5:30 - Zoom Room Opens for Virtual Networking
6:00 - Welcome and Intro

David Mantica - “Core Power Skills Required in the Face of Rapid Change"

Business Analysts and SDLC professionals work in complicated and complex environments. You have critical work to complete but do not have the positional powerbase to “drive” your solutions and ideas forward as well as to “compel” people to engage you.  This requires strong “power skills” that enable you to work successfully in a matrix environment and drive your work / solutions forward.  

The power skills we will cover:

- Systems Thinking

- Critical Thinking

- Presents 

- Utilizing Silence

- Value Analysis

- Radical Candor

- Unlearning

We will dig into each power skills and discuss simple tools and techniques to build up these skills.  These are not practices or templates that you can learn and just do.  These are hard skills that take practice and require you to “stretch” and become comfortable when you make mistakes.

About David Mantica:

David Mantica is the VP and General Manager for SoftEd US. Fueled by his passion for developing empowered knowledge workers through training and coaching, he helps companies develop their teams with the critical skills to stay effective in the face of VUCA. 

Drawing from his experience having successfully building and selling his B2B training firm (growing it from $0 to $13M in seven years), David speaks on the impact of technology on leadership and management, helping organizations cope with the ever-changing demands and complexities of modern business. 

With over 27 years of experience and more than 700 speaking engagements, he has inspired better work practices in marketing, product management, project management, software development, executive management, and other key areas of technology and business operations.  

David resides in Raleigh-Durham, NC, where he provides consulting to business owners. Driven by his love for helping people grow while maintaining their mental health, he also mentors several rising executive leaders, providing pro bono career coaching services that utilize his Career Insurance methodology.

Registration required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-15-2022-stl-iiba-david-mantica-with-7-core-power-skills-tickets-464949174497

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