Own your tech career soft skills for technologists
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Shelter Island, New York :
Manning
[2021]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009633549306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Own Your Tech Career
- Copyright
- contents
- front matter
- preface
- acknowledgments
- about this book
- liveBook discussion forum
- about the author
- about the cover illustration
- Introduction
- 1 Own your career
- 1.1 Job, career, success, and self
- 1.2 Start at the beginning: With yourself
- 1.3 What does success look like for you?
- 1.4 Creating a career plan for right now
- 1.5 Action items
- 2 Build and maintain your brand
- 2.1 Brand building: Know your audience
- 2.2 Social media and your brand
- 2.3 Your brand has a wide reach
- 2.4 Professionalism and your brand
- 2.5 How to sabotage your brand
- 2.6 Further reading
- 2.7 Action items
- 3 Network
- 3.1 Why networking?
- 3.2 The problem with digital communications
- 3.3 Ideas for in-person networking
- 3.4 Ideas for online networking
- 3.5 Etiquette for networking
- 3.5.1 In person
- 3.5.2 On LinkedIn
- 3.6 Becoming a confident networker
- 3.7 Action items
- 4 Be part of a technology community
- 4.1 The value of community to your career
- 4.2 Yes, you're worthy of contributing
- 4.3 Ways to contribute and participate
- 4.4 Etiquette for participating
- 4.4.1 On Q&
- A websites
- 4.4.2 In open source projects
- 4.5 Action items
- 5 Keep your tech skills fresh and relevant
- 5.1 Fresh vs. relevant
- 5.2 Deciding what's relevant
- 5.2.1 Proficient, not expert
- 5.2.2 Where to focus
- 5.3 Building strong learning muscles
- 5.4 Learning media
- 5.5 Assessing your relevancy
- 5.6 Tips for lifelong daily learning
- 5.7 Further reading
- 5.8 Action items
- 6 Show up as a professional
- 6.1 Be your word
- 6.1.1 Never promise what you cannot deliver
- 6.1.2 Always deliver what you promise
- 6.1.3 Be easy to work with
- 6.2 Be detailed and precise
- 6.3 Cut your losses when the time is right.
- 6.4 Let Blue Sky mode happen
- 6.5 Draw a yellow line
- 6.6 Action items
- 7 Manage your time
- 7.1 Discipline, procrastination, and laziness
- 7.2 Time management
- 7.2.1 Time inventory: The TimeFlip technique
- 7.2.2 Time rationing: The Pomodoro technique
- 7.2.3 Time catalog: Knowing your capabilities
- 7.3 Multitasking
- 7.4 Action items
- 8 Handle remote work
- 8.1 The challenges of being remote
- 8.2 Creating a space
- 8.3 Creating a space when you have no space
- 8.4 Working with family
- 8.5 Adopting a routine
- 8.6 Explicitly defining a culture
- 8.7 Networking like you're in the office
- 8.8 Remote work: Permanent or temporary?
- 8.9 Action items
- 9 Be a team player
- 9.1 The ups and downs of teams
- 9.2 A checklist for being a better team player
- 9.3 Dealing with less-effective teams and teammates
- 9.4 Contributing to an inclusive workplace
- 9.4.1 Help
- 9.4.2 Offer respect and support
- 9.5 Further reading
- 9.6 Action items
- 10 Be a team leader
- 10.1 The decision to lead
- 10.2 Leadership vs. management
- 10.3 The leader's path
- 10.4 Getting into their context
- 10.5 Leading positively
- 10.6 Mistakes leaders make
- 10.7 Leadership beyond leading
- 10.8 Before moving into leadership
- 10.8.1 Don't get promoted to your level of incompetence
- 10.8.2 Learn leadership
- 10.8.3 Measure your own success
- 10.9 Further reading
- 10.10 Action items
- 11 Solve problems
- 11.1 Problem-solving vs. troubleshooting
- 11.2 Clearly state the problem
- 11.3 Identify your levers
- 11.4 Negotiating solutions
- 11.5 Action items
- 12 Conquer written communications
- 12.1 Communicating is telling a story
- 12.1.1 The rules of storytelling
- 12.1.2 Applying storytelling to business communication
- 12.1.3 What about mundane, everyday communication?
- 12.2 Facing our fear of communicating.
- 12.2.1 Analyze the causes of your fear
- 12.2.2 Address the causes of your fear
- 12.2.3 Conquer fear in written communications
- 12.3 Applying structure to your storytelling
- 12.4 Practice, practice, practice
- 12.5 Common written defeaters
- 12.5.1 Avoid passive voice
- 12.5.2 Prune that flowery garden
- 12.6 Action items
- 13 Conquer verbal communications
- 13.1 Stepping up to verbal communications
- 13.2 Conquering your fear of speaking
- 13.2.1 Fear of not having all the answers
- 13.2.2 Fear of being judged
- 13.3 Common verbal defeaters
- 13.4 Finding the right amount of assertive
- 13.5 Persuasion and the art of listening
- 13.6 Action items
- 14 Resolve conflicts
- 14.1 Conflict can be healthy and even deliberate
- 14.2 Seeking context
- 14.3 Returning to first principles
- 14.4 Relying on data
- 14.5 Using decision-making frameworks
- 14.6 A win doesn't matter as much as the outcome
- 14.7 Action items
- 15 Be a data-driven, critical thinker
- 15.1 In business, never "believe"
- 15.2 Be a data-driven, critical thinker
- 15.3 Be data-driven
- 15.4 Beware the data
- 15.5 Further reading
- 15.6 Action items
- 16 Understand how businesses work
- 16.1 Businesses are people too
- 16.1.1 Businesses and their relationships
- 16.1.2 Customers and employees
- 16.1.3 One-sided relationships
- 16.1.4 Dealing with changes in the relationship
- 16.2 How businesses really make money
- 16.3 What does your business sell?
- 16.3.1 Example 1: Terri's International Bulbs
- 16.3.2 Example 2: Martin's Theme Parks
- 16.3.3 Example 3: Pat's Fruity Clothing
- 16.3.4 Know the details of the business
- 16.4 Understanding risk and reward
- 16.5 Further reading
- 16.6 Action items
- 17 Be a better decision-maker
- 17.1 Deciding who decides: Decision-making frameworks
- 17.2 Deciding what to do: OKRs, rocks, and pebbles.
- 17.2.1 Rocks and pebbles
- 17.2.2 OKRs
- 17.2.3 Priorities, priorities
- 17.3 Deciding what to drop: Opportunity cost
- 17.4 Deciding what's enough: Good, better, best
- 17.5 Deciding what to believe: Being data-driven
- 17.6 Deciding together: How to negotiate
- 17.7 Further reading
- 17.8 Action items
- 18 Help others
- 18.1 Why help?
- 18.2 Yes, you can
- 18.2.1 The toxic relationships that keep us from teaching
- 18.2.2 You are definitely worthy of teaching
- 18.3 How humans learn
- 18.4 The value of repetition
- 18.5 Getting in and doing it
- 18.6 Why analogies work . . . and how they can fail
- 18.7 Do it like Socrates
- 18.8 The importance of sequencing
- 18.9 Rest time is crucial
- 18.10 Further reading
- 18.11 Action items
- 19 Be prepared for anything
- 19.1 What can happen?
- 19.2 Basic preparedness goals
- 19.3 Cash on hand and credit
- 19.4 Social safety nets
- 19.5 Insurance
- 19.6 Prestaged job hunt tools
- 19.7 Action items
- 20 Business math and terminology for technologists
- 20.1 How much do you cost?
- 20.2 Reading a P&
- L statement
- 20.2.1 Revenue
- 20.2.2 Expenses
- 20.3 Averages
- 20.4 OpEx and CapEx
- 20.4.1 Understanding the two types of expenses
- 20.4.2 Driving business decisions
- 20.5 Business architecture
- 20.6 Further reading
- 20.7 Action items
- 21 Tools for the modern job hunt
- 21.1 Job hunt tasks to do now
- 21.2 Review your brand
- 21.2.1 Your professional brand and the job hunt
- 21.2.2 Reviewing your public footprint
- 21.2.3 How would others describe your brand?
- 21.3 Update your résumé
- 21.3.1 Résumé rules
- 21.3.2 Starting your résumé
- 21.3.3 Every résumé is unique
- 21.3.4 Analyze the job posting
- 21.3.5 Writing your résumé
- 21.3.6 Formatting your résumé
- 21.3.7 Should you hire a résumé writer?
- 21.4 Nailing the interview.
- 21.5 Understanding compensation packages
- 21.5.1 Compensation package elements
- 21.5.2 Negotiating your compensation package
- 21.6 Further reading
- 21.7 Action items
- index.
