Lead with Confidence

1. Move from Builder to Leader
• Start thinking as a leader and get the shit done
• Be more like football coach, less like best friend or mom
• Adjust your style to fit different situations and team maturity
• Stay in control without micromanaging
2. Act as a Communication Bridge
• Enable smooth information flow both up and down
• Advocate needs, constraints, and successes for both up and down
3. Shift from Firefighting to Strategic Thinking
• Spot what’s keeping you constantly busy and cut it out
• Move from reactive to proactive, strategic thinking
• Create and roll out a solid strategy
4. See the Big Picture
• Start seeing teams in your organization as a connected system
• Work with your peers EMs as a SCRUM team

Build a High Performing Team

1. Build a Self-Organized Team
• Encourage team decisions made together
• Foster a culture of collaboration
• Emphasize personal accountability
• Inspire a sense of ownership across the team
2. Foster Team Growth
• Craft development plans that truly inspire growth
• Have one-on-one conversations that matter
• Imprint continuous improvement in the team's culture
• Develop strong feedback culture
• Manage underperformers with confidence and care
3. Hire Great Talent and Bring Them Up to Speed Quickly
• Create candidate experience that makes them to choose you
• Create an onboarding that helps people hit the ground running
• Use hiring as employer branding
• See through people at interviews, separate talent from BS
4. Upgrade Your Game With the Right Habits and Values
• Foster healthy disagreement for the best ideas to win
• Celebrate success
• Be driven by values, not results
• Build strong relationships across the company

Master Delivery

1. Shift Focus from Outputs to Outcomes
• Collaborate with Product Managers to co-create impactful solutions
• Avoid too complex or uncertain tasks using the discovery process
• Lead with purpose, clarity and focus using well specified and split epics
2. Make SCRUM Working For You
• Discover how no BS pragmatic Agile looks like
• Reduce number of meeting hours and enable deep work
• Improve team focus and reduce multitasking
• Facilitate common team meetings like a king
3. Measure What Really Matters
• Don’t measure just for the sake of knowing
• Use the right data - health vs. performance vs. vanity metrics
• Build a dream team with the secret sauce metric
• Drive effective roadmap contribution
• Drive predictable delivery
4. Speed mentoring
• Bring your own problems

Conditional Bonus Content

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Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers

To become a new manager easier I created a checklist that I wish I had when starting out as a new EM. All I want from you is to share on LinkedIn that you board on this mentoring journey.

Diploma of learned and applied knowledge

I don’t issue a diploma of attendance. But you can take a free exam where you also elaborate on your applied learning. Should you pass I issue a beautiful certificate for you.

Pre-recorded session Accelerate your professional growth

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