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Article: How Tech Leaders Can Leverage Their Mentoring and Teaching with Coaching

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You may have heard about coaching and wondered what it entails and how you might incorporate it into your role. Do you need to have “coach” as part of your job description in order to use coaching skills? This article defines coaching and shows how anybody can use it in their role. By Damon Poole.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Remember, that learning is key to success in any leadership position.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

You’ll definitely want to take advantage of a half- or full-day workshop, which allows you to dive deeper into the technical knowledge and skills the conference has to offer. Every room booked at the resort comes with four wristbands for the waterpark. There are also plenty of networking opportunities at QCon. Strata Data Conference.

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. The discussion was moderated by Marcus Blankenship , Technical Leadership Coach at marcusblankenship.com.

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Three parts to the mission

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

We’ll create books, workshops, training programs, tools, frameworks, programs, and processes to teach the core tenants of excellent technical leadership. Through consulting and coaching work we’ll provide companies with organizational change and development programs necessary to impact the entire workforce.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Marcus: Yeah, I actually… just this morning, I was reading Amy Edmondson’s book The Fearless Organization which is about psychological safety. Then we have, you’re actually taking on technical leadership responsibilities.