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How to communicate mandates (even if you disagree with them)
You may not agree with a mandate, but that shouldn’t affect the way you communicate it to your team.
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Rejecting promotions, PIPs, and other dreaded conversations
Difficult conversations are no-ones favorite part of the job. Here’s how to make promotion rejections and performance conversations easier.
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Debugging the most critical relationship in your work life: How to work better with an imperfect boss
Many bosses, despite their best efforts, struggle with communication, delegation, and career support for their teams. This talk explores how to navigate the complexities of working with your boss, balancing honesty with career impact, and building a more effective partnership.
Editor’s picks
A tech lead’s guide to effective communication
Tips for improving your communication skills as a tech lead
A leader’s guide to active and reflective listening
Active listening is often overlooked in the realm of communication. Here are some tactics to improve how you listen to others.
Berlin • Nov 3 & 4, 2025
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Essential reading
Writing matters: How to improve your written communication skills
Mastering the art of writing as an engineering leader
On our Communication playlist
Influential storytelling
Brianna McCullough talks about how to structure compelling stories that lead to alignment, buy-in and most importantly belief from our stakeholders, partners, and more importantly our teams.
How to complain positively
Josh Goldberg, a serial complainer with a catchy smile, will walk you through the steps he takes to make sure his complaining is heard and felt without causing pain.
Influencing without management authority as a senior individual contributor
Effectively communicating technical expertise.
Communicating change: leading through the change curve
How to tailor your communications based on how your employees are experiencing and reacting to the change.
Help your engineering, product and security teams get on the same page
How can teams find alignment among competing priorities?
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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Fostering a skip-level manager relationship
As a Staff+ engineer, nurturing a positive and productive relationship with your skip-level manager will unlock important benefits that extend beyond the scope of your immediate team and manager.
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How to hold more effective 1:1 meetings
1:1s are a powerful way to support your team, offer feedback and context, and build a healthy environment full of thriving people.
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Talking about exit plans
Sitting down and asking your report about their exit plan may seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be.
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Getting the best for your team by effectively managing upwards
Learn how to develop the best possible relationship with your manager to ensure success and visibility for you and your team.
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The role of developer advocacy in driving innovation
Can effective developer advocacy supercharge adoption and promote progress in the tech space?
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Four ways great leaders can build strong teams
Are you choosing to be the kind of leader that someone would change jobs to follow? Or the kind they’d change jobs to escape?
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Five tips to help lead large cross-functional collaborations
Large cross-functional projects can be difficult to steer. To help mitigate common pain points, consider these pro tips.
Top Communication videos
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Influencing organizational change without hurting your day job: a playbook
By the end of this talk, you’ll be able to form a plan to influence change beyond the scope of your team, leading to better outcomes for yourself and your peers.
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You Can Write Devastatingly Effective Docs
In this talk, Andrew discusses how a tech lead can edit their team’s product spec by learning about the key components of the SCQA framework.
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Switch up how you manage up
Every senior leader you interact with will bring their own experience, set of biases, communication styles – and fundamentally, different personalities to a conversation. Lara Hogan explains how to adapt your tactics to different management techniques.
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Unravelling the misconceptions of managing up
Senior Director of Engineering at Github Neha Batra unravels the misconceptions of managing up at LeadDev Together.
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Turning conflict into empathy on engineering teams
How to create a safe space for open communication.
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Communicating change: leading through the change curve
How to tailor your communications based on how your employees are experiencing and reacting to the change.
