Boston UX content meetup—Kickoff!

Join us at the Boston Public Library for our fist in-person meetup where you'll meet fellow UX content professionals in the Boston area, participate in learning or teaching opportunities, and benefit from some much needed human connection and support for your content career.

We're so thrilled to have Jane Ruffino, a Boston native, to kick off our meetups with a talk: Facilitative leadership: How I stopped trying to fix everything and learned to focus on relationships.

Info: Facilitative leadership: How I stopped trying to fix everything and learned to focus on relationships.

I’m allergic to the concept of “stakeholder management.” This framing makes it too easy to regress into “I can fix them” energy, or, even worse, to see people as adversaries before we understand their motivations. So what happens if we decide to focus on building relationships, on choosing which parts of ourselves we bring to those efforts? The good news is that doing this has helped me see people and teams more clearly. The bad news is also that it’s helped me see people and teams more clearly—but the difference is what I do about it.

I’ll talk about some things I’ve learned the hard way, as a career consultant. You’ll meet some of my inner animal analogy menagerie as I talk through some things that have worked for me, and a few that haven't. I learned this the hard way so you don’t have to.

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