Coaching and Communicating with Diverse Teams: CodeMash
CodeMash 2020 | Coaching & Communicating with Diverse Teams | Kiera Prioleau
What you'll learn
This isn't the standard lecture on what diversity means and why it matters. Research shows that diverse teams are more innovative, productive, and just interesting. Diversity encompasses more than gender and race, which creates challenges for development team members and managers. This session will help you overcome those challenges by helping senior and junior team members communicate more effectively. Kiera Prioleau will help you discover ways to tailor your communication style to fit the introverts and extroverts on your team. This knowledge will help you run effective deployments with both onsite and distributed teams. Through a production manager’s case study and other real-life examples, you'll leave with actionable steps for having a more successful, diverse, and creative development team.
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About the author
CodeMash is a unique event that educates developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held every January at the lush Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark. Nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so. It’s not just ... more