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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

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I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Start coaching You can teach someone to code, manage money, and complete the tasks of being a manager. But the transition from teacher to coach can be challenging. “I I switched from teaching to coaching,” he says. “I

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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

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Middle managers need strong mentors and a network of colleagues who understand their problems and can offer advice based on their own experience when things get tough, so the manager can learn how to cope, get back on track, and thrive. But it starts with identifying a middle manager who needs an assist and then stepping in to intervene.

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Commit raises $6M seed round to match senior engineers to startups they want to work for

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The company, which focuses on working with remote-first startups, launched in 2019, with co-founders Greg Gunn (CEO) and Beier Cai (CTO), who met as early employees at Hootsuite, bootstrapping the company while they worked out the details of how they wanted Commit to work.

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CIO Diane Schwarz on the power of professional ecosystems

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Strong peer relationships are vital for making strategic decisions, she says, pointing to her relationship with Johnson Controls CTO Vijay Sankaran. It takes an ecosystem of colleagues, clients, and partners — all of whom help you navigate what is often a nonlinear path. Because, according to Schwarz, you never go to market alone.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” It’s lovely when managers can play this role for their teams, but we also have to remember that they are humans with their own problems who are not trained as therapists or even coaches.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

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Rene Weiss – Software Architect, Consultant & CTO at FINABRO. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro. He is a trainer for software architecture seminars and coaches teams in various software architecture topics. João Rosa – Principal Consultant and Interim CTO. Eoin Woods – CTO at Endava.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

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Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24. Lara: Oh, okay.