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Last Thursday, I had a small but very interesting meeting in a nice coffee shop.
The whole journey before and after the meeting brings a lot of lessons and insights for me, not just only because of what have been shared during the conversation but also the experience I can see from myself.
First of all, I accidentally saw the invitation on the group that I had already set as silent because of too many messages that distracted me. The topic of the meeting caught my attention right from the beginning as it mentioned careers in technology and will be shared by people who spent most of their time working in that industry. I accepted the invitation immediately, even though I rarely attend many social events, and I believed that it would be a super crowded meeting because of the topic.
On that day, the first surprise for me was that there were only eight people from that 200-member group showed their interest and wanted to join the meeting. I tended to withdraw and won’t appear in the meeting. There are many reasonable reasons I can use to explain my absence. But I know the only reason that reflects the fear inside me is to be with a small group of people that I don’t know. Luckily, that fear did not win my curiosity on the topic that I’m interested in about career development in technology, so I decided to go with the plan. This part reminds me of The .
And it pays off. Having a chance to listen, learn, and discuss with experts in the field is really a privilege experience. As there are too many things covered in 2 hours conversation, I can only summarize a few things that impressed me the most.
The first point is about questioning skills. The main topic is AI and its impact on a career in technology, so we started with how we can utilize the most power from AI. Related to the role & responsibility of the coach/mentor to be able to help the coachee/mentee, questioning skills can also help to explore their capabilities and be able to solve the problem by themselves.
The second point is on how we can challenge the result returned by the AI. We should understand how AI works, starting from how the provided data and model were built and worked. Being able to challenge the answers, knowing their values and where the source as well as the impact can be useful for creating better questions. We can also apply this critical thinking in challenging the request, the task we are assigned to help us explore the meaning behind it so it will positively impact our career growth and make us different from others.
Another topic was covered, mainly focusing on the mentee/coachee. It’s about how to find what they are best at, and the most important is how they can make money from that talent. It can be a special and golden formula for us to find the secret “work-life balance.” To be able to make it happen, we also need to have a strong communication skill. It’s not a normal and general communication skill that we know about, but it mainly focuses on storytelling. We should know how to tell the world our ideas, and our values to have what we deserve and nobody knows how good you are until they understand your story.
And the last but most important thing I took from that meeting is about learning how to adapt. With the age of AI, AI won’t replace people they just replace those who cannot adapt to it. It’s not the first time humans need to adapt to the changes in technology.
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