Selling Professional Development Techniques at a Resistant Shop
Selling Professional Development Techniques at a Resistant Shop
September 1, 2009
You've started using Subversion, you've drunk the frameworks Kool-Aid, and you go so far as to use an Ant script to launch ColdFusion Builder. There's only one problem, your co-workers don't want to join you. Worse still, your boss doesn't see the big deal, and upper management starts an anti-framework club. You don't want to leave but you can't fathom staying at a workplace that doesn't embrace progress. What do you do? You leave the technical behind, dust off those so called soft skills, and turn to politics to get the job done. This session will help you to identify all of the players on the opposing team, figure out their issues, determine what techniques to use to change their minds, and avoid turning into Machiavelli in the process. By the end of the session, you should have a set of concrete tactics and strategies to go back to your organization and start converting the masses.
