Alterconf Toronto 2015 - How NOT to Lose Friends and Alienate People... by Elizabeth Ferrao
Channel: Alter Conf
Date: 2015-11-06

How NOT to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Generating Physical and Language Awareness in the Workplace

Acquiring an awareness of physical surroundings and speech patterns is no joke - in fact, it is one of the most important skills discounted by engineers in today’s world. What other skills allow you to encourage a welcoming environment, increasing your team’s productivity as well as creativity? The exercises we’ll do have their roots in improvisation, but they’ve been tailored for every engineer to take their first steps as a spatially and communicatively aware person.

Will provide resources for imparting your enlightenment to your team, eventually allowing all technology teams to profit from an “aware” environment. After all, the first step to inclusion is an awareness of exclusion.