Chief Executive Officer of Diddly Squat
Leeland Artra
Topic: Soft Skills
Audience: All audiences
Description:
Provides attendees with the knowledge of business basic requirements in areas from starting, planning, marketing, sales to legal issues and handling finances.
This is a practical course aimed at people who wish to start or are already running a small business and who wish to further develop their business taking into account the changing needs of businesses in today's fast moving environment.
We will quickly cover: starting up in business; business planning; practical financial management for the small business; human resource management; marketing from A to e; managing change; sales management; business and professional skills; and effective time management.
We will also touch on various topics like: coaching for business and personal performance; self management and personal effectiveness; negotiating, persuading and influencing skills; self esteem for peak performance; effective communication and assertion skills; assertiveness matters, follow up; mentoring for managers; personal taxation and investments; presentation skills; relationship dynamics; successful leadership and management; and team building.
Prerequisites:
none
History:
Has been given to various local technical groups around the Seattle area
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 12:39:57 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 12:43:35 PM
The Speaker: Leeland Artra
Contact Organization: Nintendo of America
Location: Seattle, Washington
Phone: (206)380-2036
Email: lartra@GreyDragon.COM
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Bio:
Leeland is a regularly invited speaker for SANS, SAGE and USENIX on database administration and security topics, systems & network security, hacking, programming for SAs, Java programming, version control systems and systems administration. He has personally designed and implemented a number of new computer technologies. Currently Leeland's efforts are on creating a new technologies to store, access, mine, and analyze information to improve Nintendo of America's operations and services. Leeland Artra started and sold a DNS and web hosting provider company that had grown to over 5000 clients. In the late 1990s he was the Director of Computer Systems Technology for the Cell System Initiative (CSI) at the University of Washington. CSI was a combined biological research program and information systems research & development program focused on bringing the power and technologies available in today's computer industry to the biology research laboratory environment. The primary goal of the information systems research component of CSI is to develop an optimal computing environment for collaborating, distributed groups of biologists. Prior to that Leeland was the Senior Researcher for the Cellworks Project at the University of Washington (CWP). The CWP had nearly the same goals as CSI and at CWP Leeland was the inventor of numerous database Java technologies. One of which was the Moulage System, which was highly recognized as an important research step in data mining and sharing. The Moulage System was nominated by Oracle for the Computer World Smithsonian 1998 award and became one of the finalists for that award. Prior to that Leeland designed and built the data center for the ITER project. Leeland was also named an Oracle Futures Development Partner for Oracle version 8.
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:49 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:57 PM
Other Talks by this speaker
Oracle Administration for Systems Administrators
Secure Systems Administration, through attacking yourself
Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps
Effectively Standing Out
Make Your Time
Surviving Office Politics
The Art of Documentation
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