The 5 Common Mistakes Of New Engineering Managers
These are the most common mistakes of new engineering managers who just left their individual contributor track – learn how to fix them.
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Use Active Listening to Boost Your Career
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary for career success. Learn how to get better at it.
The 4 Key Ways We Fail As Engineering Managers
Being a successful engineering manager is not easy. Learn about the 4 key ways of failure you need to watch.
Communication skills for successful software engineers
Understand how communication is an essential skill area for successful software developers on all levels.
How to stop winning arguments
We tend to treat arguments as fights or zero-sum games which hinders their original purpose. We should stop doing that.
The stories we tell ourselves
We have a mechanism that creates unhappiness, difficulty changing habits, relationship problems, frustration, anger and disappointment. We are usually not aware of this, but it is happening continuously and in all of us.
Thoughts On Giving Feedback
A good, blameless feedback culture is essential for working together efficiently as it forms healthy relationships, fuels personal and professional growth and aligns us with common norms. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of company culture.
Learning At Work Is Work
Constant learning and having a growth mindset are fundamental to success in software engineering. Yet once you are done with onboarding at your new job as a software engineer the rat race seems to begin, leaving no dedicated time for learning.
Excuse no. 13 – this is how I am
Don’t limit yourself with excuses. How you are can change and it is completely up to you.
Engineering managers, stop coding!
Try this instead: every time you feel the urge to write code, instead spend the time reading or learning something related to management.
Staying motivated while growing
The key to progress is the temptation of constant challenge, with tasks that remain both achievable and interesting, broken up into pieces of work that are just right.