Tech Leads: Leadership & Management Aspects you should be aware of
Posted on November 7th, 2023
Getting started in leadership is daunting for most of us. After years of thinking about all the different ways in which you would do things differently than your manager, now suddenly you have people looking to you as a role model.
Luckily, there is tons of material to get you started. Over the years, I've taken many different courses, trainings, read books or articles. After a while, you will find that content and ideas repeat or surface in different forms and from different angles.
Instead of giving you one single curriculum or set of material, in this post, I want to give you an outline of different topics from the area of leadership and management. As you embark on your journey, use it as map, uncovering topics as you go along.
Aspects you should be aware of
- Self management
- Personality & Strengths: Myers briggs, strength finder
- Communication & Listening
- Time management & priorization
- Decision making
- People
- Delegation
- Coaching & Mentoring
- The difference between coach, mentor, trainer, friend
- Coaching models e.g. GROW
- Coaching for performance
- 1:1s
- Feedback
- Leadership basic:
- Leadership Styles
- management vs leadership
- Integrity & authenticity
- High performing teams
- Team Building: Tuckman's Team phases
- 5 dysfunctions of a team: Trust -> Conflict -> commitment - > Accountability -> Results
- Conflict
- Kilman Conflict Modes
- Crucial conversations
- Motivation, Vision, Inspiration
- Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
- Why, how, what
- Stakeholder, Influence & Persuasion
- Influence: Political Savvy, Self promotion, trust building, leveraging networks
- Persuasion
- Match style: Asserting (heart, push), Attracting, (Heart, pull), Proposing (Head, push), Briding (Head, Pull)
- Detractors -> Head, Supporters -> Heart. Active -> Push, Passive -> pull
- How matters: Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Consistency, Liking, Consensus
