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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.
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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?
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Building communities of practice to learn and grow together
Bringing together experts and enthusiasts to explore new technologies and ways of working can bring huge benefits to your organization.
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How to break the “get me everything” cycle
Too often, leaders ask for “everything” for a new project, then nothing happens. If this sounds familiar, here’s how to identify and break the cycle.
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Navigating power dynamics as a manager
Power differences are inevitable in teams. Here are some ways to reduce the power imbalance as a manager.
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The trifecta model: Bringing together engineering, product, and design
Having accountability over different responsibilities is key to cross-functional work. Here’s how the trifecta team structure can help.
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Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.
How to manage and document the collective knowledge across your teams
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A CTO’s guide to code-switching: How to tailor your messages to your audience
Building essential communication skills as a technical leader
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Three proven strategies for presenting to busy people (like your boss!)
How to communicate up the chain to busy decision makers
Top Communication videos
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Creating the foundation for difficult conversations
How to build and cultivate trust as the foundation for difficult conversations.
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Sorry… you go ahead. The art of making space and claiming space in meetings
Jemma Bolland talks through the things you can do, whether you are running or participating in a meeting, to balance things out and make space for more perspectives and ideas.
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Building the perfect asynchronous meeting
Alexandra Sunderland examines examples of these types of events, and you’ll leave understanding how to build every aspect of the perfect asynchronous meeting.
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Harmonizing across cross-functional teams
Rukmini Reddy, VP of Platform Engineering at Slack talks about harmonizing across cross-functional teams at LeadDev Together in March 2022.
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Blame, shame and panic – how not to respond when things go wrong
Jemma Bolland explores her own reactions to being in the chain of responsibility, protecting the team and helping them to feel safe enough to take responsibility and grow from these experiences.
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The Map Book: Visual Storytelling With Roadmaps
Tadeh Hakopian looks at what is possible using an illustrative Roadmap to tell a story and inform your team on all the critical details in an intuitive and fun way.
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Driving clarity in ambiguous projects
Scott Triglia discusses his own approaches (those that have worked and some that haven’t) into a short set of advice.
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Healthy and Effective Leadership Teams
How can you set up the foundations for fostering healthier leadership teams?