The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness
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The document summarizes seven essential skills for career happiness: negotiating skills, communication skills, boundary setting skills, discovery skills, navigating organizational structures, networking skills, and unproductivity skills. Each skill is briefly defined and examples are provided through references to Flickr photos. The presentation encourages women to ask for what they need, set priorities and boundaries, cultivate relationships and networks, and also take time for unproductivity when necessary.
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The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness
- 5. Ask for What You Need Photo courtesy of Sarah Sharp. Used under a Creative Commons License.
- 6. Avoiding the Vale of Suck Relationship Interests Interests Highly Aligned Relationship Excellent Interests Highly Aligned Relationship Poor Interests Poorly Aligned Relationship Poor Interests Poorly Aligned Relationship Good More at http://bit.ly/ValeofSuck
- 12. Balancing a Persona http://www.flickr.com/photos/love_notes_from_home/
- 14. Discovery Skills
- 23. The Three Day Limit http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_nouhailler/6216375073/
- 25. This presentation is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Please use, remix and share widely.
Editor's Notes
- Title slide: Intro selves - Amye then Leslie Go over current roles. What we are doing now and what we have done background-wise.
- Agenda: 7 Essential Skills for Career Happiness Anecdotes from personal and professional lives. Broad Overview assuming audience of undergrads entering workforce How many are beginning / mid career / etc.? This is what you listen for to improve skills vs. teaching mentees - Amye has year ranges If show of hands shows no, retool to "teach this to your mentees" Interrupt with Questions
- Disclaimers: Could fill books - we have a reading list included at the end of this deck Explore topics in depth with your mentors, peers, colleagues and managers These are the standard disclaimers you should have in your talks; hint for later. - LH takes
- Ask for What You Need: Sarah and needing more memory - LH Bring up Women Don't Ask - LH Quarterly review to do self-assessment and make sure you are asking for and getting what you need - Amye
- Vale of Suck: all LH - quick recap of David Eaves' workshop
- Know Your Audience: LH - ConvergeUS event and realizing I was perceived as aggressive Amye will give awesome example of just how you dial it back Take the steel out of your voice
- “ e on the end of my name”
- Manage Time: LH - need to be able to effectively set your priorities Amye - campaign mode
- The pitcher plant here is to remind of ‘pretty but has a purpose too.’ - Friendly, helpful, useful, knowledgable but balance with being able to limit your availability. You will be asked to do more than you know how to or can do. Pushback.
- Setting Priorities: LH - Whiteboard principle Amye - how this works when your manager is 3 time zones away LH - quarterly review for major look but need to do this weekly at minimum Amye - Getting Things Done as a framework, mention limitations
- Discovery Processes Vary by Context: Amye - Gathering Information by Walking Around; always getting more info than you knew before LH - Body Language: crossing arms and avoiding eye contact geeks vs. non-geek (know your audience!) Amye - Con calls & question that makes all hell breaks loose: what happens when only voice and awkward pauses
- Relationships Are Key to Getting Things Done: LH - Key Players in Written Communication - if Google searches fail you, learn intuit power structures from responses on mailing lists or to written reports Amye - love your admin - admin is the one who has the keys to the throne - control your boss' schedule LH - understand colleague needs - accounting dept at Google and Summer of Code
- Group Dynamics: Amye - social networks, user groups, online communities; at some point you may need to decide if it is worth it for you; this is totally ok, you can decide to go away, valid decision to make; you don't have to do everything
- Cultivating Your Public Persona: LH - Everything you say online is public - screen capture, etc Steve Yegge Platform post example Amye - positive things to do to build your public persona - make sure your profiles are matched up to who you want to be; make sure tagline on email matches blog; on flip side creating authentic public persona make sure people know you are who are before they meet you - Twitter avatar, etc. should look like you
- Sometimes, You Can't Get It Together: LH - The Three, three, three thing - do the first three easy thing then the next then the next; if nothing else you got 9 things off your plate and may rekickstart you into high gear. Give yourself time to be human. If someone close to you passes away, is getting married, breakups, housing changes, etc., you will be unproductive to some degree. Recognize it. Plan for it. Try not to put major projects in at the same time. Feel free to ask for help from your management in reallocating tasks if you need to during stressful times. Amye - Make sure you have good judgement about what is a stressful time. Getting a cold is not a stressful time. Chronic illness is a stressor. Long term unproductive times are something we apply the three day rule to….
- The Three Day Limit: Amye - fantastic quote from Steve Jobs - three days in a row and last day of your life and yes, if three days saying no then I need to make strong decisions about what I need to do to make this stop; if we spend 3 days in unproductivity mode then things suffer, namely our own happiness