Alla Zollers Presents: Are You Designing Your Professional Relationships?
- March 26 · 6:30 PM
Our job is to be professional communicators. We communicate our thought process through our deliverables, we work to get buy-in for our solutions, we advocate for the end-user, and often act as the translator between the end-user, the business, and development. The biggest challenge that we face as professionals is that our communication is not always effective.
When communication breaks down, confusion and resistance emerge. You suddenly find yourself feeling frustrated, not heard or valued. The key is to set yourself up for success by explicitly designing your relationships with clients, stakeholders, managers, and co-workers. Regardless of your role—be it consultant, agency, or in-house—good working relationships are vital to your success.
The purpose of designing the relationship is to:
• Establish an alliance
• Create a safe space for communication to occur
• Gain mutual trust
• Empower each other and understand how best to work together
In this talk, I will present invaluable exercises, scripts, and questions that you can use to:
• Get out of your own way
• Identify your core values so that you are able to communicate your needs to others and request the same in return
• Vet the next job or project to make sure that its the right fit for you
• Design a relationship with every person on your team—from manager to co-worker—to ensure that you are empowered to do your job and set yourself up for success.
About Alla Zollers:
Alla is a passionate UX consultant and coach. She helps companies, teams and individuals achieve greater clarity, meaning, performance and success. Alla has eight years of experience in the UX field helping companies with the entire design process, from discovery research to strategy, wireframe design and evaluation. Alla is also a certified coach who helps to wake you up to your life so that you don’t just live the length of your life but the width and depth of it as well.
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Yingying
Thanks for the great event! Here's my take aways from Alla's talk - "Design Better Professional Relationships" http://www.yingyingz.com/2013/0...
1 · March 27
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Francesca B
What a concept...that you can actually talk through your working relationship with your team. Great topic.
1 · March 26
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Nicholas Macauley
Great event. I took away quite a few things and look forward to the next event.
1 · March 26
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Kate Rutter
Great to see everyone. Listening to my saboteurs and inviting them to go on a long vacation. ;) also, posted some sketchnotes. Sorry for the duplicate post.
1 · March 26
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Suyash Joshi
I think there is another meetup at Runway tonight so don't be at the other one.
March 26
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Suyash Joshi
this is the other event at the same location looks like: http://www.svandroid....
March 26
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dan turner
On that topic: when does the waitlist get cleared? That is, should I head over from the East Bay, or give up my waitlist position?
March 26
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Eric Bell
Alack! I'll be at the IA Summit in Baltimore. Clearly this is not my month for making Lean UX events. I am, for the record, interested in notes on tomorrow's presentation...but I'll conspire to obtain those on my own.
March 25
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Alla Zollers
Eric, I'll be at the IA Summit and will give this talk in a flex track. Catch it then or just find me and we can chat :)
2 · March 25
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Nicholas Macauley
Great topic. Would love to attend but still at the bottom of the waiting list. Hopefully another can be scheduled?
2 · March 25
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Andie Mock
Hoo boy. The problems at work are technically trivial compared to the emotional/political.
1 · March 8
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ThoughtWorks
Community glue.
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