Agenda
Informal Authority: Leading Without the Title
Ray Sima (Director, Production, Firaxis Games)
Alex Weick (Senior Producer, Sunblink)
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Track:
Production & Team Leadership, Career
Audience Level:
All
Format:
Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
When your impact feels capped by your ability to influence your peers and leaders, the solution can seem clear: a higher title that makes people listen. Instead, two experienced game producers posit developing informal authority as an alternative, which doesn't rely on external permission to have a big impact on your team and game. Join them as they share practical strategies to develop influence through building resilient relationships and knowing when to lead or follow.
Takeaway
Attendees will learn how to be a leader through actions, not titles. They will learn how proactively developing repairable relationships and a sense for when to informally lead and when to follow builds informal authority, which will increase their effectiveness as a developer.
Intended Audience
Game developers, particularly producers, who want to learn how to create impact bigger than what their title suggests possible.