Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast

Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to help those teams to eventually manage themselves and succeed. I have been an agile coach and let me tell you, every team has its own unique challenges and successes. My guest today is a long time agile coach and many of us in this field seek for his advice to help us improve. Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices. He's published a few agile related books including Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond. We speak today about lessons to help your team and how can you also be a badass agile coach. If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/ Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at yadi@hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com

You and I have been on this situation. We are looking for a role, get an interview and then it's time to talk about salary expectations. Where do we even start here? How much can we ask for? What if they say no to my ask? Am I really asking for too much or too little? My guest today will help us navigate through these scenarios so you can develop the skill of negotiation. Brandon Bramley has over 10 years of experience in negotiating salaries and currently runs The Salary Negotiator, which provides professional job offer negotiation coaching and courses. Take about 30 minute to listen to this episode and you will walk away with the confidence to ask for what you deserve. Lets listen. If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/ Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at yadi@hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com

Tell me about your workplace. Are you in a place where there is rarely ANY conflicts, things are good on the surface that is. Or are you in a place where there are multiple fights? Or perhaps, you are in a place where conflict, that is, different ideas are welcomed. My guest today agrees that conflict can be a great tool for teams. Karin Hurt is the author, alongside David Dye, of Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict. She is the Founder of Let's Grow Leaders, a global, human-centered leadership development company known for practical tools and training that sticks. After this episode you would have learned tactics to deal with various situations of workplace conflicts that you can share with your teams so conflicts is no equal to fighting. If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/ Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at yadi@hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com

Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the end, the customer was not interested. What went wrong? They just don't get it, right? Perhaps you did not bothered to put yourself in the feet of the customer. You did not show enough empathy. Something similar happened to my guest jermy adamson. Jeremy is the author of the book Geek with Empathy. Jeremy is a leader in AI and analytics strategy, and has a broad range of experience in aviation, energy, financial services, retail, and public administration You will learn today how to build empathy with those around you to bring you better results at work. He say at the root of every tech problem there is an empathy problem. If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/ Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at yadi@hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com

Camilo Rojas, Ph.D., CEO of ProjectUs.ai, discusses using AI to develop empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication skills. They explore AI's impact on personal development, dispel misconceptions, and share insights on enhancing emotional intelligence in the workplace through AI technology.

How do I help my team become agile? Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS. If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have spoken to globally recognized authors, Harvard professors, military leaders, psychologists, pscyhitiatrics, people who have done scientific reserahc on how to become better at the so called "soft" skills to help you thrive in your career. I want to thank you for being with me in this learning journey. I started this alongside my graduate studies in Organizational Psychology at Harvard, and through my own career journey which at this time involves working with multiole technical teams to help them become high perfoming, and create an agile organization. This is why today I chose to highlight this topic of agility because it embodies what soft skills are about, how to integrate human dynamics to deliver a solution. In this episode I'll play some excerpts from some of the folks who co-created the famous Agile Manifesto, the base document for all things agile. Let's listen to Jeff Sutherland talking about what makes a great team, Jon Kern, on what we really need or don't need, to get things done faster, and Arie van Benekum on the essentials of collaboration.

Take inventory of your year and figure out what you really want - a new job, a new career, growth. Listen to executive coach and author Dr. Gary Crotaz's model for conducting a good self-assessment and defining your true path. Learn about the idea profile, a self-assessment tool to evaluate identity, direction, engagement, and authenticity.

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team. To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter. The feeling that management or even team members do not realize how much we contribute to a team is something I hear often. We usually hear the advice of 'just put your head down' do the work and it will be noticed.' But this is rarely the case and we just need to be more strategic about it. This is why when I read the book Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman, I knew I wanted her on the show. In the book and as she discusses in our conversation, she describes what disnguishes good employees vs those that really make an impct and seemed to be relied upon the most.

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team. To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter. If there is a skill I need help with, and I am sure you do to, is how to deal with difficult people. People who either may come at you screaming, or be condescending or whom we may simply be consider plain crazy. Sometimes we may be the crazy person in a situation. So I had the honor to speak with a psychiatrist about it. Dr Mark Goulston gave critical techniques on how to act during a moment of heated conversation.

Learn how to use body language in conversations to establish dominance and create a positive environment. Discover strategies for interpreting others' responses and engaging with supervisors. Understand the importance of displaying dominance and leveling the field with perceived threats.