What makes an engineering manager want to improve their people management behaviors & skills? In this document, we will look at various mechanisms through which organizations incentivize good people management, and which levers are available to reports to “manage up” and hold their managers accountable. ❦❦❦ For context, a quick aside: what …| dr knz @ work
You’re arriving here because you’ve been nominated for a Technical Leadership (TL) role in some team. Or perhaps you’re considering applying for one. Note The following document is about the experience of being a TL, and that of evolving into the TL role. It does not detail …| dr knz @ work
It’s this time of the year again! Maybe it’s called “review”, maybe it’s called “check-in”: the moment in the year where you and your manager sit down together to look at the past period, review the work you’ve done, and discuss directions for the future. In …| dr knz @ work
There are more-or-less “hidden” rules on how to actively progress one’s career in a large-ish corporation. Let’s look at them here. What’s in a role A role on the workplace contains a combination of behavior, skill and responsibility. Behavior is what you actually do. Skill is what …| dr knz @ work
After reaching a certain level of seniority, it’s expected that a worker can self-direct in service of the organizational goals. This creates a situation that can be difficult to navigate: is it really self-direction if the organization decides what are the “right” and “wrong” choices in the end? Today …| dr knz @ work
