Mentoring, coaching & feedback
Skills and approaches for developing, encouraging, and challenging your team
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Developing effective coaching skills
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Building an effective coaching approach that’s right for you and your engineering team.
Addressing your team's technical skills gaps
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Understanding the skills landscape in your teams, and filling the gaps.
How to make performance reviews more productive
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How to grow your engineers through continuous feedback
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A manager’s guide to performance calibration
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Why you should be a mentor (yes, even you!)
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How to gather helpful insight from your peers
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How coaching can help you become a better leader
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Tactics for developing junior engineers
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Want to become a mentee? Follow these five steps.
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Using coaching skills to grow compassion, empathy, and kindness
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Help your teammates navigate moments of self-doubt
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How do engineers learn? A model for teaching skills, knowledge, and wisdom
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How to build multiplatform skills in your mobile app team
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How to be an effective mentor
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Five things you need to know from ‘Addressing your team's technical skills gaps’
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The one weird trick to great 1-1s
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‘What do you mean I’m not perfect’? How to be on the receiving end of constructive feedback
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Holding effective coaching conversations
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Managing up for engineering leaders
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Seeking and receiving feedback as an engineering leader
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The reward of growing junior engineers
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What if you dread 1:1s with a direct report?
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Maximize your mentorship: establish, absorb, and connect
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The path to open source contributions
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Feedback models for engineering teams
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Improving your feedback loop on engineering teams
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Rethinking the Developer Career Path
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How 1:1s can affect your engineering team's culture
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Creating effective engineering internships
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How to run awesome tech internships!
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The art of giving and receiving code reviews gracefully
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Creating goal-setting workshops for managers in your 1:1s
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Radical candor for distributed engineering teams
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Evaluating 1:1s: clear signs they're going well or off the rails
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The antiracist leader: sponsorship
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Difficult conversations: the re-org
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Dealing with times when change isn’t happening
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Difficult listening and having difficult conversations
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Developing teams at different levels
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Growing teams and culture with actionable feedback
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Other people’s problems: a primer on coaching
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Cracking the cadence of your software engineering 1:1s
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Imposter syndrome: why you need it
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The Engineering Manager's guide to open, honest and constructive feedback
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Navigating friction in your engineering team
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How to create organizational change through compassionate leadership
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How to lead your engineering team through a period of change
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Effective career conversations with your engineers
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The art of giving and receiving feedback as a leader
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How to find and become a great engineering mentor
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Nine steps to set your deputy up for success
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Helping juniors to get started in tech: Amarachi Amaechi in conversation
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Using coaching to unlock the future of your distributed organization
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Addressing skills gaps for senior engineers
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Why being a mentor benefits you too
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Addressing technical skills gaps in your engineering team
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Live long and prosper as a senior IC
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Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development
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Navigating engineering performance reviews: part two
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Navigating engineering performance reviews
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How to mentor Junior Engineers
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How to hold career path conversations with developers
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Supporting the next generation of developers
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Mentor, coach, sponsor: a guide to developing engineers
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Engineering management 101: evaluating your team’s performance
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Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers
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Navigating organizational changes as an Individual Contributor: a matter of perspective
Increasing your influence through building a professional network
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Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed engineering teams
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Level Up: Frameworks for developing developers
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Optimizing the 'glue work' in your team
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