Coping in Chaos and Crisis: Maintaining your balance and sanity in today’s TechComm jobs
- Presentation
- Career & Young Technical Writers
- 05. November
- 09:00 - 09:45 AM (CET)
- C5.1
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Ms. Leah Guren
- Cow TC
Contents
There has never been a time of such rapid change in our profession. This change is causing uncertainty, stress, and a volatile job market. Whether you are a new TechComm practitioner, or a professional with decades of experience, you may feel overwhelmed trying to cope with a moving target.
What can you do as an employee, a manager, or a self-employed contractor to maintain some balance and sense of proportion as companies are redefining our purpose and roles?
This session explores short-term coping mechanisms, techniques, and long-term strategies to help you do more than just cope from one crisis to the next.
Takeaways
- Recognize that our career is going through a stressful, rapid transformation.
- Learn how to identify on-the-job stress and perform effective triage.
- Choose techniques for long-term self-investment.
Prior knowledge
basic TechComm understanding
Speaker
Biography