Ayesha and the Trade Show

A junior engineer who has just returned from representing her company at her first trade show is excited to present her report, but she leaves the meeting confused by her senior director’s muted reaction.

The case can be used to help develop career skills that may be useful to achieving long-term success, such as:

• Building your professional support network
• Communicating your impacts
• Managing conflict / Respectful confrontations
• Managing your manager
• Becoming a change agent in your organization
• Cultivating resilience in the face of adversity
• Working smarter, not harder

Upon completion of this case, students will be able to:

• Align their own goals with organizational objectives
• Working smarter, not harder
• Building your professional support network for career resilience
• Cultivating resilience in the face of adversity
• Communicating your impacts

• Becoming a change agent in your organization (Understanding Weed-out culture, Old-Boys Networks and Cloning)
• Building your professional support network for career resilience
• Communicating your impacts
• Cultivating resilience in the face of adversity
• Managing conflict - Respectful confrontations
• Managing your manager
• Working smarter, not harder