Whether you are new to the engineering manager role or a director who has years of experience, there is always an opportunity to grow your skills and improve your effectiveness. As managers, it may seem like there is so much we are responsible for but rarely do we get the feedback on which are the top responsibilities and skills we should focus on. It’s hard to prioritize when everything is important.

But to be an effective engineering manager, director, and VP, you need to tie the work you do to the most impact for the organization.

In this talk, we’ll cover:

• A quick overview of a career track for managers and individual contributors
• 3 key skills every manager, director, and VP need to focus on
• Pitfalls that you can learn to avoid in order to build the most effective teams
• Effective tools for distributed teams

As a manager and senior leader, this talk will give you a good high-level outline of different areas of growth that should be on every manager's career development framework. These key skills are paramount to your personal success as a manager and to your team’s success toward achieving the company goals.