Latest
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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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Build documentation that developers can actually navigate
Creating onboarding documentation for your product? Or just writing up a “how-to” for a new internal tool? Here’s how you do it.
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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.
October 15 & 16, 2025
Agendas for New York events are live! 🙌
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?
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
More about Communication
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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!
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A cheat sheet for better internal communication
Communicating with your colleagues doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some ways, and a few cheat sheets, to get you started on your journey.
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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.
Top Communication videos
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Team design is system design
In this presentation, Michael Newman, VP of Engineering at CodeSignal will explore Conway’s Law and how the Inverse Conway Maneuver can be used to design your organization’s communication structure to reflect the desired system structure.
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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.