Great Leaders Make People Feel Safe
Learn from great leaders: unlock effective leadership by creating a safe environment for your team. Learn how personal growth fosters innovation, trust, and mutual respect.
Learn from great leaders: unlock effective leadership by creating a safe environment for your team. Learn how personal growth fosters innovation, trust, and mutual respect.
Explore research on the impact of office spaces on employees’ psychological and physical states. Learn why a one-size-fits-all approach to workspaces may be counterproductive, and discover how designing diverse, inspiring environments can boost productivity, well-being, and creativity.
Learn how to effectively manage expectations in professional relationships with these essential tips. Clarify, communicate, provide support, ensure commitment, and establish clear roles and responsibilities for a successful partnership.
What makes high-performance teams stand out? What sets these teams apart from the rest? How can you build outstanding teams? Dive in for the answers.
You might have heard of the (in)famous Dunbar’s number, about the limit of the number of stable relationships we can maintain.
It takes practice to stop saying “hey guys” – but what are some alternatives?
There are some fallacies about product development I’ve faced over my career that not only make daily work harder but actually have a toxic effect on both culture and processes.
Delivery speed results in cost reduction; confidence enables speed; confidence requires quality.
Got a crazy idea that you think would totally work but you fear nobody will let you try it? Propose it as an experiment, not a change!
These are the most common mistakes of new engineering managers who just left their individual contributor track – learn how to fix them.
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.
Being a successful engineering manager is not easy. Learn about the 4 key ways of failure you need to watch.
Kindness is a hidden superpower for software engineers. It helps your peers feel safe, and if they feel safe people take the risks that enable efficient, honest communication and thus real collaboration.
Unbiased performance reviews are key to a healthy organization and people’s growth. Learn about the typical biases in the process and how to counter them.
Understand how communication is an essential skill area for successful software developers on all levels.
These four kinds of personalities and mindsets are holding your product development back.
We tend to treat arguments as fights or zero-sum games which hinders their original purpose. We should stop doing that.
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.
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.
Asking questions is a basic coaching technique but doing it properly is a matter of practice, finding a good balance and avoiding some common pitfalls. As with most of the things in life.
Don’t limit yourself with excuses. How you are can change and it is completely up to you.
Hero engineers can be deadly to team culture, it’s time to retire those capes.
Try this instead: every time you feel the urge to write code, instead spend the time reading or learning something related to management.
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.