Latest
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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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What to do when everyone’s sick of meetings
The rise of remote work has created meetings, lots more meetings, and engineers are getting fed up.
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Use 1:1s to develop engineering managers reporting to you
As a manager of managers, these meetings are vital for getting the most from your reports.
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Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
Learn a humane approach to managing underperforming team members, with strategies for setting expectations, providing direct feedback, fostering growth, and handling tough conversations with compassion.
Editor’s picks
A tech lead’s guide to effective communication
Tips for improving your communication skills as a tech lead
How to communicate effectively as an IC
How can ICs communicate the same piece of information effectively to different audiences?
November 5, 2025
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
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.
How to communicate effectively as an IC
How can ICs communicate the same piece of information effectively to different audiences?
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?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Communication
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Ask Maria: How do I get my tech lead to communicate effectively?
Tech leads can be technically brilliant, but this doesn’t mean there can’t be room for improvement in other areas.
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4 strategies for presenting to busy executives
Presenting to executives shouldn’t be a task taken lightly. Here is how engineering director Dan Na goes about doing it.
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How to communicate with an executive audience
How can you make sure that you’re communicating with executives as efficiently as possible? David Kiger has a few tips.
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How to bridge the communication gap
From knowing how to deliver a presentation to choosing the right Slack channels, make sure your communication style is airtight.
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4 strategies for effectively managing stakeholders
With so many roles involved in projects, it can be difficult to keep them all happy. Here’s some tips on how you can start.
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3 steps for building high-performing teams
Research shows that high-performing teams share a foundational understanding of their goals, remit, and cultural norms.
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3 scenarios when you should ask for help
Sometimes, it can be difficult to ask for help. But doing so can benefit everyone, including yourself!
Top Communication videos
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Cultural post mortems: an approach to learning and recovering when your people systems fail
Winna Bridgewater will share how they planned and executed recovery work. Our aim is to inspire you to consider a systems approach when something with your team goes wrong, and we’ll provide a template for what we think worked well.
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Shifting the mindset of delegation – Your secret weapon to leadership at scale
Marta Jasinska gives you some tools that will help you understand the challenges ahead and techniques I developed over years for moving past them.
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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.
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Building healthier mission-focused organizations
Randall Koutnik talks about the three main categories of communication — pathological, bureaucratic and generative — and the important role they each play in a company’s success and failure.
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Technical documentation – how can I write them better and why should I care?
In this talk, Hila will show you a structured way to write a technical doc, without being a technical writer – So everyone can do it to their best ability.
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Silly baboons, stubborn elephants: navigating culture differences across R&D groups
In this talk, Rina breaks down why and how our attitudes differ to create alignment and achieve the team’s common goals.
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Be a better partner to product management
Whether you are a senior IC working more closely with your PM, a TL trying to figure out your role, or higher up in leadership looking to recalibrate, this talk is for anyone who works closely with a product leader.
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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.