Currently Happening @ Agical
A Full Day With Linda Rising
When: March 10th, 9 am -- 5 pm.
Where: Agical's Conference Room, Västerlånggatan 79, Stockholm
Price: SEK 4.900 (excl VAT). This includes lunch och refreshments
Do not miss the opportunity to meet Linda Rising, one of our field's most insightful persons! Linda always delivers extraordinarily interesting, stimulating and relevant presentations! Satisfaction guaranteed!
Topics Treated
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
We attend conferences or read books and articles and discover new ideas we want to bring into our organizations—but we often struggle when trying to implement those changes. Unfortunately, those introducing change are not always welcomed with open arms. Linda Rising offers proven change management strategies to help you become a more successful agent of change in your organization. In addition to using these approaches to change your organization, you can use them to make changes in your own life. Linda shows how the lessons from her book, "Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas", can help you succeed.
Influence Strategies for Technical Folks
You’ve tried and tried to convince people of your position. You’ve laid out your logical arguments on impressive PowerPoint slides—but you are still not able to sway them. Cognitive scientists understand that the approach you are taking is rarely successful. Often you must speak to others’ subconscious motivators rather than their rational, analytic side.
Linda Rising shares influence strategies that you can use to more effectively convince others to see things your way. These strategies take advantage of a number of hardwired traits: “liking”—we like people who are like us; “reciprocity”—we repay in kind; “social proof”—we follow the lead of others similar to us; “consistency”—we align ourselves with our previous commitments; “authority”—we defer to authority figures; and “scarcity”—we want more of something when there is less to be had. Learn how to build on these traits as a way of bringing others to your side. Use this valuable toolkit in addition to the logical left-brain techniques on which we depend.
Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception. It seems we are overly optimistic, and, in fact, we wouldn't have survived without this trait. With this built-in bias as a starting point, it's almost impossible for us to estimate accurately. That doesn't mean all is lost. We must simply accept that our estimates are best guesses and continually re-evaluate as we go, which is, of course, the agile approach to managing change. Linda Rising has been part of many plan-driven development projects where sincere, honest people with integrity wanted to make the best estimates possible and used many “scientific” approaches to make it happen—all for naught. Re-estimation was regarded as an admission of failure to do the best up-front estimate and resulted in a lot of overhead and meetings to try to “get it right.” Offering examples from ordinary life—especially from the way people eat and drink—Linda demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and helps us learn to avoid the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us.
Registration
Email: rising [at] agical [dot] com
Phone: +46-708-754000
Last day for registration: 2010-03-05
Intended Audience
Everyone involved in change in particular people leading change, for instance leaders, coaches, team leads, software architetcs, ScrumMasters, consultants.