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• Influence without Authority workshop

  • When
    10 Jan 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Do you want to…

  • Effortlessly get buy-in for your ideas?
  • Earn a ‘seat at the table’ where strategic decisions are made?
  • 10x your impact, without working any more hours?
  • Consistently get the budget and resources you need to be successful?
  • Ensure that UX, and the customer experience, is consistently top of mind?
  • Position yourself for that big promotion?

  If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this workshop is for you.

  As you get more senior in your career - your ability to be successful is no longer only about your intellect, drive or creativity. It becomes driven by your ability to get other people to buy-in to your ideas and to get them to (happily!) help you execute to bring them to life.

  This skill is not something that is taught in school, or in most corporate leadership trainings - but it is what makes the difference between your work feeling fun and easy with new opportunities constantly coming your way and feeling frustrated that it is ‘impossible to get anything done’ or ‘no one cares about the work I do.’

  That is why Christine created this workshop - to bring the skills she honed working as an executive in complex organizations for over 20 years - earning a seat at the table, getting buy-in from CEOs and c-suite leaders for my ideas and successfully bringing cross-functional projects to life with a team of over 200 people who did not report into me - to help YOU influence your peers and senior leaders!

  This workshop is intimate (15 people max) and highly interactive so you can both learn the in-depth ‘tricks of the trade’ from someone who has been there and done that, AND so YOU can discover your unique influencing style and get personalized coaching for how to bring what you learn to life in a way that feels authentic to you.

  In this half day workshop you will:

  1. Learn to communicate in a way that breaks through the noise through the art and the science of storytelling
  2. Identify your own unique influencing style and strengths so you can lean into it to influence in a way that is authentic to you
  3. Learn how and when to flex your style by learning how to ‘read the room’ AND what to do in advance of any conversations so you set yourself up for success
  4. Level up your confidence and mindset so you can consistently show up as someone others want to listen to and handle pushback and objections
  5. Get individualized coaching on tricky scenarios you are dealing with right now

  There will be some reflection exercises pre-work for all attendees so we can maximize the impact of the session.

  Agenda (Friday January 10 afternoon)

  2 - 2:15pm: Introductions & Icebreakers

  2:15 - 3:30pm: Identify your unique style and strengths & learn how & when to flex your style
  - Mix of teachings from Christine and exercises to deepen your own learning

  3:30 - 4:15pm: Show up as the person people want to listen to
  - Mindset and confidence exercises you can use anytime to show up as your best self

  4:15 - 5pm: Open coaching - Christine will help you navigate challenging situations with individualized support - you will learn as much from your own questions as you do from others!

  If you use the tools and exercises Christine gives in this workshop regularly in your work life, you’ll start to notice that it’s easier to get that extra headcount for your team, you get invited to the meeting you aren’t usually included in, a senior executive starts reaching out for your perspective… and you’ll know that it’s working!

  You get:
  

  • Access to Christine - an executive coach with 20 years of real work influencing experience to personally help you level up your game
  • Practical tools and tips to increase your communication and influence skills
  • An understanding of your strengths and unique style so you know what you can do to be EVEN more effective
  • Practice ‘ reading the room’
  • More confidence in your abilities - which is the ultimate key to becoming more influential!
  • Executive coaching at a fraction of the price!

  Want to know more about your coach?  Watch Coach Christine and the power of influence in a quick 3 minute video.

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• The Health of our Discipline: Assessment, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prescription

  • When
    16 Jan 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  ABSTRACT: Karel assesses the health of our discipline given the precipitous and disproportionate decrease in UX job postings and increase in UX job losses. He then diagnoses the causes, provides a prognosis, and outlines a prescription for a very healthy future for the discipline.

  

  PRESENTER: Karel Vredenburg has had a long and successful career as a design executive, most recently as the Global Vice President of UX Research at IBM. He led design worldwide at IBM for most of his three decades with the company, implemented Enterprise Design Thinking into each of the business units of the company globally -software, services, systems, and sales - as well as to hundreds of other companies, typically working with their C-suite level executives and boards.

  He was responsible for IBM’s global design leadership, the company’s internal profession and culture of design, and the design organization’s external engagement and academic programs. He headed up the Design Executive Team of senior design executives which governs the 3,000-person design organization, the Design Leadership Board which governs the promotions of IBM’s Design Principals and Distinguished Designers, and the 150-person strong design leadership community, both technical and managerial.

  Karel has founded and led international projects such as the COVID-19 Design Challenge with the World Design Organization and Design for America and also the Future of Design Education initiative alongside design visionary Don Norman. Currently, he co-founded and currently leads the Habits for a Better World project with filmmaker Carly Williams, addressing global challenges like climate change, animal and human suffering, food insecurity, human health, and biodiversity loss through research-driven, documentary-inspired behavior change.

  Karel blogs on design, technology, and optimizing the human experience at karelvredenburg.com and transformed his within company mentoring into a popular podcast Life Habits Podcast which is available on all podcast apps.

  He did undergraduate, masters, and doctoral studies at the University of Toronto initially in cognitive science and clinical psychology which later led to research, specialization, and his life-long passion for, practice of, and leadership in design and research. Karel is based in Toronto, Canada.

  Agenda
  

  7:00pm  (Toronto time) - Presentation via ZOOM
  8:00 to 8:30pm - Q&A and networking on ZOOM (optional)

  Zoom link will be provided to registrants
  
  

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