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Module 6 : Personal development

 

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Module summary

Over the past five modules, we've covered the core tenets of being an engineering leader – but you can’t grow and nurture your teams without also growing yourself. Finding time to devote to self-improvement can be a challenge, and it always seems like the easiest thing to move down your priority list. It’s also harder for senior leaders to receive actionable feedback on their own work. In this final module, we’ll help you work out how to change that and how you can be more effective with your learning time.

Module 6 takeaways and homework

You learned

  • About the six vectors you can measure any career on (in depth skills, strategy, delivery, org leadership & management, commercial and domain-specific)
  • About the habits and skills you need to be a great Engineering Manager. 
  • About the core behaviours of brilliant super senior Individual Contributors. 
  • And about how you might want to “pendulum swing” between manager and IC roles until you hit the fork in the road.


You discussed

  • The implications for your own individual personal development
  • And then the implications for your organisation of these personal development concepts – in particular, what “shapes” of roles are needed in your org, whether that is clear to everyone, and what manager, senior IC and pendulum swings are available. 


You should be able to

  • Better articulate your own personal development needs, wants and priorities. 
  • Improve the visibility and availability of different roles for your team and organisation.


Exercise to go further

  • Take the outputs of your individual exercises today and feed them into your personal development plan. 
  • Take the output of the group discussion and work to make career ladders and paths available for all flavours of technical leader.


Additional readings

Sessions

Career vectors for technical leaders
Video

Career vectors for technical leaders

Meri Williams
Meri Williams
24 mins
The EM Kata
Video

The EM Kata

Tramale Turner
Tramale Turner
15 mins
Influencing as an Individual Contributor
Video

Influencing as an Individual Contributor

Leslie Chapman
Leslie Chapman
15 mins
The engineer/manager pendulum and you
Video

The engineer/manager pendulum and you

Charity Majors
Charity Majors
10 mins
Measure your progress at LeadDev Together
Article

Measure your progress at LeadDev Together