Supporting your teams, creating culture & resolving conflict
October 23, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom St, Manchester M3 4AP
Date & Time: Wednesday 23rd October, 2024 6:00PM - 8:30PM
(Learn, Develop, Recycle) A leadership community to share experiences and learnings across the technology and software engineering space.
Guest Speaker: Danielle Summers, Tech Lead, Redgate Software
15 years experience covering the full Microsoft stack including modern web development, half a decade in management.
Championing cultures of trust, respect, and acceptance.
Having worked with many international brands with multi-national presences across North America, EMEA, and Asia (e.g. Sony, GSK, NCAA & Tesco to name a few), plus local public-sector businesses, Intimately familiar with mentoring
and leading engineering teams to deliver.
Topic: Developer Culture
Developer culture has changed rapidly over the last 20 years, from silo'd tech teams to a pivotal part of modern life. Growing pains and conflict points surround every team and friction between teams continues to hamper staff retention, individual engagement and product delivery.
I'll be exploring several of the challenging cultures and behaviours that I've encountered in my career and how I turned them around, empowering individuals and teams while enhancing synergy.
Guest Speaker: Phil Larkin, Tech Lead, NBrown
Best known as being the nosiest tech lead in NBrown, Philip dedicates a portion of his work and personal time to advocating for community.
In a post covid world, it's more important than ever to connect with people in the same field as you. Philip has run hackathons and set up round table discussions within the companies that he's worked, and always feels there is more that
be done for his people!
Topic: Conflict Resolution - Turn arguments into wins!
Some tips and tricks for turning conflict into win-win situations. The talk will cover - What even is a conflict? How to deescalate a bad situation. And why to put the effort into studying this topic.
Examples all come from real life conflicts that Philip has faced in his journey to be a better people manager.
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