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Notes from the Art of Negotiation Community of Practice

We had the privilege of having Niem Huynh, a professional and personal Life Coach, deliver a workshop about the Art of Negotiation at Algonquin on January 24.

View notes shared by Niem during her engaging session.

Why Women Volunteer for Tasks that Don’t Lead to Promotions

Participants of this community of practice session explored the question of why women volunteer for tasks that don’t lead to promotions.

The question was inspired by an article of the same name from the Harvard Business Review:

https://hbr.org/2018/07/why-women-volunteer-for-tasks-that-dont-lead-to-promotions

Gender Inclusive Classrooms

Participants of this community of practice engaged in a comprehensive discussion of factors influencing creation of a gender-inclusive classroom environment. These included:

  • Recognizing and teaching to differences in learning
  • The role of managing classroom dynamics to reduce the marginalization of female students
  • Modelling diversity in the field
  • The role of using different instructional practices play in promoting student success

Take a look at the summary notes of key discussion points.

Conscious Leadership – Building a Culture of Trust

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it — something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress,” Frei says.

Lean In

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

For more on the “Lean In” movement, made famous by Sheryl Sandberg in her book of the same name, check out:

Quiet Leadership/Revolution

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate TED Talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.

For more on “quiet leadership,” check out:

My Year of Saying Yes to Everything

Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. “When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling,” she says. She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God’s whisper in her ear. But what happens when it stops? Is she anything besides the hum? In this moving TED Talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her “year of yes” and find out how she got her hum back.

Brené Brown and Vulnerability in Leadership

Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny TED Talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.

Liked Brené Brown’s TED Talk? Check out the powerful “manifesto of the brave and brokenhearted” trailer for her book Rising Strong.