
Meetup for developing emerging leaders in tech. Facilitated by @hadynz and @aashiqdurga. 3rd Wed of month at 6pm. Interested in speaking? Our DMs are open!
Auckland, New Zealand
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The Leadership Grind retweeted
Senior Devs out there, this is table stakes

ALT Armored character “senior dev” protecting a jr dev from a flurry of incoming arrows labeled with common complains like “joining to slow”, or “missed deadline”. The senior dev says “Nice PR. You’re doing great so far” offering words of encouragement while standing between the jr dev and incoming dangers. Giving the jr dev time and space to grown, learn, and improve without being crushed.
Priya - work used to be categorised by red and blue - Doing and Thinking. We now have a need for a new green type of work - Connecting and Collaborting
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"Phygital" - a new post COVID term of matching the physical and digital experience and asking - is this the new norm?
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"When purpose and autonomy is missing, teams will be focusing on mastery" - @antzzzm on his observations on development teams and what to do to make them awesome
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It's the last Meetup for the year and we have quite the committee presence for our lightning talks night!
And we are back! @sukiXxiao kicking off our first meetup of 2020 sharing the secret ingredients for lasting change
Understanding the motivations of a person wanting to be promoted, with no judgments, helps a leader install a growth mindset in their report - Hernan Fernandez from @Xero on career development for engineers
Converting distrust and conflict into "harmonious" and creative conflict to nurture collaboration in teams - Grant Gurr from MYOB on high performing teams
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"I realized how interdependent my development of self as I learnt more about myself" - Priya at her lightning talk tonight on her self development journey
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And now we've got Priya talking about a very personal story on challenging her social norms in order to grow as a leader
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Value feedback in your organisation? Ask the candidate you are interviewing for feedback after the 1-2 hours that you've spent time together - @jjurkiewicz
If you work in collaborative environments, does your recruitment interviews reflect that? @jjurkiewicz on bringing your company values and ways of working in your rrcrutiment processes
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The Leadership Grind retweeted
Hosting the @LeaderGrind #AKL tonight in the @Xero office. Tonight’s theme - Emotional Intelligence 👍
Also in case you missed it, watch Abdallah Alayyan give a heartfelt recollection of his very personal story during the #ChristchurchAttacks youtu.be/fIhHPfN1QmY
Missed our special edition meetup on Leadership during crisis? Watch Ouadhah Ragued tell his story first-hand about he stumbled into a leadership position in driving the complicated burials process during the #ChristchurchAttacks youtu.be/Me2wRlxby-Y
The Leadership Grind retweeted
Some very thought provoking conversations being had on building diverse and inclusive tech teams. Thanks to @WomenInTechAKL for organising this @TechweekNZ event at @Xero AKL HQ – at Auckland, New Zealand
The Leadership Grind retweeted
Self to others: interpersonal skills like collaboration, rapport building, listening
Others to environment: flexibility, observation, situational management
Self to env: understand organisational vision and values and how they align with your own
@ResultsCoachNZ @LeaderGrind
The Leadership Grind retweeted
Want to know what your values are? Answer these three questions:
1) what's most important to you in life?
2) what's most important to you in life?
3) what's most important to you in life?
@ResultsCoachNZ @LeaderGrind – at Auckland, New Zealand
The Leadership Grind retweeted
Insight at tonight's @LeaderGrind #meetup from @ResultsCoachNZ: "What do Vegan Zombies want?"
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"Grains"
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