Aan Learns Persuasion Soft Skills, also my car is back!
Hello again.
First and foremost, I got my car back after almost a month in the workshop due to a stupid accident. Welcome back Xiao Bai (Lil' White). And then, as written in the title, I learn persuasion.
So, this new company I'm working for (not so new because I've been almost a year working here😅) has this agreement where every one of us needs to apply for a fully compensable training or course every year. And we can pick what we want to learn, as long as it is beneficial to the company.
Guess what? I picked this course 'Storytelling and Influencing: Communicate with Impact' from Coursera. If possible, I would've pick 'Survive Apocalypse Course' by the ASRETEC Inc., too bad, people don't take The Walking Dead series seriously.
Because I am too empty-minded and have a hard time storing information inside my brain for long, I am going to write some notes and summarize what I've learned in Week 1 of the course. I'll also try to relate some memorable scenes from the dramas/series/anime that can help me remember the theoretical knowledge from the course.
Let me share my recap on week one of learning this. Pardon the profanity (if any) in my notes. Also f the grammar. Hahhaha. Juggling 4 languages are hard. Empathize me.
* Click to preview/read it better or to save/download my notes. Heh.
These days, most people are giving the 'minimum' they can for anything. When users are asked for usability feedbacks, comments or anything they mostly just say "It's okay", "nothing much", or "doing good". I am this type also when being asked. That is why to get more positive interaction I think this soft-skill will be beneficial in the long run.
I want people to be open to me, listen to me and buy my ideas.
I want people to be open to me, listen to me and buy my ideas.
This is actually really relatable to UX, hahahha. Made me feel like this is actually good for us in the UX/UI industry too. When you are creating a UI that you don't even understand its end users, you are actually creating it for yourself.
This part is actually made sense to me after jumping jobs, changing managers and leads. Often the higher-ups communicate to us in a way that we could see benefit both parties (us and the company). We interpret it as single-sided. Why? because when they talk us out, they just ignore our values and only want us to listen to the company's values without aligning them with our own values.