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Resources For Students
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Resources For Professionals
Learn strategies designed to inspire and drive results without relying on traditional command and control authority. This comprehensive guide offers practical techniques to foster motivation, enhance collaboration, and empower individuals to take ownership of their tasks. Learn how to create an environment where team members understand their roles and are energized to contribute to shared goals.
Master the essential administrative tasks that are crucial for effective management, including goal setting and performance management. Take the opportunity to learn how to set not only effective goals as a manager but also as an individual contributor within your team or organization. This understanding can significantly enhance both personal and team productivity.
Effective technical communication is pivotal in ensuring that complex information is conveyed clearly and accurately. It begins with the essential step of defining the right problem (content). Content must then must align with the intent of the message (format) so that it can be delivered in a way that gives people a convenient way to act (delivery).
Frequently Asked Questions
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There are many venues and improv programs that play off the phrase “laugh out loud.” Lead Out Loud is both a play on words (Lead) and an homage to improv comedy (Out Loud).
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Leadership Essentials is an immersive workshop experience designed for great engineers who want to be effective leaders.
Using techniques from improv comedy, Agile software development, and great literary works such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, it provides a safe environment for participants to practice what “messy learning.” Put simply, it’s failure without consequence.
Fail in a workshop so you can succeed with your team.
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Live Leadership Essentials workshops are designed as three one-hour modules. The rest of the LOL Lounge content is designed to be reviewed in chunks of ~15 minutes or less.
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Absolutely! Lead Out Loud workshops are conducted in cohorts. Each cohort has 5-6 people in it. For larger teams, multiple cohorts are used.
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The idea of failing fast is to find what doesn’t work as quickly as possible so you can invest in what does work.
Software developers use a project management methodology called Agile to break down work into small chunks called “sprints.” Each sprint is usually very short—a week or two—and intended to bring a new feature to life based on customer needs. By breaking down work into these sprints, if something isn’t right—doesn’t work, not what the customer wanted, etc.—the only time lost is however long the sprint was. Rather than scrapping an entire project worth of work, the team can pivot and fix what failed with minimal losses.
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Yes! Join the LOL Lounge to check out the content. If you’d like to arrange for a live workshop with your team, just reach out.