Friday, 4:00pm, Continental Ballroom
Different kinds of teams require different kinds of management, and a one size fits all approach to leading may not work in every situation. How does a manager deal with an inherited team, rather than a team she hand-picked? Sometimes a manager has to motivate someone who applied for that manager’s job - and is extremely resentful. What about the differences between innies and outies?
Join me as I share stories from both managers and individual contributors about how they either inspired their teams to do great things or how things fell apart. You’ll hear about the good stuff and the bad stuff; what in retrospect we would have done differently - and come out with some tips for your particular situation.
I will talk about communication styles, team exercises like design sessions and reviews, sharing work, mentoring and ways to foster a sense of community - all through real-life examples. You’ll walk out with ideas on how to keep teams focused, improve collaboration, and keep people happy and engaged.
INSTRUCTOR
Dorelle Rabinowitz
Dorelle Rabinowitz is an artist, designer, information architect, and storyteller. A native New Yorker, she now lives on the West coast where the weather is always nice and she actually owns a car. Currently, Dorelle leads the Design Systems Group at eBay, creating and maintaining a design system (patterns, guidelines & processes) that ensures a holistic customer experience. Previously, she directed user experience design teams at Google and Yahoo!, was an experience lead at SBI.Razorfish and produced Oxygen.com’s “Our Stories” site. In the past she was on the advisory board of the IAI, and was an editor of Boxes and Arrows. A graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Dorelle also holds a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design.