For event details, visit pmissc.org.
New Explore Careers and College Majors 2024.pdfDr. Mary Askew
Explore Careers and College Majors is a new online, interactive, self-guided career, major and college planning system.
The career system works on all devices!
For more Information, go to https://bit.ly/3SW5w8W
Exploring Career Paths in Cybersecurity for Technical CommunicatorsBen Woelk, CISSP, CPTC
Brief overview of career options in cybersecurity for technical communicators. Includes discussion of my career path, certification options, NICE and NIST resources.
Exploring Career Paths in Cybersecurity for Technical Communicators
Follow Your Own Path
1. “A-Ha!” NH Social Media Business Summit #AhaNH
FOLLOW YOUR OWN PATH
Abby Fichtner
Evangelist for Startups
Microsoft Corp.
@HackerChick
Presented by Epiphanies, Inc. (EpiphaniesInc.com), in partnership with
@EpiphaniesInc | @NoBullBlog Facebook.com/AhaYourself | Facebook.com/NoBullBusiness
the NH Division of Economic Development (NHEconomy.com)
13. Find Your Path
1 passion or strength/card
Use few, simple words
(K.I.S.S.)
#AhaNH : @HackerChick
14. Find Your Path
Flip 1 card over
Write down a creative way
you might make it intersect with what your
community is interested in.
#AhaNH : @HackerChick