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Category Archives: Communication skills
Improv Training Helps to Enjoy The Randomness of Public Speaking
Now living in a lush quiet suburban New Jersey Princeton area, I miss exactly two things about New York City: the food scene and my improv classes. If I move to a big city yet again, improv training will be … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Panels, Public speaking, Women in technology
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Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee
I am finding it exceptionally rewarding to be serving on the Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee, that is, reviewing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference travel grant applications. I’ve served on this committee in 2015 and 2016, and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Conferences, Highlights, Ph.D., Tips and tricks, Uncategorized, Women in technology
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I Wish I Could Dance: Science Magazine Dance Your PhD Contest
Science Magazine announced its 9th annual Dance Your PhD Contest — a competition for best explaining your PhD research in an interpretive dance.
Posted in Academia, Communication skills, Creativity, Graduate school, Humor, Perspectives, Ph.D.
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Improvisation Theater Training for Creativity and Communication Skills
An activity that enhances both creativity and communication skills — wouldn’t that be a fun activity to try? Uri Alon, a scientist at Weizmann Institute of Science, promotes creativity of improvisation theater training as similar to creativity of truly innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, Creativity, Humor, Public speaking, Tips and tricks
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New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Management, New business models, Uncategorized
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PM Candidates: Ask Questions, Please
All job candidates, for all jobs everywhere, should know to ask questions of their interviewers when prompted. The answer to “Do you have any questions for me?” ought to be never be “no“, for any position. But especially for PM … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Industry, Management, Skills, Tips and tricks
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Do not Call People “Resources”
Managers: if you call your people “resources”, they get to call you “overhead”. Calling people “resources” must be one of the worst habits of the different kinds of managers. Yeah, that is the terminology used in the Project Management Professional … Continue reading
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Value of Meetings
Recent results from a study on how one hour of executives’ meetings propagates to hundreds of thousands of hours across the organization are not at all surprising, but its good to see the actual numbers beautifully visualized. The Guardian has … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, In the news, Management, Skills
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