Rowan Weissmiller - How To Develop A Shared Language For Your Team

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1. Putting Our Words to Work Rowan Weismiller or @rowbot_weisguy
2. Designer, developer, nacho critic
3. I have no real authority on this, or any topic
4. I want to empower you!
5. What I want to do tonight: • Create a distinction around language • Share: how does that show up in my life? • Share: how does that show up in your life?
6. - introduction - Language in the wild - sharing break - Language in the workplace - sharing break - Commitment - fin -
7. Language in the Wild
8. The Nacho Club
9. Fig 1. Guacajizz
12. Internetz!
16. Sharing time!
17. Language in the Workplace
18. Once upon a Wordpress site build…
19. • The writer • The designer • The VP • The automator • The campaigner • The analyst
21. “Not My Job. Three words can kill an entire organization.” Seth Godin
22. “Take them with you.”
23. Doctor Rabbi Lawyer
24. Remember the ‘xml http thing’?
25. Sharing time!
26. Commitment Through Language
27. Commitment
28. You must fully understand the meaning in the language being used in order to meaningfully commit.
29. Let’s hang out “soon”
30. It’ll be “done” on Monday
31. “From 1 to 5, how would you rate these nachos’ flavour?”
32. What can we do?
33. Technique #1: Ask brave questions.
34. “I’ve been working on it for a while but… can somebody remind me why this project matters?”
35. Technique #2: Expose your ignorance.
36. “I wrote down my initial thoughts in this document, but I still don’t know how most of this should work. Can you take a look when you get a chance?”
37. Technique #3: Repeat after them.
38. “I hear you. You want to launch on that day because the campaign is already scheduled to go out that day, and it’ll take extra hours of your time to reschedule it. That’s what we need to do, and we need your help.”
39. Ask questions courageously. Be brave about what you don’t know. Make sure you understand others’ points of view very well before you debate them.
40. That’s all I’ve got! Thanks Rowan Weismiller or @rowbot_weisguy