Category: Talks
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Leadership Meetup talk – Create the recognition your teams deserve
I had the opportunity to speak at the Engineering Leadership Meetup on 22nd May. Below are my notes from the talk. My talk was titled – Create the recognition your teams deserve. I’m certainly no expert on recognition but I do have a passion for building healthy tech cultures and I believe good recognition is…
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LeadDev Meetup talk – Turn leadership mistakes into a better future
I had the pleasure of speaking at the relaunch of LeadDev’s London Meetups on 11th April. Below are my notes from the talk. There’s no video recording of the evening. My talk was titled – Turn leadership mistakes into a better future. Leadership mistakes can be more visible and potentially have a big impact. They…
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Meetup talk: Building a Tech Culture at Medidata
As part of the TechHeads meetup on 30th July I gave talk titled – Building a Tech Culture at Medidata. It was followed by a YouTube Live Q&A. A tech culture can be hard to define and even harder to build. My talk covers some of the approaches used to build a tech culture at…
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Write a blog as though you were presenting at a conference
Does writing come naturally for you? For me it doesn’t, I keep at it because I find it’s a good way to develop ideas and share information. One thing that has helped me is the mindset I take while writing, that is pretending I’m presenting this blog to a room full of people at a…
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Video: the drastic effects of incivility
incivility – rude or unsociable speech or behaviour. This 15 minute TED talk by Christine Porath explains how incivility can have drastic effects on the teams and culture. She shares some powerful research showing the true cost incivility has but also simple steps on how we can avoid it by thanking people, sharing credit, listening…
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Recommended Reading – August 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… Maslow on Management Challenging blog looking into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Motivation. “The famous Golden Rule, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is a failure of empathy.” Leaders of a team have the responsibility to meeting each person…
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Scala Central meetup talk – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager
Below is the video of my debut meetup talk given at the Medidata Hammersmith office who hosted the Scala Central meetup on 2nd August. The talk was titled – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager. The slides are here. Below are links mentioned during the talk: Coursera The Functional Programming Principles in Scala References, Handbooks,…