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Dev track - Core soft skills for developers

Dev track

Core soft skills for developers

This track is specifically tailored for developers, who have a thorough understanding of subject-specific knowledge but can enhance their soft skills. Steer conversations and get your messages across by using different communication strategies effectively. Or, capitalize on and make use of empathy and confidence to stimulate and drive results. In collaboration with our clients and participants, we have established and decided to only use very specific practical cases that are really relevant for developers, to gain the most out of this track for our participants.

Dev track - Core soft skills for developers

Dev track

Core soft skills for developers

This track is specifically tailored for developers, who have a thorough understanding of subject-specific knowledge but can enhance their soft skills. Steer conversations and get your messages across by using different communication strategies effectively. Or, capitalize on and make use of empathy and confidence to stimulate and drive results. In collaboration with our clients and participants, we have established and decided to only use very specific practical cases that are really relevant for developers, to gain the most out of this track for our participants.

Communication I: Assertiveness

  • Gain awareness of different levels of communication within a conversation
  • Practice to intervene and steer the conversation
  • Practice how to deal with conversations that get stuck

Communication II: Convincing others

  • Understand the link between the stance of a counterpart, and the optimum influencing approach
  • Recognize attitude and stance of a conversation counterpart
  • Practice to actively switch between influencing approaches to reach the desired outcome

Communication III: Empathy & Confidence in play

  • Become more aware of what drives empathy and recognizing (non)-verbal communication
  • Practice is showing and addressing emotions
  • Learn to feel more comfortable when reacting spontaneously in order to engage more effectively

The Dev Track will provide you with a solid foundation of today’s core soft skills that can help you in the years to come. Learn to convince people by adapting your communication approach and style, become more sensible and comfortable in expressing yourself in a clear manner, and applying empathy. You will learn this by practicing spontaneous engagements for more effectiveness, recognizing and understanding the attitude and stance of a conversation, along with its counterparts, and discover and practice how to deal with conversations when it gets stuck.

Number of participants:10 – 12 participants
Program duration:3 – 4 months
Training topics:3 standardized topics 
(this is our standard, but we are flexible to adjust to your needs)
Classroom sessions:3 hours per topic
Language:English & Dutch
Including:– All materials needed
– Use of online app
– Assessment report at start and end
– Lepaya certificate

Growth mindset

  • Become aware of one’s own strengths
  • Learn the importance of reflection to recognize areas of improvement
  • Be stimulated to actively try out new things to accelerate personal development 

Conscious communication

  • Gain awareness of different levels of communication within a conversation
  • Learn to switch between different levels of communication
  • Practice making progress when a conversation gets stuck, by communicating on the right or a different level

Taking ownership

  • Practice to plan projects in logical steps, milestones and take dependencies into consideration 
  • Assess the optimal role for the stakeholders in projects and involve them accordingly

Actionable communication

  • Learn to structure your message and include a clear call-to-action
  • Practice conveying only key messages needed for impact 
  • Practice to tailor a message to the audience and goal

Time management - prioritizing

  • Understand the concept of urgent vs. important, and how this can impact priorities
  • Practice how to schedule, plan and prioritise

Feedback for growth

  • Learn to use examples of behavior & impact to illustrate feedback
  • Learn how to use critical feedback to modify behavior and practice engaging in constructive discussions
  • Discuss the importance of ongoing (frequent and informal) feedback

Personality profiling

  • Become aware of one’s own strengths
  • Learn the importance of reflection to recognize areas of improvement
  • Be stimulated to actively try out new things to accelerate personal development

Time management - protecting your time

  • Gain awareness of different levels of communication within a conversation
  • Learn to switch between different levels of communication
  • Practice making progress when a conversation gets stuck, by communicating on the right or a different level

Commercial sensitivity​

  • Practice to plan projects in logical steps, milestones and take dependencies into consideration 
  • Assess the optimal role for the stakeholders in projects and involve them accordingly

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Participants review

Bynder - Employee
Bynder - Employee
★★★★★
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Very lively instructions with a lot of practice. Trainer gave individual feedback.
Picnic - Manager
Picnic - Manager
★★★★★
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The training really helped to take communication within my team to the next level and being able to grow as a team.
L'Oréal - Professional
L'Oréal - Professional
★★★★★
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We’ve learned quite a few handy tips and tricks on how to manage time and energy. A lot of things I can share with colleagues.
Bloomon - Manager
Bloomon - Manager
★★★★★
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Feedback For Growth was very good; receptive and credible trainers; helpful practice with real examples.
RTL Nederland - Professional
RTL Nederland - Professional
★★★★★
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Structured storytelling-It’s something everyone does, but not everyone acknowledges. If people would understand more what the levels are they can act on it.
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