Decoding Corporate for Fun & Profit

Decoding Corporate for Fun & Profit – Video

by Angela McConnell

Let’s face it: Corporate culture is an enigma. Business people speak in an inscrutable code where everything is implied and nothing is said outright. If you haven’t yet learned how to decode the corporate word salad, you can find yourself stranded in a foreign culture without the ability to speak the language and understand what’s going on.

Being able to translate the whispers, subtle shifts, and corporate rumblings happening around you every day is an essential career skill that will help you perceive of big shifts in the business that are coming, tailor your work to the real concerns of senior leadership, and confidently steer your career through layoffs, re-orgs, and strategy changes alike.

So if you find yourself completely confused and vaguely anxious when your COO says you need to drill down into the verticals to figure out the KPIs and deliverables for this project, then this is the talk for you. We’ll take a page out of the WWII codebreakers’ book and use the same tools they did to break the Enigma machine and translate intercepted German communication into valuable intel for the Allies.

Talk Outline

This talk will focus on making sense of the subtle language, behaviour, and power structures in the corporate world. We’ll cover

Who the major players are in a corporate structure (and their incentives)
How to use publicly available company information to intuit what’s happening behind closed doors
Common corporate patterns (and what they really mean!)
How to build and test your very own corporate crib sheet to help you stay aligned with corporate objectives

The goal of this talk is to help you read between the lines at work so you can navigate the corporate space with skill and intention.

Jeanine Longley

Product Leader

Jeanine works as a Product Manager at MakerSights; a company reducing waste in the retail industry by injecting data into the decisions of the retail product lifecycle. She is also the former President of ProductBC and is engaged in her local product community.

She's the kind of neurospicy that does well with finding patterns and politicking inside a corporate environment, with plenty of neurospicy friends who hate that stuff. So she decided to try to outline clearly for you all some tips and tricks to navigate!

If required; she can also provide tips and tricks for houseplant care, she has over 50 green friends in her home.

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