$30 off During Our Annual Pro Sale. View Details »

Grow Your Leadership

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.

Blackmill

June 14, 2021
Tweet

More Decks by Blackmill

Other Decks in Technology

Transcript

  1. Grow your leadership style

    View Slide

  2. Congratulations!
    You are now a manager!

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide

  4. What motivates us?
    • Autonomy
    • Mastery
    • Purpose

    View Slide

  5. Direct motives ⇢ Increase performance
    • Play
    • Purpose
    • Potential

    View Slide

  6. Indirect motives ⇢ Decrease performance
    • Emotional pressure
    • Economic pressure
    • Inertia

    View Slide

  7. Leadership styles
    1. Commanding
    2. Visionary
    3. Affiliative
    4. Democratic
    5. Pacesetting
    6. Coaching

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide

  10. Autonomy
    Benign neglect vs micro-management vs
    delegation

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide

  12. What are you going to do about it?

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide

  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

    View Slide