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The Smart Woman’s Guide to Getting Things Done Seven Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness Amye Scavarda Leslie Hawthorn Grace Hopper Conference November 10, 2011

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Workplace success requires more than expertise and diligent work. Achieving career success requires balancing many needs: those of your organization, team, management and your own satisfaction. In this talk, Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn will explore seven essential skills that ensure that you can balance those needs effectively while continuing to excel in your technical career: negotiation, communication, setting boundaries, networking, information discovery, navigating social structures & using unproductive times to your advantage. Powerpoint version.

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Page 1: The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Getting Things Done

Seven Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness

Amye Scavarda

Leslie Hawthorn

Grace Hopper Conference November 10, 2011

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Agenda

• Negotiating Skills

• Communication Skills

• Boundary Setting Skills

• Discovery Skills

• Navigating Organizational Structures

• Networking Skills

• Unproductivity Skills

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Disclaimers

• Each of these topics could fill its own book.

• These are our own opinions, not those of any employer.

• Your mileage may vary.

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Negotiating Skills

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Ask for What You Need

Photo courtesy of Sarah Sharp. Used under a Creative Commons License.

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Avoiding the Vale of Suck

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Interests Highly AlignedRelationship Excellent

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Interests Highly AlignedRelationship Poor

Interests Highly AlignedRelationship Poor

Interests Poorly AlignedRelationship Poor

Interests Poorly AlignedRelationship Poor

Interests Poorly AlignedRelationship Good

Interests Poorly AlignedRelationship Good

More at http://bit.ly/ValeofSuck

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Communication Skills

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Know Your Audience

• Communication styles you develop and employ in all male environments can be perceived as aggressive or angry.

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Communicating Online

“Gentlemen,

cut it out.”

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Boundary Setting Skills

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Managing Your Time

• Setting your priorities effectively is essential.

• (Especially when in “campaign mode”)

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Balancing a Personahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/love_notes_from_home/

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Setting Priorities

• Make sure your task list is always visible by your

manager.

• (Even when you’re distributed)

• Use it to negotiate!

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Discovery Skills

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Discovery Processes Vary by Context

• Gathering Information by Walking Around

• Observing Body Language

• Managing Conference Calls

• Asking the Question that Makes All Hell Break Loose

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Navigating Organizational Structures

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Relationships Are Key To Getting Things Done

• Recognize Key Players in Written Communications

• Love Your Administrative Professional

• Understand Your Colleagues’ Needs

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Networking Skills

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Group Dynamics

• Treat your social networks like investments.

• Know when to walk away.

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Cultivating Your Public Persona

• Remember, everything you say online is public.

• For better and for worse.

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Unproductivity Skills

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Sometimes, You Can’t Get It Together

• This is perfectly ok.

• Take a walk, get some exercise and if you need to, take the afternoon off.

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The Three Day Limit

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Thank You!

Questions?

@msamye @lhawthorn

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This presentation is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical 3.0 Unported

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Recommended Reading

• Women Don’t Ask

• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

• Expect To Win

• Ambition is Not A Dirty Word

• Post: http://bit.ly/ValeofSuck