One point I want to stress on the talk is this:
We developers happily pay (money, time) for getting up to speed on tech topics.
We don't do this for communicatio/collaboration skills.
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One point I want to stress on the talk is this:
We developers happily pay (money, time) for getting up to speed on tech topics.
We don't do this for communicatio/collaboration skills.
And this is not because companies don't offer this. They rarely offer structured
tech training either.
Adding another method I find useful:
@ldavidmarquet's ladder of leadership is a
really powerful concept which describes "angles of freedom" in a collaborative
relationship. What's great with it is that it's a gradual system and makes the
implicit explicit. https://youtu.be/-sri5wyth4I
Here are some resources that seem worth checking out:
https://compassionatecoding.com/ by
@aprilwensel The course about 20 emotional
skills: https://www.theschooloflife.com/business/ Emotions: a Philosophical
Introduction https://www.coursera.org/learn/emotions
... and I definitely have to start listening to
@SoftSkillsEng: the weekly advice podcast
for developers.
Adding it here as a great training option:
https://twitter.com/skillsmatter/status/1127483575971000320?s=19
It looks like this book will be a good read for this topic:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541132.Punished_by_Rewards?ac=1&from_search=true
How you expect your knowledge as a developer to grow vs. how it really is: