Grow Your Leadership

This desk is part of the attendee preparation for our workshop Leading Engineering Teams For New Managers.

It's the context for Day 1: Your Leadership Style.

Transcript

1. Grow your leadership style
2. Congratulations! You are now a manager!
3. As a manager, one of your primary jobs is to foster a foundation of trust on your team. This will be the underpinning of the team's overall health. To foster trust, you've gotta start by understanding each other: each person's needs, preferences, and approaches to work. — Lara Hogan
4. What motivates us? • Autonomy • Mastery • Purpose
5. Direct motives ⇢ Increase performance • Play • Purpose • Potential
6. Indirect motives ⇢ Decrease performance • Emotional pressure • Economic pressure • Inertia
7. Leadership styles 1. Commanding 2. Visionary 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
8. Before people decide what they think of your message, they decide what they think of you. — Amy J.C. Cuddy, Matthew Kohut, and John Neffinger
9. Right now, your company has 21st century Internet enabled business processes, mid-20th century management processes, all built atop 19th century management principles. — Gary Hamel
10. Autonomy Benign neglect vs micro-management vs delegation
11. One of the simplest ways to do that is to stop solving people’s problems for them and to ask them to start solving them on their own. This is called delegation — Roy Osherove
12. What are you going to do about it?
13. Some things to try • Set a vision and start with why • Provide frequent feedback and workplace guidance • Set clear expectations • Invest in developing your team • Schedule frequent 1:1s • Master task delegation • Develop autonomous leadership • Work on your empathy skills
14. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw