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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
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Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
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Unlocking performance management for start-ups and scale-ups
Performance management is tricky terrain to navigate, especially when you’re in a start-up or scale-up. Here are some frameworks to help.
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What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers?
In this talk, Daniel will share his four-week onboarding process for engineering leads that emphasizes peopleware, tech leadership, and delivery management.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there’s friction in the team you’re managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
So you want to identify and nurture high performers?
Providing growth opportunities for the engineers in your team goes a long way toward motivating and retaining talent.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Engineering Management
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Using rhetorical situations to improve internal communication
There’s lots of advice peddled out there around improving communication skills, but crafting effective communication using the framework of the rhetorical situation should be your starting point.
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How to bring about positive cultural change in your team
Looking to influence your team culture? Try this framework.
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The 4 pillars of empathetic leadership
Empathy is the foundation of engineering leadership culture these days, but what exactly makes an empathetic leader?
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Why resisting return-to-office mandates is futile
Managers are being tasked with enforcing unpopular RTO mandates, while their teams try to keep a grip on their newfound autonomy. Is resistance futile?
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Improve team performance by providing business context
Clarifying how important your team is for the company’s mission could just be the thing to help unleash their full potential.
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5 aspects to consider as an effective remote manager
There are multiple factors that can influence your remote team members, such as time zones and salary schedules. How you navigate them can improve your managerial impact.
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4 strategies to amplify engineering leader productivity
Learn how to become a more productive leader by focusing on the four core elements of alignment, prioritization, delegation, and time management.
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Validating soft skills with hard data
Pair these essential people skills with your technical expertise and hard data to run elite engineering teams.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.
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Maximizing your impact when context-switching
Maude Lemaire spent the last few years trialing a few different ways to sustainably maximize this time by balancing productivity with a bit of mindfulness. Come learn from her (many) mistakes, and hopefully we can all feel a bit less like a Dalí painting.
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Driving positive change through performance improvement plans
Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia describes an approach to PIPs in which the manager helps to set the employee up for success.
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Creating inclusive career ladders
Sally Lait will cover some common pitfalls, and will go through a practical set of prompts to help you make sure your career ladder can work well for everyone.
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Parents who code: How to welcome your developers back after parental leave
Sinead Cummings is going to talk through how you, as Development Leaders, can provide visibility of key decisions to those who have been on leave, ensure they aren’t overlooked during their period of absence and how you can prevent cognitive overload when they return, guaranteeing your best and brightest return feeling empowered, valued, and ready to code.
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Keeping your team health after a layoff
Leandro Cesar Silva will discuss how we can support and care for the team and then move forward, based on what I experienced at Loggi, where it was possible to overcome in a healthy way.
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Unleashing the artist within: Mentoring strategies in software engineering
Rodney Cobb explores the concept of artistry in software engineering, discussing the benefits of unleashing creativity and innovation in our projects.
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Manager’s remorse: when retention isn’t worth the price
A good manager knows how to retain talented team members. A great manager knows when not to.