Building peer relationships
Course details
This is an essential course for tech leaders aiming to excel in the ever-evolving tech landscape. This course is tailored for those transitioning into leadership roles, current leaders looking to enhance their interpersonal skills, and anyone involved in collaborative tech projects. It's designed to empower tech professionals with the skills necessary for building strong, collaborative relationships with peers, a cornerstone for successful leadership in the tech industry.
Participants will learn to transform their approach to peer interactions, emphasizing collaboration and mutual respect. The course teaches how to foster a culture of healthy conflict, viewing peers as allies towards shared objectives and engaging in constructive communication. Developing advanced listening skills is a key part of the curriculum, enabling participants to truly understand and engage with their peers' perspectives. Additionally, the course offers practical strategies for positive influence, ensuring alignment of team efforts towards common goals. Participants will also learn to foster more collaborations across different teams, enabling them to confidently communicate technical aspects to non-technical audiences in an influential manner.
This course offers tech professionals a unique opportunity to develop interpersonal skills that are crucial for effective leadership and collaboration in the tech industry.
What you’ll learn
- Transform your approach to peer interactions: Focus on collaboration and mutual respect.
- Foster a culture of healthy conflict: Viewing your peers as allies in achieving shared objectives. and having constructive communication.
- Develop advanced listening skills: Truly understand and engage with the perspectives of your peers.
- Apply practical strategies to influence positively: Ensuring alignment of team efforts towards common goals.
- Foster more collaborations across different teams: To confidently communicate tech to non-tech audiences in an influential way
Lessons
Introduction
- Introduction
- The Role of Your Peer Relationships in Your Work
Communication
- Communicating Efficiently and Effectively
Influence
- Providing a vision and influencing people
Conflict
Your Peers as Advisors and Mentors
- Your Peers as Advisors and Mentors
Conclusion
- Conclusion
About the trainer
Andrew Murphy
Founder & Leadership Trainer
Andrew Murphy is a former software developer who has held various leadership positions in consultancies and SaaS companies like Linktree for over 10 years.
Andrew started out as a software developer and then progressed in his career to be manager and leader. Being a technical expert, probably like yourself, is great but Andrew learnt all the other important leadership skills to complement the technical skills he had in order to become an effective, less stressed and more confident tech leader.
By sharing his experiences, tools, and techniques, Andrew equips emerging and new tech leaders with the necessary skills for success in the workplace.
