Location: Room 9-354
How do you get others to act on your ideas?
In this interactive GradEL workshop, you’ll learn and practice persuasive communication strategies that technical leaders use every day – whether it’s advocating for resources, influencing design decisions, or navigating tough conversations. Come ready to experiment with communication frameworks that will sharpen your ability to make your voice heard and your ideas stick.
This workshop offers a preview of the upcoming Spring GradEL course 6.S650 Persuasive Communication for Technical Leaders – giving you the chance to experience the skills in action and discover why you’ll want to master it next semester.
Leader:
Rachel Moore Best is passionate about translating skills, frameworks, and proven theory into actionable guidance for her students’ and clients’ current challenges. Her dynamic, hands-on approach to education has led her to teach in multiple arenas, including graduate-level negotiation courses for MIT, creative university programs, youth conferences, government agencies, and corporate audiences. Along with her work as an educator, Rachel is an experienced strategist and the founder of The Human Factor, a strategy firm focused on equipping organizations to negotiate the challenges of change within complex ecosystems. In this work, Rachel works with individuals from the executional level to the c-suite as they negotiate conflicting goals, organizational complexity, and human dynamics to close deals and form effective, sustainable teams. Her notable clients include Disney, NASA, and Boston Children’s Hospital.
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This workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership.