Back to 2024 AgendaThe Soft Skill That Pays Hard Dividends: Facilitation in Tech
🕓 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM📍 Room 7 - Platinum Terrace (Lv 2)We often get excited about hard skills like coding and data analysis. But there's a hidden super skill that can dramatically boost your team's productivity, creativity, and satisfaction that you might not have considered.
Enter facilitation – the unsung hero of happy, high-performing tech teams.
Got conflict? Try facilitation.
Got scope creep? Enter facilitation.
Got silos? Misaligned priorities? Low morale? Resistance to change? Cultural differences? You guessed it - facilitation's your friend.
Strengthening your facilitation muscles is a cheat code to building a more confident, capable, and connected team.
You don't need to call in a professional, full time facilitator. In fact, if you run meetings, train new starters, lead project check-ins or retros...you're already facilitating! But just because you're doing it, doesn't mean you're doing it with ease.
In this talk, you'll hear about use cases for technical teams, and the three main things to focus on to kick-start or level up your facilitating skills.

Shani Wende