Conflict is caring
You know it’s time to polish your resume if you don’t care enough to voice your frustrations. Or call out the cognitive disconnect. Or make your case for a different approach. Personally and professionally, we tend to treat conflict as a negative event. But if someone cares enough to state their disagreement, that means they are invested in the outcome. Conflict only arises in situations where participants care enough about the subject to question whether the means best serve the ends.
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Topics:
Women in STEM,
Workshop,
Upcoming Events,
Emotional Intelligence,
Developing Your Skills,
Problem Solving,
Conflict Resolution,
Feedback,
Career Development,
Influence Without Authority,
#WESTevent,
Women in Business,
Be Fearless, Be Brave
Feedback shouldn’t feel like being called to the principal’s office
Regardless of whether it’s positive or negative, both the giver and receiver of feedback find the exchange awkward at best. No matter how stellar your year was, many of us approach our reviews somewhere on the going-to-the-the-principal’s-office spectrum ranging from Ferris Bueller to Bart Simpson.
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Topics:
Leadership,
Communication,
Coaching,
Management,
Developing Your Skills,
Insight,
Engage,
Feedback,
Career Development,
#WESTevent,
Be Fearless, Be Brave
Learn more about past events listed below
7/25: Leadership Strategies to Advance Your Career
6/12: Leadership and Women of the Future Awards and Panel Discussion
5/23: Providing Impactful Feedback Up, Down, and Across
4/26: How to Present Technical Information so People Will Understand, Care, and Remember
4/23: How Does a Start-up Embrace Open Innovation with a Large Corporation
4/11: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Senior Panel Discussion
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Topics:
Events,
Leadership,
Women,
Boston,
Tech,
Career,
Communication,
Awards,
Community,
Entrepreneurship,
Network,
Women in STEM,
Networking,
Upcoming Events,
Innovation,
Discussion,
Connect,
Open Innovation,
Start-Up,
Feedback,
Impact
Join WEST and Executive Communication Coach and Trainer, Tori Hollingworth on 5/23, for a highly interactive session designed to provide participants with tools and techniques to increase credibility, improve interpersonal effectiveness and strengthen messaging when interacting in a performance review, delivering feedback to senior management, initiating behavior change and providing updates to direct reports, colleagues and/or organizational leaders.
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Topics:
Events,
Women,
Communication,
Community,
Cambridge,
Women in STEM,
Workshop,
Networking,
Upcoming Events,
Relationships,
Discussion,
Connect,
Feedback,
Impact
