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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 Why does this person want to go into management?”

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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. And I see this again in management.

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Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. Episode 15.

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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. Everyone can surface to a manager, and that’s, sort of, the junior engineer level there because we’re not asking you to speak up in front of a group. ” And managers will prod. This level we call Staff Engineer.

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Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Marcus: You know I hear so many people talk about The Manager’s Path as being just foundational to them and I just can’t help but start with a question just really broadly, what inspired that book? Camille: Yeah, so I am the head platform engineering at Two Sigma, which is a quantitative hedge fund here in New York City.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. And they can say whatever they want to large groups of people and I’m going to be in trouble. Michael: No, I didn’t.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. And they can say whatever they want to large groups of people and I’m going to be in trouble. Michael: No, I didn’t.