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SUMMARY:Leading Under Pressure - Tereza Iofciu
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DESCRIPTION:Teams are getting leaner\, context switching is constant\, and
  expectations stay high even when clarity is low. Under that pressure\, ma
 ny of us start reacting instead of leading: stepping in too often\, firefi
 ghting instead of thinking\, and quietly carrying load that was never ours
  to hold.\n\nYou do not need a title for any of this to apply. Leadership 
 shows up in how you respond when things get tense\, how you support the pe
 ople around you\, and where you choose to spend your finite energy.\n\nThi
 s workshop is a space to notice what pressure does to your leadership\, an
 d to practise doing something different. \n\n## Designed for\n\n- Engineer
 s and ICs who find themselves leading without a formal title\n- People who
  care about their teammates and want to stay effective over time\n- Anyone
  in a lean\, fast-moving environment who keeps ending up as the one who ab
 sorbs the pressure\n- Folks who are often the only one like them in the ro
 om\, and carry extra invisible load because of it\n\nNo management experie
 nce required.\n\n## What we will explore\n\nLeading yourself under pressur
 e: how urgency and ambiguity shape your default responses. Learning to slo
 w down enough to create space to think\, and noticing when a question help
 s more than jumping in with an answer.\n\nSupporting others without taking
  over: helping a teammate without rescuing them or quietly absorbing their
  work. Framing problems as shared instead of solving them alone. Building 
 trust when clarity is low.\n\nStaying strategic under pressure: understand
 ing where your influence actually flows\, with or without authority. Conne
 cting day-to-day reality to the bigger picture\, and choosing where to put
  your energy instead of trying to hold everything.\n\n## What you will tak
 e away\n\nClearer insight into how pressure shapes your leadership. Practi
 cal experience using questions and framing to grow agency in the people ar
 ound you. A better sense of where to focus next: on yourself\, the people 
 around you\, or the wider system. And one concrete move to try in the next
  two weeks.\n\n## Format\n\nA two-hour interactive workshop. Short input b
 ursts\, hands-on exercises\, solo reflection\, and peer learning\, using t
 he group as a space to think together about real leadership challenges.
LOCATION:F2 (Fishbowl Room)
URL:https://programme.europython.eu/europython-2026/talk/CERV3F/
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