Sharon Steed

Sharon is an empathy consulting, public speaker and writer. She has over a decade of experience creating and managing content for businesses. A lifelong stutterer, she utilizes her experiences with her speech along with her background in marketing to help companies communicate more effectively both internally and with their target audience. She writes and speaks about improving communication through empathy. She lives in Pittsburgh.

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What Empathy Is Not

Communication can not work without empathy and that’s why empathy is hopefully the most important factor in your company’s culture. Every once in awhi...

Empathy: the Cornerstone of Your Company Culture

Hard skills change constantly. Every year, developers must level up their skills to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape that is hardware and so...

No Really, It’s Okay to Be Unavailable

We live in an uber-connected world. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve complained about shoddy Wi-Fi or the fact that Twitter is down. As much as I...

Handling Conflict: How to Talk to Your Coworker

Turning Conflict to Conversation Conflict is a natural part of any relationship, especially those people we spend the majority of our time with. It’s...

Keeping the Creativity in Code

A January 2016 New York Times op-ed piece by Wharton professor, Adam Grant, discusses why the most successful adults are generally not child prodigies...

Habits of Highly Productive Tech Teams

Are you holding three-hour team meetings that could be finished in 45 minutes? Or doing everything via Slack and never allowing your team to turn off...

Finding Suitable Work: Landing the Job

Suitable is defined as “right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose or situation.” Suitable work means thinking about more than just skill l...

Finding Suitable Work: What Hiring Managers Are Looking For

A large component to finding suitable work is being a proficient interviewer. One of the things many devs lean on when landing a better paying job is...

Just-In-Time Knowledge: How to learn what you need to know and forget the rest

Technology—including the web—moves insanely fast. It can be intimidating (often annoyingly so) to try to not only consume the content constantly serve...

Habits of Highly Productive Individuals

We’re all concerned about maximizing what we can do in a day. Case in point: there are thousands, possibly millions, of articles on the internet devot...

Building a culture of trust: Why sharing is good for you and your career

I speak about empathy on teams and why vulnerability is a great asset in your professional life. Sharing ideas falls right in line with my own ideolog...

Does caffeine actually boost performance?

Raise your hand if you get the recommended eight hours of sleep every night. For most of us, we’re feeling pretty fortunate if we get around six. Sinc...

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