Do the developers need public speaking skills to boost their career?
Topic Category: Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Shrijana Thapa is a Software Engineer and works as a front-end developer at Mandala IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a software company based in Pokhara. She came to WordPress by chance and got hooked since then as an active member of WordPress Pokhara. Having almost a decade long of experience in media, she has given trainings on public speaking and used to work at top radio stations of the city.
When she’s not typing away on a keyboard, you will find her freelancing as an emcee at events around the city. She is an avid reader, has an immense love for travel and wishes to explore different places in her spare time.
Session Summary:
It’s not strange to know the fact that many people suffer from stage fright and mass fear or anxiety when it comes to public speaking. This implies with IT personnel, developers or designers as well. One can have a hard time if you have a problem in delivering your ideas well with your clients or one can find it really difficult to convince his/her colleagues about his project if he doesn’t have good speaking skills resulting in unexpected outcomes. So, lack of public speaking skills can be a great hindrance to your success or career as a whole. But public speaking skills can be a silver lining to the clouds as this will allow you to have a better understanding of the subject matter, motivate you to do lots of preparation, implement the theories practically which is mandatory in IT sector and it will also let you explore new things and do more research which is so much essential in this technology driven world where everything keeps on changing with a blink of an eye. So public speaking skills can be a booster to your IT career and it may take you a long way. So why not enhance it for a better us, for our better tomorrow?
Intended Audience: Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups