#8 techBytes: Distraction management for leaders

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Hello everyone,

We’re excited to invite you to our next techBytes meetup @Ocado Technology. This time, we will explore challenges that most of leaders (both technical and organisational) stumble upon during their daily work.

Challenges that impact everyone’s productivity and bring about a certain amount of discomfort.

Join us and discover how to manage change even if you don’t agree, and how to deal with information overflow and context switching that drains your focus and mental capabilities.

Main organisational information:

• Please arrive 10 minutes (17:50) early to take a seat, as we’ll start at 18:00 (6:00 P.M.) at our office, located on Szewska 8 Street (Wrocław Old Town). The entrance to the building is next to Green Caffè Nero.
• Our Ocado team will welcome you at the ground level and help you with the registration before the event.
• After the talks, we invite you to the networking part over beers and pizza :)

AGENDA

18:00 - Grab a drink and take a seat

18:05 - Intro

18:10 - 18:50

Speaker: Marcin Gill, Team Leader at Ocado Technology

Topic: Managing Change. Especially the one you don’t agree with.

Abstract:

Change is unavoidable in most companies, and the art of managing it effectively is a key competence for every leader or any senior engineer. In a rapidly changing environment it becomes even more important. Proper change management can determine whether an initiative will be a success for the organization or another tough lesson.

But what happens when the change is something you don’t agree with?

Industry literature shows the rules that should be followed in order to achieve a company's goals without compromising business relationships and one’s authority. These basic rules are simple, but not easy to implement.

In this talk, I will present a couple of real-life cases where applying them yielded great results for my team’s work and environment.

18:50 - 19:00

BREAK

19:00 - 19:40

Speaker: Filip Balicki, Team Leader at Ocado Technology

Topic: Can I interrupt you for a second?

Abstract:

Context switching and multitasking - everyone knows these monsters lurking around the corner. Everyone's heard how terrifying these beasts are, hiding in the corporate closet... Or is it just an urban legend?

In a flood of information available at our fingertips - on our phones, wrists, and countless other screens - has our brain already adapted to function in multitasking mode? Is context switching really still such a burden on our minds? And, by the way, what exactly is context switching?

In my presentation, I’ll invite you to join me in a corporate colosseum where we face epic daily battles: the battles for priorities and our focus.

BIO:

Marcin Gil:

• Over 15 years of experience in IT and over 10 years of experience in leadership roles in various organizations and environments
• Over 10 years of experience in failures and successes in change implementation
• Passionate about building effective teams and effective processes
• Privately a fan of martial arts and culture of ancient japanese warriors

Filip Balicki:

• Agile Leader with 10+ years of experience in Project and Product Management, as well as People Management. Invests his time and resources to develop the team and the individuals.
• Experience in successful agile transformation of the organization, including defining a new, lightweight way of working and implementation of scaled agile practices.