106: Software and Soft Skills with Artie Jordan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 January 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
2U Vice President of IT Artie Jordan talks software and soft skills and how they can be applied to any workplace.
You’ll Learn:
- How to keep your team agile
- Common pitfalls in communication
- The most important soft skill that your team should practice now
About Artie
Artie is a member of 2U’s tech leadership team, former member of the Obama for America team, and founding board member of CSTUY, a non-profit dedicated to bringing opportunities in computer science and technology to middle and high school students. Also a fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alum. He’s very active in the NY tech meet-up scene and an advocate for professional development and soft-skills training for technical workers.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Organization: CSTUY
- Company: Salesforce
- Company: Amazon Web Services
- Company: 2U
- App: Slack
- Podcast: EconTalk
- Book: Expecting Better by Emily Oster
- Book: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 106 with Artie Jordan. |
| 0:26.2 | Artie is a vice president of IT and he's going to be talking soft skills. |
| 0:30.8 | You might not expect to hear about soft skills from such a person, but you will, and it's fun. |
| 0:35.4 | So you're going to learn one, how to keep your team agile, two, common pitfalls in communication, |
| 0:40.6 | and three, the most important soft skill that your team should practice now. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we |
| 0:49.4 | mentioned here, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash |
| 0:53.0 | up 106 to see those and while you're over to awesome at your job |
| 0:57.6 | dot com please take a look around you might sign up for the 10 days to |
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| 1:15.8 | under two minutes and so much more. So drop on by awesome at your job |
| 1:20.7 | com while you're seeing Artie's stuff at awesome at your Job.com while you're seeing Artie's stuff at |
| 1:23.2 | awesome at your job.com slash 106. So here's Artie's story. |
| 1:28.1 | Artie is a member of two-use tech leadership team, former member of the |
| 1:31.8 | Obama for America team, and founding board member of |
| 1:35.1 | CSTU Y, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing opportunities in computer science and technology |
| 1:41.9 | to middle and high school students. |
| 1:43.2 | Also a fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alum ILL. |
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