Team Leads: Being Intentional With Your Time
How do you get the most out of your time and your meeting participants?
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Ask Steph: Offer Deadlines
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Managers: Career Goals Without Promotion
When you manage more senior engineers, there eventually comes a time for an awkward conversation. Do you… actually want the next promotion? It’s an important topic and one that’s a landmine for misinterpretation. A lot of engineers meet the question with another question: “Why wouldn’t I want
TLs: Track switching considerations and getting pushed off technical tracks.
As you move up a ladder, you might experience a weird phenomenon: your “soft” skills start to matter a whole lot more after you spent years proving your technical chops. As more and more of your job becomes coordinating or leading a larger group of people, those technical skills are