Find Your Spark!
Self-Mentoring and Inspiration Via Personal Stories

About the Workshop

May 10th, 2014 08:00-10:00

This workshop leverages inspiring stories from talented women in technology to facilitate a discussion around personal inventory of skills, personality and approaches to many of the career issues faced in one's career. Harnessing the power of stories enables us all to be more persuasive, move people to action, and progress into our careers.

This highly interactive, hands-on workshop will:

Identify the skills of the women telling the stories, how they gained new skills, how they solved problems, and how they moved their careers forward
Help us all learn from both the stories and each other
Ask participants to consider skills they would use in potentially similar situations
Provide each participant with an upgraded "toolkit" and the ability to extract inspiration and skills from other stories to create and tell their own stories

How It Works

In this workshop, participants examine techniques, skills, and lessons they can take from a story, as well as brainstorm and discuss how they might approach a similar scenario, learn from the storyteller, and help potential storytellers write their own stories.

The goal is not to just learn a particular technique employed by the storyteller, but to incorporate and leverage principles to match and leverage their own personal styles. A technique that works well for someone very gregarious might be ineffective for someone very shy and reserved. In small groups, workshop participants will explore different approaches, and learn how to read and evaluate someone else's story. The result will be gaining skills and new potential approaches to difficult situations.

Take Away

All attendees will leave with new ideas to catapult their career to the next level.
All attendees will learn how to self-mentor and motivate through inspirational stories.
All attendees will learn how to apply someone else's experiences to their own and how to learn and grow from the story and their personal experiences.
Everyone will leave with the ability to extract inspiration and skills from others' stories.

About Anita's Quilt

Anita's Quilt has emerged as a dynamic, online resource for women in computing, particularly designed to inspire those new to computing, created through grassroots efforts initiated by several Anita Borg Institute advisory board members, and engaging a much larger community of women in computing.

Visit Anita's Quilt at anitasquilt.org or follow us on Twitter @AnitasQuilt

Find Your Spark Team